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Not All iPods — Vinyl and Turntables Gain Sales
Says the New York Times: "With the curious resurgence of vinyl, a parallel revival has emerged: The turntable, once thought to have taken up obsolescence with eight-track tape players, has been reborn."
Time to get that Betamax player out of the attic!
It may be 7 digits, but at least it's a semiprime
Kids these days and their newfangled "vinyl" cheap rubbish. Give me my Bach on a wax cylinder, and then get off my long-dead lawn.
I hate printers.
and now try put disk copy protection on that!
oh wait...
-- "If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Einstein
What did you expect would happen, people would start buying vinyl records, but just look at them instead of playing them? Is there some iPhone vinyl add-on I'm not aware of?
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for people who think it's not high-quality unless you can hear the artifacts of how low-quality the recording is.
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
Does this not make jogging problematic?
Not until we have Vinyl ROMs.
You'll be able to get Linux distributions on them, of course. Side 1: Kernel. Side 2: Root file system. The system takes 45 minutes to boot, but the quality of the operating system and associated tools is much, much better than what you get on CD or via download. Don't ask me for evidence, because the improved quality is imperceptible unless your computer is connected up with gold Ethernet cables and your PSU is a vacuum-tube model.
You're an immobile computer, remember?
Excellent! That leaves an opening for my half-million dollar turntables with the moonrock platter, musk-ox felt platter isolation pad, maglev suspension, hand-wound drive motor made from .999 fine gold windings and magnets made from civil-war cannonballs, turning a belt made from whale foreskin.
Installation by factory representatives is mandatory. $500/hour per man, minimum crew of 16, travel time included. To ensure that they do the best possible job (you know you can hear the difference), I'll send my crew to you on a private jet.
And of course, that doesn't include the tonearm or cartridge.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
What do you mean? RIAA of real-world numbers?
Sony has launched a multi-million dollar effort aimed at figuring out how to put a rootkit on a vinyl record.
The market is really hipster douchebags. They're competing with thick-framed square glasses and retro 1980s video game t-shirts. The music industry doesn't really figure into it.
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How dare you bash Linux, Haiku, etc...
Michael J. Ryan - tracker1.info
The entire domestic recorded music market is worth less than 14 billion (that's revenue btw, not profit).
So that means the thousands of artists got to split about twenty bucks, right?