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The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl

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Re: The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl

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kisstheblade wrote: post #2

Didn't even know these things existed, even though our family had the first vhs and cd players in our neighborhood. Amazing that they actually got this to somewhat work, persistent fellows :)

In the summer of 1982, I remember watching a movie from one in the dorm commons building. I don't remember the movie, but my bias is toward 2001. Anyway, I suspect they lost out because the \R in VCR is for "recording". There's a bit of compact cassette versus 8-track in the way things worked out.

Re: The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl

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Post by hga »

brudgers wrote: post #3
kisstheblade wrote: post #2

Didn't even know these things existed, even though our family had the first vhs and cd players in our neighborhood. Amazing that they actually got this to somewhat work, persistent fellows :)

In the summer of 1982, I remember watching a movie from one in the dorm commons building. I don't remember the movie, but my bias is toward 2001 . Anyway, I suspect they lost out because the \R in VCR is for "recording". There's a bit of compact cassette versus 8-track in the way things worked out.

Eh, I think the success of the DVD and now Blu-ray formats show recording isn't essential. As the article notes, this format, and I'll note another format in Japan using a stylus over a bunch of holes, failed in the face of VHS and Laserdiscs.

Cassettes won in part because they were a lot smaller and could eventually play stereo, and 8-track tapes are a terrible, fragile kludge (my family used to make them back when pirating them was legal, as long as you paid ASCAP ... or tried to pay them, they never accepted the money my father set aside).

Re: The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl

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hga wrote: post #4
brudgers wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the summer of 1982, I remember watching a movie from one in the dorm commons building. I don't remember the movie, but my bias is toward 2001 . Anyway, I suspect they lost out because the \R in VCR is for "recording". There's a bit of compact cassette versus 8-track in the way things worked out.

Eh, I think the success of the DVD and now Blu-ray formats show recording isn't essential. As the article notes, this format, and I'll note another format in Japan using a stylus over a bunch of holes, failed in the face of VHS and Laserdiscs. Cassettes won in part because they were a lot smaller and could eventually play stereo, and 8-track tapes are a terrible, fragile kludge (my family used to make them back when…

To me, the fac5 that DVD and BluRay formats have encryption show that recoding is still a thing. Though streaming may condemn them to the dust bin.

Re: The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl

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Post by joblessjunkie »

We used to rent these discs when I was a teenager. They were terribly unreliable. Skipping, stopping, starting over, my god it was a miracle to reach the end.

And that's just side one; halfway through you gotta get up off the couch and flip it over and do the whole gauntlet again.

Re: The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl

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Post by yk »

hga wrote: post #4
brudgers wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the summer of 1982, I remember watching a movie from one in the dorm commons building. I don't remember the movie, but my bias is toward 2001 . Anyway, I suspect they lost out because the \R in VCR is for "recording". There's a bit of compact cassette versus 8-track in the way things worked out.

Eh, I think the success of the DVD and now Blu-ray formats show recording isn't essential. As the article notes, this format, and I'll note another format in Japan using a stylus over a bunch of holes, failed in the face of VHS and Laserdiscs. Cassettes won in part because they were a lot smaller and could eventually play stereo, and 8-track tapes are a terrible, fragile kludge (my family used to make them back when…

I would guess that recording was essential for VHS's success. By the time DVD became successful, ca. 2000, there was a infrastructure of video rentals available and hard disk recording of movies became possible/was just around the corner. So the killer app for VHS was recoding TV, while the killer app for DvD was rentals and somewhat ambitious home video creators would go digital.
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