Interesting educational reporting, TV seemed so much more wholesome back then. Its crazy to think of the technological jumps that have been made in that field in such a short time. Tape cassette, CD, Minidisc, Solid state MP3 players and now online streaming.
The game changer - the iPhone of the day - the Sony Walkman. Anyone who was a teenager / young adult in the early 80's, used to big HiFi's and speaker stacks landlocked in the home, getting one of these babies... oh WoW! To hear stereo enter right into your head was mind blowing. Truly it was. To be able to walk around the streets and sit on a bus with your own personal music playing - like a soundtrack ... mind blowing. There were devices before and many came after, but I think for most of us, the early stuff was out of reach - expensive or not available - and the later stuff was "whatever". Really quickly, the Sony Walkman became affordable for most people, the same as mobile phones in the 90's and smartphones in the 2010's. To this day, I recall the first album I ever listened to on a Walkman - Upstairs at Erics, by Yazoo. Mind. Blown.
I remember seeing adverts for bonephones in Omni magazine... another thing from the 80's I miss. (Now I wear bone conduction headphones while I'm running to keep my ears clear, although they just go round your head...)
Tomorrow's World, a must watch in our household back in the day. I remember that model of Walkman well, although the one I bought when I started work was smaller Sony, with a five level equaliser on the side, which I got from Richer Sounds, London Bridge 😅
The very first ones were called the Sony Stowaway. The name changed to the Walkman after about a year. BEF - ex members of the Human League released their first album on cassette only, called music for stowaways. Later on they formed the band Heaven 17
Still enjoy watching these now but even as a kid I loved Tomorrow's World on a Thursday night, but will never forgive or forget the CD covered in jam that still played.
Those MDR-3L2 cans really are something special. Even today. About three hundred quid for a calibrated pair in good condition. Wonderful when matched with a TPS-L2 Walkman like that. The original dynamic duo.
Imagine showing someone from 1980 a noise cancelling headphones with Bluetooth connected to your smartphone playing Spotify or RUclips music with tens of millions of songs. Remarkable progress
To be honest, those 1980's Sony headphones sounded as good as or better than Bluetooth headphones today, especially in conjunction with CDs you actually owned (which would arrive a couple of years later) rather than lossy streaming.
The old Sony Walkman headphones would rest nicely on your ears, whereas other personal stereo manufacturers' headphones would almost crush your head by comparison.
Love how bbc went to the trouble of covering up the Sony logo on the Walkman but forgot to do the same for the software running on the tv where you can clearly see it say Sony on it 🤣
Still have it, complete with a new set of belts which I can't quite face up to fitting because drive belts that go round corners are bad enough a Peugeot car engine, never mind when it's on something a fraction of the size.
@@Rich-bb5gp do you have the silver leather case for it, and the cassette shape radio receiver that slots in? Good luck with the drive belts. Keep it going 🙌
@@fontenbleauThey're called rare earths but that's not to say they're scarce. Wikipedia says "rare" in this case means they're evenly spread through the earth's crust, making them harder to mine
He had no idea that in the future, music listeners won't give a damn about anything sounding good. Headphones now mostly ignore high and mid frequencies and focus solely on bass.
So the BBC covered up SONY on the cassette player and front of the TV, but had SONY showing clearly on the screen and the headphones. In those days the BBC wasn't supposed to show or mention commercial brands.
1980: The Future of HEADPHONES | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 0841am 22.7.24 i used to watch open university as a child not really comprehending what iw as watching.... in the wee hours to cadge crisps and crackers left on the sideboard... i love open univeirty for that fact alone... but i do notice that whtehr maths, sociology data or geo phyiscal fings as expressed in a graph, that most graphs delineated a blancmange. the blancmange era of science and philology...as for headphones. we had large headphone son the stereo and larger than life headphones to wear as you walked - refer to the film taxi driver.... which would only become fashionable 30 years later.. . we then whittled everything down to walkman convencience for convenience's sake ie: the understated design. sounds to listen to for the self possessed. we then became steeped in large look at my muffs stereophonic enterprises (refer to taxi driver reference)... we have now dropped back into the indiscernable limits of easy listening. though this time it's the pose that counts the minutiae which is no different fromthe in yer face muffs of yesteryear.... woe betide the lost man of the walkman era who wore to listen not to pose.... all he has been left is the tide of mockery and lazy wit. which he enjoys but it doresnt pay the rent.
