How we gonna play our discs in the next future?!

[barfle]

It's interesting to look back at the emergence of flat panel LCD displays. Pretty crummy quality & for years the benchmark of performance they were trying to match was CRT quality. Plasma pretty much did that and then other improvements have far exceeded what CRT could accomplish. Still, much respect should be given to the CRT whether in a test scope or consumer TV and don't forget the mega buck Sony front projectors around that also used CRT.

I still have a Sony 21" Trinitron professional monitor. Pro monitor in the sense no tuner, no speaker, just a bunch of BNC connections on the back. Knobby controls for adjustments you'd never see on a regular TV. It still worked great-last time I tried about 5 yrs ago. I wish I had more use for it than just nostalgia.

My 2150 had UHF connectors for video in and out, it had a tuner and mini-phone jack for audio in and out. I used the tuner to provide baseband audio and video to my VCR (which did not have a tuner).

Ahh, the old days, when nostalgia was "in."

 

[jimfisheye]

Being that discs are already a physical storage container for pcm digital audio files, said files can already be stored in personal file systems. A few ringers trying to push encoded formats aside, the transfer/ripping is pretty smooth sailing. Anyone resisting the move from physical discs to downloads and personal storage... well at least the underlying digital data format is the thing in question and you're all covered as soon as you want to be!

The pioneer optical bluray drive I bought for the Mac Pro in 2011 is still reading and burning. Looks like plenty of optical drives for sale and not going away very soon. The HTPC method already got many of us started down this path almost 30 years ago.

 

[Sal1950]

Very cool stuff. Why is it called a racetrack? The light band on the right side?

Nope, the oval shape of the brass bezel around the tuning dial gave it the name.