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Heh - Choice quotes...
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This actually made think of my wife and I talking yesterday because our son complained that we were watching a show on Live TV and not on the DVR and thus could not fast forward through the commercials. We both grew up in a time when the kids were the remotes and we had to turn the dialed knob to get to what our parents wanted to watch. Remote controls were amazing pieces of technology that not only changed the channels on the TV but also drove the dog batty because ours emitted a high frequency tone.
Now, anything less than watching a recorded TV show on the DVR so that we can fast forward through the commercials means we've gone back to the stone age.
When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.
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My dad had told me it was the iPod of its day.
He had told me it was big, but I hadn't realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book.
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It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.
Another notable feature that the iPod has and the Walkman doesn't is "shuffle", where the player selects random tracks to play. Its a function that, on the face of it, the Walkman lacks. But I managed to create an impromptu shuffle feature simply by holding down "rewind" and releasing it randomly - effective, if a little laboured.
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Personally, I'm relieved I live in the digital age, with bigger choice, more functions and smaller devices. I'm relieved that the majority of technological advancement happened before I was born, as I can't imagine having to use such basic equipment every day.
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Did my dad, Alan, really ever think this was a credible piece of technology?
:laugh:
This actually made think of my wife and I talking yesterday because our son complained that we were watching a show on Live TV and not on the DVR and thus could not fast forward through the commercials. We both grew up in a time when the kids were the remotes and we had to turn the dialed knob to get to what our parents wanted to watch. Remote controls were amazing pieces of technology that not only changed the channels on the TV but also drove the dog batty because ours emitted a high frequency tone.
Now, anything less than watching a recorded TV show on the DVR so that we can fast forward through the commercials means we've gone back to the stone age.