The rules were never "don't show product names at all", just that doing so had to be "editorially justifiable", and not given any undue prominence. In this case, assuming they needed Sony's cooperation to show the technology, they may even have negotiated with them on which logos to cover up. They also never mention Sony by name, as a mention by a presenter was considered much more prominent than showing a logo.
@@scottishwildcat 1980: The Future of HEADPHONES | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 09211am 22.7.24 it's the civil service f'r chries' sake... the old british broadcasting corp... they wanted to emphasise the innovation in tech, not promote one particualr brand of headphone or sterophonmic player..... so unless the presenter was constantly going to keep reiterating the words: other branded products are available.. which would be tedious, as well as mind numbing, and a big turn off, then the BBC (british broadcasting corp) presenter was tasked with covering up brand monikers lest he or she be accused of favouritism and/or product placement. simple. i think they also used to get away with "product placement" by featuring brands within a scene or some such, upside down. refer to sit-coms, for instance, with heinz baked bean tins placed upside down on a shelf along with various pop cultural artefacts... unless they wanted to shock enshrined sensibilities and mores and blatantly show a product... once over it would be societal mores and religious sensibilities which would be up for pillorying etc now it's consumer socnious idols or brands up for the old backlash - and the shock value is still the same. all very lame. but there you go..... the british broadcasting corp can't knowingly feature branded products in it's preentations due to the fact that it cannot be deemed to be favouring one brand over any other. it is not an advertisement billboard, therefore, it cannot be deemed responsible for the futurity or the well being of big corp plc's wares. bringing such a seemingly absurd set of values to the fore would mean one could not be allowed to look at anything, eyes to the ground - and literal minded dolts may well assume that this is the way to go... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn. very boring. very true, though. very perverse. but again, your lawyer will be telling you this is how it is should your idea be taken up by the BBC (british broadcasting corp) as you endeavor to have your new show air on prime time telly. good luck. p.s if you do a media studies class they should cover such things re: how and how not to set up a televison studio..... not many folk even realised the BBC (british boradcastinc corp) was even, initally, part and parcel of the old civil service (aka: GPO)..... yyyawwwwwwwwwn...... ummmmmmmmmmmm....... i hope you've all kept your receipts and made copies of your incomings and outgoings as you;re all about to be hauled in to mr big of the BBC (british broadcasting corp's coffers chest) to present such and such informtion as being testament to the integrity of your valued oeuvre... formthe council, to the skanks who claim to be anarchic to the lags formt he housing office and the neighbourhood slags, they;re al bent and consumer conscious socieyty is at a loss as to why folk can look at an advertisment hoarding but not reference it or even describe it - less they be hauled in to explain their thinking re: such matters.....
@@mrpositronia Comments on ‘1980: The Future of HEADPHONES | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive’ 0947am 22.7.24 though if you kicked that tv screen in, in a room ful of people... that might be deemed conducive to discussion and the focal point of the discussion and a new topic of conversation....
There was of course no good reason at all that they couldn't let us listen to the quality of teh cassette playback. The headphone's out could certainly be dialed down to a sort of line out like volume. We would be judging only half the product, but the presenter falsely claims that he can't even demo that half to us....
Powerful magnets close to the brain, magnets powerful enough to lift an iron weight, will pull the iron within haemoglobin. Add in an electromagnetic field such as we have today with "wireless" headphones and heat is added to the magnetic field/soft tissue equation. Something to think about for those still interested in thinking about such things (if there are any such people left).
Yep, with lighter / stronger polymer / nylon flexible driver cones that have oxygen free copper coils which can produce more bass and treble easily. Magnets are now called neodymium, but basically the same thing.
Only the really cheapest earbuds don't have neodymium magnets in them I'd expect. I don't think good quality IEMs are even possible to make without rare earth magnets.
Kind of like looking back at the TV and VCR remotes that had the wires connected to them. At least I wasn't the official channel changer anymore. 😂 "Hey, get up and go change the channel to NBC."
Tomorrows world was great but the reason nobody watched it in the later years is because it became about pharmacy equipment, most guys who love tech wanna see innovation...
@@Bobby-LeeChanning Yes, true.... I bought an Aiwa walkman style (new old stock) around 5 years ago and I still use regularly it. It uses just one AAA battery, which I use a rechargable battery. I love it.
