Posted by Myschif at 1cust121.tnt2.poughkeepsie.ny.da.uu.net on July 07, 2000 at 16:24:50:
In Reply to: Time to bite the bullet... posted by Bardon on July 07, 2000 at 16:01:12:
: I was in the same position as you guys, and kept seing all of these great collector's editions come out on dvd. Finally I just broke down and got a player, and the thing is great (incidentally, Fight Club was the disc that finally forced me to buy in). If you have 4 VHS decks and 2 beta, surely you can afford the couple hundred bucks for DVD? You don't have to abandon VHS either, just buy new stuff on disc. It's the same as casette/cd a few years back-you can only hold up for so long...
No, you misunderstand: we didn't BUY all of these VCRs (except for our trusty old Sony Betamax)--we are the "island of lost toys" for electronics!
Other people GIVE us equipment, usually broken in some minor way--but then, once the stuff is fixed, they've already gone off and bought something new, so the stuff lives at our house. Unfortunately, DVD is too new for us to have "inherited" any players. Besides, we don't want to purchase a DVD until we can record on it.
And, for the record, we still have a substantial investment in reel-to-reel tape recordings and yes, vinyl. When you've got more than 6,000 albums and tapes, you don't just go replacing everything in your collection on a new-technology whim. A lot of it CAN'T be replaced, so....