damm good for you! You did very well!

I totally agree:) Computers no matter what are zeroes and ones - we humans are more frequencies than anything

I used to receive the Analog tv signals of channel 8 WGHP in
High Point NC 100 miles away and channel 8 WRIC IN PETERSBURG
VA over 100 miles away.
FCC why cant we have both
Analog &Digital tv signals?

Analog TV signals are stronger and travel further than digital TV signals. I hope that someday the
FCC eill return the Analog TV SIGNSLS AND THAT ANALOG TV SIGNALS AND DIGITAL TV SIGNALS CAN COEXIST AT THE SAME TIME.

Don't hear any Networks complaining about the Digital Transition, which was many years ago. You can hope , but it's doubtful Television will ever go back to that format.

Totally agree. I live 55 miles from Hartford, CT and 75 miles from NYC and my cable company forces me to watch the long distant NYC channels that do nothing for this area and have been deleting local CT channels. The digital antennas are not strong enough to reach either location so I can't drop cable and put the rotor antenna up again to get my local OTA channels.

With Analog I can receive all of the local channels but with Digital there are 10 channels that I cant receive.

Your terminology is a bit of a misnomer. All the channels your mentioning are broadcast in digital format. How your picking them up is reception. Television signals are no longer and haven't been broadcast in analog format for over a decade.

I bought a new car three years ago, I asked the dealer where is The CD player? He just laughed. But I can still plug in my portable Cd player into the system.

Four years ago I rented a car to go out of state. I told the guy at the agency that I want a car with a CD player in it. He had to go to an office in a neighboring city to get one. But I had my CD player and took my box of about 70 CDs and rode off.

You can thank the recording industry for that crafty move.

😃 Capital! We should start a fan club 😆 lol 😁 We could call ourselves the “Baker Street Irregulars of Metv”.
And yeah, Basil Rathbone is okay I guess as Sherlock, but I just can’t hack watching Nigel Bruce as Watson. Just can’t stand to see Holmes’ friend and colleague being made into an idiot. 😐
I just recently discovered the Jeremy Brett tv series on YouTube a couple months ago and started binge-watching and I’ll have to say he’s the best portrayal of Sherlock Holmes I’ve ever seen.

Oh and on the last thing you said, about Holmes’ cocaine addiction, before I started reading the stories, I knew it was common knowledge about Sherlock Holmes being a Cocaine addict, but I just assumed because of Victorian properness or something that it was just laid between the lines or something, so I was quite surprised when I read “The Sign Of Four” and discovered it starts out with a detailed description of Holmes…err…injecting himself with the stuff. 😝 (I guess it’s even funnier because at the time I started reading it just for school, and that was not the kind of thing I expected the school to have me read lol)

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After Young Sherlock Holmes came out in the late eighties, I made a point of reading all the stories. I thought he made too big leaps, we didn't see the work he did to get to the conclusion.

Look here, at my age, I have no desire to join a club with "Irregulars" in the club name.

I very much enjoy the film, "Murder by Decree."

In the original tales, Holmes comes off an eccentric. Only Brett captures that eccentricity.

Re. the stories: I have always liked the two characters and the world they inhabit, most about the stories. They are rather cool adventure stories.

Lol. I just said Irregulars because that’s what Holmes calls the “Street Arabs” (pardon the expression) who help him with cases.

Ditto on Brett capturing the eccentricity. (Benedict Cumberbatch comes close in BBC’s “Sherlock” but that’s a different story)

Definitely agree with you on the characters and the world they inhabit. The more I read about them, the more they become more like friends than just characters. I guess that sounds silly and sorry about the loooong novel of comment but when I get started talking (especially about this) I can’t stop 😆.

"demand"...translates into "greed'... let's bring back the Edison cylinder or the wire recorded...

greed is always there - then before it comes the market/consumer demand

unless the demand is created to fill the need for greed... If you don't believe me, watch any *As Seen on TV* commercial with their "Limited Quantities" shtick...

Oh I for sure believe you - I hear all the time "limited quantities" and "limited time". A lot of marketing BS speak (the other phrase is "up to" )

remember the bird that would bob and dip it's nose in a glass of water?
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there it is! When I was a kid my parents for whatever reason had that thing on top of the frig..dont know why

We had one of those. Someone got it for Christmas as a gag gift. I think it was my Dad. I have a vague recollection. Nice memory.