True, I was a Sony engineer, in the 80's, on the Walkman and audio side. There's quite a market for them at the moment, however when I suggested to them to bring something back, they said it would not be financially viable anymore. All the old factory equipment to make parts are long gone, and tooling is not cheap, for what would be a bit of a niche market. Plus here in the UK, Sony don't have any audio stuff any more, just a headphone amp and a set of cans. Sad. Vintage Sony (forever in my heart). 😀
the problem is in motors, there's knockoffs of motors today, hard to believe that such was made in Japan, later outsourced-but even such was better in quality than what you getting today as motor. The only thing i don't like with late walkmans, super miniaturisation makes impossible for me today to find a belt for motor, it requires very 0.4mm thin and long belt, which finding hard anywhere, because of that a broken walkman dictaphone laying for years.
Well there are numerous problems with these "comparisons"... this is at the scientific level of a Tupperware salesman. Wonder how they let this air back then. They were either unknowledgeable or paid.
1980: The Future of HEADPHONES | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 0838am 22.7.24 irish people tellin' us this is the fuuuuuuuture. as they wander off to write some simpering oirish witticisms... you and your pink dots and yer resonaces. everything's based on magnets, man. listen to the magnet dude....
@@anewman1976 Comments on ‘1980: The Future of HEADPHONES | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive’ 0920am 22.7.24 old fart, here... i am fine. where's ireland, sir? is it near germany...?
Techmoan: The Early Years
He was too northern for 1980 BBC sadly
Nice!!! 😅
Love these time capsules
Is there a comparable show on TV today? Love the restrained and factual presenting style.
I suppose the nearest equivalent to the BBC’s old Tomorrow’s World is the current BBC technology programme, ‘Click’.
Channel 5's The Gadget Show.
@@hopebgood - Hasn’t been broadcast for a couple of years now.
for vintage stuff try techmoan, for genius level explanations try electroboom
@@paulclarke245 - Good suggestions but I don’t think either of those are on regular broadcast TV. (The commentator’s original question).
I got a kick out of him drawing right on the crt with a dry erase marker.
Very progressive of you.
AMSR vibes
Who would've thought in 2024 that the futuristic tape machine thingy are highly sought after!!
I recall Tomorrow's World with Raymond Baxter. Such an iconic voice. Spitfire pilot, rally driver, narrator and commentator. Grew up with him.
The first headphones were incredible, way before their time. 44 years later i use bone conducting earphones when exercising. What a great show!!
Chap is wearing an early Sergio Georgini leather jacket.
01:41 And 44 years on, @DankPods is doing the same thing here on RUclips with his freakish ears on a stand.
I was just thinking this is DankPods 40 years ago
Interesting educational reporting, TV seemed so much more wholesome back then. Its crazy to think of the technological jumps that have been made in that field in such a short time. Tape cassette, CD, Minidisc, Solid state MP3 players and now online streaming.
The game changer - the iPhone of the day - the Sony Walkman.
Anyone who was a teenager / young adult in the early 80's, used to big HiFi's and speaker stacks landlocked in the home, getting one of these babies... oh WoW!
To hear stereo enter right into your head was mind blowing. Truly it was.
To be able to walk around the streets and sit on a bus with your own personal music playing - like a soundtrack ... mind blowing.
There were devices before and many came after, but I think for most of us, the early stuff was out of reach - expensive or not available - and the later stuff was "whatever".
Really quickly, the Sony Walkman became affordable for most people, the same as mobile phones in the 90's and smartphones in the 2010's.
To this day, I recall the first album I ever listened to on a Walkman - Upstairs at Erics, by Yazoo.
Mind. Blown.
Used to love this show
I remember seeing adverts for bonephones in Omni magazine... another thing from the 80's I miss. (Now I wear bone conduction headphones while I'm running to keep my ears clear, although they just go round your head...)
I remember the name being spelled "bonefone"
And all the audio nerds go…
It’s not level-matched
It’s not level-matched
. . .
the future of tinnitus
No, that was due to the volume level of 70s & 80s rock concerts.
Spot the (now rare) Casio F-100 on Kieran Prendiville's wrist.
I used to have one of those as a kid. Casio have (sort of) reissued it as the A-100.
@@snoballuk casios are plastic krud these days
1980 was the first year i first listened to a Sony Walkman. To say i was BLOWN AWAY, was an understatement ❤
He's wearing one of those Casios from Alien.
That is really cool, BTW Kieran is wearing a Casio F100, classic watch model by Casio that was used in by Ripley in the Alien.
Still just the 3 channels then so we watched that on the one TV in a six bedroom house. Earlier, I still watched Mr.Ben.
Tomorrow's World, a must watch in our household back in the day.
