Recently I happened across the Canadian media production company, VEI (Visual Entertainment Inc.) and noticed that they had the distribution rights to several old T.V. show from the 80s, which […]
Category: Collecting
Cheap is just the new “normal”
This evening, my wife and I sat down to watch a couple of movies that we haven’t seen for a while. First, we watched “A Knight’s Tale”, which is one […]
Media Collection Score-card
Just for fun, I thought I’d do a tally of my current home video collection, which includes our library of movies and T.V. shows on VHS, Laserdisc, and DVDs.
How to care for your all-in-one nostalgia turntable
I thought I’d share with you some of the things I do to help keep our collection of all-in-one / nostalgia turntable stereos in tip-top shape. The kind of stereos […]
Review of the Electrohome Kingston RR75 Turntable
Well, it finally arrived! Electrohome’s newest All-in-one turntable stereo is out and we just received ours yesterday. I’ve spent some time getting familiar with this latest addition to the “nostalgia” […]
Some turntable sound samples
I thought I’d share some recordings from my collection of all-in-one nostalgia turntables, so you can hear the differences in performances, produced by each of the record players.
Let’s not forget the portable LP players
I wrote a little bit about our collection of all-in-one turntable consoles, here. So now, let’s take a look at the handful of portable record players we’ve been able to […]
An unexpected collection of all-in-one turntables
It’s kind of amusing how, even though you never intended to collect something, you wind up with a collection of it anyway. This is what happened with me and those […]
My DVD burning rig: Asus EeeBox
I just thought I’d take a moment and share with you the rig I use to process and encode my video collection. At the moment, I’m using this setup to […]
It’s so difficult to let go sometimes
My wife and I are in the process of launching a new on-line shop, where we can sell off some of the things we’ve collected over the years, and […]
