Off the radar again

[Ashore]

Silent is right , kids today don't know what they missed, bring back conscription, fuel & beer strikes at xmas each year, black and white tv , only test cricket and only use one camera to cover the whole game, get rid on moble phones, digital watches, microwaves , videos, cd's , computers , the internet, fax machines,split system ac's ..... yeah bring back the good old days

[craigb]

The seventies was such a great decade to grow up in. It really was the golden age in this country. The sight of Denis Lillee pumping down the pitch, hair and gold medallion akimbo. Good old Paul Hogan and Strop. Gough and Mal. Number '96. Aunty Jack. Countdown. I tell ya, the young people don't know what they missed.

Yeah right, and what about the P76? :eek:

[silentC]

Yeah, that was a great car, wasn't it? We had a green Leyland Marina in the seventies. Before that, we had a red Austin 1100. Cars were so much cooler then, weren't they?

[Felder]

Silent is right , kids today don't know what they missed, bring back conscription, fuel & beer strikes at xmas each year, black and white tv , only test cricket and only use one camera to cover the whole game, get rid on moble phones, digital watches, microwaves , videos, cd's , computers , the internet, fax machines,split system ac's ..... yeah bring back the good old days

What's a video??:confused::confused: Are they the old things they had before DVD's??:confused:

CD's?:confused: Are they the things that you used to have to carry around with you before MP3 players came out??:confused:

[bennylaird]

The Leyland Marina, heaps of grunt but heavy as hell. Still it was fun.

Brendan, Guess you haven't heard of black things with holes in the middle then? They had songs on them too. 8 tracks as well and wait for it.......Reel to Reel tape decks oh and also radios with valves etc. You have missed so much.

When Mp3 fianlly get the nice warm heavy bass output I might upgrade.

[silentC]

I listen to MP3s all the time now because the CD player in my PC can't seem to keep up with itself. At first, I really noticed the difference and I actually hated the sound, now I'm used to them. But when I put on a CD it sounds so much better. Felt exactly the same about vinyl when CDs first came in. It's all part of the cheapening of our society. Digital approximations are good enough for us today it seems.

[bennylaird]

Anyone remember the amount of playing you had to do with a cartridge and and tracking adjustment on the record player? And the lovely thump as it his a bit of dust and the fun of listening to it repeat over and over when a scratch occured it repeat over and over when a scratch occured it repeat over and over when a scratch occured it repeat over and over when a scratch occured it repeat over and over when a scratch occured.......................................

And you try and tell the young people today and they just won't believe you......................

[silentC]

Well, life wasn't meant to be easy you know.

This is the problem today. They hit a little hurdle and instead of just shrugging and saying shyte happens, they try to change the process so it's more hassle free, even at the expense of what you were trying to achieve in the first place. Cheapening, I tells ya...

[bennylaird]

The new blue DVD's are nearly here but you will need a new player as well. How about we list the new technolgy devices we have paid through the nose for only to find they are useless and only worth throwing on the tip after a few years?

Who paid over a grand for a Beta video???????

I have just thrown out a $1300 laser printer, no longer supported for drums, and have 2 inkjets that might as well be turfed as well, not worth buying cartridges for them.

[craigb]

The new blue DVD's are nearly here

is a blue DVD? I assume you're not refering to porno. :eek:

[silentC]

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Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a next-generation optical disc format meant for storage of high-definition video and high-density data. The Blu-ray standard was jointly developed by a group of consumer electronics and PC companies called the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA). As compared to the HD DVD format, its main competitor, Blu-ray has more information capacity per layer, 25 instead of 15 gigabytes, but may initially be more expensive to produce.

Blu-ray gets its name from the shorter wavelength (405 nm) of a "blue" (technically blue-violet) laser that allows it to store substantially more data than a DVD, which has the same physical dimensions but uses a longer wavelength (650 nm) red laser.

Blu-ray unveiled their plans for a Spring 2006 launch at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January 2006. [1]

[bennylaird]

http://www.blu-ray.com/info/

Just another way to get your hard earned dollars out of your wallet.

Blue lasers, higher frequency hence shorter wavelength so more on the disk.

[bennylaird]

But don't worry you will still get blue movies on them, lol.

[woodbe]

Leyland P38!

Don't you mean a Leyland P76?

Nope, it's only half a car!

They were ugly. I wonder how they ever thought they'd achieve any sort of market share with such an awful beast.

Interestingly, the guys that designed that junk went missing for 30 years until the Toyota Avalon appeared. I hear they are replacing that failure with an 'Aurora' or somesuch that looks like a big Camry. Can't wait...

[Cliff Rogers]

... Leyland P76?...how they ever thought they'd achieve any sort of market share with such an awful beast.....

The only car I know of that would hold a 44 gal drum in the boot.