Do you remember when TVs had built-in VCRs? I got this one a couple years prior to DVD players becoming mainstream. It seemed like a great idea at the time, I had limited space and needed both a TV and a VCR, why not get them both in one unit for all of those VHS tapes I was going to watch from Blockbuster (yeah, remember when Blockbuster had tapes?!). I estimate that I might have used this VCR maybe 5 times, who wants to watch a movie on a 13" TV? Besides, I now have something that puts to use one of my other great Christmas presents from the in-laws of all time, a gift I received in 2003, blank VHS tapes! A total of 30 hours of EP in Premium Grade, whatever that means anymore. VHS, you had a good run.
-w
1.09.2006
Remember When.....
Do you remember when TVs had built-in VCRs? I got this one a couple years prior to DVD players becoming mainstream. It seemed like a great idea at the time, I had limited space and needed both a TV and a VCR, why not get them both in one unit for all of those VHS tapes I was going to watch from Blockbuster (yeah, remember when Blockbuster had tapes?!). I estimate that I might have used this VCR maybe 5 times, who wants to watch a movie on a 13" TV? Besides, I now have something that puts to use one of my other great Christmas presents from the in-laws of all time, a gift I received in 2003, blank VHS tapes! A total of 30 hours of EP in Premium Grade, whatever that means anymore. VHS, you had a good run.
-w
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Dang! You're lucky! I didn't get my first VCR until I was in my 30's (and I won it at work)!!! It was (and still is) a "HI-FI" and as you may very well know, "state-of-the-art". In my case, I taped a bunch of stupid-ass sitcoms and never watched them AND never labeled the tapes (I make my own fun whenever I can). However, if it weren't for VHS, Disney never would have released THE LITTLE MERMAID with the the now-famous penis hidden in one of the spires on King Triton's Palace of the cover art! Oh yeah, I have it!!! It hails right up there with my Wide-Screen Boxed set of the "unfucked with" versions of the Star Wars Trilogy (I'm still trying to forget the last 3).
Freshmen year for the win!
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