The 10,000 Post thread V3

[Larks2242 251]

2281.

 

Good old Yogi.

[Muck308 55]

2282

 

The future is full of broken promises. It's almost 2015. Where's my hovercar that runs on Mr. Fusion?

 

Perhaps if we start wearing our pockets inside out the hovercars will start coming off the assembly line. Wait, I'm not a teenager anymore. Some of you other cats are going to have to do it.

[Duke87 1,070]

(2283)

Hello! MuckFly!?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

2284

 

I haven't seen the Back to the Future movies in like 20 years.  How have they held up?

[Muck308 55]

2285

 

They hold up the rest of my dvd collection.

 

Awful quiet in here!

[Duke87 1,070]

(2286)

 

Isn't it, though?

 

I don't have a DVD collection. We owned some as a family, but since I couldn't really lay specific claim to any of them (nor did I want to), they all got left at my parents' house when I moved out. Meanwhile, all the video games came with me, even the ones that weren't specifically mine - because all of the video game consoles came with me and so any games left behind would be useless to my parents and sisters.

 

The thing of it is, usually if I decide I want to watch a movie, I prefer to watch a movie I have not already seen. It just doesn't feel productive otherwise. So Netflix and other such things are much more useful to me than owning a DVD is.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

2287

Most of the DVDs are my little brother's. I just have a few lying around from when they were new but there's really not much. A few movies I really love, like Les Miserables and Field of Dreams.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

2288

 

We have DVDs.  I prefer having a hard copy to watch if it's something that I really like.  I hate the idea of being at the mercy of a subscription service where things appear and disappear without warning or reason.  I've heard that there are times that you can and can't watch Avatar: The Last Airbender on Netflix.  Why?  If it's just streamed information, shouldn't it always be available?  Whatever.  I'll just pony up the cash and buy the stuff I really like on DVD.

[Muck308 55]

2289

 

I actually don't have any of the Back to the Future movies on dvd despite the fact that I'm a big fan of them.

 

Last night I watched Moonrise Kingdom which was pretty good. If you like Wes Anderson it's worth a look. Tonight I'm thinking Silence of the Lambs.

[Duke87 1,070]

(2290)

 

Things go in and out of availability on Netflix because Netflix has to pay royalties to stream stuff. Sometimes the owners demand more money and Netflix doesn't want to pay them, so it goes poof. Sometimes the owners decide they no longer want to license the content, period (Warner Bros. pulled a lot of stuff from Netflix earlier this year because they're starting up their own streaming service that they want their content to be exclusive to). And sometimes content is worth paying for some of the time but not all of the time. Netflix admits they rotate things in and out of availability to maximize their overall offerings: sometimes they have 100 things to show but are only paying for the privilege of offering 50 of them at a time.

 

The world today is decidedly more complex than just going to the video rental store since digital streaming introduces copyright issues that renting tapes never did. Lots of things can only be gotten from one particular place and you might need a dozen different subscriptions in order to have access to everything.

 

Although, it's not just streaming: the idea of making content or a product exclusive to one particular retailer or service provider is a lot more popular these days than it used to be. Just look at how many things have bonus content only available if you buy it at Target, or only available if you buy it at Walmart...

[Larks2242 251]

2291.

 

lol do people still own movie tapes?

 

Why get a movie tape player when you can probably play the old tapes on the xbox one.

[timmie 988]

2292

 

Last night I watched Moonrise Kingdom which was pretty good. If you like Wes Anderson it's worth a look.

 

I love that movie! It made me laugh so hard, but the humor is very subtle (Tilda Swinton doesn't have a name, she's called 'Social Services', I laughed ridiculously hard ).

[Muck308 55]

2293

 

 

I love that movie! It made me laugh so hard, but the humor is very subtle (Tilda Swinton doesn't have a name, she's called 'Social Services', I laughed ridiculously hard ).

 

Yeah it was pretty awesome. Wes Anderson makes some incredible films. The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou is probably my favorite of his. I loved how the sound stage set for the family home in Moonrise was an echo of the set for the ship from Life Aquatic.

[Duke87 1,070]

(2294)

 

lol do people still own movie tapes?

 

Most of the tapes my sisters and I watched as kids are still at my parents' house and our 15 year old VCR is still kickin' downstairs. Sometimes my sisters and I like to watch them for nostalgia's sake. It's cheaper to watch the tapes we already own than pay money to buy the movies on DVD or Blu-Ray, and seeing the commercials from the 1990s at the beginning of them is awesome.

 

Although watching VHS video on an HD TV doesn't exactly give you a top quality picture. But then that's part of the fun, too!

 

 

My parents also still own the stereo system they bought in 1985 when they got married, complete with turntable. And yes, they also still have all their vinyl records from when they were younger. And it all still works, so why not?

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

2295: So I just found out that a coworker of mine has been my next door neighbour for nearly a year. Small world.

