Keep Watching the Speakers
I have gone on in other threads about bits and pieces of a general brief that is taking shape in my mind even as it is written; like a frantic fan argument, it spins off in a dozen direction...
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Quote:Attendant to (2), I am curious as to how many CHFB members graduated to videotape, and thence to laserdisc, and presently to DVD, from audio. Yes, AUDIO. Great questions! I am a graduate from...
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And I thought I was the only one who recorded movies on audio tape from TV!
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I used to record TV shows by holding a portable cassette recorder up to the TV in the 1970's (I'm 38 years old now). I still remember taping The Fat Albert Halloween Special in October 1977 (78?) and...
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Quote: And I thought I was the only one who recorded movies on audio tape from TV! a very common occurence, especially amongst Monster Kids! I had audio tapes of most of the Universal classics, KING...
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Quote:I used to record TV shows by holding a portable cassette recorder up to the TV in the 1970's I did that too, but I couldn't afford to buy enough tapes to record entire shows so I just got the...
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Was that a Beta machine, Blackbiped? I guess 1980 or 81 (not '79) was when Dad brought home our Sony Betamax machine. God, I loved that thing!
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No, it was a VHS. (Magnavox) It was the realization of a long-held fantasy of actually being able to record things on TV! The first night I had it I taped ALIEN off of HBO and then immediately watched...
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Quote:I am wondering, if a revision of KWTS is in the offing, whether it addresses the sheer evolution of home video as a critical part of its own morphology. I'm not quite sure what you mean. To...
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Well of course I started out by placing my cheesoid reel-to-reel mike next to the TV speaker, until the first time I took apart a defunct TV set and realized one could attach LITTLE WIRES to the...
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Quote:Do you recall when we accepted certain films as worthy or classic because magazines TOLD us that, then later, when we saw the films, had to reconcile our own preconceptions with our actual...
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Quote:I also got a "piano key" VCR in 1981. The only special feature it had was a pause button on a wire (and pause went "clunk!" and made the screen go black). But other than that it was the best VCR...
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Count me as a member of the Audio Club! I can remember takign an old cassette recorder and positioning the external microphone close to the set to tape an afternoon broadcast of FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE...
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I got into the laserdisc game pretty late, around 1995. I also accumulated a ton of discs, and I still have quite a few, but my player is busted, so I don't have anything to play them on, and they...
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