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BetaMax Video recorder or the VHS one. :hmmm:
nikimcbee
11-16-11, 01:53 PM
What about a record player?
What about a record player?
Alot of kids know what vinyls are because of these (http://www.qm2345.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/decks2.jpg)
What about the sound of a dial up modem? or just in case they can remember that, the loading sound from a comodore 64
If you didn't have an epileptic fit from the loading screen first...
Hmmm, well we never had a coffee perculator, so I never heard that, same with the flash cube, the hum of the TV warming up, well I still have an old telly that does that, it'll be useless after next year though...very loathe to throw it out since I've had it for over twenty years.
Never had a record player that played more than one LP or SP at a time...but who else used to flip the speed over on them for laughs?
Broken Records, ha, yes...one of my LPs used to get stuck on 'My Old Mans a Dustman', so you'd have to give it a little knock and off it'd go again.
Sledgehammer427
11-16-11, 02:40 PM
What about the sound of a dial up modem? or just in case they can remember that, the loading sound from a comodore 64
My friends and I say that if the girl you are talking to never used Dial-up, then shes too young.
kiwi_2005
11-16-11, 03:03 PM
http://billhalloran.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/pencil_cassettetape1.jpg?w=443&h=720
:up:
Sailor Steve
11-16-11, 03:09 PM
I remember all those sounds. Thanks for reminding me. :sunny:
http://billhalloran.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/pencil_cassettetape1.jpg?w=443&h=720
Ah yes, the cassette tape and the manual fast-winder. :O:
If you didn't have an epileptic fit from the loading screen first...
Hmmm, well we never had a coffee perculator, so I never heard that, same with the flash cube, the hum of the TV warming up, well I still have an old telly that does that, it'll be useless after next year though...very loathe to throw it out since I've had it for over twenty years.
Why will it become useless?
If it's because of the switchover from analog to digital signal you can get an adapter box that will allow you to bathe in CRT emissions until it gives up the ghost.
Takeda Shingen
11-16-11, 03:30 PM
BetaMax Video recorder or the VHS one. :hmmm:
My parents' first player was Beta. I remember watching movies on it.
The Sony Betamax was an oddity in that it was one of the very few times Sony failed with a product, i.e., it didn't become an industry standard. The better picture quality, the smaller size of the casette, superior electronics, and other features were all swept away when the VHS format came along. The only place Beta seemed to hold out was within the film ant television industry; there were (and still are) a significant number of studio camera rental places in Los Angeles still offering beta video cameras. It is somewhat a parallel to the Apple computer systems: the artsy crowd swear by their Apples will the rest of the world uses the PC. This, however, has changed in the film/TV industries as more power and features not available on the Apple systems began to appear on Windows and Linux based PCs. I have built a few custom Windows PCs for some former Apple users frustrated because they could not achieve desired effects on "under-powered" Apples or because newer video cards/adapters were not available for the Apple...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg/800px-Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg)
Cool invention that did not catch.
Jimbuna
11-16-11, 04:54 PM
Loved the Betamax...far more robust than the VHS.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg/800px-Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg)
Cool invention that did not catch.
:har::har::har: Lovely!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg/800px-Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Minidisc_Sony_MZ1.jpg)
Cool invention that did not catch.
YES!
1998: I was the proud owner of the orginal Sony portable MD
1999: I got a full sized MD hi-fi seperate to go with my Amp and CD player setup, no more tapes for me!
2000: I had acumulated about 70 albums on Minidisks.
2003: I found there was no easy way to rip MDs to MP3, Audio line in to PC was the only way and I wasn't about to sit though 52 hours of manual recording :cry:
2004: Cut my losses and sold the lot for under £100 :haha:
MDs were really cool in the late 90s - but they where quickly wiped out by Mp3 in the early 00's
MDs were really cool in the late 90s - but they where quickly wiped out by Mp3 in the early 00's
Imagine, also, those who invested in Laser Discs back, I believe, in the 80s...
Falkirion
11-16-11, 06:58 PM
Might not have heard all of those sounds but I have heard most. And I'm only 25, guess it pays having grown up in Australia where technology only started moving ahead once you got past 92/93.
I have an Akai 10" reel to reel that I still play from time to time. Six hours of music with only one 3 second pause when the tape changes direction.
