Just in awe of how much this guy looks exactly like what I'd expect the inventor of a CD-vinyl hybrid to look like
@rabbithats He does call it "the pinnacle of recorded sound", who talks like that unless they're trying to stick it to Thomas Edison?
@erinbee I can find more news articles about this, but the company cited, named NeoFidelity, does not appear to have a website, so no way to find out more about it...
@Gargron The whole thing kind of feels like a run-around to get people hyped up about Bob Dylan, tbh
@erinbee what is it now, digital info read by a stylus? Sounds like the return of a CED-like format.
@gbraad There doesn't seem to be anything digital about it, it's an aluminum disc with lacquer painted on it, with the grooves for the music etched into the lacquer.
@erinbee CED and Laser disc also weren't
@erinbee he looks like roger stone decided to cosplay as beethoven instead of as a steampunk robber-baron
@karobit This is more accurate than my first impression that it was Steve Martin trying to bite Alfred Molina's Doc Ock look from Spider-Man.
@erinbee god now i want the reality where Steve Martin in full Dirty Rotten Scoundrels-mode was Norman Osborn
@karobit There's still a whole Spider-verse out there, and Steve's still got it in him
@erinbee @thegibson he seems to have invented a more wear-resistant version of a vinyl record. Same basic technology, different materials. Not sure what's "CD" about it.
@calcifer @thegibson As far as I can tell, just that it contains metal and is very, very shiny
@erinbee VINYLS FOR THE VINYL GOD
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Isn't that just a laserdisc?
@erinbee ...and it's T-Bone Burnett!
@erinbee he’s a time traveler, clearly