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.

 

[Sal1950]

It's not that I still wish I had my Trinitron, but it was state of the art in those days, and I had to make do with something that wasn't quite in the same league.

TV's to love and hate over the decades, LOL.
Sorry for the OT rant.

HATED, Late 80s I bought a 26" Sony CRT, TOTL, great picture but it broke down every few months till I just tossed it.

LOVED, Early 90s bought a 35" Mitsubishi CRT, awesome, loved it. Super picture quality, beautiful Oak cabinet, storage in bottom for VCR, etc. Died after about 12 years or so. Trusted repair man said capacitors were failing all over the board, not worth fixing. I cried, one of my all time favorite TV's. See Picture below.

HATED, 55" Toshiba rear projector. It wasn't bad, but the picture was not too good either. When I moved I just left it.

JUST OK, 55' Sony LED not too bad but not great either. Gave it away after 5 years.

HATED 75" Sony, TOTL expensive LED. First set blew up after 8 months. Replaced by Sony warranty with some other junker with a bunch of dead pixels and other issues. I'm DONE with Sony's.

LOVE, My current 85" Samsung mini QLED. Going on 2 years old now. Zero problems to report, picture quality to die for. I hope it lasts 10 years.

 

[Owen Smith]

My main fear about (stereo) streamed audio is that it won't be discrete L and R stereo but will be a form of joint stereo (IIRC, first used on the MP1 VideoCD soundtrack) which will probably adversely affect the derived surround sound.

First used on FM stereo surely, that pre-dates MP1 by decades.