Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970

atropa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  57 years ago (1969) meant the only tapes were audio (8-tracks, reel to reel, and some cassette tapes), and those were just starting to become popular because Dolby (released in '65) was starting to be used during mastering to reduce tape hiss enough that they could be used for music.

  Betamax was released in '75, VHS in '76.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Umatic came out in 1971. But it was too expensive for most consumers. My brother in law had one because his family business was TV repair.

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  • atropa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Philips started with cassettapes in  my country  Belgium in 63 ,

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Uhm and what about Tapes for Data Storage? Pretty sure Mainframes existed in 1969 already.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m mean you had reel to reel. Which was a tape right, just not a cassette?

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      • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And Film/Movies/TV Shows were also distributed as Tape Reels.

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• raicon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I will give it a shot for the tapes my parents have in the Attic

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• binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My grandpa recorded absolutely everything on VHS in the 90s. He had so many bookshelves full of movies and shows he meticulously catalogued. I wanted to ask him if he ever actually watched any of them, but I didn’t want to break his spirit.

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  • atropa@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OK, thanks iam that old,  the years 70 and 80  where the best times to be around ,,talk to your grandfather ,ask him everything about that time 

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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