TOTP

[htgeng]

A show from 1976 on iplayer and no annoying voiceover from Steve Wright. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01173tc
A classic track from Gladys Knight and at 22m00 The Wurzels -Combine harvester! Why don't they bring back TOTP!

 

[joinerjohn]

It's on BBC 4 right now

 

[Mickymoody]

Because modern music is carp, and the music in the '70's was cool.

I was working in a charity shop recently, and the 17 yo found a donation of records...She said, Oh look black CD's........my Dad has some of these.

 

[big-all]

sorry i am really sad i have around 20-30 vhs tapes on long play so 8 hours x say 25 tapes so around 200 hours of totp2
dont suppose anyone has vhs any more lol

 

[Mickymoody]

sorry i am really sad i have around 20-30 vhs tapes on long play so 8 hours x say 25 tapes so around 200 hours of totp2

VHS tapes degradate, so care for them carefully, or transfer them to DVD, which is also obsolete..store them on a computer, that might crash, olde style video capture is at a state of collapse. Digital pictures..store on cam, post on camera, upload...websites get updated and deleted...print the pics out.

LP play on VHS, will degrade after 4-8 years. Depending on tape quality, I doubt you can recover pictures.

 

[big-all]

most off them are 10 to 30 year old lol

 

[LooPrEvil]

DVDs also degenerate.

 

[Nige F]

But vinyl lives forever - 1956 jukebox here @ home plays records from 50`s + 60`s . Worn and scratched but still sound good

 

[Mickymoody]

DVDs also degenerate.

VHS and audio tapes degrade, as do CD's and DVD's, and one of the main worries is, that as technology improves, VHS players wont exist, or CD players, or DVD players, now BluRay has come on tap. Look at the new PS3, it won't play PS2 games.

Photographs seem to be extinct too, everyone takes photos on digital cameras, or phones, store them on a computer, the computer crashes, and end to the photo album forever.

I was involved in the Schools computer Doomesday project, and keeping the technology going, but a player at £3000 a pop, in the early '90's was a challenge, it has been revived on the web, But will the web exist in 50 years? It didn't 50 years ago?

 

[cumbriahandyman]

This made TOPs


And this

 

[snico]

A factory pressed CD will last for many years and prob outlive the person who owns it, if stored correctly it should never wear out at all.

The problem is CD-R and DVD-r discs. People assume that because they are discs they will last for ever. A good quality disc will prob last 20 years or so stored correctly

 

[htgeng]

Latest episode is 30/9/1976 for all you Radio 2 oldies!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b015zp7k/

Obviously well before my time I never thought I'd be interested in 70's music but I'm hooked! Some of them are very synthy. A couple on there that are very catchy; Sherbet- Howzat, Ruby Flipper - The Best Disco In Town, Demis Roussos -when forever is gone.

That Demis guy is very obese Get the flairs out!

 

[matt1e]

Here's a few from my disco dancing days anyone fancy a boogie?

 

[Dan Robinson]

I haven't had DVD's or CD's for nearly a decade.

Only recently, the missus is sent her carp Japanese/Korean dramas from the out-laws along with some oriental version of the kids classics for the dude... they promptly get ripped onto my office server.

Mind you have a very eclectic even if they are digitally stored. My eldest bruv is using his using Beatles vinyl as a major part of his SIP.