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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/31/06 20:05
In article <XjIDf.28838$H71.16114@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
NFord <nrfordsbcnwsgrp@REMOVE_THIS_cardsharkgames.com> wrote:
>"Steve(JazzHunter)" <jazzhunter@collector.org> wrote in message
>news:smktt1luuov6j5293ghm3hrg8qt0orhi08@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:50:37 GMT, "NFord"
>> <nrfordsbcnwsgrp@REMOVE_THIS_cardsharkgames.com> wrote:
>>
>>>"Bill Vermillion" <bv@wjv.com> wrote in message news:Itw8u4.21rs@wjv.com...
>>>> In article <1138561816.491242.165600@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>>>> <beckola@hotpop.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>NFord wrote:
>>>>>> <beckola@hotpop.com> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:1138521343.905125.76540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>>>>> >I guess they will keep making them as long as people keep buying them,
>>>>>> > but I was
>>>>>> > wondering how long that will be.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I have hundreds of videos I watch on and off. I'm not really interested
>>>>>> > in replacing them
>>>>>> > with DVDs. I have titles like Alien, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, etc. I
>>>>>> > still like watching them
>>>>>> > but I've seen them so many times, I don't feel like buying them on DVD.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Just wondering how long the manufactures will be making the dual
>>>>>> > players, DVD/VCRs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They still make turntables...
>>>>>>
>>>> Any decent machine shop could make a turntable...
>>>
>>>And do they make the stylus, too? (Without which
>>>the turntable is only good for shaping pottery.)
>>>
>>
>> Yes, all the major companies are still making stylii and cartridges,
>> plus there are small companies producing specialized stylii. Record
>> reproduction was never so good.
>> http://www.audiotools.com/78.html
>Thanks, but that was a rhetorical question.
>I was just rebutting the OP who claimed
>that "any decent machine shop could make
>a turntable."
And I still say that - as the question was turntable not cartridges
or stylii.
And you could always go back to accoustical - as a kid I'd make a
cone of paper, stick a pin through it, spin a disk on one fingertip
and hold the cone genly against the record [78's worked well for
this].
It's only the modern electroninc marvels - which when they die are
about as good as electronic marbles - that aren't fixable as
you need a chip foundry to make the solid state pieces - and that
of course presumes you have the artwork for the chips.
Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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