We can now imagine a world without traditional television, but only because of the internet.
February 17th in the USA, huh? We shall see how the conversion to digital TV broadcasting goes. I have noticed many more flat screen TVs in accessible public places like banks, diners, even airports.
Soon we'll have the digital TV PC, combining both functions at each screen. Thin screens, of course. It'll be a little weird, but cool -- if we can keep our heads straight.
Remember, those over about forty, how the electric typewriter became a lot like a computer by the 1980s? The computer printer won out big time and typewriters are mostly used for labels or short notes, if for anything. Anyone remember Beta vs. VHS in the 1970s?
At Urban Outfitters and other places, you can go "retro" and get a record turntable again, plus you can covert vinyl to audio files and so on. On the other hand, I was thrilled the other day to sit at an old diner that has 45s on individual jukebox players at each booth, for a quarter a pop.
A bunch of students last year loved to swarm into my library office and play records. They thought records were a totally cool thing and seemed a little bored by iPods and too-easy downloading. On the other hand, my old typewriter doesn't have quite the draw power -- at least yet.
Today's Rune: Partnership.
6 comments:
I can see converting back to vinyl...the purists were never happy with the cleaned up sound of discs but the typewriter...in another two generations people will have to look up a definition of what it was.
Some dinosaurs deserve to evolve away.
Beta and VHS were in the 80's, now you are getting me mad ;) I had those!
I've heard that flatscreens are actually much more wasteful of energy than the regular TVs. Not good.
I used to burn-out the clutch on my IBM typewriter that I used in college. The ball couldn't keep up. Still, it gave me time to think more clearly.
You'll probably think I'm crazy, but I'm converting all my old music over to MP3 files--I call it: MyTunes. I refuse to pay for the same music twice. I did the same thing with my videotapes, converted them over to DVD.
On the other hand, The Beatles sound much better on a turntable. Why is that?
No mention of 8-tracks? Really?
We still have vinyl, although our turntable bit it a while back now. I actually still have vinyl in Canada I have to get down here someday.
I also need to transfer valuable family memories from cassette to CD (for the nephews, before the tape disintegrates.)
I can see converting back to vinyl...the purists were never happy with the cleaned up sound of discs but the typewriter
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