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[baratron]

We have a new video! Richard picked it up in Oxford Street. It matches our new television and does NTSC playback, so we can get tapes from the US and Japan.

I was wondering if there are any other things where the same name is used both for the device and for the thing you play it on. I mean, we say "video" for both the cassette and the player, whereas it's "CD" and "CD player" and "tape" and "tape recorder". It's rather odd, that.

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the same thing!

[roxy641.livejournal.com]

Hi H-L,

I could be showing my age here LOL ;-)

But I tend to say the word "album" to mean any release on cd/cassette/vinyl. I remember once a young person said to me "What's an album?" ha ha
Know I know I'm OLD ;-(

Roxy641

Re: the same thing!

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I remember once a young person said to me "What's an album?"

That's scary.

I use album when I'm talking about CDs too. Well, you need to distinguish between a CD with a lot of songs on (an album) and a CD with only a few songs on (a single)!

Re: the same thing!

[roxy641.livejournal.com]

Oh I do distinguish between a album (cd) and a single. I just say "Cd single"

Roxy641
Bi the way,
Now I know that I'm old! LOL ;-)
(Was what I meant to type before, NOT
Know I know I'm OLD.
Noticed this typo as soon as I posted (isn't it
always the way? ha ha)

what do you play the video in?

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

USAans tend to say "VCR" (video cassette player) or "video player" and "DVD player."

And Richard has a lovely package. :)

Re: what do you play the video in?

[baratron.livejournal.com]

The term "VCR" exists here, but it's not the term used in everyday conversation. Absolutely everyone I know talks about watching a video on their video. I think some people use "video recorder" to distinguish the machine from the cassette, but no one ever says "VCR".

What confused me was when I found that the instructions in our new video were referring to something called a "VTR". I eventually realised this could be expanded in the same way as VCR but with "tape" instead of "cassette". I've definitely never heard VTR used before.

Re: what do you play the video in?

[adjectivemarcus.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, I tend to say 'tape' for video tapes and audio cassettes, 'records' for vinyl, 'album' for vinyl and CDs.

I've heard people in my family refer to the record player as the 'stereogram' before. Which is doubly weird because stereograms are a sort of photography...

M xx