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When Buddy R. passed away I found a dealer in bootleg videocassettes of Buddy. I bought maybe a dozen or so, and I'll be darned if I throw them out. I have equipment to preserve them on DVD, but have been too lazy to do it so far -- a possibly big mistake. (Much of this material is now commercially available DVD, I imagine.) I have other videotapes of movies and whatnot that can't be found on DVD, and I have two or three working VCRs. When I go the way of all flesh this stuff will be thrown out before I'm in the ground, and so what? I also had a huge collection of Buddy and Louie B. vinyl which I just gave to a friend -- who's much younger!

I bought a Sony stereo for my garage that had a cd changer and a double cassette deck. Both were mandatory so that I can still pop my Rat and Roll 81/91 or Cinderella Night Songs tape or whichever other piece of musical bliss that I choose to jam to on the kit. Motley Crue's Decade of Decadence is another personal fave......and don't forget about probably the best album of all time Appetite for Destruction!Cool1 or Ride the Lightning, or nevermind. You get the point. Cassettes will be cool at my house until they are unable to play right........

Rock on!

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I don't buy into the hype of "obsolete" media forms.....if you have the machine that plays and/or records and it works.....how can it be obsolete? Yes, yes...I know that they are coming out with new technologies all the time.....but why "junk" or throw out and replace it all with the new technology? Thats 1) expensive, and 2) just plain nuts!

I have and use on a regular basis still:

a Teac reel to reel tape player (4 track of course :p )

A vintage Sony stereo/turntable that plays 16,33,45 & 78's still. Just bought a new stylus for it actually.....(and I have vinyl/shellac discs in all but the 16 speed format still)

Several 8-track tapes that have never been reissued on any other format to date that I play through a "home" 8-track deck.

A dual deck cassette deck (many many cassettes still)

And a cd player.

The car has a cd player with cassette deck and I play both in the car still.

I still have a VHS recorder with many many tapes still and I also have the DVD player. Never gone Blue ray though.....don't see the need to be honest. HD tv, sure, but I can't really see a huge difference between it and regular tv to be honest.

I'm holding out on the I-pod/mp3 player/smart phone on principle alone. I find them redundant and something I really don't need. Do I need 80GB of music on hand right now? Ummm.....no. I like to be able to select ahead of time what comes with me for my mobile tunes :D This way I kep my eyes on the road where they belong instead of scrolling through the Ipod catalog endlessly with my eyes not on the road where they should be. :p

With that said....I do have computer interfaces for all of the older media types so I can digitize the old stuff if I like. Some of those vinyl discs have never been reissued on cd, and it is nice to be able to listen to them in the car.

There is something to be said about vintage vinyl and the way it sounds rather than a sterile cd though.....yup, I'm an audiophile too :p

And to argue VHS....well yeah the quality is not as good as DVDs are, but.....not all of those cool instructional drum videos from years ago were re-released on DVD or Blue Ray and probably never will be. Hence, the reason to keep the old vcr going strong.......

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