Set the TV to channel 3
I’ve been saying this!…
If you miss Blockbuster, visit your library. Most have an A/V section now. They don’t advertise much. But it’s basically the same experience of renting movies; just without paying.
Currently watching The Boy with the Striped Pajamas, a classic I never watched…using my PlayStation 5, lol.
They also have hardcopies of video games! Usually, it's a pretty updated library of titles. 2 week rentals, you just have to go back and check it out again. Totally free.
Not all libraries are the same but if you're a gamer, you can try a nice collection, totally free.
I finished Princess Peach Showtime from there. Seemed like a mildly interesting game but not something I wanted to own for myself.
Still using my tapes today. Work great and they do what I want, no ads, no subscriptions, I own it. Younguns missed out on the best time. They wont own a thing and will be consumed with ads and depression
It's shocking how apathetic many people have become to this. I don't want any kind of ad anywhere. When I have to use a browser that doesn't have my essential plugins installed every second of the experience feels like I'm taking poison damage.
There are ways to own very high quality movies. Those ways just happen to not be legal. Still less of a hassle than maintaining a physical media collection.
I do own a record player so I see the point of added physicality though.
For a given value of great. The only tapes I'd describe as looking great are HDV tapes, and even then they're anamorphic and interlaced.
I'm all for owning media but whenever I see stuff like this I wonder what the person is watching stuff on. Tapes were fine on titchy CRTs but they look pretty horrid on TVs from this decade.
Somewhat ironically they'd probably look fine on the mobile devices the younguns favour!
Well I have multiple crts haha. I use my flat-screen too and it looks fine. I've never cared about visual quality as much as audio
This reminds me of the "save" logo in almost every app. Apparently I'm one of the only people left alive that knows what a floppy disk was.
There's a piece of software we use at work and the save icon for that is a downwards pointing arrow and a CD. No one knows what it means.
I just had to use one the other day at work on an old machine. Lol
"Look, dad, someone 3D printed a save icon!"
I mean I used videotape too but sometime probably 25+ years ago I started saying "record".
Or a stapler, much to my distress
Me: You know, the thing! It holds paper together using tiny bits of warped metal!
Them: ...That seems more like "these kids don't know basic things and/ or their names" rather than "these kids don't know colloquialisms from previous decades"
Paper is still everywhere and staples are everywhere. How do they not know what a stapler is?
Yeah, it's a staple!
I still have my old employee ID somewhere
i still have both my blockbuster and hollywood video nametags. without a doubt the best jobs i ever had, and now that i'm in my forties they're probably the best jobs i'll ever know.
I was working too much to take advantage of the free rentals (they were my fourth concurrent part time job) but I loved working there regardless.
I'm kinda curious what they meant too. Live media is available on demand afterwards these days.
You set up a camcorder aligned perfectly with the TV, play the on demand stream and tape it so that when it eventually gets removed from the streaming platform you still have a backup on tape.
Hah!
If you grew up with camcorders, you could use that verb for general video recording, even with your phone
Perhaps this is a regional difference then. I did grow up with camcorders (and used them extensively during university) but I'd never use "tape" as a verb for filming something with them.
To me "taping" refers to using a VCR or audio cassette to capture something from TV or radio. I suppose one might say "I've got tickets to a taping of (TV show)" but that feels a bit outside the scope here.
Language is a funny thing!
But it is not always available afterwards. Sometimes you have to capture that stream of bits yourself. Without a DVR that’s kind of difficult to do depending on the platform. Though I would def use the term “record” rather than “tape”. (Though you might store it in a tar archive afterwards…)
Duct tape?
I still keep my Blockbuster membership card on me, just to remind me of a different time.
Well, I thought they were talking about gluing something together...
I feel like a dinosaur for even remembering Blockbuster lol
I mentioned UHF to one of my (younger) coworkers, and he had no idea what that meant...
Well, UHF is still a common term if you're a radio amateur. Along with VLF, LF, MW, SW, etc.
We've got it all! (We've got it all) On UHF!
Funnily enough, that's how we got to that- several of us going out to lunch, I was driving, so my music, and one of the Weird Al polkas was playing, and he was asking who it was .. even my kids have heard of Weird Al so me and the other old farts are trying to figure out if he's messing with us or really didn't know... So we were listing off Weird Al's works, and UHF came up, we described the plot, he asked if UHF meant something in the context of a TV station, and that's when we old farts crumbled into dust.
Why not have your spirit go live in the last operative Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon?
Instructions unclear. Arrested for attempting to squat inside the last operative Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon. Turns out, the courts do NOT accept "childhood nostalgia" as a legal defense against breaking and entering.
My kids: "like.. sellotape?"
Dylan Dog Dead of Night. It's just so bad it's good lol
I forgot how tapes work, and pulled on a loose tape hanging out of a bag, messing it up.
"She has chosen... poorly."
