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Recently moved house so I disposed of all my old vinyls, cds and dvds to save space. The vinyls were in demand which surprised me but cds and dvds not so much. In fact many op shops are reluctant to take them, along with books, these days. Anyway,  I ripped all of my music collection to an electronic library several years ago now.

[Lods]

Recently moved house so I disposed of all my old vinyls, cds and dvds to save space. The vinyls were in demand which surprised me but cds and dvds not so much. In fact many op shops are reluctant to take them, along with books, these days. Anyway,  I ripped all of my music collection to an electronic library several years ago now.

Op shops are a bit 'diamonds or stones' for vinyl.
It's usually James Last, Des O'Connor, Kamahl or the greatest hits of the Mormon Tabernacle choir. ;D

I struck a bit of a gem at our local yesterday.
Most of my vinyl (around 400 records) would be 80% late fifties and 1960s material.
Someone had dropped off a batch of singles without covers from that era to the lifeline store.
They were selling them for $1.00 a record but the store had a 60% discount day so I snapped up a heap.
Played them all yesterday afternoon and despite the lack of protective covers they were all in pretty good condition.
I've had no problems keeping and storing my records.
I can't say they're all in great shape...they've been played to death over the years.

(Have we drifted off topic a bit...might need a separate thread.)

[northernblue]

I have a friend who is a very successful younger musician and her last album was vinyl.  I chucked my old stereo years ago and had to buy a new turntable to play the album she gave me.  Of course, I'm now playing the vinyl albums I refused to throw out.  I did ditch my singles collection - apart from the Aunty Jack coloured record 

I also have the Auntie Jack 7” picture disc.

[kruddler]

Im not sure if its the fact that people don't buy media anymore.

Vynil isn't rising its cds falling as Spotify and apple music take over.  Who wants to house a collection anymore?  A couple of years back, a friend of mine gave me all his DVDs.  With the invention of Netflix and co he doesn't need them anymore. 

It is what it is.  Vynil is still the djs plaything. 

My wife has some vinyl stashed somewhere.
She has an extensive CD collection to which i have contributed to as well
We both have a very large collection of DVDs as well.

Yet, we use spotify for our music, netflix, stan etc for our movies.
She wanted to show the kids the movie twister the other day and after 10 minutes looking for the DVD (we definitely have it somewhere) she opted to re-subscribe to Stan to see it  :

I can't remember the last time we physically put some kind of disc into a device.

[Lods]

It's always a changing scenario... and for some it's a case of moving (or not moving) with the technology.
The thing I find funny is the vinyl revival after we were told it was a thing of the past.
To each his own, but maybe don't be too quick to completely get rid of old material...(except maybe your Beta tapes.) ;D

I don't use Spotify.
In the last week I've played Vinyl, CD and Youtube for my music.

I do have subscriptions to a number of movie streaming services but I've also watched a couple of DVDs in the last few days.
My movie tastes are a bit like my music, and I like a lot of the older movies that just aren't available on the streams, so I'm always on the lookout for older DVDs.

I picked up a DVD copy of the '300 Spartans' through the week.
It's the Richard Egan (Leonidas) version and is a much better movie than that 300 crap with Gerard Butler.
But I digress...

Plex and Tubi are free subscription services that offer a good selection of those older movies and TV shows.
A lot of the material is B grade stuff but it brings back fond memories of the Saturday afternoon picture session.  

[kruddler]

I do have subscriptions to a number of movie streaming services but I've also watched a couple of DVDs in the last few days.
My movie tastes are a bit like my music, and I like a lot of the older movies that just aren't available on the streams, so I'm always on the lookout for older DVDs.

I have a lot of older movies on DVD.
I have the entire Hitchcock selection.
Everything Kubrick has ever done.
Some of the original horror movies from Nosferatu, Dracula, Wolf man etc etc

Still...i only seem to watch those same movies when i come across them on the streaming services.
I recently watched a few hitchock movies on Stan. Ditto Kubrick.

These are probably your more high profile older movies, which might be easier to find, but they are generally out there.
I watched an old 50's sci-fi one called the Magnetic Monster on stan a little while back which i hadn't seen before.
Depends what you are after.

