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Apparently the manufacturer thought that people would still be using their VCRs for a good while after purchase because the internal digital calendar goes well past the year 2011. I guess they didn't anticipate just how fast DVDs and BluRays would take off, though. They probably thought that VCR tapes had a good while left before they'd have to worry about being dominated by the new competition.
Still, like I said before...obsolete or not, mine still provides hours of entertainment and allows me to view DS9, MST3K and other shows I taped twelve or more years ago. Though crappy compared to DVDs and BluRays the sound and picture have held up remarkably well for magnetic tape that's been played over and over again. I made sure back in the day to purchase some of the higher-quality cassettes on the market. A few of my old shows still look and sound as good as they did the day I recorded them back during the Clinton Administration.
Still, like I said before...obsolete or not, mine still provides hours of entertainment and allows me to view DS9, MST3K and other shows I taped twelve or more years ago. Though crappy compared to DVDs and BluRays the sound and picture have held up remarkably well for magnetic tape that's been played over and over again. I made sure back in the day to purchase some of the higher-quality cassettes on the market. A few of my old shows still look and sound as good as they did the day I recorded them back during the Clinton Administration.
I have the VOYAGER premiere from January, 1995 on one of my old tapes. I played it about, oh, a year or so back and was impressed at the relative quality of the image and sound after almost sixteen years. I was one of those people who edited out most if not all of the commercials in episodes of DS9 and VOY so the version of "Caretaker" I have on cassette runs about 90 minutes uncut.
I just watched "Caretaker" on Netflix Instant a few weeks ago. No VCR or tape required.
I just watched "Caretaker" on Netflix Instant a few weeks ago. No VCR or tape required.
Oh, I watch things on Netflix too. Don't misunderstand. I'm not totally stuck in the '90s.
I just like playing my old tapes every once in a while to see how they still look and sound and to enjoy an episode of an old show I used to record every week or so. I confess to being very impressed that so many things I or my parents recorded fifteen to twenty years ago still look more or less the way they did the day we taped them. Part of it has to do with not playing everything 10,000 times. Even if I loved a movie or series episode I didn't run it in one of my VCRs incessantly and ad nauseam. I knew about magnetic tape degradation and tried my best to stave it off for as long as possible.
Since I have three DVD players and a working VCR I almost never have to worry about the format of a movie or a television series box-set I want to see, since chances are they were released on at least DVD even if they haven't premiered on BluRay yet. And so many of my favorite movies of all time are also available on the older VHS format.
I'll be grabbing a BluRay player in the very near future to complement what I already have in my home-viewing library, but even if I weren't and didn't give a rat's ass about BluRay I'd be set. I have several hundred DVDs and at least 150 older cassettes so I'm not going to run out of exciting things to watch anytime soon.
I'll be grabbing a BluRay player in the very near future to complement what I already have in my home-viewing library, but even if I weren't and didn't give a rat's ass about BluRay I'd be set. I have several hundred DVDs and at least 150 older cassettes so I'm not going to run out of exciting things to watch anytime soon.
Four generations! Taken at Christmas. Myself, eldest daughter, little Jack (first grandson!) and my mom:
That's amazing. A belated Merry Christmas, Bonz. What a cutie!
I know the feeling. Too bad my brother-in-law and his wife had their baby right before I moved. He's so big now and I'm a stranger to him! I want a baby to play with.
I know the feeling. Too bad my brother-in-law and his wife had their baby right before I moved. He's so big now and I'm a stranger to him! I want a baby to play with.
My family needs a baby too. My sister has 5 grandchildren but she lives in Adelaide, as do two of her grandchildren, her other three grandchildren live in Queensland.
He doesn't live close enough (my grandson). I lived with my daughter for the first month of his life (up there to help her out after she had surgery, and to help her pack up her apt. for the move up north, as her husband had to go ahead of her to start his new job), and he is now almost 4 months old and he was so BIG....and smiling now and vocalizing and oh, I wish some of my kids lived in town.
My family is starting to give me a shit about not being married or having kids yet. It's pretty annoying. I'm the oldest, so clearly I'm expected to go first. My grandma went on a rant at Thanksgiving about how she's never going to be a great-grandmother. I guess I didn't realize it was my job to make that happen. I'm only 26! I'm not in any rush!
I know the feeling. Too bad my brother-in-law and his wife had their baby right before I moved. He's so big now and I'm a stranger to him! I want a baby to play with.
My family needs a baby too. My sister has 5 grandchildren but she lives in Adelaide, as do two of her grandchildren, her other three grandchildren live in Queensland.
I love having a baby in the family, there's nothing like it, especially at Christmas:
Me and nephew:
Visiting reindeer:
Christmas Eve:
Buzz Lightyear on Christmas morning!
Doctor Kit came with the cutest glasses:
Night vision googles (upside down):
And big sis and brother-in-law just announced that number two is on the way!
Cut it all off, oh yes I did!
Looks good did you ever post a before picture fore a comparison?
I'm sure the longer hair looks just a good on you.
Here's me at about 13 (CHUBBY PHASE...ACK!)...what you can't see is that the braids go to my knees:
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You are just as cute now as you were at 13! And might I say, your hair now is even prettier than it was when you were a kid.
Okay. That fills my "sucking-up-to-cute-posters" quota for the night. I'm done for now.
You are just as cute now as you were at 13! And might I say, your hair now is even prettier than it was when you were a kid.
Okay. That fills my "sucking-up-to-cute-posters" quota for the night. I'm done for now.
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