NEAR OBSOLETE TERMS AND OTHER DINOSAURS
it's funny that we still use the word/verb videotape when recording a video through a handheld device. today, most people record everything on a piece of chip, not on a tape.
it has been along time more than a year since i've recorded anything on tape and used my tape recorder. the only journos i encounter who still use tape recorders nowadays are bworld reporters.
the only time i get to listen to music on tape is when i drive my mother's crosswind, which still has a stereo with a casette tape deck on it sans cd player. i used to make a lot of mix tapes to listen to in our car stereo back in college. i also went through this phase of recording music from one tape deck to another. that itself is already an art form since you have to have "great skills" just to be able to eliminate that annoying clicking sound when you hit the record button.
a fresh grad journo i sometimes work with said she doesn't remember going through that phase. i was aghast since our age gap is not as wide as the pacific naman. to them (her batch) everything came in cds. never went through the whole walkman thing -- (even if your portable tape player was not a sony). never understood the significance of side A and side B of an album. as lourd de veyra wrote in T3 some time ago, the true test of a good album is when you were able to endure to listen to the artist until side B of the tape.
these days it's easy to delete the songs you don't like in your playlist and not bother listening to the other tracks of the album.
all throughout my school years, tapes had always been a bane to my wallet's existence. i often browsed through the selection in our town's only decent record store (can't remember if the name was samu't sari or something) and buy tapes using my savings from my weekly allowance.
and i think you would laugh at some of my choices.
i often swapped tapes with my classmates, most of them males and for some reason nagkakasundo kasi kami ng tastes. guns n roses...went through that metallica phase...OMG! nagka-L7 pa ata ako na nahiram...mga pinoy 90s bands...somewhere along the way nagka-white lion din ata ako, nakahiram ng nirvana, cranberries...di ko na kelangan bumili o manghiram ng tape ng pearl jam dahil kapit-bahay namin araw-araw pinapatugtog yun.
yung kapatid ko namang bunso sa kanya ko napapakinggan yung lisa loeb and the nine tails, tracy chapman, Live, and tuck and patti.
sobrang gasgas na yung jagged little pill sa akin nung college. nung tumanda na ako ng onti, ayan na collective soul, matchbox 20, googoo dolls, the verve, etc. basta yung mga yun. kaya nga ansaya nung tinugtog/kinanta ni david cook yung world i know sa finals. hehehe
ok i digress...
due to the prohibitive prices of technological innovations such analog SLR cameras (in those days we don't even call them analog) and videocams, our projects in college (i was a comm student) were very hard to produce.
and those tapes. aaaaaagggh! *splice splice splice* and the horrible editing machines. and that magic eraser: one wrong move, the magnet (was it magnet?) will obliterate all those footages. that's why i let my edcomm classmates handle that. i was just an ignorant journ student...
remember the cartridge inside the broadcast booth for infomercials, station IDs and public announcements (PAs)? they often get stuck, the ribbon becomes the fodder for the hungry player or just leave you hanging on air. i spent *hours* inside the booth just trying to get that thing to work. and yes, those days we still have to wait for the gigantic tapes to rewind just to be able to record our radio programs.
don't get me started on those vinyl records. you destroy the needle, you destroy the future of the student who will next use the booth.
in our BS (bullshit?) program, all students -- regardless of their major -- must go through the rituals of broadcasting, audio-visual and writing crap. that's why i spent agonizing hours with those contraptions. darn that cartridge. and i swore i will never ever enter the broadcasting field because it was too much work. i can't stand the production side of it. lalo na ngayon noh.
the students today know "cut and paste" through a right click of a mouse or "control x" and "control v". in college, we had to painfully and literally cut the printed words and paste them on tabloid-sized papers for our mock-newspapers or on 8x11 for newsletters when doing the lay-out. maybe there was already adobe pagemaker and corell then (first generation) but no one in my group knew how to use them. atsaka our pc hardware and software couldn't handle such programs since windows 3.11 pa lang ata computer namin nun later na lang naging win 95 so i don't remember using MS publisher then.
yes, we cut up photos and paragraphs literally then. and we didn't have google then. there was only one internet cafe in our university town then and it cost more than a hunderd bucks an hour just to be able to surf and send email. anyway, i didn't have anybody to email at that time since only a few brave souls used the internet then. only the FTP guys at commsci dept.
now i wonder how easy comm students' lives now. they have video cams on their phones, internet on their phones, research freely using google, a lot of video and photo editing and lay-outing software...
