| Author | Message | ||
     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
I was thinking - now that everything's digital on my TV, I now feel rather sorry for the bereft analogue signal with which I have been living since (presumably) 1953 when I first had a TV (often full of 'snow' on bad reception nights even then). Exploring the analogue static today made me feel very lonely within some untenanted, godless world. | ||
| Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 80.4.12.3 |
I'm an analogue fan, Des. And you'll find plenty of people in various corners who still like analogue electronics because of its "tweakability"... I like triodes, magnetrons and all that malarky. The Harvard Robotics Lab still conducts research into analogue computation... | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
Imagine the internet with nothing but static when you tune in tomorrow morning... Rhys, I find that fascinating, not least because I don't really understand what you're going on about there. A bit like 'snowy' static my brain, these days.  | ||
| Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 80.4.12.3 |
For me the difference between digital and analogue is like the difference between swallowing and chewing... I'm quite interested in digital-analogue hybrids: devices with two main states but many sub-states within each state. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
I know exactly what you mean, Rhys, by the first bit. Digital seems all or nothing. Analogue is more like textured fiction. | ||
| Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 80.4.12.3 |
Here's a short fable about an analogue circuit: http://rhysop.blogspot.com/2011/06/circuit-training.html | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.137.168.78 |
Short indeed. Short circuit. As ever, rhysable. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
We should be going digital shortly.  I still miss the disappearing dot which used to signal close down back when TVs closed down for the night. Oh, and the test card ... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.19.247 |
I wish phones, computers, and yes, telly, closed for the night. Everything should. And the afternoon. Remember silence, anyone? Seriously? It brought things out in us. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.183.79.254 |
I think we in the south are last to to have the switch to digital TV, but that's less than a year away now. I prefer vinyl to CD, so that makes me a fan of analogue too! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Remember silence, anyone? Seriously? It brought things out in us. Yes, and it still does for me. Every evening, for an hour before bedtime, I sit in silence to read. It's probably the highlight of my day. My computer and telly does close for the night; I turn them off. | ||
| Rhysaurus (Rhysaurus) Username: Rhysaurus Registered: 01-2010 Posted From: 212.219.233.223 |
> My computer and telly does close for the night; I turn them off. And then you reach for your wife and turn her on? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Sadly, no. She turns off before I even go upstairs. | ||
| Darren O. Godfrey (Darren_o_godfrey) Username: Darren_o_godfrey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 205.188.117.80 |
"Yes, and it still does for me. Every evening, for an hour before bedtime, I sit in silence to read. It's probably the highlight of my day." This is a normal practice for me, as well, Zed. On occasion, over the last twelve years or so, we'll also have a NO TV day. I'll place a NO TV sticky note on the TV screen when I rise (between 4:30 and 5) and that means it stays off for that entire day. My daughters groaned a bit at first, but coped very well. Got a lot of reading done. It also brought about many lengthy, in-depth conversations. |