The Future of Print

[carpetmojo]

Originally Posted by QuantumIguana

....................VHS does have one advantage over DVD, and that is that you can record to it, but that has nothing to do with watching prerecorded movies..............

Of course you can record to it - just get the correct machine, which will record as well as play. Pretty cheap now, around £100 in UK.
You can also get one with a hard-drive (470 hrs worth) as well as being a DVD player & recorder.
I've still even seen a VHS/DVD recorder/player !!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

I do admit that i find it exceedingly difficult to read in the dark.

You need a tablet.



Oh wait, I see you have one.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Phogg

I have a series of poetry anthologies from Penhaligon's Press.
They are in box slipcovers and printed on paper that is almost cardstock.
After nearly 25 years, there is still a remaining scent of the perfume they were impregnated with.



Ebooks can't do scents yet. For poetry, the perfume is an enhancement.

Yuck, Ptuuuuieee! No Perfume on my books please!

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by Harper Kingsley

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If I'm looking for certain information, it's a lot easier to flip through a physical book than it is to have to click through all the pages of an ebook. Though the convenience of my wanting a book, and just being able to click and buy it and always have it available on my computer or wherever does make me happy.
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I have mixed feelings about this one. I love being able to flip through some books and read a passage or chapter here and there (particularly non-fiction, but fiction as well for a re-read or looking for a certain passage/quote).

But I love the ability to electronically search for specific words which is impossible with a paper book.

in some cases it's best to have a copy or each paper and ebook!

[Kumabjorn]

Originally Posted by xg4bx

i think the digitalization of everything is still a fresh, new idea and everybody is gung ho for it. however there will always be "retronauts" who will yearn to experience what their parents and grandparents did, to the best of their ability. we even see minor forms of it now with kids buying vinyl albums, retro labeling on packages, fashion, etc. digitalization doesn't mean we can't have "nice things" and not everything goes the way of the dodo, sometimes its just updated with modern technology. i think there will always be some form of physical books, just not necessarily paper.

its 5am and i'm in "need sleep" bizarro world so bear with me .

In my opinion if you are a true retronaut you should be playing 78 rpms on a His Master's Voice phonograph.

[Quexos]

The future of print sounds to me like, say the future of black-and-white television, get my point ?

[Ankh]

Originally Posted by Crusader

This is an amazing documentary and definitely worth a watch:

Amazing documentary, but one wonders was it a story of the print, the book, or story of the hidden world of beauty now strangled by wealth of mediocre content liberated and unleashed on us by Internet. My eyeballs are constantly exposed to moving pictures, yet it was a long, long time since someone reached through to touch the soul. And this video did.

Thanks, Crusader.

[Crusader]

I think what impressed me was how I was touched and responded to the book as an artifact. I love books and a physical book is just a completely different experience than an ebook.

[StoryEnthusiast]

Originally Posted by Quexos

The future of print sounds to me like, say the future of black-and-white television, get my point ?

There is always a small group of users who refuse to switch to a new technology. Maybe I should include myself in this group. I'm still refusing to get a new digital TV.

[Edward M. Grant]

Originally Posted by StoryEnthusiast

I'm still refusing to get a new digital TV.

Digital TV sucks. It only exists to allow TV companies to shove more channels into the same bandwidth.

Sure, in principle the picture quality is better because it's digital, but then the TV companies compress the heck out of it and the slightest interference completely destroys the picture. I remember watching a TV version of Moby Dick a few years ago where the picture would break up into garbage every time a wave crashed over the ship because it was so heavily compressed.

[QuantumIguana]

Originally Posted by carpetmojo

Of course you can record to it - just get the correct machine, which will record as well as play. Pretty cheap now, around £100 in UK.
You can also get one with a hard-drive (470 hrs worth) as well as being a DVD player & recorder.
I've still even seen a VHS/DVD recorder/player !!

You can use a DVD recorder, but not a lot of people do, it's considerably more bother than VHS. People are more likely to use a DVR. I ditched cable years ago, if I want to record something from OTA TV, I record it using the TV tuner on my PC.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by QuantumIguana

You can use a DVD recorder, but not a lot of people do, it's considerably more bother than VHS. People are more likely to use a DVR. I ditched cable years ago, if I want to record something from OTA TV, I record it using the TV tuner on my PC.

More bother? No way.

I have a combo VCR and DVD recorder. Using the DVD recorder is as easy as popping in a blank disc (I use RW discs if I'm just time-shifting don't intend to keep the program). You set the recording speed and the timer just as you would on a VCR, and that's it. Where's the bother?

[SuburbanSteve]

Originally Posted by Kumabjorn

In my opinion if you are a true retronaut you should be playing 78 rpms on a His Master's Voice phonograph.