My mistake. I guess just give it one last go---maybe your opinions will change. But referring back to your, OP--I don't foresee myself planning a last watch of Star Trek for now but I'm not too thrilled about ENT.
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My mistake. I guess just give it one last go---maybe your opinions will change. But referring back to your, OP--I don't foresee myself planning a last watch of Star Trek for now but I'm not too thrilled about ENT.
Are bonfires legal in your area, @The Laughing Vulcan? That would be a nice, almost ceremonial, way to get rid of all those VHS tapes.
Personally, if I'm not planning on watching something again, I just get rid of it. I usually don't have the inclination to give it one more watch just for old times' sake.
Kor
Personally, if I'm not planning on watching something again, I just get rid of it. I usually don't have the inclination to give it one more watch just for old times' sake.
Kor
If it is made out of plastic, glass, or metal, I put it in the recycle bin. I let the boys down at the recycling station worry about sorting it all out, that's why they're making the big money.
Where I live, they are picky about recycling, and if you put incorrect materials in the bins you get a fine.
Kor
I guess so many people got rid of their VCR's, that no one had anything to play the tapes on. I've got things on VHS tape that I want to keep but don't want to go to the expense of replacing them with DVDs or transferring them, so as long as my VCR works, I'll keep it. The library in my area takes both VHS and DVDs, so that's why I suggested it. And if they can't use them they sell them during book sales to make money for the library. I didn't know other places don't.
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Or back in WW1, even the fuselage:
Fawcett's gun had jammed and he disappeared from my sight, crouched down in the nacelle, trying to rectify the stoppage.
--Lieut. Geoffrey Hopkins, Royal Flying Corps, 1917, quoted in Bloody April by Peter Hart..
--Lieut. Geoffrey Hopkins, Royal Flying Corps, 1917, quoted in Bloody April by Peter Hart..
Same for me, but I did re-watch the mirror episodes a while back. Lately, the only time I watch Trek is if I'm flipping channels and an episode/movie that I like happens to be on, but that's rare these days. I doubt I'll ever go back and do a thorough re-watch of any past Trek. I'll go see Beyond, and check out the new series.
On a non-trek front, I re-watched all of Stargate Atlantis over the winter, which was the first time in years I'd even seen an episode. I think I'm done with that show as well.
Nostalgia isn't all it's cracked up to be.
We used to have trash-Nazis on the trucks that would look through the bins, and would slap a reject sticker on if you put a plastic bottle in that had the "wrong" number. Our community switched to those 40 gallon plastic roller-bins with the flip-tops a few years ago, one for recyclable materials and one for non-recyclable. The trucks now have one crewman that drives and also operates the giant claw that picks up the bin and empties it into the truck, and he doesn't have time to inspect the contents of each and every bin on his route, he never even gets out of the truck.
I still have a VHS machine onsite, I used it about a year ago to transfer something from tape to DVD. You never know when you're going to run across orphaned media and need an obsolete machine, just like John Titor did.
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Yes, multiple ones.
I regretfully bought Insurrection on VHS. Watched it a few time. I finally realized: this is crap and I not going to waste my time watching it ever again. Now I pull up scenes on youtube when I'm talking about something specific in a TrekBBS thread. If not for the TrekBBS conversations, I wouldn't even watch clips. Same for First Contact. I'd have to be hit on the head pretty damn hard and be legally retarded to want to see Nemesis again.
I can tolerate re-runs of D.S.9., but overall I don't feel the need to watch it all ever again.
Aside from maybe a dozen episodes, the rest of Voyager is garbage. And even then I wish they had been episodes of a BETTER series, so I wouldn't have to see them in that show again.
I have no wish to see another second of Enterprise.
And there are a number of episodes of TNG I don't want to see ever again, including pretty much all of season seven.
I'd check the TV guide, and if the description started with either "The Doctor..." blehblahblah or "Neelix..." blahblablah, I knew I'd better just have the TV on in the background while I did some work. No way I was going to be able to pay strict attention to the show without wanted to eat a bullet. The single exception was the one where Neelix dies, Seven revives him, and he spemds the episode questioning his faith because he didn't experience an afterlife. THAT was actually an intelligent script.
My absolute most eye-rolling, nausea-inducing moment in any Star Trek episode, ever. My god. Another ridiculous particle of the week, and two professional women acting like tweenies watching Sean Cassidy.
Yes, Sean Cassidy. That's how old I am.
I've been ripping the occasional VHS to digital files. Pinnacle makes an editing program (Studio) that comes with a little box. Plug the box into the PC, plug the VCR into the box, and you get the video file of your choice. You can then either keep it on your hard drive, or dub it onto a DVD. It's been a trip finding 30-year-old VHS tapes in the back of a closet and watching them for the first time in ages, then being able to put them on YouTube for the family to see.
Update: I'm up to Season 3. My opinion of the show is actually sinking further, and I didn't think that was possible.
but my real whinge is about the cheap ass videotapes that Paramount UK used. Every so often,I get a tape that just sticks in the cassette. You can hear the reels squealing as the friction is too much, and the image and audio quality frells up. They're unwatchable. To think, Scotch and Basf used to give lifetime guarantees on these things!
but my real whinge is about the cheap ass videotapes that Paramount UK used. Every so often,I get a tape that just sticks in the cassette. You can hear the reels squealing as the friction is too much, and the image and audio quality frells up. They're unwatchable. To think, Scotch and Basf used to give lifetime guarantees on these things!
Sean Cassidy? Banshee of the X-Men? Really? Cool!
Or did you mean Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy's half brother/Shirley Jones's kid?
Yes...
I have never watched TNG's "The Wounded" since 2004 since I watched it with my then girlfriend. She was very ill and we watched it on her hospital room's tv. One of her last acts was to give me a hug after it was over and say she'd watch "Devil's Due" tomorrow - sadly, she slipped away during the night.
From that day, and every time for the next twelve years, I walk out of the room it comes on
Maybe it's your VCR. They made those tapes to clean the heads of the machine every so often.
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