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Old 14th Sep 2018, 4:30 pm   #45
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Default Re: The Persistence of Analogue

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Originally Posted by Phil G4SPZ View Post
I think even the most hardened devotees of 'vinyl' accepted that the digital encoding, storage and reproduction probably represented a step forward.
I was one of those people, Phil, and CDs were talked about reverently back in the '80s when we dumped our vinyl and checked out the few outlets in town who were selling CDs, eagerly building up a collection of 1s and 0s on shiny-backed plastic discs that 'would never wear out...'

One of the chaps at work knew someone who knew someone who could get Philips CD160 players at cost-price, and the take-up order was huge! In fact, there's still one on site here.

But things move in circles, and the young are naturally curious about vinyl, film, cassettes that their forebears used, and some of them found they like them.

Go, hipsters!

I might add that I have got several younger staffers at work interested in black-and-white film photography to the extent that they have gone out and bought film cameras off eBay: we might even get our works club darkroom going again.
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