Rooker's Soapbox

Somebody dig a hole. VHS is officially dead. The last major supplier has called it quits.

Standard DVDs, which is what made VHS obsolete to begin with, can’t be far behind. Pretty soon it’ll be blu-ray and nothing else.

I’m not buying a blu-ray player. I wanted HD-DVD to win the format war, because that standard mandated that one backup copy can be made of an original disc to guard against damage (or whatever). No doubt that’s probably why it lost the format war to begin with. Idiotic movie companies didn’t like that at all and few would release movies in the standard.

When I can no longer buy regular DVDs… Well, unless there’s a way to stream or download, I guess it’s off to The Pirate Bay with me, because, like I said, I’m not buying a damn blu-ray. I refuse to touch one. I don’t do movie theaters anymore, after an incident with an obnoxious child and her far more obnoxious parents.

*Off-topic: Bringing small children to “grown-up” movies and then not keeping them quiet should be a felony punishable with a car battery and a set of jumper cables. I’d happily volunteer for that job.

My first DVD player was a Christmas gift. When I got it home, I discovered that my TV was too old to hook it up. It didn’t have the right connectors. My VCR *did* have the right connectors and it was already hooked to the TV anyway, so I just hooked the DVD player up to that and popped in a disc to see if it was gonna work. Seeing that it seemed to be working, I threw a bag of popcorn in the microwave and started to watch the movie (also a gift).

I’m sorry to say, I wasn’t very impressed.
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