[Larks2242 251]

2296.

 

wow, speaker system from the 80s? Isn't the technology all different now?

[The Pennsylvania Turnpike 252]

 2297 I have a speaker system in my kitchen which is not in use anymore, but it must be from the 80's

[Chptrk 86]

2298.

 

My dad worked at some electronics shop many years ago, (maybe the 80s, I know it was before me) and so he got a big sound system back then that's been in our house since my parents moved in. Two massive speakers, a radio tuner, cd player, cassette player, and a turn table... Old, yes, but they still work just fine.

[Duke87 1,070]

(2299)

 

They're not still using the original speakers. Those started to crap out about 10 years ago (after everything was already nearly 20 years old, mind you) and got replaced.

 

But yes, it is a simple system in that there are two speakers: left and right. No subwoofer. No surround sound. The 30 year old stereo receiver is not capable of such things.

 

Here's a picture I took of the main unit in 2010:

 

Don't make 'em like that anymore, eh?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

2300

 

That's amazing, Duke.

Also, my in-laws still have a VCR.  But don't get me started on them.  *sigh*

[Larks2242 251]

2301.

 

Duke your image isn't working for me.

 

I had completely forgotten about music tapes, I remember when they were in cars, really the only time I used them I had a tape with a wire sticking out that I used with my cd player back in the day when people used AA batteries for thing.

 

Now I feel old...

[Duke87 1,070]

(2302)

 

Here's the image in link form:

https://s28.postimg.cc/3m4w9xqq3/DSCN7193.jpg

 

The cars my parents had when I was really little did not have any means of playing music other than the radio. When they leased their first Minivan after my baby sister was born, it had a tape deck, and that at the time was "ooooh" for us. We would then record CDs onto cassettes so we could take them on trips.

 

Of course, cars with cassette decks were available just about as long as there have been cassette tapes, but it wasn't until the 90s that they became standard equipment on low end models. In the 80s, if you had a cheap car (which my parents did), no cassette deck. But CD players took a while to appear in cars because while cassette tapes don't really care if you shake or jolt them, CDs will skip if you do that. So stabilization technology for the CD player had to be developed before they could work and be a pleasant listening experience in moving vehicles. We didn't have a car with a CD player until 2000 or so.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

2303

 

Fun fact: the last car to be sold with a factory tape player was the Lexus SC430.  It was named Top Gear's Worst Car Of All Time (By A Company That Should Know Better).

[Muck308 55]

2304

 

I sat in one of those at a car show and then quickly forgot about it.

 

I still have my VHS movies and such but not a VCR. My parents still have a TV purchased in the mid 90s with a VCR housed in along with the CRT. Good TV.

 

I foolishly gave a number of my cassette tapes away to friends around 2001 so I only have a handful left. Some of them got really bad over the years if I played them a lot. I still have a walkman to play them.

[Duke87 1,070]

(2305)

 

A lot of the cassette tapes I had as a kid got destroyed before the era of cassette ended simply because I was a rough kid and I tended to break things (although usually I didn't intend to). I think a few are still at my parents' house though. One of my favorite cassettes as a kid was also released on CD, earlier this year I tracked down a used copy of that CD and now I have the music in my library.

 

And while we still have most of our old VHS tapes, my mother several years back took the liberty of throwing away all our old floppy disks and didn't consult with anyone before doing so. She figured "hey, we no longer own any computers with a floppy disk drive, so these are all useless garbage now". Of course I was pissed when I found out, since there were a few floppy disks (such as my original copies of SimCity 2000 and Duke Nukem II) that I would have wanted to keep even if they were no longer usable.

 

But then, this was not a unique fight. My mother hated clutter, wanted things tidied up and put away, and wanted useless things thrown away. I never throw anything away and I leave my stuff all over the place (both tendencies I inherited from my father). Since the floppy disks were in my mother's office (where the computer historically was), they were at her mercy.

[timmie 988]

2306

 

My stereo installation is 20 years old, as old as I am. The amplifier is an NAD, they have a very rich and warm sound.

 

We still have a VHS-player at home but it hasn't been used for years. It might be a good idea to digitalize some video tapes (weddings, fragments of me and my sisters on tv,...) before they are lost forever. We used audio cassettes in the car of my mother, but the 'new' one has a cd player, so that era has ended too, some years ago.

[Larks2242 251]

2307.

 

Sounds to me Duke that you just like to keep things

[Duke87 1,070]

(2308)

That is true! I'm a bit of a hoarder. Fortunately I have plenty of hard drive space to digitally hoard things.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

2309

I hold a lot of meaningless things, mainly because they hold.... Something to me. I can't tell what it is. But there's something about them that mean a lot to me. It's not like old newspaper or whatever. It's things like old art projects that I feel obligated to keep.

[Larks2242 251]

2310.

 

Advancement of hard drives have to be a hoarders dream, keep all you want without the complications of a real messy situation.