I remember that model of Walkman well, although the one I bought when I started work was smaller Sony, with a five level equaliser on the side, which I got from Richer Sounds, London Bridge 😅
I had that walkman...
No you didn't I did 😡
I remember the Walkman coming out. A friend of mine had one and i remember the sound being amazing. I could only dream of owning one
The very first ones were called the Sony Stowaway. The name changed to the Walkman after about a year.
BEF - ex members of the Human League released their first album on cassette only, called music for stowaways. Later on they formed the band Heaven 17
Program: BBCs 'Tomorrows World'... His mind would have been BLOWN with Bluetooth heapdhones featuring 'aptX Lossless'! 🤣🤣🤣
Still enjoy watching these now but even as a kid I loved Tomorrow's World on a Thursday night, but will never forgive or forget the CD covered in jam that still played.
"Walking about with a head full of music
Cassette in my pocket and I'm gonna use it
Stereo
Out on the street, you know"
Wired for Sound.
Wo a wo a wo a wo wah wah wo..
Or was it,
Woah Woah Woah 🤔
@@jasonayres Both (eventually!).
Those MDR-3L2 cans really are something special. Even today. About three hundred quid for a calibrated pair in good condition. Wonderful when matched with a TPS-L2 Walkman like that. The original dynamic duo.
Imagine showing someone from 1980 a noise cancelling headphones with Bluetooth connected to your smartphone playing Spotify or RUclips music with tens of millions of songs.
Remarkable progress
To be honest, those 1980's Sony headphones sounded as good as or better than Bluetooth headphones today, especially in conjunction with CDs you actually owned (which would arrive a couple of years later) rather than lossy streaming.
The sound was actually great, easily comparable to headsets now
Then they'll ask why hasn't the music got any better since?
@@davem9204 This I agree partially. There is a lot of very good music produced today, the problem is finding it!
@@brianmmacu I own a Sony Walkman and the headphones that came from it. I recall it was a tad tinny.
Not familiar with the presenter but I like his engaging presenting style.
The old Sony Walkman headphones would rest nicely on your ears, whereas other personal stereo manufacturers' headphones would almost crush your head by comparison.
I got my first "walkman" in 1984. Except it wasn't a Walkman. An actual Sony was too expensive. It was a GE. Still have it.
I had another brand too. When I asked for Walkman my parents just laughed. My dad was a bit of a tightwad, lol.
yeah, in that time even the motors was made in Japan, everything started outsourcing during Bill Clinton agreement, so 1990s
Love how bbc went to the trouble of covering up the Sony logo on the Walkman but forgot to do the same for the software running on the tv where you can clearly see it say Sony on it 🤣
When did SONY start using the WALKMAN brand? Because the TPS-L2 they're showing here doesn't have it in 1980.
1979 but they obviously hadn't spread it across all their portable cassette player ranges at that point.
Here in the UK it was initially branded as the Sony Stowaway.
hi does anybody know what the headphones are ?
Whho else had that walkman?
Still have it, complete with a new set of belts which I can't quite face up to fitting because drive belts that go round corners are bad enough a Peugeot car engine, never mind when it's on something a fraction of the size.
@@Rich-bb5gp do you have the silver leather case for it, and the cassette shape radio receiver that slots in? Good luck with the drive belts. Keep it going 🙌
I remember the personal stereos
Yeah they were a great band.
Teachmoan was watching this as a young lad
my favourite Walkman was a tiny thing from Panasonic in
Is the round the neck device using bone conduction?
Nope, just the kind of speakers you'd find in a small portable radio of the time. 🙂
Carmen Pryce and Kate Bellingham were both drop dead gorgeous.
Its good to see BBC presenters not being vacuous, patronising idiots who think they are auditioning for a reality show.
I loved Tomorrow's World. I guess BBC's Click is the closest thing today?
Good luck finding rare earths in any current headphones. That headphones definitely was made in Japan also.
What, neodymiums are used all the time in headphones aren't they?
@@bens1343 it's kinda weak and have few laying around, have you heard the video? good luck finding with samarium alloy.
You only said rare earths in your previous comment, that includes neodymium which is common in modern headphones
@@bens1343 if you say it's so common - is it such rare? you're contradict yourself
@@fontenbleauThey're called rare earths but that's not to say they're scarce. Wikipedia says "rare" in this case means they're evenly spread through the earth's crust, making them harder to mine
Brilliant, when the bbc was watchable
He had no idea that in the future, music listeners won't give a damn about anything sounding good. Headphones now mostly ignore high and mid frequencies and focus solely on bass.
