"What Video" last issue

The Cush

If anyone is interested the last issue of What Video is now on the shelves. After almost 30 years the title is disappearing.

I bought my first issue back in the early to mid eighties, at that time the only other AV mag I can recall was Which Video. Both magazines added satellite supplements in the mid eighties, the What Video supplement went on to become What Satellite magazine (Which Video disappeared in the late eighties if I recall correctly).

Pre-internet the magazine was a great source of information but in recent years with the changing of publishers the quality of the mag didn't appear to be the same.

Articles from Barry Fox and the larger than life Bob Tomalski were always a good read. Tomalski's reports from Japan let us know what could be coming our way from there.

Anyways it's being replaced with a new magazine from the same publisher TechRadar TV Buying Guide.

Announcement – What Video & High-Definition TV Magazine

We’re really sorry to inform you that What Video & High-Definition TV will no longer be available on subscription. What Video’s September issue (on sale 8th July 2010) will be the last issue available on subscription and in stores. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank our readers for all their support and feedback over the years.

While this is sad news, we’re pleased to let you know that you can still receive a regular monthly supply of trusted advice on home entertainment technology with our sister magazine Home Cinema Choice.

Home Cinema Choice features news and reviews of the latest home cinema equipment, from amplifiers, receivers, processors and power amps, to DVD recorders, speakers, projectors and flat panel TVs.

http://www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/WVT/

watty

Same with all magazines. Quality has been falling since 1980s.

Finding info on Internet on tech subjects is easier and better value than a subscription.

The magazines have become more collections of adverts with "press copy" recycled as "reviews" in some cases.

Soon there will only be Hello, Woman's Weekly, Marie Claire etc on the shelves. How long will The Economist, Newsweek, Time, National Geographic be paper print?

I hope they figure how to do decent colour eInk soon as current eReaders are too expensive or too small or too slow or too monochrome.

My laptop is great for looking stuff up, but not as pleasant as reading well written article in a printed magazine in armchair, settee or in bed during power cut with candle and whiskey while Storm bashes the house.

The Cush

watty wrote: »

My laptop is great for looking stuff up, but not as pleasant as reading well written article in a printed magazine in armchair, settee or in bed during power cut with candle and whiskey while Storm bashes the house.

Couldn't agree with you more there Watty.

John mac

watty wrote: »

My laptop is great for looking stuff up, but not as pleasant as reading well written article in a printed magazine in armchair, settee or in bed during power cut with candle and whiskey while Storm bashes the house.

What no back up genny ?:D :eek:


(big grin, and an eek!) just in case you have the smilies switched off.

watty

Yes we have actually. Also 10mins of UPS for server/router/Broadband Wireless set/Phone/WiFi to give time to get the Genny out*.

But you want to come and refill its tank in the middle of the night outside with the rain lashing?


(*ESB caught us out and spoiled my 156 days up time (through several power cuts) by a pre dawn power cut just last week. The UPS alarm didn't wake me. I woke at about 6am to extreme lack of leccy.)

mike65

Ah takes me back to my teens, all those video mags full of ads for dubious pleasures on VHS and BETAMAX!

Freddie59

The Cush wrote: »

If anyone is interested the last issue of What Video is now on the shelves. After almost 30 years the title is disappearing.

I bought my first issue back in the early to mid eighties, at that time the only other AV mag I can recall was Which Video. Both magazines added satellite supplements in the mid eighties, the What Video supplement went on to become What Satellite magazine (Which Video disappeared in the late eighties if I recall correctly).

On a similar note - we moved house last year and I came across a load of Satellite TV Europe and 'What Satellite' mags during the move. Interesting reading.

The Cush

The Cush wrote: »

I bought my first issue back in the early to mid eighties, at that time the only other AV mag I can recall was Which Video. Both magazines added satellite supplements in the mid eighties, the What Video supplement went on to become What Satellite magazine (Which Video disappeared in the late eighties if I recall correctly).

That first issue of What Satellite (July '86), as a supplement in What Video is now available to view online.

http://issuu.com/whatsatellitedigitaltv/docs/what_satellite_issue_1?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true