Peeved at Lucas

[melchar]

So what else is new?

OK, so I'm disappointed with the 'episodes 1-3' Star Wars flicks. Fine. But I discovered a new depth of annoyance.

My momn is another Luddite. She has a VCR and does not want a DVD player. One of the gifts she DID ask for was 'Revenge of the Sith'. AHA! thought I - since -everything- else she wanted is exacting, specific and takes visiting a half-dozen stores to find.

And then I learned that Lucas has -refused- to allow 'Ep3' to be released on VHS. WTF? What sort of twisted mind -does- that?

So the ONLY way I can get my mom a prezzie she actually wants is to get the DVD, finds someone with a DVD/VCR player that can -tape- from DVD and do a copy for her that way. And it is thus highly unlikely that I'll be able to give her 'Sith' for Xmas. [sighs]

And DON'T get me started about trying to find 60"x90" rectangular, ivory-colored, all plastic tablecloths [not cloth-backed]!

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[pbsjones.livejournal.com]

I knew there were more reasons to hate that movie other than it just being a bad movie.

DVDs -- the wave of the future. I heard someone talking this morning how some stores are not even stocking VCRs any more...and the ones they have are dirt cheap. I'm kicking and screaming already!

[melchar.livejournal.com]

I like DVDs for so very many reasons - storage, being more durable than tapes, better picture - but I STILL want my VCR!

I want to tape silly shows and whiz past the commetcials without needing to subscribe to Tivo. A junk tape works just fine for that. [hubby Trey can record his Sat. morning cartoons and compress their 6 hours of taping time to 2 hours of watching.] I can tape 'the Boondocks' and giggle over it the same way. It's simple and convenient.

But I can see the dark conspiracies in the shadows - and why they want to eliminate VCRs - and I don't likes them [hissssss]

Considered a DVD recorder?

[(Anonymous)]

I've purchased a DVD-recorder recently and I'm having a great time with it. Get a rewritable DVD and that becomes your scratch tape. Get a spindle of DVD Rs (use whichever format is appropriate) and those are the tapes you record and keep. (There's probably a way to get it to skip the commercials, but I haven't found it yet). The only problem is that I can't record the recent commercial tapes to get the movie onto DVD. (But then I can't do that with a VCR either!)


I know, I know, you're a Luddite. But perhaps it's time to be dragged kicking and screaming into the full possibility of the DVD.