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That piece is more about inauthenticity of faux replicas rather than true anachronisms. It would be a different message if he was driving a true V8 and using an actual film camera.


Indeed. What the GP is talking about would be a record player that requires vinyl, but plays only enough of the vinyl to do a Shazam-style identification and then stream the remainder, adding vinyl-sounding noise with a DSP. (Alternatively, the stylus is entirely fake and contains a camera that identifies the album by label, and is moved toward the center using a stepper motor.)

I really hope no-one ever makes such a monstrosity.


What about a camera that just examines a scene to build a prompt then generates an awesome photo of it, instead of using the actual pixels of light?




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