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Thanks for the Blu-Ray Posts
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[Sean ONeil] “Yeah, except Betamax :)”
I worked for a Vocational school in the 80’s that switched to betamax from 16mm. They used betamax well into the 90’s. I know a guy locally who still shoots and edits with ED Beta although he is pretty much retired now. Eventually all tape formats will go the way of the Dodo bird and everything will be wireless.
“everything is broken” ……1st. coined by Esther Philips I believe.
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well it plays the non-rotted discs I guess. I’ve never seen a rotted laser disc, but I have seen a rotted Blu-Ray.
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[Chris Borjis] “well it plays the non-rotted discs I guess. I’ve never seen a rotted laser disc, but I have seen a rotted Blu-Ray.
“It’s good if it won’t play the rotten ones, you wouldn’t have to waste your time watching them. Nothing like sitting through a movie and catching yourself thinking ” I should have stayed home, I could be doing laundry” You know it has to be a rotten one at that point. 🙂
I had a laser disc sitting on top of the refrigerator at the back for several years. It was placed on a bowl of almost the same diameter and eventually some smaller bowls were placed on top of it. One day I noticed it was all wonky with warps 1″ – 1.5″ across it but what did I care, I don’t have a player anymore anyway. Just recently I moved it and it was pretty well perfectly flat again. The smaller bowls had been taken off it for several months and it just flattened out again on it’s own. and I don’t take drugs either.
I’ve seem lots of re-writable cd’s get those bubbles then the coating peels off but not dvd’s or laser discs. Sony has created that new hard coating for bluray which is supposed to make them fairly indestructible.
“everything is broken” ……1st. coined by Esther Philips I believe.
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Betamax dead! No way. I still have a huge collection of location PCM F1 recording from 1984 to 1988. Recently I had to find some Chinese opera and I remembered recording some in Taiwan in 87.
Checked the log, fired up the betamax and PCM decoder, spooled to the timecode and played. Perfect, no dropouts no mould – pristine stereo digital recordings. If only we got this quality and reliability today.
I have always spent extra on good media. It always pays in the long run, unless you don’t value your work.
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Just wondering whom Esther Phillips might be?
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Esther Phillips was/is a blues singer from way back. I remembered hearing the song “everything is broken” by a female blues artist years before Bob Dylan revisited the tune about 10 years ago and made it a little more famous. The lyrics seemed to fit with modern technology then and now so more than ever hence the quote just stuck with me. I actually haven’t spent the time to confirm whether or not she is the writer of the song but I know I heard it prior to Bob’s release of his version.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Phillips
“everything is broken” ……1st. coined by Esther Philips I believe.
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ASCAP BMI lists Dylan as the writer so I guess the tune was original to him. I just went on ITunes and purchased a copy. Thanks for bringing this Dylan tune back to me. Great lyrics. And you are right..the words still ring true today. I think this song would make a great video to set up for a sermon on how trivial this life is and maybe call people back to what really matters most – corporate video. NOT! Are you feelin’ me?
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Thanks for checking that out, I took your word for it and gave the credit to Bob. I’ll have to dig into Esther’s music to see if I can find the song I confused the credit with. Perhaps it was what inspired Bob Dylan.
Not sure where the corporate video fits in though…
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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Corporate video. Just a crude attempt at humor. And yes. That was a double entendre.
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Well I have to agree with you, this life can be trivial but it is good to have a sense of humor.
“everything is broken” ……Bob Dylan
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