Aug 27
Dead media like cassette tapes, video tapes, CDs, DVDs and so forth should die. I have no problem admitting that
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Aug 25
Whole Foods Is Selling LPs Now
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33⅓ rpm records have been around for 65 years and in that time they’ve come and gone. And come back again. Apparently the nation’s few remaining record stores, stamped out by lack of demand, are suddenly not enough, so Whole Foods has begun selling vinyl at five locations in and around LA, including West Hollywood, Santa Barbara and Venice. Even the New York Public Library, though not known to make money off of, well, anything, missed out
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Aug 12
Last year, a Canadian record shop called Apollo Music bought a filthy, trash-filled hoarder house. Why? Cuz it was full of records. At least 250,000. These are a few snapshots from the process, and they show the biggest and saddest collection you’ll probably ever see.
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Jul 17
While the idea of bringing back out-of-print record albums to new limited-edition runs isn’t new, the fact that Universal Music is onboard with the overarching idea certainly is. What we’ve got here is Universal Music’s bit of the business dedicated to vinyl moving forward with an initiative called The Vinyl Project. Bet you didn’t know Universal Music had a vinyl arm, did you? They’re called Uvinyl, and they’re betting on the web.
While at this very moment there’s no official comprehensive list of albums, it would seem that the company will be bringing titles large and small to the public. All the public has to do is dish out a few bucks in hopes that their chosen title will make it back to the presses. As The Vinyl Factory reminds us, the company known as Ninja Tune offers a rather similar service with Beat Delete, there offering up titles both new and old, all of them otherwise out-of-print.
NOTE: Earlier today a list of albums was released by Uvinyl that included such titles at Sonic Youth’s Goo and Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged. Instead of those titles needing votes, Uvinyl notes now that they’ll be offered up through their regular channels. Whether or not that means they’ll be pressed in vinyl is still up for questioning – though we wouldn’t be surprised to see the physical platters appear by the end of 2013.
The actual “The Vinyl Project” will be launching “when the service is ready to launch” and not before. Imagine that. For the time being you can have a peek at Uvinyl itself to see the layout which we’ll likely be seeing continue into the crowdfunding venture later this year.
Universal Music joins the crowdfunded vinyl record revival is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jul 15
Apr 20
Do You Still Buy Vinyl?
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Today is Record Store Day, complete with a slew of special releases on everybody’s favorite antiquated audio medium. Hobbyists everywhere rushed out this morning to stand in line in front of local shops to pick up a couple of the good old-fashioned discs. How about you? More »
Apr 12
Thanks to an NYPD pilot program, over 400 officers have special Android smartphones that allow them to pull up suspect data on the spot, according to the New York Times. Patrol car-mounted laptops can be slow and cumbersome, while the call-disabled handsets (which look like Samsung’s Rugby Smart in the image above) let patrolmen see a suspect’s criminal record on the spot and even know if a felon hides drugs “in his left sock,” according to one cop. The custom app can also dig up info like open warrants, arrest and incident records, orders of protection and photos of everyone who’s been arrested in a particular building, for instance. They can even drum up the location of every video camera pointed at a particular spot — so, watch where you spit that gum, scofflaw.
[Image credit: New York Times]
Filed under: Cellphones
Via: The Verge
Source: NY Times
Apr 08
If you zoom in on the surface of a vinyl record using a microscope, to the untrained eye it kind of looks like a series of mountains and valleys. It’s actually the waveform representation of a song or other sounds, but what would happen if you took a map of the Earth’s mountains and valleys and turned that into a record? The results, of course, sound terrible. More »
Apr 03
The Hennessey Venom GT has just scored itself the honor of being the world’s most fastest production vehicle available to the public. Hennessey Performance announced that on February 9th of this year, the Venom GT accelerated to 265.7 mph, slightly beating out the Veyron Super Sport, setting a new top speed record, and taking away Veyron’s crown. The testing was done on the United States Naval Air Station and logged by VBOX officials.
Now some of you may be confused because the Veyron Super Sport was able to achieve 267.8 mph during its tests. While it was able to, its company, Bugatti, limited its actual production vehicles to only 258 mph. Hennessey Performance CEO, John Hennessey, stated that as impressive as the Venom GT’s 265.7 mph performance was, the 2.9 mile runway they were testing on was “far too short for the Venom GT to reach it’s true top speed.”
The Venom GT is truly an impressive work of art. It has a 7.0-liter V8 engine powered by twin Precision turbochargers that can push out 1,244 horsepower and 1,155 pound-ft of torque at 19 psi of boost pressure. The Venom GT is able to go from 0-60 mph in just 3.05 seconds, and 0-100 mph in just 5.88 seconds. It had even set a new Guinness World Record by being able to achieve 0-300 km/h in 13.63 seconds, making it the quickest accelerating production vehicle in the world.
There will only be 29 Venom GTs produced. Each of these 2,743-pound vehicles will sell for $1.2 million each for the basic configuration, meaning that most of us won’t be able to afford it unfortunately. After ordering, each vehicle will take about 6 months to customize before its completed. Hennessey states that 33% of the 29 Venom GTs have already been sold.
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Hennessey Venom GT steals the top-speed title from Veyron is written by Brian Sin & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Mar 12
How Records Are Made
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While 8-tracks and cassettes are as relevent to the digital world as wax cylinders, the vinyl LP is still being steadily produced and collected despite, or perhaps thanks to, their imprecise warm analog acoustics. Here’s how LPs get their unique sound. More »
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