Actually, since DVD did not (for most) allow you to record your own stuff, one can say it was a tenth the innovation that VHS was. VHS was the TIVO and DVD of its day, combined in one.

Ahh yes... TiVo.

Loves me the whole recording things.

We bought the HD TiVo with my Christmas bonus and over the weekend we ordered the capacity add-on with our tax refund. 85 hours of high-def TiVo capacity - yee haw!

Mine's full already.

Well, for me DVD was much more of a revolution than VHS. In my 12 years of owning my own VCR I only ever recorded a TV show and actually watched it twice. I never owned a movie on VHS.

But something about DVD clicked with me. I was a very early adopter and had an ownership mentality.

TIVO still holds minimal interest to me because I have no interest in timeshifting the shows I watch (if I miss them, I miss them, someday maybe I'll watch on DVD). My computer had built in DVR capability (HD even) but after some initial curiosity I didn't even bother to plug cable into it after we moved so that sits unused (and now I could even plug the computer into my TV and watch it all on the big screen).

So, for me the home entertainment revolution really was DVD.

:eek:

Tonight I dubbed my Buffy the Musical from VHS to DVD. It's the only show from the series I'm interested in and I don't want to buy the whole season 6 to get it. Someone gave me the soundtrack so I got the bug to do it.

I started taping music on a real-to-real tape player in the early 70's, I had 8 track tapes, I dubed my vinyl onto casette tapes, rented VHS back in the late 80's when the required a $100 check as a deposit, have recorded 1000s of hours of VHS tape, hundreds of DVDs, was the first person to own a CD player in my family and have made dozens of CDs, I'm in the process of tranfering my home movies from 8mm to DVD, and now I record shows on my HD DVR (and still call it tapeing-old habits you know). I use my media technology to the max.

Times, they are a changin!

For some reason I have a giant box-o-VHS-porn (from my days working in a gay shoppe in San Diego) and I haven't owned a VCR in about 4 years. RStar, wanna do some dubbing? :P

Woo hoo!!!


Oh. Errr ummm never mind.

Thanks for thinking of me!

But, I think I'll pass. :D