FID (Film is Dead)

[P. J. Alling]

You can also use it to play your "records" through the relatively high 
end, (at least as good sound to my ear as a good consumer grade 
component audio system), speakers and sub-woofer that come with most mid 
range computers.  I know people who do both.

Tom Cakalic wrote:
> And just what is the point of having a turntable with a USB connector?  I 
> can tell you.
>
> It's to convert the analog vinyl content to a digital format, likely .mp3, 
> so that once that piece of vinyl is played and converted, it'll probably 
> never see the light of day again.
>
>
> Tom C.
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>> From: "P. J. Alling" <webster26 at mindspring.com>
>> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml at pdml.net>
>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml at pdml.net>
>> Subject: Re: FID (Film is Dead)
>> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:30:00 -0400
>>
>> Hell you can buy a turntable with a USB connector...
>>
>> David J Brooks wrote:
>>     
>>> Can't agree totally on that Tom..
>>>
>>> Vinyl seems to be holding on to a share in this area, small but 
>>>       
>> still..........
>>     
>>> One of the bigger stereo places that have been around for a long time,
>>> are advertising players again.
>>>
>>> My records are going no were.:-)
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> On 8/6/07, Tom Cakalic <cakaltm at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Yeah, so I can just go down and take my pick right?  Any new CD, any 
>>>>         
>> old CD
>>     
>>>> still in distribution, I can go get a brand new vinyl version?   I 
>>>>         
>> don't
>>     
>>>> think so.
>>>>
>>>> Vinyl is dead in in the eyes of the vast music buying public.  From 
>>>>         
>> what I
>>     
>>>> understand CD's are going the same route when it comes to sales from 
>>>>         
>> retail
>>     
>>>> stores.  What will save the CD format for a while is that is that 
>>>>         
>> people
>>     
>>>> need a recordable, portable medium to store digital music on.
>>>>
>>>> Tom C.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> From: John Sessoms <jsessoms002 at nc.rr.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> From:
>>>>> "Tom C"
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>>>> Film may see a renaissance of sorts, though I doubt it. More likely,
>>>>>>> within
>>>>>>> a very few years it will become so financially unworthwhile to
>>>>>>> manufacture
>>>>>>> that even the Chinese will give up on making it, and that will be 
>>>>>>>               
>> the
>>     
>>>>>>> end of
>>>>>>> the line for it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> This is the statement I agree with most out of the whole thread. I 
>>>>>>             
>> see
>>     
>>>>>> film almost the same as I see vinyl records.  There will be under 1%
>>>>>> of the consumer base that cares about film, even B&W film.  What most
>>>>>> people see in a B&W photo is the absence of color, not the nuances
>>>>>> that can be had by using certain films and processing techniques.  I
>>>>>> don't see a film renaissance either, it's just common sense.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> Except that some 20+ years after CDs "killed" vinyl records, you can
>>>>> still get new ones. You do have to make some record to find 'em, but
>>>>> they're available.
>>>>>
>>>>> I fully expect film to hang in there the same way.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>> The difference between Microsoft and 'Jurassic Park':
>> In one, a mad businessman makes a lot of money with beasts that should be 
>> extinct.
>> The other is a film.
>>   -- Unattributed
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The difference between Microsoft and 'Jurassic Park':
In one, a mad businessman makes a lot of money with beasts that should be extinct.
The other is a film.
  -- Unattributed