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Vinyl records provide great quality analogue (spelling?)sound, but the scratchy records eventually damage the records and wear out.
If there was another way to read a record without actually touching it, you could preserve the record. Technology similar to optical computer mice or radar might be
able to read the grooves of a record, with either digital or analogue output.
You could even have a phonograph in your car or computer (at least a 45 rpm).
ELP turntables
http://www.elpj.com/
Japanese-American partnership that spent tens of millions developing the laser/optical turntable. [bristolz, Jul 29 2005]
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good idea but not all for the car thing unless they make new mobile optical phonographs [+] |
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Please do a little research before posting... this is pretty baked. |
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"Optical Record Player" gets 26 Google hits, latest Audio Engineering Society Journal has a nice article on just this. "Optical Phonograph" gets 235. |
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So can you actually buy one? How much? I wasn't able to find the article you described. |
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Bring money. The prices are non-trivial. |
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Not cheap but certainly baked - I think that the Baird video/phonograph records were scanned optically when they were restored recently. I'll see if I can find a link. |
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Croissant for clever thought, at least. It's not widely baked, and it certainly seems worth spending tens of millions on, at least to some people. |
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Strictly speaking, it might be theoretically possible to create a combination of software, digital camera and ringflash, that can shoot a record on a flat surface, then almost immediately, begin playing it. |
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Ian, that's a good one. A really good flatbed scanner might work, too, with the right software. |
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I wonder if all these hi-tech devices would cope with the double groove on the Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief Gift Set? |
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