11 Sounds Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard

[vienna]

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/106713

[JU_88]

[STEED]

BetaMax Video recorder or the VHS one.

[nikimcbee]

What about a record player?

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

What about a record player?

Alot of kids know what vinyls are because of these
What about the sound of a dial up modem? or just in case they can remember that, the loading sound from a comodore 64

[Oberon]

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]

Originally Posted by JU_88

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.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by STEED

BetaMax Video recorder or the VHS one.

My parents' first player was Beta. I remember watching movies on it.

[vienna]

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...

[MH]

Cool invention that did not catch.

[Penguin]

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
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.

Originally Posted by vienna

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!"

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. 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.

Originally Posted by vienna

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 - 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

sorry, for the long, uninteresting text - just the video nerd in me typing

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by JU_88

[Sailor Steve]

I remember all those sounds. Thanks for reminding me.

Originally Posted by JU_88

Ah yes, the cassette tape and the manual fast-winder.