We live in a digital world that gives us all the media we could possibly dream of at the click of a mouse, yet many people miss the old school physical formats from our past. Listening to vinyl and cassettes allows us to connect with music in a different way than MP3s. VHS and 8mm create visual aesthetics and atmospheres that are difficult to replicate in digital video. And the surprises inherent to analog instant photography help embed an organic quality to the recording of our memories. The challenges these retro formats present to capturing and experiencing media actually enhance our appreciation for the sound or image, making the art we love a bit more intimate, and real. Here’s a list of all the art used in the episode! docs.google.com Featuring: Eilon Paz, www.dustandgrooves.com Prof. Al Nigrin, Rutgers University Ryan Martin, Dais Records Rebecca Cleman, Electric Arts Intermix David Bias, Impossible Project www.the-impossible-project.com Music: Professor Kliq – soundcloud.com PhatRecords Music – www.youtube.com Jason Day – soundcloud.com Diadainconsupertrafra – soundcloud.com Nic Bommarito – freemusicarchive.org Binarpilot – www.jamendo.com Duckett – ccmixter.org More Off Book: Our last video on The Effect of Color: youtu.be Our short documentary on The Creativity of Indie Video Games: www.youtu.be Taking a look at The Art of Web Design: youtu.be We asked Can Fandom Change Society?: youtu.be An examination of The Art of Animation & Motion Graphics: youtu.be Follow …
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Terry White reviews the NEW iPad Camera Connection Kit for iPad, which allows you to download images from a memory card or your camera directly into the iPad. He even shows a tip for Compact Flash users! This video is in support of the written review to appear at terrywhite.com soon!
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48 responses to “We ? Retro Media: Vinyl, VHS, Tapes & Film | Off Book | PBS”
8-track tapes. You should’ve mentioned 8-track tapes. That’s all I’m saying.
Great episode. We’re huge VHS fans. In fact, Patrick still own a LOT of them.
I enjoy digital media and I love the convenience. But I’ve been using Digital media since the mid 90’s and I’ve had too many CD-R and DVD-R’s with Mp3’s and Videos stop reading and hard drives suddenly quit working. And even though I’ve made many backups I still dont trust my Mp3’s, digital photos and videos to last more than 40 years. On the other hand I still have 70+ year old records and 35 year old cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes in my collection that still play fine!
I get it. All of these formats just induce nostalgia. You can easily re-create the warm fuzzy picture quality in digital. I think what most people miss is the handling of the media and that’s the key here. I have a feeling that in 20 years or so people will miss handling SD cards, DVDs and external HDDs.
Cassette tapes suck. I think the only useful purpose a cassette serves to me is recording music from the radio. I listen to vinyl, I just like the quality and dynamic range to it (not to say a few records have that loudness wars shit applied to them). MP3 players were meant for on the go more than at home listening.
I’m disappointed that DAT wasn’t even mentioned despite it’s still in use and superior in quality than 99.9% of what’s out there.
10 years from now my tapes will still work while everyone else’s optical media will be dead
VHS and Cassette Tapes, aww my childhood.
Great work guys! I can’t believe that one of my songs will forever be a part of this video (:
(it’s a matter of only appealing to that small niche – that’s the only part of the argument that’s valid…you have an audience which craves cassettes, then the only thing that would appease them is cassettes…there isn’t anything more to it than that)
True, but if that’s the case, then it’s the ONLY choice. You can’t produce vinyl records in real time or for a short run. It’s just the retro appeal then, not convenience. Again – a CD is $0.10 and can be burned in 30 seconds…
The argument presented in this video for cassette tapes is that they are a quick, low-cost vehicle to get music out to a very small, niched, select audience that will be looking within the cassette-loving community of here and now for music like that being produced on these tapes. For other artists, such as Rihanna or Jay-Z or Taylor Swift, cassettes are wildly inefficient and would cost far too much money. Even CDs are expensive. Digital media is their domain – cassette artists get lost.
