Obsolete Terms Still Used on Radio & TV: Name One!

[Kelly A]

HiFi

 

[Weiserguy]

Has anyone mentioned Standard Broadcast Band?

 

[trusty]

Transcription

 

[necrat]

Where I work, every newscast is "roll X", "Are you rolling?". etc.
Referring to the tape machines that haven't been used in well over 10 years.

 

[cc333]

Huh. Must be a regional thing. The old guard down here called a refrigerator an "ice box".

My grandfather always called the refrigerator the "ice box".

Microsoft Windows 3.0, 3.1, Bob, 95, 98, ME, NT/3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4.0, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1

You forgot Windows 1.0, 2.0, 2.1.x, /286, /386, 98 SE, and Server 2003, 2008 and 2012, and Bob technically wasn't a separate OS, but rather a shell/GUI that one would install onto Windows 3.x and 95 and use instead of Program Manager/File Manager and Windows Explorer, respectively.

But I'm splitting hairs....

From Stax of Wax…

When color was not enough, NBC had “living color” in its pre-program peacock.
How about “turntable” … or, to sound presidential, “record player”.

Excuse me. I have to splice the tape before I thread it on the reel to cue it up.

(If you have to look up these terms, you're just not old enough.)

I understand every term perfectly. Does that mean I'm old?

How about a very old, sometimes used term that predates "record player" and "turntable": "record machine"? I've heard that term as a lyric on a handful of old recordings dating to the early 50s.

I also call my various reel to reel tape decks as "tape machines".

And my component audio system a "stereo".

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[trusty]

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