Posted by NFord on 01/31/06 12:00

"Steve(JazzHunter)" <jazzhunter@collector.org> wrote in message
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> 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."

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