VCR....its maddness
My wife loves to go into Thrift stores when we are in different area's of the Country...I'm not much for it other than a few minutes to look over any electronic stuff they may have. In the past, I'd c...
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myredracer wrote:
I really don't miss having to run down to the local VCR rental store to get a movie to keep the kids entertained on a weekend or having to return it before getting stuck with a late charge, having to make sure it was rewound or having to rent a machine.
When DVD first came up, it was like a magic to be able to jump to any chapter with a click of a button. Without rewinding the tape back or forward. And nice artwork in the background when you open the main menu.
Now with MP4 I can jump to any timestamp within any episode, all the episode thumbs for a season are on one screen, can choose my own background artwork ("fanart") - or to have none at all. Last time I tried DVD, it felt odd with a slow response when you stop/play/pause or go to another chapter - disc spinning, machine whirring for a second or two.
I'm missing DVD simplicity though. Had to do minor fixes to video library recently when the primary HDD began to fail without me knowing. DVD player either works or doesn't. Though disc can get physically damaged/scratched. The biggest problem with DVD/CD library in RV is that it takes too much space.
Soundbar... if I find one that is not too big and doesn't sound too bad, given it's small size, I might do this. My impression had been that many soundbars are not better than $150 2.0 receiver paired with $30 Dayton 652 speakers, only cost more. Maybe I'm wrong.
