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Londonbornpaddy · 30-09-2012, 14:29

The other day i found some old VHS tapes i wanted to watch and dug out the old video player to watch them on. I realise we pay a subscription fee with Tivo and expect a billion wonderful new things a year but watching these old tapes reminded me just how far we have come. You could only record one thing and watch another - no series link. If you had sky and managed to wire it up to record onto your VHS then you could not change the channel at all. No pause live tv - no rewinding because someone coughed during an important bit - no catch up or on demand - less channels obviously - rubbish quality but we still thought Dvd was amazing - much less space to record etc etc
I did not realise just how much i have to be grateful for. Consequently i wont really moan that there are not enough +1 channels or boo hoo no sky atlantic... it is basically amazing - glitches and all.
I am not a Luddite or technophobe just sometimes its nice to be reminded of how things were and how even then they were cool...

30-09-2012, 14:29	#1080
Londonbornpaddy Inactive Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 65	Re: General TiVo Discussion Part 3 The other day i found some old VHS tapes i wanted to watch and dug out the old video player to watch them on. I realise we pay a subscription fee with Tivo and expect a billion wonderful new things a year but watching these old tapes reminded me just how far we have come. You could only record one thing and watch another - no series link. If you had sky and managed to wire it up to record onto your VHS then you could not change the channel at all. No pause live tv - no rewinding because someone coughed during an important bit - no catch up or on demand - less channels obviously - rubbish quality but we still thought Dvd was amazing - much less space to record etc etc I did not realise just how much i have to be grateful for. Consequently i wont really moan that there are not enough +1 channels or boo hoo no sky atlantic... it is basically amazing - glitches and all. I am not a Luddite or technophobe just sometimes its nice to be reminded of how things were and how even then they were cool...