[Lods]

I've started a new thread on Streaming...so we can return to the covid conversation.
One of the mods may like to move the last dozen or so posts across to there...or we can just continue here....

https://www.carltonsc.com/index.php?topi...358532#new

[Mav]

Interesting article about Ivermectin:
‘You will not believe what I’ve just found.’ Inside the ivermectin saga: a hacked password, mysterious websites and faulty data, Market Watch.

I've never heard of Market Watch - it appears to be what you'd imagine, a stock market news site. As to why it has a long story on Ivermectin, I have no idea. The article itself seems to be well-written & informative.

Most of it has previously been covered by other articles. It summarises the research fraud that has been behind the Ivermectin push. But it takes the Ivermectin story a bit further with the following:

Edward Mills, a health-sciences professor at Canada’s McMaster University, is co-investigator of the Together clinical trial, another rigorous study that is evaluating nine different repurposed drugs as COVID-19 therapies, including ivermectin. It recently completed the ivermectin analysis but found it “did not demonstrate an important benefit,” Mills said in an email. The research may be published this month, he said.

Nevertheless, there is an idea circulating among scientists like Mills that ivermectin may be more likely to benefit COVID-19 patients in areas of the world with a high prevalence of parasitic worms. “What is possible is that co-infection of parasites with COVID may worsen health outcomes,” Mills said.

This is an idea also raised by Boulware, the scientist working on the University of Minnesota’s ivermectin study. Corticosteroids, like dexamethasone, are now considered the standard of care for severely ill COVID-19 patients; however, these drugs can cause what is called a “hyperinfection” and sometimes be fatal in a patient who has a parasitic infection. It’s possible that additional data about ivermectin gathered from different patient populations could show the drug being more beneficial in people who live in parasitic regions of the world, they say.

However, most native-born Americans don’t have parasites. And, since 2005, the U.S. policy has been to recommend that refugees from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean receive treatment or presumptive antiparasitic treatment — including ivermectin — before arriving in the U.S.

“In certain patient populations, if you have a parasitic infection, it certainly can be beneficial if you’re giving steroids,” Boulware said. “Does that mean [as an] outpatient-setting early therapy in the U.S. that there’s a benefit? We don’t know that, and so I think that is an unknown question.”

For now, the healthcare professionals who have been put in the position of saying “no” to prescribing ivermectin are waiting for the data from the U.S. trials. Dr. Rani Sebti, an infectious-disease physician at Hackensack Meridian Health hospital system in New Jersey, says he’s been fielding calls from primary-care doctors in the U.S. and abroad about whether to prescribe ivermectin when patients ask for it.

“I cannot sit here and tell you ivermectin is the worst drug in the world,” he said. “I need to see a good prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled study. And then when we get that study, it will answer the question for good.”

That Ivermectin might have a role to play in treating Covid patients who have parasitic infections either hasn't been raised in articles I've read before (or at least the point wasn't made clearly enough for me to appreciate it). It's a very interesting speculation about the interplay between steroids & Ivermectin. Of course, even if that speculation is correct, it does nothing to justify the hard-on Ivermectin shills have for treating patients In the USA & Australia where few patients would be affected by parasites.

It also reports that fairly conclusive evidence about Ivermectin's effectiveness will be published soon (quite apart from the 1st paragraph of the above quote which notes the Together trial found no important benefit from Covid):

Good data on ivermectin coming soon

Sometime this winter or early spring, a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health that is testing ivermectin in 1,000 patients is expected to produce results, says Dr. Susanna Naggie, the vice dean for clinical research at Duke University’s medical school and the researcher running the trial.

The University of Minnesota’s randomized study has enrolled 1,196 participants, one-third of whom received ivermectin. (Both trials are evaluating several repurposed drugs as possible COVID-19 treatments.) Within the next few weeks, the Minnesota institution is expected to share the first findings from the ivermectin part of its trial, nearly two years after the first preprint examining ivermectin’s viability was published. 

[flyboy77]

Or you could look at the plethora of studies.....quoting Boulware? Laughable.

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