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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-01-27 07:20 pm

[ SECRET POST #2946 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2946 ⌋

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Re: Older Media Logistics...

[personal profile] asecretchord 2015-01-28 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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Re: Older Media Logistics...

[personal profile] silverr 2015-01-28 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
heh, yeah I remember that part for sure.

Re: Older Media Logistics...

(Anonymous) 2015-01-28 06:32 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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Re: Older Media Logistics...

[personal profile] slashgirl 2015-01-28 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
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.