Pet Hates........or FFS

**Marco** · 05-03-2018, 13:57

Originally Posted by Macca

I don't see any reason to change the habits of a lifetime just because the technology has moved on.

...and that says it all!

Back in the day, I'd also have said 'taped'. However, I've now 'updated my programming', as it were, to replace it with 'recorded'. I'm not such a creature of habit

Marco.

**Pigmy Pony** · 05-03-2018, 18:51

I learn a lot of the latest trendy phrases by listening to the hit parade on my wireless, and it takes me back to my courting days.

**Marco** · 05-03-2018, 19:00

Lol... Was that when you used to go 'jigging' at the local dance hall, to try and get a 'lumber'...?

And you realise now just how much of a dork you sound!

Marco.

**Minstrel SE** · 05-03-2018, 19:29

I still have my VCR and three cassette decks but its another world on the PVR. The Humax has its minor issues but overall it makes superb HD recordings and Ive only filled 50% of 500gb.

I found a VHS of Manchester during World War II and I could play it

We are now getting to what recording should be like. Stood over a radio cassette recorder seems prehistoric now. Tape seems prehistoric now and they seem like Rube Goldberg machines with all those belts and capstans

dont get me completely wrong in that I love pottering with it but you begin to wonder.

I will just hard disc a whole radio show now and then perhaps take the best stuff off onto a minidisc mix disc. I must learn how to edit it on computer

**Macca** · 05-03-2018, 20:05

I too have a VCR which was still in use until fairly recently. Not sure how I would hook it up to my current TV though.

**Marco** · 05-03-2018, 20:15

Scart lead? Mine's got the necessary input

I still have a VCR, which only recently I had connected up to my Sony TV, via a scart lead, and it worked fine, but moved it out the way when the Blu-ray player came in.

Marco.

**Pigmy Pony** · 05-03-2018, 20:25

Do modern tellys not have scart sockets then?

I love my colour TV, it makes watching films a real event. I slowly open its sliding wooden doors while singing the Pearl & Dean tune (pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa etc) and the missus comes round with a tray of ice creams and albatross.

Only kidding, I'm not that much of a dinosaur. But I don't know what I'll do when my 8 year old Panasonic plasma dies. I just love the picture, skin tones look right, not like the latest super sharp images on modern stuff which to me makes people look a bit like you're watching a video game.

**Marco** · 05-03-2018, 20:48

That was the case before the latest HDR flatscreen (and OLED) TVs came out. Trust me, it's no longer so, and the latter will now make the picture on your plasma look like a fuzzy negative from an old camera

Marco.

**paulf-2007** · 05-03-2018, 20:52

Taped is good especially if talking to youngsters who wouldn't have a clue what you're talking about. So much has changed in recent years, i remember the first time I saw colour tv, kids now haven't a clue, they probably think a black and white film has gone wrong.

**Pigmy Pony** · 05-03-2018, 21:39

Originally Posted by Marco

That was the case before the latest HDR flatscreen (and OLED) TVs came out. Trust me, it's no longer so, and the latter will now make the picture on your plasma look like a fuzzy negative from an old camera

Marco.

Yes, getting a new tv is on our 'to do' list. 42 inches just doesn't do it for the missus any more.

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