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the only time i get to listen to music on tape is when i drive my mother's crosswind, which still has a stereo with a casette tape deck on it sans cd player. i used to make a lot of mix tapes to listen to in our car stereo back in college. i also went through this phase of recording music from one tape deck to another. that itself is already an art form since you have to have "great skills" just to be able to eliminate that annoying clicking sound when you hit the record button.
a fresh grad journo i sometimes work with said she doesn't remember going through that phase. i was aghast since our age gap is not as wide as the pacific naman. to them (her batch) everything came in cds. never went through the whole walkman thing -- (even if your portable tape player was not a sony). never understood the significance of side A and side B of an album. as lourd de veyra wrote in T3 some time ago, the true test of a good album is when you were able to endure to listen to the artist until side B of the tape.
these days it's easy to delete the songs you don't like in your playlist and not bother listening to the other tracks of the album.
all throughout my school years, tapes had always been a bane to my wallet's existence. i often browsed through the selection in our town's only decent record store (can't remember if the name was samu't sari or something) and buy tapes using my savings from my weekly allowance.
and i think you would laugh at some of my choices.
i often swapped tapes with my classmates, most of them males and for some reason nagkakasundo kasi kami ng tastes. guns n roses...went through that metallica phase...OMG! nagka-L7 pa ata ako na nahiram...mga pinoy 90s bands...somewhere along the way nagka-white lion din ata ako, nakahiram ng nirvana, cranberries...di ko na kelangan bumili o manghiram ng tape ng pearl jam dahil kapit-bahay namin araw-araw pinapatugtog yun.
yung kapatid ko namang bunso sa kanya ko napapakinggan yung lisa loeb and the nine tails, tracy chapman, Live, and tuck and patti.
sobrang gasgas na yung jagged little pill sa akin nung college. nung tumanda na ako ng onti, ayan na collective soul, matchbox 20, googoo dolls, the verve, etc. basta yung mga yun. kaya nga ansaya nung tinugtog/kinanta ni david cook yung world i know sa finals. hehehe
ok i digress...
due to the prohibitive prices of technological innovations such analog SLR cameras (in those days we don't even call them analog) and videocams, our projects in college (i was a comm student) were very hard to produce.
and those tapes. aaaaaagggh! *splice splice splice* and the horrible editing machines. and that magic eraser: one wrong move, the magnet (was it magnet?) will obliterate all those footages. that's why i let my edcomm classmates handle that. i was just an ignorant journ student...
remember the cartridge inside the broadcast booth for infomercials, station IDs and public announcements (PAs)? they often get stuck, the ribbon becomes the fodder for the hungry player or just leave you hanging on air. i spent *hours* inside the booth just trying to get that thing to work. and yes, those days we still have to wait for the gigantic tapes to rewind just to be able to record our radio programs.
don't get me started on those vinyl records. you destroy the needle, you destroy the future of the student who will next use the booth.
in our BS (bullshit?) program, all students -- regardless of their major -- must go through the rituals of broadcasting, audio-visual and writing crap. that's why i spent agonizing hours with those contraptions. darn that cartridge. and i swore i will never ever enter the broadcasting field because it was too much work. i can't stand the production side of it. lalo na ngayon noh.
the students today know "cut and paste" through a right click of a mouse or "control x" and "control v". in college, we had to painfully and literally cut the printed words and paste them on tabloid-sized papers for our mock-newspapers or on 8x11 for newsletters when doing the lay-out. maybe there was already adobe pagemaker and corell then (first generation) but no one in my group knew how to use them. atsaka our pc hardware and software couldn't handle such programs since windows 3.11 pa lang ata computer namin nun later na lang naging win 95 so i don't remember using MS publisher then.
yes, we cut up photos and paragraphs literally then. and we didn't have google then. there was only one internet cafe in our university town then and it cost more than a hunderd bucks an hour just to be able to surf and send email. anyway, i didn't have anybody to email at that time since only a few brave souls used the internet then. only the FTP guys at commsci dept.
now i wonder how easy comm students' lives now. they have video cams on their phones, internet on their phones, research freely using google, a lot of video and photo editing and lay-outing software...
