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Alas, problems abounded with the system: Records skipped as the car encountered uneven surfaces. And an exclusive content arrangement with Columbia meant that drivers could listen only to artists signed to Columbia Records.
The skipping is from the land of "duh" -- but the part that really kills me was that they were shooting themselves in the foot with stupid content lock-in then too. Oh, entertainment industry.
drivers could listen only to artists signed to Columbia Records.
Whuh? How could that possibly have been enforced? Would cops pull you over if they heard a non-Columbia artist skipping in your car?
Whuh? How could that possibly have been enforced?
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They weren't standard 45s, they were custom long-playing 16⅔-rpm records.
They weren't standard 45s, they were custom long-playing 16⅔-rpm records.
Ah, a proprietary audio format.
This I didn't know:
Chrysler didn’t completely give up, though. The automaker tried again in 1960. This time, the unit was made by RCA and played regular 45-rpm records.
You could stack up to 12 records in the player so that you would not have to change them every three or four minutes.
Huh. My reaction is still, "What were they thinking?"
I had a similar reaction to a radio I looked at that sounded interesting at first glance. It was a CD-less Clarion radio that played from a SD card, did the Bluetooth thing, and had auxiliary input. Then I realized that it didn't support SD cards with more than 2GB and only had FM radio, no AM radio.
How do you not have an AM receiver? I mean a kid can make one basically with a wire, a capacitor, and a diode right? It's gotta cost like a few cents a unit.
How do you not have an AM receiver?
If AM radio went away, how long would it be before you noticed?
In LA? The first day. AM 1070 is our local traffic/weather source, and I listen to them to and from work for at least a few minutes..
Pretty quick, it's the source of local news and pretty much all sports scores and games.
Huh. My reaction is still, "What were they thinking?"
Reviews of the first in car CD players said the same things. I remember my first home CD player in 1983, you could make the thing skip by walking heavily near it.