tallpines
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Post by tallpines on Feb 9, 2020 1:02:45 GMT -5
This evening the 17 year old granddaughter is here .... we dug through the old box of VCR movies and came up with “the Shining”. Now she is sleeping with the lights on! 😄
(I love being a Gramma!)
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Post by ladymarmalade on Feb 9, 2020 9:02:41 GMT -5
You still have a working VCR!? I definitely feel like my parents have been having more fun with their grandkids as they've gotten older. They do much more interesting things with them once they hit those "old enough" ages.
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Post by september on Feb 9, 2020 12:27:50 GMT -5
I made sure the last DVD player I bought also had a VCR side to it! Still hooked up to our main TV. To be honest, I have not played a tape for several years, but I still have a lot of old family vacation tapes that I've meant to transfer to DVD and have not got around to it yet. I bought a special VCR/DVD recorder for the transfer maybe 20-30 years ago, but that one has sat in the basement for so long I'm not even sure it works anymore. With the ability to stream old movies anytime, it seems like this wonderful old technology is falling by the wayside. Of course the picture quality has a lot to do with it too.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 9, 2020 13:05:51 GMT -5
The ability to "stream movies any time" is tremendously convenient, but also something of a trap. Availability of a particular movie is not guaranteed - the streaming content providers take movies off their service whenever they want. Unless you "buy" the movie from a streaming service. Which is also a trap because when you "buy" a movie you can only watch it on that streaming service. If they go out of business, *poof* your movie collection is gone. So if there is a movie you really, really want to keep, you have to buy it on physical media. As new physical media is developed, you either have to transfer it to the new media or buy another copy on the new media. And if you buy the new copy, it might not be the same as the original movie - for example, if you buy a Blu-Ray copy of Star Wars IV: A New Hope (the first movie that came out in 1977), you'll get the "Special Edition" with the updated special effects and other edits - not the movie that came out in theaters back then. On the flip side, it is amazing what new video enhancing software can do for old films. My husband was showing me a film made in 1896 that had been digitally enhanced, and the difference in the film before and after was amazing: arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/someone-used-neural-networks-to-upscale-a-famous-1896-video-to-4k-quality/You can actually clearly see the features of the people in the upscaled version. It's incredible.
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Post by bestofour on Feb 9, 2020 22:07:19 GMT -5
That's so cool tallpines. That's one scary movie.
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