{"id":9441,"date":"2005-09-11T17:30:59","date_gmt":"2005-09-11T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/11\/video-tapes-are-gone-long-live-dvds\/"},"modified":"2005-09-11T17:30:59","modified_gmt":"2005-09-11T14:30:59","slug":"video-tapes-are-gone-long-live-dvds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/11\/video-tapes-are-gone-long-live-dvds\/","title":{"rendered":"Video tapes are gone.  Long live DVDs."},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I have given away our VCR about two years ago.  It was malfunctioning and wasn&#8217;t fun to watch anymore.  But the legacy remained in our house in the form of about twenty video tapes.  Those were all excellent movies that either I bought myself or was presented with by my close friends.  &#8220;Snatch.&#8221;, &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221;, &#8220;Dogma&#8221; &#8211; films like these are jewels in anyone&#8217;s collection.  I had no use for them though as I didn&#8217;t have any means of watching them.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly, one by one, I got all these movies on DVDs and my collection was back to useful state.  And those tapes were still laying around needless.<\/p>\n<p>Today I gave them all away.  I was going to do it sooner or later.  I just couldn&#8217;t find anyone who I knew would have a VCR and would appreciate the films.  Some of my friends have long switched to DVDs and DivX.  Others have completely different movie tastes than I do.  Yet another others already had their own collection that included either some or all of these films.<\/p>\n<p>Dimitry and Lana passed by our place today after the trip to mountains.  They confirmed that they didn&#8217;t have these movies, or if they had any they would be dubbed in Russian, which is not a good thing.  Especially for the family that speaks English in its entirety.  Their movie tastes are very close to mine.  And so I was glad to present them with all my tapes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve emtpied the whole shelf that can now be used for storage of a new movie media &#8211; DVD.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I have given away our VCR about two years ago. It was malfunctioning and wasn&#8217;t fun to watch anymore. But the legacy remained in our house in the form of about twenty video tapes. Those were all excellent movies that either I bought myself or was presented with by my close friends. &#8220;Snatch.&#8221;, &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221;, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/11\/video-tapes-are-gone-long-live-dvds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video tapes are gone.  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