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I admired the LD format, but it had one great drawback at the time for me: it was not recordable. I had amassed a huge library of Beta tapes and later VHS tapes. At the beginning of home video, commercially recorded tapes were basically not available. All of my library was either of things I...

My school had a LD player, which I used to borrow, and rent discs for at a local video store. It was much clearer than VHS, but what a pain in the ass! We rented and watched “Lawrence of Arabia”. It had I don’t know how many discs, but they had to be changed or flipped every 20 minutes!

Don’t get me started! I think I still have a picture somewhere of my large Beta library!:blink:

With so many new movies coming out, to buy, I rarely watch one twice. I buy it, watch it without commentary — in 3D if possible, then watch it with commentary, then watch all the extras, then put it on the shelf, then dust it. For instance: I see all the Marvels in the theatre, go through the...

I wonder how it compares to movie rentals a decade ago. I know the vast majority of people in the VHS days were “Blockbuster” members. I remember friends saying to me “who would want to own a movie?” We also rented the vast majority of movies we watched then. They were just not downloaded.

Streaming is just too fiddly for me. It’s not bad for disposable crap that you treat like Kleenex, but for my permanent collection of treasured film what could be easier than inserting a disc? They are always available and at your fingertips.