http://www.cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php?title=The_Victrola&feed=atom&action=historyThe Victrola - Revision history2024-03-28T10:04:13ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.25.2http://www.cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php?title=The_Victrola&diff=12664&oldid=prevFinnb: Undo revision 12563 by Egugecuge (Talk)2010-11-24T14:41:06Z<p>Undo revision 12563 by <a href="/deadmedia/index.php/Special:Contributions/Egugecuge" title="Special:Contributions/Egugecuge">Egugecuge</a> (<a href="/deadmedia/index.php?title=User_talk:Egugecuge&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User talk:Egugecuge (page does not exist)">Talk</a>)</p>
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</table>Alexhttp://www.cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php?title=The_Victrola&diff=4879&oldid=prevSolon: /* Portability: From Group to Individual Listening */2008-04-30T19:15:32Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Portability: From Group to Individual Listening</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the portable Victrola was easily transportable by design, its intended use remained open-air and group playback.  Portability was a value not yet associated with individualized listening, as would become customary with later portable technologies that employed headphones.  The Victrola was instead marketed as a device which could be easily taken from place to place for open-air playback, not a device which could offer playback en route.  This was a function of both the issues of volume control mentioned earlier as well as the obvious difficulty in handling rather clumsy and large material recordings.  Indeed, the problem of analogue, carved inscription (wax records), as compared to analogue, magnetic recording (cassettes), rendered <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">the idea of </del>portable playback on one's person <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">an </del>illusory.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the portable Victrola was easily transportable by design, its intended use remained open-air and group playback.  Portability was a value not yet associated with individualized listening, as would become customary with later portable technologies that employed headphones.  The Victrola was instead marketed as a device which could be easily taken from place to place for open-air playback, not a device which could offer playback en route.  This was a function of both the issues of volume control mentioned earlier as well as the obvious difficulty in handling rather clumsy and large material recordings.  Indeed, the problem of analogue, carved inscription (wax records), as compared to analogue, magnetic recording (cassettes), rendered portable playback on one's person illusory <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">for some time.  Radio technology lent itself more immediately to portable use (in the 1950's car, for instance).  Similarly, the Victrola and subsequent record players required a stable platform upon which to sit during use, lest the needle jump.  Stability was key.  That said, a number of ill-fated devices did emerge which attempted to tackle this issue</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Solonhttp://www.cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php?title=The_Victrola&diff=4875&oldid=prevSolon: /* Portability: From Group to Individual Listening */2008-04-30T18:58:02Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Portability: From Group to Individual Listening</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the portable Victrola was easily transportable by design, its <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">indented </del>use remained open-air and group playback.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color:black; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the portable Victrola was easily transportable by design, its <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">intended </ins>use remained open-air and group playback<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.  Portability was a value not yet associated with individualized listening, as would become customary with later portable technologies that employed headphones.  The Victrola was instead marketed as a device which could be easily taken from place to place for open-air playback, not a device which could offer playback en route.  This was a function of both the issues of volume control mentioned earlier as well as the obvious difficulty in handling rather clumsy and large material recordings.  Indeed, the problem of analogue, carved inscription (wax records), as compared to analogue, magnetic recording (cassettes), rendered the idea of portable playback on one's person an illusory</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Solonhttp://www.cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php?title=The_Victrola&diff=4874&oldid=prevSolon: /* Portability: From Group to Individual Listening */2008-04-30T18:45:35Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Portability: From Group to Individual Listening</span></span></p>
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