[Vivienne]

I never found it awful.

[Console]

I never liked the sound that came off of cassette tapes; there was always a slight hiss, and the range never seemed large enough. It could have just been the players I had though.

[Zoot]

I never found it awful.

Its what your used to. I was always more than happy with the quality of VHS until i bought my DVD player, then you notice how bad the quality on VHS can be. But then DVD looks the absolute balls, untill you walk into Currys and see HD DVD in action...

[Vivienne]

I never liked the sound that came off of cassette tapes; there was always a slight hiss, and the range never seemed large enough. It could have just been the players I had though.

I was always "hiss free"... obviously a greater quality of cassette player. You get what you pay for, as the saying goes.

[Console]

Greater quality than Hitachi; I think not.

[Vivienne]

well, if it was that great quality, why was it hissing? That's the odd thing.

[claradooblue]

My tapes always used to get mangled up and concertina'd in the tape player. I like vinyl though, there's something about the scratches and background noise that's quite romantic i think.

[Longview01]

I have about 10 films on Bluray and you can really see the difference.

As for this downloading films, well it can be done already just not legally

[MK Chris]

I still find I like something to show for what I've bought though, and it's not (as someone suggested) that I like the pretty album or DVD artwork, as if I have a pirate copy and I really like it, then I'll go out and buy it; even if it's a mint one with the proper artwork.

[Andy B]

MY point on this again is that you're allowed to download something from the net as long as you go out and but the CD, film whatever when it's released. therefore you own the Film but just not yet, you own it in potentia. It stems from a quantum view of the universe in which time is not a fixed referene point in space but meerly a conduit which allows events to happen although not necessarily in a preordained order, cause does not always create effect and the outcome of a seemingly random event can in some cases be predicted with a fair degree of accuracy over a given set of paramaters.

Therefore it's fine to download stuff from the net. Have to go , there's some big men at the door with truncheons....

[foot-loose]

MY point on this again is that you're allowed to download something from the net as long as you go out and but the CD, film whatever when it's released. therefore you own the Film but just not yet, you own it in potentia. It stems from a quantum view of the universe in which time is not a fixed referene point in space but meerly a conduit which allows events to happen although not necessarily in a preordained order, cause does not always create effect and the outcome of a seemingly random event can in some cases be predicted with a fair degree of accuracy over a given set of paramaters.

*reads post with glazed expression and eats a jelly baby*

[Console]

Andy B's attempting to justify copyright infringement by suggesting that as long as the royalties are paid at some temporal co-ordinates then it extends bi-directionally through the entire temporal plane to cover the initial, and probably repeated, infringements. The fallacy here is one of confusing scientific laws with legal laws, which have almost no grounding in logic, common sense or morals.

[foot-loose]

Andy B's attempting to justify copyright infringement by suggesting that as long as the royalties are paid at some temporal co-ordinates then it extends bi-directionally through the entire temporal plane to cover the initial, and probably repeated, infringements. The fallacy here is one of confusing scientific laws with legal laws, which have almost no grounding in logic, common sense or morals.

*eats another jelly baby*

Oh... that was orange!

[Vivienne]

Andy B's attempting to justify copyright infringement by suggesting that as long as the royalties are paid at some temporal co-ordinates then it extends bi-directionally through the entire temporal plane to cover the initial, and probably repeated, infringements. The fallacy here is one of confusing scientific laws with legal laws, which have almost no grounding in logic, common sense or morals.

Good God! You may have surpassed yourself today.

[Mafro]

Did anyone ever have a Minidisc player? Most annoying things ever, especially if you were anal and wanted all the songs to have their proper track names.

[Longview01]

I had a minidisc player, used to stand in shops copying out the names of tracks onto my player so they were all correct.

It broke after a couple of years and my warrenty had expired.

[Yudster]

........some temporal co-ordinates .............

Console, the word is Time. Only you would use 19 letters and a punctuation mark when 4 letters would do.

Footy, can I have one of those jelly babies?

[Console]

I was parodying Andy B...I found it amusing even if no-one else did.

[foot-loose]

i wis gonna say, I think he may have been cracking one of his wee funnies.

Your too subtle for them console.

[Yudster]

I was parodying Andy B...I found it amusing even if no-one else did.

I did find it funny. It was beautifully done.

Foots? Jelly baby?

[MK Chris]

Never mind Jelly Baby, foot-loose, have you got any Wine Gums?

[foot-loose]

I have virtual wine gums, jelly babies and dolly mixtures a-plenty.

Wire in.

[David]

I had an minidisc player (infact I had several over the years) and loved them.... I actually miss minidisc. I preferred them to CD's, the were less easily scratched and looked cooler.

[Andy B]

I loved my minidisc player, except not much else had an optical output source in those days so I had to copy from my discman onto it. First track was a U2 song. I thought they were ace but it was totally killed off by CD-R and CD-RW. Shame really.

I think Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will go the same way. Theres already that motorola phone that comes with the Bourne Identity on a memory stick, it'll be all hard discs and memory cards in the future.

[S4B]

Did any of you see the "tommorrow's World" programme when they introduced Cd's they ran over it with a steam-roller and it didn't have as much as a scratch on it! Now if you so much as blow on a cd it scratches. I remember at the time thinking how amazing cds were going to be but basically discs are rubbish!