Beat that! :DL
Imagine, also, those who invested in Laser Discs back, I believe, in the 80s...
Philips CDI anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CD-i-910-Console-Set.jpg
Ducimus
11-16-11, 07:15 PM
Somewhere around here in my old stuff, buried in a box in the back of a closet, i know for a fact I still have one of these:
(Life before MP3's. Anyone else dubb their favorite tunes on a single recordable cassette for say, airplane travel or the car? Oh oh.. and remember how you could set a cassette to record or not by the little tab indentions at the top of it?)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bynlFUsuFkM/TZH861S02xI/AAAAAAAAAzU/p7B3y4Cr7Yg/s1600/Sony+Sports+Walkman.jpg
Penguin
11-16-11, 07:25 PM
I'm familiar with 10 out of the 11 sounds, guess I'm a member of the old fart club - though I could be a child of the 55+ crowd on here :03:
The only sound I never heard is the gas station bell, might have been an American thing, can't remember that we had it in Germany in the pre-self-service era.
The Sony Betamax was an oddity in that it was one of the very few times Sony failed with a product, i.e., it didn't become an industry standard. The better picture quality, the smaller size of the casette, superior electronics, and other features were all swept away when the VHS format came along. The only place Beta seemed to hold out was within the film ant television industry; there were (and still are) a significant number of studio camera rental places in Los Angeles still offering beta video cameras. It is somewhat a parallel to the Apple computer systems: the artsy crowd swear by their Apples will the rest of the world uses the PC.
Germany had their very own home video system called Video 2000, which was also superior to VHS, on par with Betamax. One of the cool features was the ability to turn over the tape and record both sides, like with the audio cassettes. I remember when I first saw the first Beta-tapes:"Wow, you guys have 750 tapes, while our biggest are 240! Amazing, that's over 12 hours of record time!" - "those are feet, not minutes" - "Oh!" :DL
Since the home video war, I go with this recommendation: Don't adapt a new standard before the porn industry does, as this one will become the standard. :D Worked with DVD, Streams and Blu-Ray.
However I have an objection, your honor: It's a common misconception that the industry uses Beta. In fact the Betacam standard differs from the home standard Betamax in many ways, with the recorded signal being the most important one (component vs composite). Basically the tape machines use two very different video heads. So what you probably still get at rental places are SX, Digibeta and HDcam - all derivates from the good ole Betacam. Betacam players also went the way of the dodo, in the course of the years most archive material was re-recorded at least to Betacam SP or digitalized nowadays.
The cassette form remained the same as Betamax though. I often used to carry an old Betamax tape with me when I was working in the field: they were an always available alternative to overpriced cleaning tapes, as the ferro(word?) tapes were robust and helped to clean the video head drum.
This, however, has changed in the film/TV industries as more power and features not available on the Apple systems began to appear on Windows and Linux based PCs. I have built a few custom Windows PCs for some former Apple users frustrated because they could not achieve desired effects on "under-powered" Apples or because newer video cards/adapters were not available for the Apple...
haha, you probably still remember the time when Avid was tied to overpriced Macs :DL - a great way to sell a standard Apple for 20x of the store price - not calculating in the non-standard vid cards.
And I have two words if you built in boards/cards in PCs: Grass Valley - a synonyme for sophisticated cards which lead to hair-loss on anybody who tried to get those damned things running :D
sorry, for the long, uninteresting text - just the video nerd in me typing :shucks:
And I have two words if you built in boards/cards in PCs: Grass Valley - a synonyme for sophisticated cards which lead to hair-loss on anybody who tried to get those damned things running :D
Well familiar...although I still have all my own hair (just a greyer touch here and there); frankly, getting a lot of the video cards to work can be a pain, especially when the person you're building the rig for insists on a card you know won't work properly with the system and you can't convince them otherwise...lost some good acquaintances that way...
Torplexed
11-16-11, 08:30 PM
I suppose you can add the sound of chalk on a chalkboard. All schools seems to be switching over to the dry-erase whiteboards. I imagine in a few years there'll be giant touch-screen flat panel of some sort where the chalkboard used to be. Plus, you can subtract the sounds of kids having any fun on the playground as they've been pulling monkey bars and other outdoor equipment since it represents too much of a legal liability. :nope: Then we wonder why they are obese.
