Isn't it weird that we abandoned
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I have three Channel Master DVR+ TV Antenna DVR's. They each have two built in digital HD tuners. I use a 2 TB USB powered external HDD with each DVR+. I can get about 300 hours of HD on a 2 TB HDD. If the drive gets full and I want to keep the programs I can unplug the drive and plug in a new empty HDD. I've been using them for years for OTA viewing. I also have a Dish network DVR for Satellite TV.
I don't know if the Channel Master DVR+ is still available, but they still do sell a newer model DVR that has an internal 500 GB HDD.
Yes, we have Freeview in the UK. Digital TV via TV aerials.
Not as much as they used to.
Physical media of any kind - whether it be for music, movies, or TV (hell, even photos) - is effectively dead.
Vinyl records would like a word..
Funny enough, our local Walmart (and I assume others) has reduced the shelf space for DVDs and Blu-Ray to make way for a limited record section!
Thanks, Egon.
Vinyl records sound superb when played on audiophile equipment (not those little novelty turntables that stores like Walmart and Target typically sell).
Kor
I use physical media for anything I like enough not to risk it being taken off a streaming service.
Also not sure what I’m going to do when I finally get a car with no CD player. I listen to full albums at a time and it’s much easier to change CDs safely while driving than typing in a new search.
Also not sure what I’m going to do when I finally get a car with no CD player. I listen to full albums at a time and it’s much easier to change CDs safely while driving than typing in a new search.
Get a car whose head unit can control an iPod.
You can get an mp3 player with a USB port and use a USB powered drive. I use the shuffle play option for all the files. It is like having the perfect radio station, all my favorites, no commercials, and a mix of music. I have 55k+ files on my Kenwood double DIN player that I put in my 2003 Crown Victoria, and use a USB powered 2TB HDD. The factory Ford player in my 2016 mustang will only index up to 49,800 files, so a 500GB USB flash drive is what I use for the Mustang factory Ford player.
I know how to shuffle playlists, I want to play specific full albums, a few of which may not be on Spotify. And I don't want to pay a second time for albums I already own. I think I would have to go through the slow process of burning anything I want to listen to before a long car ride which is annoying as hell.
I have a folder for each band or by artist, then I have sub folders for each album. (Example I have a folder for Eric Clapton, Cream, Traffic, Derek and the Dominos, and The Yardbirds. One has his solo work, the others by some the bands he was in.)
You can play songs on albums in order, including all music by a particular artist as well. Burning from a CD on a computer takes seconds. Then I use a program called MP3tag to edit the MP3 file to add comments and any information not added when the file was burned.
That’d work but I have over a thousand albums I consider in the rotation.
And it still doesn’t preclude the need to have a physical copy of albums to cover the contingency where music becomes like TV and you need seven subscriptions to hear everything.
And it still doesn’t preclude the need to have a physical copy of albums to cover the contingency where music becomes like TV and you need seven subscriptions to hear everything.
Some of us watch very little TV any more. Because most of what's on is one monument to Kitman's Law after another.
If I miss Jeopardy, I frequently fall back on the DVR.
And occasionally, there will be *something* worth running the gauntlet of obstacles to setting a broadcast down on physical media.
And speaking of physical media, not all of us regard it as obsolete. One of the non-negotiable criteria when I bought my 2018 Nissan Leaf was that the radio absolutely had to have a CD drive. And when vacationing, I carry a portable DVD player in my notebook computer case (my DOS-only notebook being far too archaic for any optical media).
I also read books. Real books. See Samuel T. Cogley's speech on the subject, in TOS:CM.
If I miss Jeopardy, I frequently fall back on the DVR.
And occasionally, there will be *something* worth running the gauntlet of obstacles to setting a broadcast down on physical media.
And speaking of physical media, not all of us regard it as obsolete. One of the non-negotiable criteria when I bought my 2018 Nissan Leaf was that the radio absolutely had to have a CD drive. And when vacationing, I carry a portable DVD player in my notebook computer case (my DOS-only notebook being far too archaic for any optical media).
I also read books. Real books. See Samuel T. Cogley's speech on the subject, in TOS:CM.
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I still buy CDs too (once in a while) but after I rip them they go into a box on a shelf in the garage, probably never to be touched again. The content is just WAY more convenient to use as data files.
But books? Books are proven technology! I just finished one that was 90 years old, in great shape. They take up a lot of space, though, so a lot of my more casual reading is library books, e-books or library e-books.
But books? Books are proven technology! I just finished one that was 90 years old, in great shape. They take up a lot of space, though, so a lot of my more casual reading is library books, e-books or library e-books.
My internet speed is not always high enough to stream video any higher that 720p. If you live outside the boundaries of a town or city in the United States your internet options few and expensive. I have fixed wireless from a feed mill 2.5 miles from my house. I have limited bandwidth for the month, but it is the best option available to me. This forces you to resort to physical media. There is no cable TV, just satellite for pay TV and a terrestrial antenna for Over-the-air broadcasts of local TV from 75 miles away. I use DVRs for Dish network and O.T.A. broadcasts. I have to keep a land line phone because the cell phone service drops out in this area. I do burn CD's onto flash drives and have even used an analog to digital converter to transfer the older L.P. records, Reel-to-reel and cassette tapes to mp3 files to listen to in the car. I find flash drives easier to carry than trying to fumble with a bunch of CD's, getting them into and out of the case at highway speeds. Also my vehicles are parked outside in the sun and when temperature outside the car climbs to 115 F, the inside of the car is closer to 130 F+. Not a good environment for plastic discs.
I also read books on paper. The problem is a lot of the paperbacks aren't bound as well as they used to be and the pages fall out. I am currently reading the Expeditionary Force series of Science Fiction from Craig Alanson is in multiple books with no page numbers. When the pages fall out I have to set them aside and when I get to a part of the book where from one page to another the sentence doesn't make sense, I have to search the pile of fallen pages to find the right one, so I can continue the story. It becomes a puzzle book as well as SciFi.
You don't have to worry about your Splash DVD suddenly giving Darryl Hannah longer CGI hair.
Though the Executive Decision Blu-ray is altered compared to the DVD. I wonder if there's any extra value to the unaltered Devil's Advocate DVD.
I sometimes miss being able to hand someone a physical item and go "here, watch this!" I turned friends on to Buffy and Firefly with terrible videotape copies from broadcast TV. We still have a VCR that we haven't used in years because we still have tapes. I'm not sure for how long on that score.
Like @JirinPanthosa I still get CDs for the car. I didn't want to go in debt for a car with newer tech. I sometimes miss my old car that still had a cassette player - I have a lot of odd stuff on cassette that I can't really find online. And I still have my LPs, although those are now promised to some teenagers who need to wait until I die.
It blows my mind how much the tech on this has changed just in my lifetime!
Like @JirinPanthosa I still get CDs for the car. I didn't want to go in debt for a car with newer tech. I sometimes miss my old car that still had a cassette player - I have a lot of odd stuff on cassette that I can't really find online. And I still have my LPs, although those are now promised to some teenagers who need to wait until I die.
It blows my mind how much the tech on this has changed just in my lifetime!
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