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nefhiriel

The Good Old Days

Feb 28, 2012 12:42

It's amazing how nostalgic movies can be. Cami and I have been sorting through some old bins of VHS cassettes of movies/TV shows we taped off TV, getting rid of what we can buy (extremely cheaply, especially since they're older movies, and especially since the emergence of Blu Ray) on DVD. Now that some of those DVDs have arrived, we'd been ( Read more... )

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cairistiona7 February 28 2012, 20:06:30 UTC

So what are some of these movies? :)

nefhiriel February 29 2012, 03:17:37 UTC

Hmm... DOC, Little Women (Winnona Ryder), Robin Hood (Errol Flynn <3), The Princess of Thieves, and The Mask of Zorro are some of the ones we've gotten. There are some others--like Disney's cartoon Robin Hood, and Aladdin--that we really should find on DVD, too. Good memories. ^^

kriadydragon February 28 2012, 22:39:34 UTC

I'm an old curmudgeon. XD

I feel your technology related arthritic pain. It took us forever to make the transition over to DVDs, and only because my brother and his family were visiting, hated VHS so got us a DVD player. Now we have so many DVDs we're practically a video store :/

But we're still being slow about migrating, with the majority of our VHS movies... still VHS.

nefhiriel February 29 2012, 03:27:10 UTC

*grin* Glad I'm not the only one! While I totally understand the convenience of DVDs, and am being won over, still...I hate to throw out all the old VHS memories. ^^

scarvenartist February 29 2012, 18:01:52 UTC

Ah yes, nostalgia. We've gone to the trouble of buying a few of our old VHS tapes on DVD (Princess Bride, for instance, and a few other classics), but there is something amusingly...cumbersome, about still playing those old VHS tapes.

And goodness, remember having to actually turn your cassette tapes over? XD

(I actually think CDs--and maybe DVDs too--are probably going to phase out eventually in favor of purely digital media, but we shall see.)

nefhiriel March 1 2012, 20:07:12 UTC

We actually just bought the Princess Bride on Blu Ray. :D The ultimate quotable movie, that...

I do remember having turn over cassette tapes. In hindsight that is simply barbaric. XD

"I actually think CDs--and maybe DVDs too--are probably going to phase out eventually in favor of purely digital media, but we shall see."

That's what Eric keeps saying. It's certainly strange to look back and see how far media formats have come just in our lifetime! The me who should've been born in the Victorian era is kind of leery of it, while the sci-fi loving me goes: \o/