So the BBC covered up SONY on the cassette player and front of the TV, but had SONY showing clearly on the screen and the headphones. In those days the BBC wasn't supposed to show or mention commercial brands.
1980: The Future of HEADPHONES | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 0841am 22.7.24 i used to watch open university as a child not really comprehending what iw as watching.... in the wee hours to cadge crisps and crackers left on the sideboard... i love open univeirty for that fact alone... but i do notice that whtehr maths, sociology data or geo phyiscal fings as expressed in a graph, that most graphs delineated a blancmange. the blancmange era of science and philology...as for headphones. we had large headphone son the stereo and larger than life headphones to wear as you walked - refer to the film taxi driver.... which would only become fashionable 30 years later.. . we then whittled everything down to walkman convencience for convenience's sake ie: the understated design. sounds to listen to for the self possessed. we then became steeped in large look at my muffs stereophonic enterprises (refer to taxi driver reference)... we have now dropped back into the indiscernable limits of easy listening. though this time it's the pose that counts the minutiae which is no different fromthe in yer face muffs of yesteryear.... woe betide the lost man of the walkman era who wore to listen not to pose.... all he has been left is the tide of mockery and lazy wit. which he enjoys but it doresnt pay the rent.
The rules were never "don't show product names at all", just that doing so had to be "editorially justifiable", and not given any undue prominence. In this case, assuming they needed Sony's cooperation to show the technology, they may even have negotiated with them on which logos to cover up. They also never mention Sony by name, as a mention by a presenter was considered much more prominent than showing a logo.
The TV wasn't the focal point of the topic. It's no big deal.
@@scottishwildcat 1980: The Future of HEADPHONES | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 09211am 22.7.24 it's the civil service f'r chries' sake... the old british broadcasting corp... they wanted to emphasise the innovation in tech, not promote one particualr brand of headphone or sterophonmic player..... so unless the presenter was constantly going to keep reiterating the words: other branded products are available.. which would be tedious, as well as mind numbing, and a big turn off, then the BBC (british broadcasting corp) presenter was tasked with covering up brand monikers lest he or she be accused of favouritism and/or product placement. simple. i think they also used to get away with "product placement" by featuring brands within a scene or some such, upside down. refer to sit-coms, for instance, with heinz baked bean tins placed upside down on a shelf along with various pop cultural artefacts... unless they wanted to shock enshrined sensibilities and mores and blatantly show a product... once over it would be societal mores and religious sensibilities which would be up for pillorying etc now it's consumer socnious idols or brands up for the old backlash - and the shock value is still the same. all very lame. but there you go..... the british broadcasting corp can't knowingly feature branded products in it's preentations due to the fact that it cannot be deemed to be favouring one brand over any other. it is not an advertisement billboard, therefore, it cannot be deemed responsible for the futurity or the well being of big corp plc's wares. bringing such a seemingly absurd set of values to the fore would mean one could not be allowed to look at anything, eyes to the ground - and literal minded dolts may well assume that this is the way to go... yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawn. very boring. very true, though. very perverse. but again, your lawyer will be telling you this is how it is should your idea be taken up by the BBC (british broadcasting corp) as you endeavor to have your new show air on prime time telly. good luck. p.s if you do a media studies class they should cover such things re: how and how not to set up a televison studio..... not many folk even realised the BBC (british boradcastinc corp) was even, initally, part and parcel of the old civil service (aka: GPO)..... yyyawwwwwwwwwn...... ummmmmmmmmmmm....... i hope you've all kept your receipts and made copies of your incomings and outgoings as you;re all about to be hauled in to mr big of the BBC (british broadcasting corp's coffers chest) to present such and such informtion as being testament to the integrity of your valued oeuvre... formthe council, to the skanks who claim to be anarchic to the lags formt he housing office and the neighbourhood slags, they;re al bent and consumer conscious socieyty is at a loss as to why folk can look at an advertisment hoarding but not reference it or even describe it - less they be hauled in to explain their thinking re: such matters.....
@@mrpositronia Comments on ‘1980: The Future of HEADPHONES | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive’ 0947am 22.7.24 though if you kicked that tv screen in, in a room ful of people... that might be deemed conducive to discussion and the focal point of the discussion and a new topic of conversation....
Techmoan needs to see this
There was of course no good reason at all that they couldn't let us listen to the quality of teh cassette playback. The headphone's out could certainly be dialed down to a sort of line out like volume. We would be judging only half the product, but the presenter falsely claims that he can't even demo that half to us....
