Comments on: Please Rewind

By: Robert Gerard Hunt

Robert Gerard Hunt — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:06:51 +0000

Tony – thanks for the memory! “Lugging” is precisely the right word for the manner in which those machines had to be carried!

By: J. Anthony Yuse

J. Anthony Yuse — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:39:13 +0000

Bob, you gave me a chance to reflect on a memory that hadnt crossed my mind in some time. When I was away at college, my dad thought he would suprise me with a “small”used gift. He was upgrading from that massive type of VCR and thought he would bring the old one up to me. The cover was broken but the machine still had some life. When I finished lugging it into my dorm room, my roomate just looked at me and said “Really?” I couldnt tell if he was asking because he was excited or because its enormous size made it seem like we had an uninvited silent guest sitting on two cement blocks next to the small TV.

By: Robert Gerard Hunt

Robert Gerard Hunt — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:09:52 +0000

Oh yes, Mr. Roda, that’s how it was. What’s hard for me to imagine is what it was like to live during the 1920’s – 1940’s, when you might have seen something amazing in a movie theater and never see it again unless its great popularity warranted an encore run.

By: Alex Roda

Alex Roda — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:35:19 +0000

I never realized that at one time you couldn’t own movies. To think you could only see something during the window of a theater. Now there’s a whole pipeline from screen to dvd and some don’t even make it to the screen. Even more, you can now just download the movie before it releases, if someone got their dirty little hands on it or just stream it on a hosting site that is purposefully unaware of their user uploaded content. Or even on an airplane. It seems things have become a lot more commodified since 1979…