Remember when...
Feb. 13th, 2011 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkIf you wanted to see a movie from years past you only had two choices - wait for it to appear on TV or hope that it became such a cult favorite that it would be shown in the kind of movie theaters that show old classics? Unless it was a Disney film and then you had to wait for the 7-year rerelease cycle to roll around again?
And then VCRs came along and you could actually rent movies and watch them in your home! Or even buy them and then you could watch them whenever you wanted. But every now and then you got the chance to record an old favorite from TV, so of course you did that whenever possible and then hoarded those old tapes for years?
Okay, I'm cleaning the attic. And trying to remember why I have been carefully saving all these shelves and boxes full of blurry, practically unwatchable old home-recorded movies for the last 25 years. Oh yeah, that's why. I remember how hard I worked to amass this complete set of Red Dwarf tapes, many with sound that is practically inaudible, others with crappy pictures. Now I can watch any episode I want on streaming Netflix. Still, it was hard tossing them all in the garbage.
Wow. Look at all those empty shelves. Enough room to store all the commercially produced VCS tapes that I'm not quite ready to get rid of, although we never watch them. Progress, I guess.
And then VCRs came along and you could actually rent movies and watch them in your home! Or even buy them and then you could watch them whenever you wanted. But every now and then you got the chance to record an old favorite from TV, so of course you did that whenever possible and then hoarded those old tapes for years?
Okay, I'm cleaning the attic. And trying to remember why I have been carefully saving all these shelves and boxes full of blurry, practically unwatchable old home-recorded movies for the last 25 years. Oh yeah, that's why. I remember how hard I worked to amass this complete set of Red Dwarf tapes, many with sound that is practically inaudible, others with crappy pictures. Now I can watch any episode I want on streaming Netflix. Still, it was hard tossing them all in the garbage.
Wow. Look at all those empty shelves. Enough room to store all the commercially produced VCS tapes that I'm not quite ready to get rid of, although we never watch them. Progress, I guess.
