Some DVRs and/or their RCs, all VCRs, and most online streaming videos (e.g., Hulu) don't let you skip.

The first VCR was $50,000.

Back in '86, I slept over at a friends house and we stayed up late watching this movie. When we got to this part, we started rewinding the tape and replaying it over and over again, laughing our asses off.

But what we forgot was my friend's parents had a Rabbit, which was a device that allowed you to wirelessly hook up multiple TVs to one VCR in the house, and his Mom had also been watching it in the back bedroom too. After the 14th replay, she finally came out and read us the riot act.

Good times.

This is why I try to avoid subscriptions, DRMs, etc. I want to keep them forever if I want to like my CRT TV, VCR, tapes, etc.

Probly an old VCR tape, eh?

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So do I with my 20" Sharp CRT TV from January 1996 and VCR from my dotcom days. Both are still kicking arse as of Thursday night.

I still have my CRT TV. It's too heavy to move, and the toxic waste disposal charge to get rid of it is quite steep. Fortunately it still works I even have a VHS VCR near it, but not hooked up because nobody uses VHS anymore.

My parents and I still have CRT TVs, VCRs, and VHS tapes!

Ancient text shows archers programming a VCR, correcting the time accurately within 1 minute. Others have said this was not possible. Here we have Lars Andersen doing it in 45 seconds, from 50m away.

I'll give you calculator watches, and I'll add music to that list, but that's it! Oh, and cocaine...>> ^ant:

>> ^rottenseed:
Why are you living in the past?

Becuase the past is rad(ical) like 1980s/80s, video casette recorders (VCRs), cathode ray tube (CRT) televisions (TVs), analog stuff, calculator watches, etc.

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I'm sure buggy drivers preferred the feel of the leather reigns in their hands as well.

Paper books do have some great features, I love them - and I don't think they're going to completely disappear - they just won't be how people consume novels etc. anymore.

>> ^dirkdeagler7:

>> ^dag:
Pretty cool technology, but like it or not - paper books are on their way out. Sometimes, you think that an industry is in its twilight - and it's really not. A good example would be movie theatres.
Something about sitting in a big dark room with lots of strangers while munching over-priced popcorn - it's an experience we don't want to lose. Prognosticators have been trumpeting the doom of cinemas since the VCR - but it turns out, it's not going to happen.
Similarly, those same sages are now telling us that the end is nigh for bookstores. In this case, I'd agree. Bookstores and paper books don't offer enough of a distinction or an improvement over buying a Kindle copy. You're buying something to read at home anyway - not to consume in a bookstore, so so much better to just download it with a single click. Verily, I say - bookstore, the bell tones for thee.

Well put but I disagree. Most avid readers I've spoken to still prefer the tactile feel of a paper book to the electronic versions and until there is digital format standardization across marketing platforms, adoption will be slower.

>> ^dag:

Pretty cool technology, but like it or not - paper books are on their way out. Sometimes, you think that an industry is in its twilight - and it's really not. A good example would be movie theatres.
Something about sitting in a big dark room with lots of strangers while munching over-priced popcorn - it's an experience we don't want to lose. Prognosticators have been trumpeting the doom of cinemas since the VCR - but it turns out, it's not going to happen.
Similarly, those same sages are now telling us that the end is nigh for bookstores. In this case, I'd agree. Bookstores and paper books don't offer enough of a distinction or an improvement over buying a Kindle copy. You're buying something to read at home anyway - not to consume in a bookstore, so so much better to just download it with a single click. Verily, I say - bookstore, the bell tones for thee.


Well put but I disagree. Most avid readers I've spoken to still prefer the tactile feel of a paper book to the electronic versions and until there is digital format standardization across marketing platforms, adoption will be slower. Also there is the question of longevity that people quickly ignore with digital formats.

If I buy a book its possible for generations of my family to read it or own it. Like all other digital based technologies, there is no certainty of being able to keep a kindle book or ibook forever. If the format changes, the technology evolves, or formats are just not supported it will be more noticeable with books than it has been with movies and music.

With movies and music new media and formats have meant improved quality and functionality, so people are willing to repurchase for improved experiences. It is unlikely that books will have this added benefit as things progress and so convincing people to repurchase would be hard. This is where format standardization becomes key because you cant have an open standard or solution to longevity in a fractured market.

E-books are where music was when almost all digital music was in Real player format (or smaller competitors), it didn't fully explode until the open ended formats (mp3) became the standard. Once one of the more open e-book formats takes hold and e-readers become accessible to the vast majority of demographics...then maybe you can start to gauge if books will survive.

PS I'm curious if this machine or things like it would be embraced by higher education, for the purpose of printed materials they use now and perhaps to replace the scam that is college text book purchasing.