I wonder how many people in the West under 30 have ever seen the following, still regularly seen in the wild.: Betamax or cassette decks, or even CD players. I was at my local ward office the other day, they have a VHS player hooked up to the TV to amuse the waiting masses.
(And there's always the foreign businessman realizing just before they set off for Japan that they need to print up some business cards...)
Right. Once in a while, on Japanese TV, there's a show in which young people (usually elementary school kids) are shown old objects that used to be common many years ago and are asked to guess what they are. They answers are often hilarious.
I must say I've never seen a Betamax, even back in the day. In Italy it never caught on. As for cassette tapes, I still have many and listen to them regularly!
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I wonder how many people in the West under 30 have ever seen the following, still regularly seen in the wild.: Betamax or cassette decks, or even CD players. I was at my local ward office the other day, they have a VHS player hooked up to the TV to amuse the waiting masses.
(And there's always the foreign businessman realizing just before they set off for Japan that they need to print up some business cards...)
Right. Once in a while, on Japanese TV, there's a show in which young people (usually elementary school kids) are shown old objects that used to be common many years ago and are asked to guess what they are. They answers are often hilarious.
I must say I've never seen a Betamax, even back in the day. In Italy it never caught on. As for cassette tapes, I still have many and listen to them regularly!