This little text is a request from me that all of you Diehard Audio Only Fans that you have some patience. Usually when we open a new group there is a newness period where there are more posts there than anywhere else on the site. It is more noticeable when it out of Auditory range and into visual or text or comics etc. We are trying to round out the site so it fits in with the multimedia interests of many of our members. There is no change of venue from Audio to Video. In fact there has always been a video option on the site from Ning but it has become useless with new size requirements. Movies are a second love to a a lot of members. I am going by the usual posters and the field day atmosphere in posting of Classic Movies and Contemporary Classics.
The group was rolled out as it becomes Summer in most of our member areas of the world, the Southern Hemisphere being a notable exception, and traditionally this time of the year there is a notable decline in New material on the Internet in audio so this was the best time to roll it out, because in the past it has either been a notable drop in posts or none at all due to the lowered amount of new stuff available and the propensity of the human species to get outdoors when it is nice out.
I have received complaints already from the diehard Audiophiles on the site. Please do not try and convince me to take the Movie and video groups down because "It ain't happenin". By the same token do not try to convince me that it doesn't belong and that I am making a change in venue because you are wrong on both counts. One person tried to convince me that it doesn't belong because the Name of the site is all audio. There are 3 lines in the Title that are not necessarily one thought string. The center line is the one that gives us the right to include other types of media and that is NOSTALGIA. Is there one among you that can argue that a good Classic Movie is not Nostalgic or that a good book/ebook of a classic or a good Shadow Comic is not Nostalgia. Whether it is an old issue or a remake of a famous Character it belongs here.
This time of only Movies being posted will pass because they all do. Why, because we are basically most of us OTR buffs that have been thrust into an age that we can carry movies or a whole stack of comics or a library shelf full of books in our pocket to enjoy wherever we want. Until the basic era we first had only audio that was able to be personalized in our own consumption.
In conclusion I return to the basic thought that our site has to go with the flow of multimedia or get lost and stagnate as I see other sites doing. I love Times Past and along with the owner Robert we are doing what we think best for the site. Also, while we lovers of media as a whole have our fied day with new things you that are Audio Only Lovers cannot tell me that you have listened to everything on this site. We are different in that most sites posts the links are good for a week or 2 maximum. I try to keep all my links current and encourage others to also. So while we are posting content that is not audio you can go back in your favorite groups and find surprises and goodies around every corner and 9 out of 10 of them the link is active and if it is not we have a wonderful group here that will find it for you and post it. So lighten up while Times Past grows into the 21st Century.
All Replies, Rebuttals, comments, likes or don't likes welcomed. Tell us what you feel. After all this is the requests group and I requested your comments. ------------------------------------- R
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I am enjoying the videos, especially the 1950-1960's private detective and westerns. My thanks to you and Robert for your good work.
Amen brother!
Its amazing just how many old time radio artists got their start in Vaudeville before moving into that new medium of radio, and then on to movies and then to TV and finally onto boxed DVD sets. It would be a much poorer world if all we've retained of the works of artists like Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Orson Wells, Humphrey Bogart were their voices on radio.
Thank You for your support. I collect the same as Bob. I don't care whether there is picture with the voice. I love it that I can see who is performing but I also love to use my imagination on OTR and NTR. This will go back to being all mediums, now we just have a dedicated place for the pictures from our childhood to go, right beside the radio and audio which was one of the 2 prevalent mediums of the time. Now we can continue toco collect both. ---------------------- R
I like the new content. I tend to collect by character and genre, not by media type. Thus, I have Sherlock Holmes, audio, video, e-books, comics, posters, interviews and any other Holmesian media I can get my hands on. Similarly, I collect the mystery genre in many formats. I'm not a Whovian, but I suspect tyat collectors of that genre also squirrel away all media.
Rick also raises the very valid point that our ability to store media has undergone a quantum leap. When i started collecting audio, storage was limited to tiny hard drives that were orders of magnitude smaller than today's cheapest MP3 players. Today, my collection spans multiple terabyte drives.
Finally, the most compelling argument is that this is Robert's toy. No one compels any member to join any of the groups. If you don't want to be troubled by the video or e-book groups, don't join them and you will never see the content.
To Robert and Rick: keep up the good work. The diversity in genres and media ADDS to our collective enjoyment, despite the Miniver Cheevys among us.
Bob