Pickles by Brian Crane for April 16, 2014

Uh… Opal, I think you mean DVD.

I bought my first VCR in 1979. If the manufacturershad of stuck to one format instead of having VHSand BETA they might of lasted a little longer.

And I’m stuck with hundreds of VHS tapes that take up more room than DVDs and can’t copy them to DVD because they’re blocked.

VHS died a natural death due to the demand for higher picture quality when HDTVs became affordable. DVDs and then Blu-Rays quickly became the desired format for video rentals and purchases.

Most of my family and kid’s photos are on slides – 12 carousels worth. The last known projector bulb burned out in 1978, my neck’s got a permanent crick from holding them up to the kitchen light, and copying them to a computer is extremely tedious.

@FlyeTom: After my slide projector died, I video taped my slides (with back ground music from another source) from a little electric slide viewer. I used my camcorder to record my slides, aiming it into the viewer – yes, my camcorder died also, replaced by a digital camcorder which is complicated to use. I then copied my camcorder slides to VHS and in turn copied them to DVD with a dual VHS-DVD recorder. I still can’t get myself to throw my slides away even if they are copied.

What’s neat is vinyl records are not going away. I read somewhere that the number of new records sold last year actually exceeded the number sold the previous year.

And you can still buy turntables fairly easily.

VCR-Vague Chance of Recording.

That’d be better than watching the Dinosaurs TV show that was on in the 80’s I believe. “Not the Mama!”

Good heavens! I am surprised there are that many folks who remember what “BVDs” were/are. I haven’t heard that word in decades. But it sure made me laugh.

I just love Pickles!!!!!~ always funny..

Beta-Max… The story of my life.

We still use VCRs in our house. Have two of them and replacements are usually less than $5 at any second-hand store.

Fact, a few year’s ago, I mentioned to my late Dad that I had been buying a lot of DVDs lately. His response was, "Son, do you really need that much underwear?

What kind of movies has she been watching? :-P

Awhile back, Pickles had a story line re: technology — where Earl was lying on the couch saying “There’s a NAP for that” — I saved those and they still make me laugh

Sounds like there is a lot of copying going on. This comic is laugh out loud funny. I often get confused with all the abbreviations and acronyms. I don’t think I would confuse DVD with BVD though.

This will keep me giggling for hours… with an occasional snort!

Bad when even the dog feels pity on you

I no longer have a VCR… It kept pulling out the tape from my videos.

xxx

I don’t usually advertise this way, but since the subject came up, I digitize slides, pictures, documents, even film negatives to make new prints and photo albums. ppiket@yahoo.com

Could Opal think that BVD stand for blu-ray video disc? I think that some early Sony blu-ray player model numbers began with BVD, although I could be mistaken.

You just have to put a piece of tape over the missing copy protect tab…

I haven’t used my 8-track tape burner lately….