Throwback Thursday

Sort By: Post DateTitle Publish Date
Throwback Thursday
All in the Family: The Story of Grado Labs
SV Staff  |  Apr 14, 2016  | 
Joe Grado hand-built phono cartridges in his BrookIyn home in the early 1950s and founded Grado Labs in 1953 when production exceeded the size of his kitchen table.
Continue Reading »
Throwback Thursday
Flashback 1973: First “Mobile Telephone” Call
SV Staff  |  Apr 07, 2016  | 
Back in April of 1973 when Martin Cooper made the first public call on a handheld cellular phone while walking down a New York City street, few could have imagined that the Motorola DynaTAC “brick” phone (shown here in prototype form) would evolve into a super-slim, do-everything pocket computer—a.k.a. the smartphone we take for granted today.
Continue Reading »
Throwback Thursday
Flashback 1996: Twister Hits DVD
SV Staff  |  Mar 31, 2016  | 
Twenty years ago this month Twister took home entertainment by storm when it became the first Hollywood feature film to be released on DVD. The disc went on to become top-selling DVD in 1997.
Continue Reading »
Throwback Thursday
Sixties Flashback: The Color TV Revolution
SV Staff  |  Mar 24, 2016  | 
Color TV became commercially viable in the early 1950s but didn’t really take off until the mid-1960s when the big three (and only) television networks made a concerted effort to significantly increase the amount of color programming, broadcasting classic shows like Gilligan’s Island, My Favorite Martian, and Lassie in “brilliant, true-to-life color” for the first time. An epic event if you were around to experience it and arguably more dramatic than the transition to HDTV.
Continue Reading »
Throwback Thursday
Flashback 1998: First Feature Film Webcast
SV Staff  |  Mar 17, 2016  | 
The 1994 independent film Walls of Sand became the first feature film to be streamed over the Internet 18 years ago this week.

Continue Reading »
Throwback Thursday
Flashback 2001: Introducing DVD-Audio
SV Staff  |  Mar 10, 2016  | 
DVD-Audio was the big story in our February/March 2000 issue, which devoted more than a dozen pages to the launch of a promising new multichannel music format hailed by Neil Young and other artists as audio’s second coming. Things didn’t quite turn out as planned.
Continue Reading »
Throwback Thursday
Flashback: Coleco & the Era of Game Cartridges
SV Staff  |  Feb 18, 2016  | 
The original ColecoVision console (left) and the forthcoming Coleco Chameleon.

If you lived through (and survived) the decade of hair bands (aka the Eighties), you probably remember videogame stalwarts Atari, Nintendo, and Coleco and may have spent countless hours playing now-classic games like Donkey Kong and Pac-Man.

Continue Reading »
Throwback Thursday
Flashback 1958: A Stereo Spectacular!
Bob Ankosko  |  Feb 11, 2016  | 
Way back in 1958 when stereo was a novelty, the comedy duo Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding released Bob And Ray Throw A Stereo Spectacular, a whimsical LP showcasing the marvels of two-channel sound.
Continue Reading »
Throwback Thursday
Flashback 1893: The Movie Studio Is Born
SV Staff  |  Feb 04, 2016  | 
Common wisdom tells us that Hollywood is the birthplace of the motion picture industry but, no, the motion picture studio was born in New Jersey. That’s right, home of The Boss and Tony Soprano.

Continue Reading »
Throwback ThursdayAudio Video News
Flashback 1999: Nailing Napster
SV Staff  |  Dec 10, 2015  | 
In December 1999 the music industry sued (and ultimately shut down) downloading service Napster. Three years later Apple opened the iTunes Music Store, pointing the way to the future of music distribution and turning the recording industry on its ear.
Continue Reading »
Throwback Thursday
Straight Steer on Stereo
Robert Cobb  |  Feb 01, 2018  | 
In celebration of our 60th anniversary, Sound & Vision will be peeking back throughout this year at our past six decades of coverage. Given our long tenure, our editorial predecessors have reported on most of the seminal inventions in the history of consumer audio and video technology and have offered up shopping advice, which, to varying degrees, can be viewed today as either timeless or charmingly outdated. As much as possible, we will reproduce articles and reviews as they appeared, with the unedited text mated alongside the original illustrations.
Continue Reading »

Pages

X