But what was most significant about Paxman's questioning was the suggestion that it's only a problem if you drink on your own, late at night, presumably in a darkened room, sobbing over a photo in a shattered picture frame while Phil Collins plays on the turntable.
London acts as a huge turntable, sucking in migrants from abroad but spinning out existing residents to the rest of the country.
Chinese food is eaten informally, with everyone serving themselves from several main dishes on a central turntable.
His firm's latest entries in the physical-gaming arena are "DJ Hero", a music game in which the player handles a turntable, rather than a guitar, and a new version of "Tony Hawk" with a motion-sensitive skateboard control.So what games does Mr Kotick like to play at home?
The turntable could be used with an arm and stylus made by other firms.
For these and other reasons some early listeners complained that CDs lacked the "warmth" of analogue vinyl.But still, the days of the precision-engineered turntable, with its sapphire stylus, anti-static brush and strobe for adjusting the speed, seemed over.
Once hooked up, the conversion box will do all the donkey work of importing the audio signal, digitising it, and storing the file on the hard-drive.Alternatively, you can buy a turntable specially designed for the job, which connects direct to a computer via a USB port.
Who else would begin a sumptuously illustrated cookbook with a photograph of a turntable, followed by a story about the trials of an art dealer having his portrait painted?
A few years later, he dragged his own sound system a turntable, huge speakers, a box of records out to dusty parks and seaside promenades.His records, mostly R&B, were his particular pride.
To discerning ears, a mono record played on a high-end turntable with a well-damped and carefully matched tone-arm and cartridge (stylus)—offers an audio experience next only to hearing the original performance live.
Well, throw some Sufjan Stevens on the turntable and roll over to Slate's Convictions blog, where a star team of legal eagles are revisiting that old debate, wrangling over whether public spiritedness or an "unseemly competitive motive" lay behind the revelation.
