A Typewriter, a Telephone, a Silver-Plated Whistle. If the phrase ‘sentimental value’ means anything to you, then you are one of the very many humans who have invested an everyday object with value beyond its usefulness. Why are we so eager to invest things with meaning or value or even supernatural powers?
Music Picks:
Robot – Not Of – Hypocritic Oath
Stevil – Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Podcast (revolting): Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:06:18 — 91.1MB)
Video Cassette Recorders (VCR) were the medium, VHS and Beta were the consumer formats.
VHS was a JVC product, Beta being Sony, and being of better sound/picture quality.
Sony’s insistence on having proprietary tech (like their MiniDisc) and unwillingness to license the tech to other manufacturers meant VHS won the day, and we were stuck with a larger, sub standard quality, albeit with considerably longer potential recording durations.
Working at Tower Vid in ‘85 wasn’t for nothing i guess.
Wait.
Actually it was.