Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed
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GenX tv addict here. I grew up in a time when, if you wanted to watch a show, you need to make an effort to be in front of the tv when it aired. If you missed seeing it, you had to hope that if was repeated over the summer (only about 2/3's the episodes of a continuing series would be repeated, and if a show was cancelled, that was it). If you missed it on summer repeats, you'd have to hold the show went into syndication, was carried locally at a time you were able to watch it, and then stalk the series because syndication packages were notoriously shown out of order (which is why almost all the episodes ended up with the characters being in the same base situation as they started out in).
It was the same thing if there was an episode or series you loved and wanted to watch again.
VCRs were an absolute game changer. You didn't have to revolve your life around a tv schedule- you could go out, to go events, go shopping, have a late dinner. You could pause tv to go to the bathroom, you could watch and re-watch episodes that you enjoyed, or verify something you thought had happened earlier instead of relying on collective memory. If you missed taping something, you might still have to wait for re-runs - but there was also the chance that someone else had taped it and could loan you the tape.
Having learned the lessons of broadcast tv, I taped everything I watched, and I kept the tapes of the stuff I liked, or that had actors I liked. I could sit down today and watch all the episodes of David Soul in Casablanca or Billy Campbell in Moon Over Miami, or short-lived shows like Space Rangers or South of Sunset.
I still record and save things locally. The myth of having immediate access to everything ever produced was always just a myth.
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TV Guide and a fresh pack of 5 VHS tapes. My parents knew exactly what to get me for my birthday.
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Where you rocking the vcr+ codes or manually recording?
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I forget the model, but I had a Sony black VCR (probably from the early 90s or late 80s, whenever Sony moved away from the silver aluminum enclosures to the black plastic style) with the spring loaded wheel that let you FF or RW. The remote also had the wheel at the bottom. At first I programmed the timers using only the onboard display, but it also had an on screen menu as well for dialing in the recording on/off times. This and my dad showing me how to daisy chain VCRs in order to record movies definitely set me down a path lol
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