[ SECRET POST #2946 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2946 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Older Media Logistics...

[asecretchord]

I remember reading the TV Guide, especially during summer, to see if a show was being aired for the first time or it if was a re-run. The TV season ran September through May and the three networks: ABC, NBC, and CBS, had to fill their air with something. There was no cable then and it wasn't until the local affiliates started showing up that syndication arose and shows from the 50s and 60s went into perpetual reruns.

In the era JUST before videotapes came out, yo hoped that popular shows would be picked up for reruns on channels 5, 11, or 13 so you could see your favorite shows a few more times. Sometimes you even got lucky and TV Guide would print a synopsis of the episode so you knew in advance whether it was one you wanted to watch or not. Otherwise, it was just the listing and the time.

By the time ST:TNG was on the air, the UHF bands had filled with more channels and a lot more shows were being re-broadcast. If I recall correctly, and I'm OLD so there's a chance I don't, that was right around the time of the Sony/VHS wars and people started taping off the television. I wasn't in fandom them, but I know there were Star Trek conventions even back then. And 'zines. It was definitely a different era.

I remember reading a newspaper article when Star Wars was finally pulled from the last theater still showing it. It was in the late 1980s. Think about that for a moment.

Re: Older Media Logistics...

[slashgirl]

You could record from tv on those old top loading vcrs (my dad was an early adopter to the technology)--the remote was connected by a wire AND you could only switch between pause and record or pause and play, my memory is fuzzy. But that's because as the youngest child, I WAS the "wireless" remote for the tv AND vcr. hahaha. I'm thinking we go that first vcr around 81/82--I know we had one by the time I got into Duran Duran in 83--cus I taped the crap out of music videos...on the few vid shows we had in Canada at the time.

Re: Older Media Logistics...

[asecretchord]

ST:TNG came out later than I thought. Wiki says the Betamax came out in the mid 70s, but I'm pretty sure we didn't have one that early. We didn't tape many TV shows, but we did rent movies and pirate them. I still have a few old Beta tapes around (and a few shelves full of VHS tapes) as well as a Beta player. Right now, we use it as an expensive clock and that's about it.

I remember trying to pause during commercial breaks and starting the machine about five seconds too late Every Single Time. It took a couple of seconds to actually start recording after pressing the right combination of buttons.

Re: Older Media Logistics...

[silverr]

heh, yeah I remember that part for sure.

Re: Older Media Logistics...

[(Anonymous)]

One time I managed to press pause just as the scene was fading out to commercial and press record again just as the show was fading back in again and when I re-watched the tape, it was absolutely perfect - like watching a re-run where they don't put the commercials in the same places and you can tell where a commercial was meant to go but there's no interruption. I'm still stupidly proud of this 25 years later.

Re: Older Media Logistics...

[slashgirl]

We had that top loading vcr for ages--in fact, after we got a new one, my parents used it as a rental at the corner store they owned. We'd probably still have it, but one night, one of the clerks rented it out without getting the guy's id/credit card info and it was never seen by us again. And because my parents had the store and bought the videos for rental I almost never pirated stuff. Of course, pirating made more sense back then, cus new releases were NEVER under a 100$, sometimes way more (200-300$). I remember looking at the catalogues from the company we bought from and thinking I'd never get my faves on video (Dad would sometimes accept my teenage input on what to buy...sometimes).

And now...my how things have changed.