Re: S-VHS cassette recorders

On 1/6/2025 3:00 PM, Don Y wrote:

Last time I saw someone walking around with a portable record player
was.... never.
 

The album art is bigger on LPs, and they have more distortion (warmth.)

 Nostalgia.  Folks also play 80's video games.  Yet, you don't see
those industries ressurected so the demand is more of an oddity
than a financial reality.

"80s-inspired" new-release video games is a genre, like how synthwave/80s-inspired new-release music is a genre.
There might be more 8-bit looking and playing video games (that were built with modern software tools) on the market now via Steam and online distribution than there were 8-bit games available for sale at any point in the actual 1980s...
In the latter case "that 80s sound" never really went away and popular music goes through cycles of huge reverbs and gated snares...

Only for the "look at me!" factor.  I've probably a hundred vinyl boots
"just out of shrinkwrap" stored -- along with a Beogram 8000.  None
have seen the light of day since they were ripped (the sound quality
isn't going to get any BETTER with use so whatever I captured originally
has been faithfully preserved (and repeatedly reproduced) each time
I listen to them -- regardless of WHERE I choose to do that (including
on cross country flights:  "Miss, can I plug my turntable in, somewhere?")

Yeah I don't mess with either, I move a lot and large collections of physical media are a pain to lug about. I prefer to have books if I'm going to keep one variety of it