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    What's best the lastest gadget, or that clunky machine you've always relied on?

    The reason I ask is I started the bank holiday weekend sings my lungs out in the shower to Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction (on tape no less!) courtesy of some kick ass ceiling speakers. A classic old album on a now defunct format, played through some fairly new tech (cutting holes in your bathroom ceiling to fit these is not for the faint hearted!!)

    I still own one stereo with a tape deck, plus a VCR and a decent collection of videos, that does probably date me as something other than a twentsomething I guess. Yet I have a full HD 37" with SKY HD subscription but haven't invested in Blu-Ray (maybe because I can't be arsed to replace all 350 dvd's?) or even upgraded my Nokia E71 to an Iphone!

    “'Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.”.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dohnut Boy View Post
    What's best the lastest gadget, or that clunky machine you've always relied on?

    The reason I ask is I started the bank holiday weekend sings my lungs out in the shower to Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction (on tape no less!) courtesy of some kick ass ceiling speakers. A classic old album on a now defunct format, played through some fairly new tech (cutting holes in your bathroom ceiling to fit these is not for the faint hearted!!)

    I still own one stereo with a tape deck, plus a VCR and a decent collection of videos, that does probably date me as something other than a twentsomething I guess. Yet I have a full HD 37" with SKY HD subscription but haven't invested in Blu-Ray (maybe because I can't be arsed to replace all 350 dvd's?) or even upgraded my Nokia E71 to an Iphone!
    Can't beat a betamax!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BACMAN36 View Post
    Can't beat a betamax!!
    Still widely used in the industry, due to the quality of picture. Only just now being replaced by HDCam decks. Suck on that one, VHS!!

    Right, I loves me tech, I does.

    Best old stuff:
    SNES and Megadrive.
    theqm's Speccy 48k (my first computer!)
    A sandwich maker that's been working nearly non stop for 20 years.

    Best new stuff:
    iPod Nano
    HTC Desire HD phone
    Xbox.
    Let's get tooled up, blud!

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    A sandwich maker that's been working nearly non stop for 20 years.

    Yep, got one of them too!. An old Breville thing still, which is still going strong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Headlad View Post
    Still widely used in the industry, due to the quality of picture. Only just now being replaced by HDCam decks. Suck on that one, VHS!!

    Right, I loves me tech, I does.

    Best old stuff:
    SNES and Megadrive.
    theqm's Speccy 48k (my first computer!)
    A sandwich maker that's been working nearly non stop for 20 years.

    Best new stuff:
    iPod Nano
    HTC Desire HD phone
    Xbox.
    We had a Sony Betamax, my old man was a nut for anything with the Sony name - going back to the early 70's, remember bringing it in to get repaired. Guy in repair shop told me that the Betamax was far superior to the VHS format. Also said that Betamax was really built as a recorder whereas the VHS machine were really players but could also record.

    Sony have learnt from that particular lesson.

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    Whenever I get a new phone, I aways get a simple, crap one and the guys in the shop don't understand my logic. However, it's much cheaper, easier to use and there's less to go wrong with it. If I want to go online, I'll use a bloody laptop!

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    Quote Originally Posted by samlad View Post
    Whenever I get a new phone, I aways get a simple, crap one and the guys in the shop don't understand my logic. However, it's much cheaper, easier to use and there's less to go wrong with it. If I want to go online, I'll use a bloody laptop!
    I actually agree with your logic there Sam Although that being said, I am like one of the only ones in the country within the 21-25 age group who refuses to "upgrade" to a touch screen phone so I wouldn't exactly take what I said as like gospel or anything ... Maybe that's why I'm still stuck here in the Asylum

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dohnut Boy View Post
    What's best the lastest gadget, or that clunky machine you've always relied on?

    The reason I ask is I started the bank holiday weekend sings my lungs out in the shower to Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction (on tape no less!) courtesy of some kick ass ceiling speakers. A classic old album on a now defunct format, played through some fairly new tech (cutting holes in your bathroom ceiling to fit these is not for the faint hearted!!)

    I still own one stereo with a tape deck, plus a VCR and a decent collection of videos, that does probably date me as something other than a twentsomething I guess. Yet I have a full HD 37" with SKY HD subscription but haven't invested in Blu-Ray (maybe because I can't be arsed to replace all 350 dvd's?) or even upgraded my Nokia E71 to an Iphone!
    I still use a Sony Walkman cassette player. Ipod's confuse the hell out of me!

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    Must be crazy for some folk who have seen the birth and death of various technology. It is funny when I watch old tv shows from say the 80s and 90s when mobile phones weren't as popular/advanced as they are today. These big friggin' bricks people carried around with them with no signal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rayden View Post
    Must be crazy for some folk who have seen the birth and death of various technology. It is funny when I watch old tv shows from say the 80s and 90s when mobile phones weren't as popular/advanced as they are today. These big friggin' bricks people carried around with them with no signal.
    Don't you just love technology it knows no boundaries always leaping forward .

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