You can't beat how at the end of a pre-recorded video tape, the screen goes blank and it sometimes shows copyright messages and other things (with no sound).

Also on a video tape i've heard beeps and other odd sounds at the blank part of the beginning of a pre-rec'd tape.

Then there's records with their popping and crackling, real authentic sounds I like at the end of one when the turntable automatically lifts the arm off the record and on some turntables it generates a loud pop through the speakers.

And the silent bits at the start and end of an audio tape

You don't get this with MP3's CD's DVD's and Blu-Ray's

They just don't make em' like that anymore!

I certainly didn't morn the passing of either audio or video tape, but I still buy vinyl!

I don't miss having my old VCRs recorded over because my mum didn't know any better.

Don't forget tuning in the TV/VCR when they had manual tuning - twiddle the twiddler and all sorts of snow and off stations come past. I tuned my Betamax to BBC1 to record Eurovision on Saturday and that was a world apart from all this modern digital business. Clunks, whirrs, aerial leads and snow.

Remember the old 80's tellys which had a moving vertical yellow line which moved from left to right when tuning? I saw this alot on old Bush tellys (maybe some other brands too)

I have a working Samsung B&W TV from the 80s with an analogue tuning dial with UHF frequency numbers!

I used to have IP addresses of telnet and ftp servers written down in a notepad, before DNS and http came about. Nostalgia eh?

I think my dad still has one of these hanging around in the attic

http://www.technology-props.co.uk/im...ic_nv8600b.jpg

True, but certainly in comparison to well recorded, well maintained and pampered vinyl, you don't get the same high quality sound, either.

Although, to be fair, SACDs, DVD-Audio disks and high resolution, multi-channel flac files do (to my ears anyway) sound better, or at least as good as, vinyl.

CD is more accurate sound than vinyl, it just doesn't have the distortions that many people find pleasant nor the visual appeal of a record.