From our More Money Than Sense Dept we have hot news of a vinyl disk reading laser player, a mere snip at $15,000 dollars but it
wont scratch your precious disks and will remove the need to purchase needles - not that this is probably an issue if you're up for spending $15,000 on a record player. Brings to mind one of the ace-est (is that a word?) applications of academic resources (I assume) where Ofer Springer (gotta love that name too) developed some code to convert a digital scan of an LP into MP3!
Authors Note: I truly have entered the digital age. Here I am writing a Blog entry while sitting in a bar in Belfast International Airport whilst sippin' a cool black one accessing a wireless hotspot. (Although as these hotspots are notoriously insecure I guess this probably isn't me but some low-life identity stealing hacker.)
Authors Note: I truly have entered the digital age. Here I am writing a Blog entry while sitting in a bar in Belfast International Airport whilst sippin' a cool black one accessing a wireless hotspot. (Although as these hotspots are notoriously insecure I guess this probably isn't me but some low-life identity stealing hacker.)
4 comments:
I remember seeing one of these on 'Tomorrows World' years ago - I guess that was pretty much the other end of the spectrum in terms of vinyl reverence from the laser reader thingy.
Yes - a legitimate reason for skid-marks on the surface!
I guess I just like the 'idea' of vinyl more than the reality. There were some cracking covers, sleeves, inserts, gatefolds and occassionally good tunes too...till they got scratched or had a can of coke poured over them.
The second one sounded shit. Sorry but thats just what I think.
But did you pick up on the subliminal messages? Those strange robots chanting 'Eat your brain mass' throughout?
I bet the record industry never expected people to be able to fax over a copy of the LP to someone...
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