miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
Apart from the minor "neat" factor...I don't much see the relevance or value of that AFA tape recording goes, and certainly not any kind of "future" in it.
*shrug*
Maybe I'm not seeing it...but to me it's not much more than an iPod version of a dancing chicken.
Hi-Q technology that trumps what that iPod can do for recording and playing back tape already exists...or better yet, has existed and has been abandoned by manufacturers. Don't see how an iPod could bring it back or why anyone would use an iPod if they really wanted to bring it back when they can just pick up with R2R technology where it stopped off.
*shrug*
Maybe I'm not seeing it...but to me it's not much more than an iPod version of a dancing chicken.
Hi-Q technology that trumps what that iPod can do for recording and playing back tape already exists...or better yet, has existed and has been abandoned by manufacturers. Don't see how an iPod could bring it back or why anyone would use an iPod if they really wanted to bring it back when they can just pick up with R2R technology where it stopped off.
sweetbeats
Reel deep thoughts...
I gotcher future of reel to reel right here, baby!
Blue Jinn
Rider of the ARPocalypse
For some reason I want to cue the Imperial theme from Star Wars....
J
jamievespa
New member
Sorry guys, maybe I was a tad too enthusiastic
However it is cool
Perhaps a bit inconvenient to rely on an iPod propped up into position but the possibility of modern technologies and analogue recording mediums working together sounds pretty cool to me...
BTW, awesome pic sweetbeats
However it is cool
Perhaps a bit inconvenient to rely on an iPod propped up into position but the possibility of modern technologies and analogue recording mediums working together sounds pretty cool to me... BTW, awesome pic sweetbeats
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
Don't take it personally.
It's a cool to see people tinker with stuff like that...but that doesn't always translate to a marketable commercial product.
It's a cool to see people tinker with stuff like that...but that doesn't always translate to a marketable commercial product.
A Reel Person
It's Too Funky in Here!!!
There are...
more practical ways to encode analog tapes to computer based formats, which would usually be easier and more salient than direct-to-ipod recording. The primary one is using an RCA-to-1/8" Y-cable patched between your typical analog recorder and your typical computer soundcard, while recording to WAV files for the purpose of burning CDs and/or re-encoding to MP3 or AAC files internally, which ultimately can be loaded onto the ipod. None of this requires or points to any new technologies.
What's on that video is just a new twist on an old issue, which is cool in a novelty sense only. There's nothing wrong in tinkering with stuff for it's own sake.
more practical ways to encode analog tapes to computer based formats, which would usually be easier and more salient than direct-to-ipod recording. The primary one is using an RCA-to-1/8" Y-cable patched between your typical analog recorder and your typical computer soundcard, while recording to WAV files for the purpose of burning CDs and/or re-encoding to MP3 or AAC files internally, which ultimately can be loaded onto the ipod. None of this requires or points to any new technologies.
What's on that video is just a new twist on an old issue, which is cool in a novelty sense only. There's nothing wrong in tinkering with stuff for it's own sake.
T
Tim Gillett
Banned
Magnetic card readers have a magnetic head in them. The heads are pretty much the same as used in analog tape machines. Magnetic heads can read analog or digital info. That's about it.