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I'll say it again....EACH TO HIS OWN!

Thank you for the permission.

For but one example....DVRS, where you are able to record a show or movie and then make a disc out it.

From any iPhone or iPad or Computer, but I won't burn a DVD I will save it as a file on a hard drive and if I need a copy I will put it on an SD card or thumb drive. Or just share it on my private network.

DVRS, where you are able to record a show or movie and then make a disc out it.

I have a Tivo that records 6 channels at once, which lets me do that, but I also have an item called EyeTV that lets me record from the cable box and has the best editing software for amateurs on the market. Beside I don't know anyone that owns a Video Tape recorder or DVD player. Some have Blue Rays but only because they have other software built in. I actually do Have a DVD drive in one of my computers.
I can see you have a fondness for the old stuff of the past but the only reason you think most of it is superior is you don't know what the new stuff does.

Now...do you wanna talk about washing machines and toilets? Nether of the ones made today, holds a candle to what I bought 27 years ago!

Washing machines I can agree with but toilets are a 100 times better than the ones we had when I was kid, they were technology that hadn't changed in over a 100 years, well I changed about 7 years ago and can tell you that my toilet flushes first time every time and almost silently, try one and you may agree.
When is the last time you had a TV or radio break well modern one anyway. I haven't had one break for years, but every 711 of Get and Go used to have tube testers to check out your OZ 4 on Saturday night because your TV went of during wrestling.

I remember when stainless razor blade came out, one of my uncles that stropped his old Gillette blades claimed his was better, one of his friends walked back home and brought him his razor with a used Stainless blade to try. Well the rest is history.

I am trying to keep this calm and informative but I am 78 years old and have seen a lot of stuff come and go, almost all of what went was replaced by some thing better. In some cases some thing were replaced by cheaper but not better products but they were good enough.

Betamax was a superior product to VSH tape but VHS tape was good enough and cheaper. Do you remember when you could rent movie on a large record and play it on a rented player? By the way you get a better quality picture over the air than you do cable unless your cable company is providing 4k broadcast and you have a 4k TV.

The reason you have to have higher resolution is that 720x480 DVD video doesn't look so good blown up to 70 inch which is beginning to be a minimum TV in most homes. Some of us remember 6 inch screens, I prefer 70 over that.

Not trying to make enemies here just new friends to share opinions with.

You've made an ENEMY !

I said "TO EACH HIS OWN, many times over, yet YOU continually trashed me and you're wrong about most of what you trashed me over.

I meant DVD...though I did say DISCS!

I don't want to EVER watch ANYTHING on a teensy phone screen, on my laptop, nor a wall sized T.V. screen; you do.WHY THE BLEEDING HELL SHOULD I HAVE TO CONFORM TO WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?

Did I ever tell YOU that YOU must do what I want to do? NO! Neither did I trash you and/or impugn your taste or abject lack thereof.

And yes, I still have VCR tapes, which we have been slowly putting on disc. I have a very large library of films on disc and still have movies and cartoons on actual FILMS. It's a difference experience and everyone I know, enjoys movie night parties at our house.

TIVOS are soooooooooooooooooooooooo OLD FASHIONED; get with it! And beside, you can't make discs from that kind of a machine. OTOH, I can and do, record far more than 6 films/programs on my two different kind of machines and some day soon, I really have to catch up on "TABOO", which is sitting in one, waiting for me to see. ;^)

I KNOW what new stuff is and find it WANTING/CRAP/NOT ANYTHING USEFUL FOR ME! Just because something is "new" never has and never shall always make it superior, to what is older.

Today's movies STINK ON ICE. Music? You can't call that crap music! Plays? You've got to be kidding! Books? Oh give me a freaking break! T.V. shows? IN WHAT UNIVERSE? Silicone spatulas? NEVER!

I get it, I get it....you see yourself as "MODERN" and probably "HIP". Well goody goody for you. LOL

You'd rather watch something on your tiny screen phone screen, which is smaller that the 16" T.V. screen that my parents bought in 1949, or on a still small iPad, or some GIGANTIC T.V. screen. Fine, but neither makes a movie nor a show "better". ;^)

You must have grown up with inferior poddies! I have used rather ancient toilets in my grandmother's house, a bit more modern ones in my parents, back to ancient ones in the amazingly beautiful bathrooms in the old Waldorf Towers, as well in my homes in Chicago and they ALL flushed the first time and got rid of the effluvia quicker and better than any brand new poddy of today.

Psssssssssssst....we still own a T.V. ( it's in the laundry room )that my spouse has had, long ago, which was bought in the late '50s, which has NEVER broken and hooked up to the cable box, works like a dream. And diddums, T.V.s haven't had tubes since the end of the '50s, or the beginning of the '60s!

Yes, we have much, much, MUCH newer ones in other rooms. LOL

I'm not as old as you are, but "oldish" and unlike you, do NOT find something, just because it's "new" to be better; usually, it isn't.

Are you kidding me..."70 INCH T.V.S ARE NOW THE norm?

Sure some people have those behemothic and larger T.V.s, but I find them STUPID! SIZE DOESN'T MAKE WHAT YOU'RE WATCHING "BETTER".

HD T.V. ( or whatever you're talking about )doesn't make a silent movie, nor even ones from the '30s-80s better/clearer. I don't want to see a gigantic Juan Williams ( well, I don't want to see or hear him in any size, so I mute the T.V. when he's on ), Bill O'REALLY ( misspelled on purpose ), or even President Trump blown up to the size of my old movie screen.

OTOH....yes, I am delighted that I can record movies off the T.V. and either watch them at my leisure and/or put them on tape ( no longer do that, but I'm going back a ways to prove a point! ) and now to a disc, without having to BUY them as a disc, or pay Netflix or Amazon ( which I don't have ,nor want )and have that money to spend on other things.

You ignored my points re clothing ( add shoes to that mix; long ago, you could buy shoes in multiple lasts, that stopped, for good and all, many decades ago, unless you buy bespoke shoes), furniture, china, and cooking implements.

Just as you refuse to see my side of things, I don't appreciate you telling me that EVERYTHING, except lousy modern washing machines, I've posted about, is wrong.

I'm more than willing to let this now drop and hope that you are as well.