December 2024

If you haven't read it already, we've announced the retirement of most of our services starting in 2025. This blog update will be our second to last ever, with January's post being the last one. We've managed to scratch out 20 years of service, and need to minimize our offerings and reduce our running costs considerably. Not all services are going away for good, read the full announcement for details.

November 2024

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October 2024

We'll keep it short and Halloween free this month. Our inset photo to the right shows what happens when you let a young new hire and a price gun mix...unsellable records! Got a quick second? Jump over and take Benjojo's Optical Media Survey, especially if you still use Optical Media (CD's and DVD's and Blu-Rays'). Otherwise, this month seems to be only Birth and Funeral announcements...

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September 2024

Apologies for missing last months update, we've got so many stories this month! As this company approaches 20 years in business next year, we're considering using this successful achievement as an opportunity to possibly retire and consolidate services and domains, especially with the massive decline in annual revenue, and general lack of orders for some of more esoteric media formats. We'll post more as we get closer to 2025 - for now enjoy this New Yorker cartoon that really irks me about Vinyl...

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June/July 2024

We're doomed as a species, as the screen-cap embedded to the right suggests that the loss of basic data archiving skills happens in a single generation!

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May 2024

We'll lead this month's Analog to Digital Blog with a audio snippet from a recent Vinyl to CD Conversion of the album The Age of Television - A chronicle of the first 25 years. In this audio clip from a Television broadcast, the host cajoles a young girl to wave to her family on TV, only with a profoundly adept (and surprisingly true) retort about the value of TV content! Click the album cover to the right to listen to this 30 second clip!

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April (Not Fools) 2024

We're scheduling a Record Store Day Sale from April 23-26th this month - Check any of our audio conversion sites to see our special sale on vinyl-only conversions this month! In the meanwhile, this astoundingly priced $550 Acoustic Revive RD-3 Disc Demagnetizer is an actual product with about as much use as the DVD Rewinder we featured last month; If you think the tiny mirror layer of aluminum (not magnetic!) is gonna be affected by any magnetic-ness to affect the hard-coded pits and valleys engraved into the plastic, it must be April Fools! Unlinked on purpose, because I think they're serious...ly stupid.

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March 2024

Orders continue to dribble in at a snails pace, and we only have a handful of stories this month to update you with on our March 2024 Analog to Digital blog. We're planning a Record Store Day Sale for April, but until then, maybe we should get into the lucrative business of selling DVD Rewinders; this clearly 'prank' plastic product simply spins the DVD counterclockwise!

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February 2024

A bit of frank news this month; we've noted a steady drop in annual sales for our Audio Conversion Services in the last few years (see our chart for a rough idea of the demise). Formed in 2005, we've managed to survive two office relocations and one worldwide pandemic in the last 19 years, but it seems we'll die of attrition; Our last week-long sale netted zero orders, even after we announced it to a thousand loyal customers. Have we saturated the Philadelphia audio conversion market completely? (More likely the fear of an upcoming recession has tightened budgets everywhere...) We'll need to see a significant turnaround to keep the Audio Conversion Services operating for another year on fumes. Under Design, our parent company, will continue to operate, but the Audio Conversion Services divisions may be shuttered permanently. Fair warning!

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January 2024

Happy New Year! We've been noticing issues with shipments using USPS Tracking numbers (and specifically our beloved Label 400, pictured to the right) when we discovered this USPS News Link Service update from early last year reporting this discontinuation of those tracking stickers. This has forced us to remove our Simple Shipper line of products immediately. Our Simple Shipper was a pre-paid cardboard return mailer for you to return your Vinyl Records to us. We relied on USPS Media Mail rate, in combination with basic stamps and USPS Label 400 Tracking stickers to reliably track shipments to and from our customers for everyone's sanity. We mourn the loss of this highly used feature, and apologize to our customers for not noticing the retirement earlier. As a replacement, we sell a single corrugated cardboard Vinyl Box shipped to you directly to let you ship your records securely back to our offices for audio conversion, but it has neither tracking nor return postage on it - it's an empty box, just album-sized.

December 2023

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November 2023

September 2023

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July/August 2023

July was a busy month, with our annual national birthday celebration and all... So we combined the single story from July into our August report. Pictured to the right, an end table for a man cave made from recycled VHS tapes! You're welcome for the recycling idea!

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June 2023

May 2023

I'll leave you with this brain fart before we dive into it: Cassette Tapes had a Side A and Side B, therefore it was logical that its successor would be the CD!

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April 2023

March 2023

February 2023

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January 2023

Happy New Year! Time to whip out your resolutions list and add 'Clean out my families cherished old vinyl/tape media and get it converted to digital formats at Under Design!' We'd really appreciate it!

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