Klonor
22-04-2008, 19:56
Those who know me know that I am largely a creature of habit: When I find a good thing, or even a bad thing that just feels familiar, I stick with it long after I should. My HT is a VX-5R, my PalmPilot is a Tungsten-W, and (brace yourself) I still watch VHS. Seriously, I do. I no longer purchase new tapes, they're simply too hard to find and I don't have much space to store them, but those that I have I keep spinning, and I have made a point to never replace the movies I already own with DVD's. My TV is pre-HiDef (It has a built-in VCR), my grandpa recently bought a laptop with 7x my processor power at 1/3 what I paid for mine way-back-when, and I can not watch YouTube on my cell phone. Are we all clear on my non-changing ways?
This isn't to say that I am in any way anti-technology, not at all, and when I do buy something new it is always the very top of the line and ridiculously expensive, but I just hold off replacing anything for as long as I can. As somebody once said, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," and most of my electro-junk works just fine, including my VCR. Unfortunately, changing times have slowly dragged me along, and I've had to move into the DVD age.
My DVD collection is actually relatively nice. It's nowhere near the size of some people I know, but I have literally hundreds of hours worth of material ready to watch in two white boxes next to my TV, ranging from the entire series of Stargate SG-1 to the Sergio Leone Dollars Trilogy and even into the likes of Kung Fu Hustle. Included in that collection is the box set of Firefly and two (Yes, two) copies of Serenity (Original and Special Edition). Unfortunately, I just learned that they are releasing another box set of Firefly and, wouldn't you know, it's going to be on Blu-ray. Now, by my usual schedule I figure I should be entering the Blu-ray phase of shopping in about four or five years, when DVD players begin to become as hard to find as VCR's and the one I'm using has begun to make that weird clicking noise we all know, and just in time to snicker as some new technology comes out that people abandon Blu-ray for. However, in the face of all my logic and traditions, I find that now I'm going to buy a Blu-ray player some time relatively soon, and throw my entire schedule out of whack, because I must have that Firefly! I'll spend God-knows-how-much money on the player, then the show, and then I'll probably buy some other Blu-ray movies because what's the point of having a player for only one show, and before you know it I'm being smothered in over-priced high-tech copies of movies I could have bought for $4.99 in the DVD bargain bin.
Damn you Joss Whedon, you suck away all my money!
This isn't to say that I am in any way anti-technology, not at all, and when I do buy something new it is always the very top of the line and ridiculously expensive, but I just hold off replacing anything for as long as I can. As somebody once said, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," and most of my electro-junk works just fine, including my VCR. Unfortunately, changing times have slowly dragged me along, and I've had to move into the DVD age.
My DVD collection is actually relatively nice. It's nowhere near the size of some people I know, but I have literally hundreds of hours worth of material ready to watch in two white boxes next to my TV, ranging from the entire series of Stargate SG-1 to the Sergio Leone Dollars Trilogy and even into the likes of Kung Fu Hustle. Included in that collection is the box set of Firefly and two (Yes, two) copies of Serenity (Original and Special Edition). Unfortunately, I just learned that they are releasing another box set of Firefly and, wouldn't you know, it's going to be on Blu-ray. Now, by my usual schedule I figure I should be entering the Blu-ray phase of shopping in about four or five years, when DVD players begin to become as hard to find as VCR's and the one I'm using has begun to make that weird clicking noise we all know, and just in time to snicker as some new technology comes out that people abandon Blu-ray for. However, in the face of all my logic and traditions, I find that now I'm going to buy a Blu-ray player some time relatively soon, and throw my entire schedule out of whack, because I must have that Firefly! I'll spend God-knows-how-much money on the player, then the show, and then I'll probably buy some other Blu-ray movies because what's the point of having a player for only one show, and before you know it I'm being smothered in over-priced high-tech copies of movies I could have bought for $4.99 in the DVD bargain bin.
Damn you Joss Whedon, you suck away all my money!