I hear you. Mine haven’t moved in years.

Cassettes actually have been steadily making a comeback along with cassette walkman’s. Most current metal bands now release cassettes as an option for their new album releases (Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne & Metallica for example). Stranger Things” along with 80s/90s nostalgia has had an influence & impact among young adolescents where the last season of “Stranger Things” plotline revolved around cassettes. My 9 year Son requested cassette tapes for Xmas & a walkman for his Bday, it was a trip shopping on ebay for cassette tapes of albums I used to own when I was his age.

I never would have imagined that cassettes would ever come back! I think that it’s great when young people “discover” things and especially music from the eighties and make them popular again.

I, too, collect LPs and 45s. I have about 5,000 LPs and 13,000 45s. Most of mine are from 1949 - 1985. I like the oddball stuff, usually things no one has heard of (including me, until I listen to it).

They're from the 50's 60's and 70's. Go search on eBay yourself if you don't believe me.

Well, a good friend of mine for over 50 years has been a record dealer most of that time. He knows the market as good as anyone, so I'll trust both his word and my experiences...

No, I believe ya. My feeling was at my garage sale, if you see a song you like, you haven't heard it in a long time and can play it 15x in a row, a buck ain't such a bad deal.

Pretty Little Angel Eyes by Curtis Lee.

Simon Says by 1910 Fruitgum
Company .

I have that 45 in my jukebox right now.

I love the songs Simon Says and
Pretty Little Angel Eyes!!

Yes, unlike VHS/VCR's which are no longer manufactured, a record player is a good investment. Good luck in your search for a record player. Hopefully you can find one at a decent price.

Shop around for a Crosley radio/phono combination unit. They're not high-end like a Garrard turntable connected to high-end audio components, but at least you can play the LPS on it...

Hsvr you tried Amazon to find a.record player or a pawn shop?

I remember those combo units (mine was a Pioneer - cassette, TT and tuner (am/fm) all in one

Yeah...play your LPs on a Crosley and they'll last about five minutes......

I had heard that vinyl produced today is a better quality vinyl than years ago and the sound reproduction is supposed to be better.

Yes and no. Pure virgin vinyl has the best sound, The addition of carbon to make the black color of most records can diminish that sound, but [in my opinion], ever-so-slightly.

The sound quality issue reached its peak in the 1970s during the gas crisis of that era.

Many phonograph records were reclaimed and recycled, but often time they were ground up along with their paper labels, which created a '78-rpm-like' surface noise.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, budget record labels used cheaper-grade vinyl pellets, which also enhanced surface noise. The thinner LPs that RCA tried in the 1970s were more prone to warpage and distortion.

The trumpeting of "180 gram vinyl' nowadays is just a marketing ploy. 180 gram was the *normal* weight of LPs in the 1950s, until record companies discovered they could reduce the weight of albums slightly and get more yield from their vinyl compound.

Many record companies made their 45 rpm records from injection-molded styrene. These records were more breakable, damaged more easily and wore out quicker than vinyl pressings. If you played a styrene 45 too often, you'd end up with "hiss" or "burn" in your playback...

Ironically, both vinyl and styrene are considered carcinogenic when used in food packaging. If you've ever been inside a Harbor Freight Tools store and smelled a strong odor, that's usually the low-grade polyvinyl chloride used in China with no stabilizers. That type of vinyl can migrate and also cause health hazards. Even the "new car smell" we used to love as kids was us breathing in PVC fumes...

If I played one of my styrene 45's on my folks' stereo back in the 70's - that meant instant death to the record as the tone arm had a heavy cartridge. Ever since then I have preferred 45's on vinyl since they could stand up to a heavy tone arm better. (Although, the tone arm on my Stanton turntable is only 4 grams, so styrene can safely be played on it. Same goes for my Seeburg jukebox, as it has a lightweight tone arm that won't damage styrene.)

I could have used that guy. I bought the Guess Who's slbum Road Food on vinyl snd Star Baby, the very first song, skipped in several places. Took it back and exchanged it...damn song still skipped.