|
It is currently 23 Apr 2024, 07:51
|
View unsolved topics | View unanswered posts
|
|
|
|
samaron
|
Post subject: Re: When was the last time you used these media to record on Posted: 21 Apr 2017, 02:30 |
Advanced fan |
|
|
Joined: 05 Jul 2011, 15:10 Posts: 898 Location: Norway Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 5 times
|
I still use floppy disks. Just a few days ago I copied out some files that came with a LD. Old computers is also something I enjoy using, so 5,25", 3,5" and zip disks are still common in use for me. Sometimes I bring out my Famicom Disk System and various pirate equipment for it. Those are 3" diskettes.
As for DVD-R, it isn't used much anymore. I did burn a lot of discs, but hard drives have become fairly cheap and can hold a lot of data now. I do still use it from time to time.
Film for a camera... last time would be in 2005. Had a project where I would develop my own pictures with the chemical baths and all that. Opted for black and white since it were simpler. I actually digitized an old TV recording from 1991, and one of the commercials were for a photo shop and said "color photos within the hour". Now it is probably within a week, lol. Actual film has to be sent across the country now. Everything has gone digital.
Video and audio cassette recordings is something I haven't done in a long time. Last would be in the early 2000s. Last time would be when I transferred some stuff from my computer. Did record some music videos over to tape that I had downloaded from Kazaa or something, lol.
_________________ Player: Pioneer HLD-X9 and CLD-2950 My LD collection Recently started collecting some anime on LD
|
|
|
|
|
forper
|
Post subject: Re: When was the last time you used these media to record on Posted: 21 Apr 2017, 02:47 |
Absolute fan |
|
|
Joined: 01 May 2016, 06:38 Posts: 2040 Location: Australia Has thanked: 334 times Been thanked: 222 times
|
I was really into Minidisc in the '90s, I never had a deck though, just a portable recorder.
I tried an ipod in the mid oughts and hated every minute of the experience. I threw that ipod into a pond, I didn't care about the money, it had to die.
Then I used CD walkmans for a long time and then Hi-MD when that came out. Sold my MZ-RH1 and 15 1GB discs when I lost my job, that paid my rent for months in a group home. Saved my life.
I got heavily back into MD a few years ago when I got a job. I got a mint JB980 QS deck off ebay coz I'd heard good things about the DAC and what it can do to a digital signal, really clean it up. Well it does that but it also makes really nice recordings so I started dubbing some music LDs onto MD for portable listening.
Last time I made a recording? Last week.
VHS I haven't had a working deck for a long time. Tried to buy some off Gumtree to play back my small remaining collection but they all jammed up/failed. Only really interested in a legacy SVHS deck worth maintaining and only after I've procured everything else (replacement for my amp that's having issues, Hi vision LD player, MUSE decoder)
DVD-R - I had this idea for a long time of archiving rare downloads on physical media on my shelf with homemade covers and got Taiyo Yuden discs and everything but then I heard even they don't hold the data forever and it seems like a half a** thing to do so only interested in legit pressed releases on DVD now. Not intertested in archiving LDs because they're already an archive format?
Haven't had a tape deck for a long time, sucky format, never liked that hiss, not interested anymore, I archived some mix tapes I had from public radio as a kid onto MD a long time back. Still got the MDs.
Floppy's? Long time no use. I remember I had a few with data before i owned a PC. Just used to use the library and university computers. Didn't get my first PC until 2005, didn't have a FDD.
_________________ SONY MDP-355GX, DVDO iscan VP50, SONY KVHR-M36
|
|
|
|
|
laserdisc_fan
|
Post subject: Re: When was the last time you used these media to record on Posted: 22 Apr 2017, 00:15 |
Jedi Candidate |
|
|
Joined: 29 Jan 2006, 20:05 Posts: 2266 Location: United Kingdom Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 23 times
|
forper wrote: I tried an ipod in the mid oughts and hated every minute of the experience. I threw that ipod into a pond, I didn't care about the money, it had to die.
You are funny but this is one thing I agree with. I am strictly Sony for portable players. I still use my 2009 Sony Walkman X series which was light years ahead of Apple for sound and ease of use.
|
|
|
|
|
bguzman
|
Post subject: Re: When was the last time you used these media to record on Posted: 22 Apr 2017, 02:11 |
True fan |
|
|
Joined: 17 Aug 2013, 04:49 Posts: 398 Location: California USA Has thanked: 1 time Been thanked: 2 times
|
I also use DVD-R's fairly regularly to make copies of movies and multi-channel music. Edit: That I own.
_________________ Main - CLD-95, LX-1000U W/AC-3 -> Faroudja NR Series -> Display Backup - LX-900, CLD-D703
|
|
|
|
|
forper
|
Post subject: Re: When was the last time you used these media to record on Posted: 22 Apr 2017, 09:37 |
Absolute fan |
|
|
Joined: 01 May 2016, 06:38 Posts: 2040 Location: Australia Has thanked: 334 times Been thanked: 222 times
|
laserdisc_fan wrote: forper wrote: I tried an ipod in the mid oughts and hated every minute of the experience. I threw that ipod into a pond, I didn't care about the money, it had to die.
You are funny but this is one thing I agree with. I am strictly Sony for portable players. I still use my 2009 Sony Walkman X series which was light years ahead of Apple for sound and ease of use. Yeah you see what a lot of sheep don't understand is that ipods were created by software engineers and product designers, not musicians or people that understood music. Sony was partly founded by a classical music conductor. Sony understand music and even their compressed format (ATRAC) sounded good. MP3 was created by computer dorks who wanted to say they had 78,000,000 songs in their pocket, regardless of sound quality. I have probably a dozen Sony portables and they vary but all sound decent. I HAVE heard that the best sounding MD portable was not made by Sony however. It was apparantly the Sharp AUVI marked portables. I still plan on procuring one one day to test the SQ out.
_________________ SONY MDP-355GX, DVDO iscan VP50, SONY KVHR-M36
|
|
|
|
|
audioboyz1973
|
Post subject: Re: When was the last time you used these media to record on Posted: 24 Apr 2017, 19:05 |
Advanced fan |
|
|
Joined: 16 Jun 2015, 15:40 Posts: 825 Location: Australia Has thanked: 105 times Been thanked: 95 times
|
forper wrote: Yeah you see what a lot of sheep don't understand is that ipods were created by software engineers and product designers, not musicians or people that understood music.
Does that explain the short life of the i-pod or did the sheep all just move to i-phones?
_________________ Looking for Hi-Vision Discs (MUSE or HDVS).......
|
|
|
|
|
forper
|
Post subject: Re: When was the last time you used these media to record on Posted: 26 Apr 2017, 10:27 |
Absolute fan |
|
|
Joined: 01 May 2016, 06:38 Posts: 2040 Location: Australia Has thanked: 334 times Been thanked: 222 times
|
audioboyz1973 wrote: forper wrote: Yeah you see what a lot of sheep don't understand is that ipods were created by software engineers and product designers, not musicians or people that understood music.
Does that explain the short life of the i-pod or did the sheep all just move to i-phones? No, it explains the long life of it (2001 to present) and yeah most sheep just use iphones now. And even more sheepishly use "ear pods" to listen to actual music! hahahaha
_________________ SONY MDP-355GX, DVDO iscan VP50, SONY KVHR-M36
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot post attachments in this forum
|
|