Re: VCR Players - Will they keep making them?

In article <XjIDf.28838$H71.16114@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
NFord <nrfordsbcnwsgrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>"Steve(JazzHunter)" <jazzhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:smktt1luuov6j5293ghm3hrg8qt0orhi08@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:50:37 GMT, "NFord"
>> <nrfordsbcnwsgrp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>"Bill Vermillion" <bv@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:Itw8u4.21rs@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>> In article <1138561816.491242.165600@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>> <beckola@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>NFord wrote:
>>>>>> <beckola@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>>>> news:1138521343.905125.76540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>> >I guess they will keep making them as long as people keep buying them,
>>>>>> > but I was
>>>>>> > wondering how long that will be.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I have hundreds of videos I watch on and off. I'm not really interested
>>>>>> > in replacing them
>>>>>> > with DVDs. I have titles like Alien, Platoon, Apocalypse Now, etc. I
>>>>>> > still like watching them
>>>>>> > but I've seen them so many times, I don't feel like buying them on DVD.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Just wondering how long the manufactures will be making the dual
>>>>>> > players, DVD/VCRs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They still make turntables...
>>>>>>
>>>> Any decent machine shop could make a turntable...
>>>
>>>And do they make the stylus, too? (Without which
>>>the turntable is only good for shaping pottery.)
>>>
>>
>> Yes, all the major companies are still making stylii and cartridges,
>> plus there are small companies producing specialized stylii. Record
>> reproduction was never so good.
>> http://www.audiotools.com/78.html

>Thanks, but that was a rhetorical question.
>I was just rebutting the OP who claimed
>that "any decent machine shop could make
>a turntable."

And I still say that - as the question was turntable not cartridges
or stylii.

And you could always go back to accoustical - as a kid I'd make a
cone of paper, stick a pin through it, spin a disk on one fingertip
and hold the cone genly against the record [78's worked well for
this].

It's only the modern electroninc marvels - which when they die are
about as good as electronic marbles - that aren't fixable as
you need a chip foundry to make the solid state pieces - and that
of course presumes you have the artwork for the chips.

Bill

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