Techmoan did a fine retrospective of the Bonephone: ruclips.net/video/0i3gRFekbt0/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Do you think they could give K9's body back after the show perhaps?
I didn't know James Acaster was on Tomorrow's World.
What watch has he got?
Powerful magnets close to the brain, magnets powerful enough to lift an iron weight, will pull the iron within haemoglobin. Add in an electromagnetic field such as we have today with "wireless" headphones and heat is added to the magnetic field/soft tissue equation.
Something to think about for those still interested in thinking about such things (if there are any such people left).
44 years ago...Wonder what the latest devices will be in 2068?
Sony made that analyzer…. I call shenanigans
Give Star Lord his Walkman back.
Do they still use the special magnets in the smaller head phones?
Yep, with lighter / stronger polymer / nylon flexible driver cones that have oxygen free copper coils which can produce more bass and treble easily. Magnets are now called neodymium, but basically the same thing.
depends on price and technology, in good earphones used drivers from deaf prosthesis, where magnets smaller than nail
Only the really cheapest earbuds don't have neodymium magnets in them I'd expect. I don't think good quality IEMs are even possible to make without rare earth magnets.
What happened to Kieran Prenderville?
It’s just louder!!! 😂😂
Gen Z & Alpha: "Wired headphones...?"
Kind of like looking back at the TV and VCR remotes that had the wires connected to them. At least I wasn't the official channel changer anymore. 😂 "Hey, get up and go change the channel to NBC."
i still have & use, Sony maybe the only major smartphone maker still making phones with headphone jack (beside chinese brands)
Tomorrows world was great but the reason nobody watched it in the later years is because it became about pharmacy equipment, most guys who love tech wanna see innovation...
we now call them magnets Neodymium and they are common in lots of things
SmCo magnets aren't neodymium magnets
Whatever will they think of next? It'll never catch on though 🤔🤪
Well, 1980 Is really long time ago.
I had one, the "Bone Fone". It was "Meh."
The difference between these headphones is... Amperage
This makes no sense and can’t be true. You would lose way more sound from those smaller lighter headphones.
This is BBC ?!?!!? What the hell happened?
neat have that one also😁
You can't buy a decent cassette player now, they're all cheap plastic, wow and flutter!, I wish Sony still made Walkmans like that.
I got an aiwa from 1987 solid as a brick yrs for a ton plus batts 🤣🤣🤣
@@Bobby-LeeChanning Yes, true.... I bought an Aiwa walkman style (new old stock) around 5 years ago and I still use regularly it. It uses just one AAA battery, which I use a rechargable battery. I love it.
True, I was a Sony engineer, in the 80's, on the Walkman and audio side. There's quite a market for them at the moment, however when I suggested to them to bring something back, they said it would not be financially viable anymore. All the old factory equipment to make parts are long gone, and tooling is not cheap, for what would be a bit of a niche market. Plus here in the UK, Sony don't have any audio stuff any more, just a headphone amp and a set of cans. Sad. Vintage Sony (forever in my heart). 😀
the problem is in motors, there's knockoffs of motors today, hard to believe that such was made in Japan, later outsourced-but even such was better in quality than what you getting today as motor. The only thing i don't like with late walkmans, super miniaturisation makes impossible for me today to find a belt for motor, it requires very 0.4mm thin and long belt, which finding hard anywhere, because of that a broken walkman dictaphone laying for years.
SONY WalkMan
dankpods’ british dad:
Back when you had to pretend to be posh at the BBC but your accent kept slipping.
Well there are numerous problems with these "comparisons"... this is at the scientific level of a Tupperware salesman. Wonder how they let this air back then. They were either unknowledgeable or paid.
I hate wearing headphones, I always use a loud speaker!
1980: The Future of HEADPHONES | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive 0838am 22.7.24 irish people tellin' us this is the fuuuuuuuture. as they wander off to write some simpering oirish witticisms... you and your pink dots and yer resonaces. everything's based on magnets, man. listen to the magnet dude....
Irish man here, are you okay?
@@anewman1976 Comments on ‘1980: The Future of HEADPHONES | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive’ 0920am 22.7.24 old fart, here... i am fine. where's ireland, sir? is it near germany...?
@@JJONNYREPPDo you always have to quote the entire name of the film?
@@jeshkam- RUclips comments section seems to be attracting more and more weirdos lately.🤪
@@AtheistOrphanYes, I think he may have missed his nap time. Poor thing..