On the subject of TVs, I think of the Control Voice at the beginning of the old Outer Limits TV show with; "We control the horizontal, we control the vertical." I don't think you can mess with those settings anymore on a modern flat screen. :O:
Rockstar
11-16-11, 11:56 PM
Elementary school - the sound the other kid makes when he gets hit over and over during a school sanctioned game of dodge ball.
Elementary school - the sound the other kid makes when he gets hit over and over during a school sanctioned game of dodge ball.
:rock:
The beep from the tape machine to tell you to rotate the knob on the film strip.....where I learned about Curious George and the Yangtze river!!!!!
Osmium Steele
11-17-11, 01:59 PM
The squealy "PING" from pressing a button on the "ultrasonic" television remote control from the early 60s.
My kids have heard over half of those sounds because I have half of those things in my house!
"So, a needle pulling thread.... ing thread.... ing thread.... ing thread.... ing thread...."
The little buggers wait for that part and sing along!
(Just like I did way back when it was my mother's favorite album)
Platapus
11-17-11, 05:20 PM
:rock:
The beep from the tape machine to tell you to rotate the knob on the film strip.....where I learned about Curious George and the Yangtze river!!!!!
Film strips? I think we are getting close to two generations that don't remember that. :D
Armistead
11-17-11, 05:44 PM
I still hear a coffee perculator, grew up with one, found a used one many years ago and even had it repaired last year.....taste much better, old percs...
and most of us know all those old sounds by heart.
Takeda Shingen
11-17-11, 06:35 PM
I've heard every one in day-to-day use except for the bulb. That was before my time. My elementary school still used the reel-to-reel projectors when I was there.
TLAM Strike
11-17-11, 09:56 PM
Am I that old? :o I've heard all of those 1st hand except maybe the projector. :up:
(My school was too poor to afford one no doubt). :haha:
I had a scary moment in my intro to media class last week while we were discussing sequels better than the original, and no one in my group had seen The Empire Strikes Back or The Wrath of Khan, one had seen Aliens. When we start discussing movies that should have sequels I realized I had never seen or even heard of half the movies they mentioned. :nope:
But their was one ray of hope, two of my group had seen A Clockwork Orange, and one other went out and rented the movie the next day. So I guess all hope is not lost on the next generation. :hmmm:
Torplexed
11-17-11, 11:12 PM
Alas, not only have modern kids missed out on the mechanical thump of the old-fashioned mimeograph machine, they've been denied the cheap high it provided as well. :D
http://www.rednecklatte.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/What-a-buzz.jpg
Alas, not only have modern kids missed out on the mechanical thump of the old-fashioned mimeograph machine, they've been denied the cheap high it provided as well. :D
http://www.rednecklatte.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/What-a-buzz.jpg
Memories and purple ink stains!
We had the film projector also (reel to reel).
Others I am thinking of off hand: 1. the disaster alarm bell, which was different than the fire alarm bell. 2. People slipping the clutch and grinding gears. 3. That heavy chook sound when you used the "preset" buttons on the car radios. 4. Monotone center speaker car FM radio. 5. The high pitched garble when your 8-track cassette was being eaten by the player. 6. The rewind sound on a vcr. 7. "do you want me to check your oil for ya" from the gas station attendant. 8. The phone hitting the floor when you over-stretched the cord. 9. "goodnight John-boy" 10. and the mating call of the dodo bird......
antikristuseke
11-20-11, 07:56 AM
I'll just leave this here, there is hope yet for the new generation
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.wagado.old_phone
CaptainMattJ.
11-20-11, 02:12 PM
Well, i cant be the only one who hears the early 2000 Tv's and the super-high pitched frequency noise as the tv turns on, right before it plays anything.
I dont knwo whats exactly up with my hearing, but i feel as though i can hear certain high pitched frequencies, and although i may not hear a person sneaking about, or see a tv being turned on, i can hear a frequency when someone is nearby and its quiet enough. I may not hear them walking, or breathing, i can hear this frequency that warns me they're there. Or when a tv is turned on, i can hear that high pitched frequency before the programs start on.
Wierd huh?
This just crossed my mind and it was a staple on TV newscasts: the click-clack sound of the old teletype machines in the background as the broadcasts began and in some cases all the way through the program...
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