Show your age--list some good stuff you have on laserdisc, 8-track, Beta, vinyl or cassette that you REFUSE to buy now, even if it's out on CD/DVD now. I still have my laserdisc player front and center in my entertainment center...our converstaions always go like this:

Friend: Oh you got the Independence Day soundtrack on vinyl?
Me: No, That's the laser disc
Friend : Looks like a big ass dvd
Me: It's just as good as a dvd, but i just gotta flip it over after every hour
Friend: That blows. You know this out on dvd now
Me: I know
Friend: Why don't you just get the dvd?
Me: Why? I have it on laserdisc
Friend: oh, ok. don't get mad, dawg
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I foolishly embraced the whole laserdisc thing about a year before the big DVD push started.
I later realized where it was all going and bought a DVD player anyway.DVD technology is definitely better,and there doesnt seem to be a problem with"Laser-rot" so far.

On the plus side, I still have a few things on laser that aren't yet available on DVD ( i.e. The Undertaker)

I have tons and tons of stuff of vinyl. The only "official" 8 Track I ever owned was Prince "Controversy". I threw it in a drawer and left it. I had an old table top stereo in a storage room until the mid 1990s. One day I pulled it out for a garage sale and tried to play the 8 Track. Nothing happened. I don't know if it was the player, the tape, or both.

I remember stereos with cassette decks were very expensive. I had a cassette recorder on a boom box but I never really liked cassettes because I couldn't play them in the stereo through the big speakers and shake the walls. I begged my grandmother for a stereo with an 8 Track player that would record. My grandmother finally bought me one the summer before the 10th grade. I had a ball recording 8 Track tapes. I be damned if the next year 8 Track tapes went out of style.

I really miss the day when I wento to Licorice Pizza (don't know how to spell it! ok!), that later became Sam Goody, to buy all the new 45 RPM singles out, specially when it came to the event of a new Prince single!

Still have a handful of vinyl singles but don't have a turntable to play them!

What's a Laserdisc?
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Yelsiap said:

wonder how many young Prince fans know that's why they're called B-sides

meltwithu said:

I do! But I only figured it out a couple of months ago.

TheJourney4all7 said:

....kids

TheJourney4all7 said:

Laserdiscs are basically a cross between vinyl and DVD's. They were fashionable for a brief period in the 90's, and soon became obsolete due to "laser rot".

MrSquiggle said:

I have another fact about the laser disc. It came out in the late 70's and it was marked first by RCA.

Did any of you ever have one of those portable 8-track players? I think they came in all different colors,but back in the 70s,red was the most common.I remember seeing those alot in my childhood.Does anyone know where I can buy one?

Remeber the vhs system (in uk only maybe) where u had a normal looking vhs tape (obviously not exactly the same, but simular), but u could turn it over , like a normal cassette, thus getting twice as much stuff onto the vhs tape.....and yet it was the single sided vhs that won1 How stupid were the public...as 4 betamax (or whatever they were called), well they wer'nt too good were they really?



I have loads of crappy casettes that I kept in the attic somewhere and I dug them out a while back.....still play too (If muffled sounding a little).....some things I just cannot find on cd so a cassette will have to do.....if I have a vinyl of it though, then their is absolutely no need to buy a cd version!

I know some idiots who refuse to play cassettes thus making life hard 4 themselves as they chuck their cassettes away and can't find said album in any other format! Cassettes r crappy and annoying but they ain't that bad.....still have my walkman too.....walkmans r still acceptable in my book!

Growing up we had plenty of 8-tracks and vinyl. We also hade a Betamax. (sp?) I still have a bunch of cassettes, but I don't replace much of them with CDs.

This thread is right up my alley. Lately, I've been thinking about those yellow disks that went in the center of 45s. (Is there a word for them?) I would absolutely LOVE to find a silver charm shaped like one.

I need to take pictures, my vinyl is consuming my house. New, old, it doesn't matter as long as the needle fits the groove (pun intended).


laserdiscs

UptownDeb said:

Were they called spiders?

I love this thread. I prefer listening to vinyl because I have stuff you can't find on CD anyway.

TheOrgerFormerlyKnownAs said:

I just love vinyl. With the success of cassettes, it seems unfair to lump vinyl (a living, thriving format) and cassettes (still have hundreds) with lesser (I said it) formats like the 8-track and the laserdisc.

Vinyl is still great, although at this point I only buy vinyl if it's unavailable on CD.

vinyl

last night i listened to some of my albums for about an hour and a half...my cat tried to hop on top of the record player, i was all like "no!!!!!"

Hotlegs said:

Thanks.

TheOrgerFormerlyKnownAs said:

I had one in white

TheRealFiness said:

I ahve a few metal ones that came on some Glen Miller 45's. They're stuck in the center of the 7". I actually only picked up the records because of the spacers!

I still have a laserdisc at home, but when i have to choose between watching Jurassic Parc on 1 DVD or on the CAV version on laserdisc with the movie on 7 (!) sides it´s easier to go with DVD.

I now have the laserdisc in my bedroom, collecting dust.


But it was great stuff at the time.
Way better than CD-I!

For Christmas of 2002 I bought another sound system with a record player, a dual cassette player with dubbing and a 5-disc cd player altogether with dolby sound. I am 36 and have NEVER been without a record player or tape player. Have hundreds of records and tapes and only 20 discs. Even have my deceased Mother's record collection from 1959-1980 stuff and none of the vinyl is scrachted at all. Moms is all the Mowtown collection singles more than albums. And yes I still play ALL my vinyl and tapes!!!!!

TheOrgerFormerlyKnownAs said:

this girl had a button with a picture of one of those on it. i told her what it was and she just looked at me like i was crazy. is there a group that uses this a simble for their group or something? lol she made me feel old.

rachel3 said:

my father has so much vinyl. i think its in the thousands now. he goes to record conventions and uses his record player regulary-he has dvd player and a cd player but he doesn't use those as much. i've looked through his stuff and he some clash albums, deniece williams, most of prince stuff-it's too much. he also has some redd foxx albums when foxx was young and doing standup! lol he always tells me that when he dies to never sell his stuff. he's gonna leave them to me 'cause he know i won't. i'll just look at the treasure.

Vinyls are still fahionable, 8 tracks are not. THROW THEM AWAY DAMMIT

DavidEye said:

Yeah, at Licorice Pizza in the mall! No, seriously, I had quite a few 8-tracks when I was really little.

I was SHOCKED to find this cassette the other day. I REALLY don't think I bought it. It MUST'VE been given to me or my sister as a promotional item. Needless to say, it's still in it's original shrink wrap. (I kinda wanna open it, because I don't remember the songs, but.... *shudder*)

So without further ado, ladies and gentleman, I bring to you the Peter Lemongello of midnight love, the original true playa from the Himalayas.... Dr. York!


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