Dan wrote:
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Not to mention what old videoplayers in need of service does to them. FFWD STOP kachunk PLAY almost cut the tape in half.
If you run the engine of your car without oil it will get destroyed.
The same is for playing video tapes in a maschine that's in need of service.
Give the maschine the service it requires and play your videotape *AFTERWARDS* and it will be O.K....
Dan wrote:
Why don´t people just throw away old craplike that
Because this would be the most stupid thing they could do, IMO.
Already forgotten the whole DRM/Longhorn/Copyright thing?
The intention of the industry for promoting and pushing the digital storage medias (CD-R, DVD) certainly was *NOT* to benefit the customers with better audio/video quality (that's only a side effect), but to make lots of money.
And they want to achieve this by killing analogue storage techniques and their markets, while they *BUY* (or blackmail) politicians/governments to change the existing copyright laws to their own advantage.
So today any *PRIVATE* digital copy of a (digitally protected) source is illigal here in Europe. Only good, old analogue copies are still legal *for private use*.
So if one prefers to go the legal path he has eigther to buy everything legally (but no one would buy e.g. an audio CD twice - one for everyday usage and one as a "backup"), or he has to make analogue copies.
It is no longer legal to buy e.g. an audio CD (for usage at home) and to make a digital copy of it for usage in your car.
:-o
If you want to hear this particular piece of music *LEGALLY* in your car as well, you currently have no other choice than to dust off your old tapedeck and make an "old fashioned" magnetical tape copy for your car.
:-o
The only reason why the industry pushed and still pushes the digital storage techniques is the fact that they think they can better control/prevent the copying (what always had annoyed them since recording was invented) and so rise the sales and earn more money instead "loosing" it by "piracy copies" (industry wording).
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Only digital storage techniques offer possibilities to implement copy protection mechanisms - this is *NOT* (economically) possibel with analogue storage techniques!
The only way to protect a venyl record against unauthorized copying would be to pull a chain through the hole in the middle and to lock it with a padlock!
:-D
So you see:
Throwing away your old (analogue) "crap" would be the most stupid thing you could do!
Better would be if you could afford it to buy one of the latest tapedecks and videorecorders - they mostly are top quality and really inexpensive nowadays!
(Altough I own an DVD player in the meantime, I bought me an new stereo VHS VCR as well as an upper class Nakamichi tape deck and a Thorens turntable for my venyl collection shortly for relative little money...)
From the customers point of view the whole DRM/Longhorn/Copyright thingie just is kind of modern robber-knighthood!
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