VHS R.I.P.

[asian1]

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3790858

Hi
VHS will join the list of obsolete gadgets:

Payphones, Walkman, Pager, Fax, Film Camera, ordinary radio, ordinary TV etc.

Have classic Amiga, Apple II, Acorn, Pentium I PC etc join the list?

[Speelgoedmannetje]

:-?
since when is the ordinary radio and the ordinary tv obsolete?

[Cyberus]

Since when are payphones, faxes and film cameras obsolete?

[Vincent]

BT have drastically reduce the number of payphone in public because more and more people were getting mobile phones.  I think the number decreased by 27% in one year alone.

[Cyberus]

I realise that they are on the decline in the UK, by they are not obsolete by any means.
But what I was thinking is, I don't think phone ownership, let alone mobile phone ownership, is that widespread the world over yet, (think large portions of Africa, South America, Asia and E Europe...) so how could they be becoming obsolete??

[Vincent]

It's easier to get radio signals to a mobile phone than to install landlines, so by the time the less fortunat countries start coming of age they'll more than likely use mobile phones than landlines.

They aren't obsolete, but in about 10 years they will be.

[Cyberus]

Vincent wrote:
It's easier to get radio signals to a mobile phone than to install landlines, so by the time the less fortunat countries start coming of age they'll more than likely use mobile phones than landlines.

I hadn't thought of that. That sounds about right, actually

They aren't obsolete, but in about 10 years they will be.

Perhaps, yes. But they aren't obsolete now :-D

In any case, there will still be those who can't even afford to buy a mobile.

[bloodline]

VHS will join the list of obsolete gadgets

About Bloody time! VHS was junk when it was released, I was impressed for about one year in the early nineties.

[CU_AMiGA]

bloodline wrote:

VHS will join the list of obsolete gadgets

About Bloody time! VHS was junk when it was released, I was impressed for about one year in the early nineties.

Yep. You're right. About bloody time.

[Dan]

asian1 wrote:
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3790858

Hi
VHS will join the list of obsolete gadgets:

I think it will take another 3 or 4 years before that recording DVDs haven´t reached the 100Euro mark yet. Thenthe old vhs-machines have to wearout too.

Payphones,

What is that?
Oh, wait I think there is one near the townsquare and one inside the trainstation.
They are obsolete!

Walkman,

Have only been improved.

Pager,

Pager, how quaint.

Fax,

Film Camera,

That is dead.

ordinary radio,

Well, the DAB-broadcasters put in place in Sweden but then they cut the power. A shame, DAB was more needed DVB-T.
Rest of the world I don´t know, neither DRM or DAB is cheap enough yet for development countries.

ordinary TV etc.

Can´t beat a 28" CRT on price

Have classic Amiga, Apple II, Acorn, Pentium I PC etc join the list?

I only say C64/Atari/Megadrive in a joystick.
Pentim I was obsolete from the begining

[whabang]

The ordinary FM-radio will probably be gone in fifteen years. Shortwave radi will hopefully never disappear. The technilogy is simple enough for anyone to create it; once the big one says boom, it'll be one of the few medias that will be able to continiue.

[X-ray]

@ Vince

Even in South Africa, in outlying areas the farmers are considering wireless phone setups because the locals continuously steal the phone lines. Even underground cables are dug up and taken.
A friend of mine has a chicken farm about 20km south of Johannesburg and they frequently lose the phones/internet connection because the cables themselves have been stolen in the night.

[Vincent]

@X-ray

:-o

Sure they aren't chavs in disguise?  They'll nick anything especially if it's nailed down :-P