Does anyone still use or like vinyl?

[pastoralguy]

Exactly. Those who say 'Get a digital camera ; or 'why not just play a CD?' are missing the point.

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My first ambition as a little boy was not to be a steam engine driver or an air line pilot but a cinema projectionist. Ever since my father took me to see my first Disney film aged three and a half, I’ve always been fascinated by how movies work. I was involved with the school film club and loved running the 16mm projectors doing my best to emulate what I saw in my local cinema.

When I discovered eBay I bought a vintage Bell & Howell 16mm projector and a print of the Audrey Hepburn movie ‘How to Steal a Million’. My friend had a house with a set of stairs that ran upstairs and a large window that looked down on her sitting room so I could set my machine on the stairs and shine it on to the sitting room wall. We had great evenings with friends where I would show a feature film prefaced by adverts, trailers and cartoons and she would provide a buffet.
It was fun but a tremendous amount of work! (Vintage movie equipment is heavy!)

However, nothing spoiled it more than someone saying ‘why not get a digital projector?!’ What they failed to realise was that wasn’t the point. It was the sheer fun as well as the terror that it could all go horribly wrong any second! Fortunately, it never did.

[hmvman]

My first ambition as a little boy was not to be a steam engine driver or an air line pilot but a cinema projectionist. Ever since my father took me to see my first Disney film aged three and a half, I’ve always been fascinated by how movies work. I was involved with the school film club and loved running the 16mm projectors doing my best to emulate what I saw in my local cinema.

When I discovered eBay I bought a vintage Bell & Howell 16mm projector and a print of the Audrey Hepburn movie ‘How to Steal a Million’. My friend had a house with a set of stairs that ran upstairs and a large window that looked down on her sitting room so I could set my machine on the stairs and shine it on to the sitting room wall. We had great evenings with friends where I would show a feature film prefaced by adverts, trailers and cartoons and she would provide a buffet.
It was fun but a tremendous amount of work! (Vintage movie equipment is heavy!)

However, nothing spoiled it more than someone saying ‘why not get a digital projector?!’ What they failed to realise was that wasn’t the point. It was the sheer fun as well as the terror that it could all go horribly wrong any second! Fortunately, it never did.

Wonderful! Similar fun here as I have a couple of B&H 16mm projectors and have had some great evenings entertaining friends with film shows. There was one disaster when my print of the 1935 "The Thirty-Nine Steps" broke mid-way through the first reel.

I wonder if people ask owners of vintage cars why they don't just drive a modern car with automatic transmission, air-con, sat-nav etc etc...

[alywin]

Yesterday I played what I think is the best-sounding LP I've ever heard: Mozart's Serenade K361 by the Netherlands Wind Ensemble, a 1980 reissue of a 1968 Philips recording, bought in a charity shop last week. I honestly could not distinguish the sound from a CD. . .

We may have the original of that - Netherlands Wind Ensemble is definitely ringing a bell - but I can't be bothered to go into the other room at this time of night to look it up.