I won't laugh about your VHS @Hostafan1 I loved mine but it doesn't work anymore. I have loads of VHS cassettes of films, most of the Fred Astaire films, musicals, epics like Doctor Zhivago and Out of Africa, but nothing to watch them with. We now have a Humax box, great for recording stuff of the TV and no monthly fee.
I'm hoping to plant violas in pots today between showers.
Also need to go to the SM as OH is coming back tomorrow, for 5 days between physio sessions.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I won't laugh about your VHS @Hostafan1 I loved mine but it doesn't work anymore. I have loads of VHS cassettes of films, most of the Fred Astaire films, musicals, epics like Doctor Zhivago and Out of Africa, but nothing to watch them with.
Try freecycle , I bet you'll get one on there. Mine is a VHS/DVD combo and I saved a friend a fortune having video of his baby daughter transferred onto DVD , as I was able to do it myself. I laugh at gullible consumers who jump on every band wagon which rolls along and sneer at those " dinosaurs" who don't follow suit.
is there any hope that developers may see that there is a demand for Passivhous homes?
Doubt it, but Building Regs may yet impose it as a minimum standard. If the government ever get their heads out of their own B**t fundament and issue revised ones to match the zero carbon 2050 legislation.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Do you remember those mini discs @Hostafan1? They were the new Messiah - for a little while It's the same with these phones - especially at concerts etc. Why would you pay a fortune for a ticket to see someone, then spend the entire gig watching it through a 4 inch screen? Do they ever actually watch that footage too? I somehow doubt it...
Back in the day, we got all my dad's recordings transferred to cassettes for him from the original 78s. I don't think he often listened to his own stuff, but he could sit with his cassette player beside him while he worked, and listen all day long to any of the music that he loved.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My Dad found CDs much easier to use than his old vinyl records. We had some difficulty finding a CD player with actual separate control buttons rather than ones that, without sight, you could barely feel one from another. Dinosaur that I am, I will not have a Google/Amazon spy in my house, listening to everything I do and trying to sell me stuff, but at the same time, I can see that if Dad was still here, he'd have found saying "Alexa, play Enya" a gift. And I'd have found "Alexa, turn the volume down" pretty handy, too.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
@Fairygirl ,before mini discs, we are all told that Digital audio tape was the way forward. @raisingirl I'm with you on in house spying devices. My daughter's boss told her they were talking over dinner about "old fashioned radiators" and the following day he was send adverts for the same.
Alexa - they're very scary devices. If you had polled people twenty years ago and asked them if they'd be happy with their every conversation being listened to, they would have laughed. Now, every where you go you are recorded (and potentially your face recognised) and even at home, you're being listened to.
I'm not sure I'd be happy buying something on a card over the phone, knowing that my card details were then general knowledge.
I think we may still have a video cassette player but no videos. We also have a couple of DVD players. I sues one in my sewing room for background entertainment but downstairs we're more likely to play one via a PC. Ditto Netflix which we have because Possum inisted she couldn't cope with Belgian TV offerings.
We have Sky for OH to spend hours watching endless golf, cricket, football, rugby and not always doing the ironing. In the kitchen we have a Freeview box because I like to have the news of some such on while I'm cooking.
Definitely no Alexa stuff here and I turned down an offer by our electrician to wire us up for remote/internet controlled gates, shutters, doors and windows. Quel horreur!
Dry and mostly sunny today so this pm I'll be out planting brassicas and salads and sorting out a few cuttings.
Glad Chicklet is settling. Haven't heard from LP either.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
It is like a time warp version of Currys round our house. Cassettes? Pah! We still have a reel to reel tape recorder. It takes 10 inch reels and runs at high speed with superb sound quality. We still have two VHS machines one of which has a high quality audio recording option. I can transfer tapes to a DVD/hard disc recorder which has saved a few peoples tapes. Still have a cupboard full of VHS tapes but we should ditch them - the quality is dreadful compared to DVD/Bluray. Last one I transferred was The Vital Spark, "chust sublime" one for the more mature Scots of this parish.
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I won't laugh about your VHS @Hostafan1 I loved mine but it doesn't work anymore. I have loads of VHS cassettes of films, most of the Fred Astaire films, musicals, epics like Doctor Zhivago and Out of Africa, but nothing to watch them with. We now have a Humax box, great for recording stuff of the TV and no monthly fee.
I'm hoping to plant violas in pots today between showers.
Also need to go to the SM as OH is coming back tomorrow, for 5 days between physio sessions.
Mine is a VHS/DVD combo and I saved a friend a fortune having video of his baby daughter transferred onto DVD , as I was able to do it myself.
I laugh at gullible consumers who jump on every band wagon which rolls along and sneer at those " dinosaurs" who don't follow suit.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
It's the same with these phones - especially at concerts etc. Why would you pay a fortune for a ticket to see someone, then spend the entire gig watching it through a 4 inch screen? Do they ever actually watch that footage too? I somehow doubt it...
Back in the day, we got all my dad's recordings transferred to cassettes for him from the original 78s. I don't think he often listened to his own stuff, but he could sit with his cassette player beside him while he worked, and listen all day long to any of the music that he loved.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
@raisingirl I'm with you on in house spying devices. My daughter's boss told her they were talking over dinner about "old fashioned radiators" and the following day he was send adverts for the same.
We have Sky for OH to spend hours watching endless golf, cricket, football, rugby and not always doing the ironing. In the kitchen we have a Freeview box because I like to have the news of some such on while I'm cooking.
Definitely no Alexa stuff here and I turned down an offer by our electrician to wire us up for remote/internet controlled gates, shutters, doors and windows. Quel horreur!
Dry and mostly sunny today so this pm I'll be out planting brassicas and salads and sorting out a few cuttings.
Glad Chicklet is settling. Haven't heard from LP either.