How can that guy possibly argue for cassettes being a cheap and fast medium? Recordable CDs are $0.10 a disc and can be burned in a matter of minutes. Ridiculous argument…his view is not based on cost / efficiency, just sentimentality.
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Please Help 🙂 Great video btw 🙂
ahhh… mixtapes… how romantically quaint.
i agree. i think that if the music is good, you’ll remember it no matter the format of consumption. …and there have been studies done that prove that CDs did actually have a higher quality of audio than that of vinyl. i don’t think MP3s qualify, as they are really compressed comparatively. I know that audiophiles that like digital formats used to like FLAC and other lossless file compressions, i don’t know if that’s changed in the past few years… i just use MP3s and i’m happy with them.
I love vinyl. Not only because of the physical feel to it, but also because of the grainy noise, the delicate process of putting the needle on top of it and the fact that it’s so fragile. As a music producer, I always incorporate a vinyl sample in some type of way to actually give a song “feelings,” that listeners (hopefully) can associate with good memories.
i don’t know if that vinyl guys really understands why people use MP3’s…. pink floyd on a vinyl may sound amazing, but I want to listen to pink floyd in my car and at work. having the music in MP3 format won’t suddenly make me forget about it and delete it randomly when my phone’s memory gets full. I just like having the convenience of it.
This made me feel good 🙂
Why did the hipster burn his mouth on his pizza?
He bit it before it was cool..
pixelation in super 8? what you talkin about
“quality” can mean anything, if you mean fidelity then 1-inch tape is higher fidelity, if you mean noise-level, digital is less noisy. Vinyl is decent but highly dependent on your turntable and needles (and no 1200s aren’t good because direct drive is too noisy). Vinyl is also very sensitive you lose fidelity everytime you play a record. but i agree with your last sentence, this offbook was a bit too mono-cultural for my taste.
extreme mono-culture in this vid. dissapoint.
Analog is the way!
I started as a Vj with tons of VHS, and we use to make analog loops from one VHS recorder to the other : play, rec, pause, rewind, play, rec…
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iPad
Can i use on ipod touch too?
can i use it in the new ipad?
Does this allow you to connect to an Iphone 4s?
1.Does it work with the Olympus Sz-30 MR(Photos AND Videos)?
2.Can i import the Photos and Videos in original Quality to my PC?(Like 16MP Photos or 1080p Videos)
I’ll use the iPad 3
can we store ipad games in it ?
also can i connect to ipod touch?
are you able to just look at the pictures on the sd card without transfering them to the ipad?
can i also import RAW-files to ipob touch 4?
how stupid and costly is that?? do I have to carry all that with me
Great video thankyou and happy new year 🙂
It’s seem slow
Do you know if the card reader option still works for you, some say that after an ipad version 4.2 update this option stopped working! If so do you have any solution?
Thanks, great video
Cool review!
@terrywhitetechblog can you use the USB-connector also as you would use USB-ports in computers? I mean, can you insert (and use) other USB-drivers, printers, mouse’s, etc… ?
Thnx
Terry
I am thinking bout buying a android because It has less restrictions that the iPad . But since I saw this video I am back on the iPad .
So I can shoot directly to the iPad from my dslr in the field or studio with this connector .please contact me on FB . David Ryles photography ASAP
Doesn’t work with Delkin card readers either but with my olympus E3 it was fast.
Problem is that the adapters are bigger then the charger so it doesn’t fit with my casemate snap case I have on the ipad2.
The canon 7D has Compact Flash cards. so that is why they are bigger.
You would have to connect the camera directly to the ipad using the usb adapter.
was that wallpaper from fiftyfootshadows?
Good now I need an iPad
Why didn’t Apple just put a USB & SD reader onto the one connector?!
A250 from kodak works for compact flash it’s a 50 in one reader. Works with iPad 2
do you know if it loads the pictures on your ipad at full res/ high quality or does it optimize the res/size for the ipad?
by the way good review.
Is it possible to hook up a camera to be used as a webcamera as opposed to the onboard webcam?
can you preview videos before you import?