tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post6248987392786732275..comments2024-03-28T10:18:05.213+00:00Comments on Inventory Full: High School Never EndsBhagpusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-6070632317538015092023-02-02T21:35:19.453+00:002023-02-02T21:35:19.453+00:00I watched Freaks & Geeks when it first aired b...I watched Freaks & Geeks when it first aired but I remember almost nothing about it. I should re-visit it. Your mention of Square Pegs installed the theme song in my head, performed by The Waitresses, if I remember right. "Square Pegs, Square Pegs, Square Square PEGS! Always never quite right" is how it goes in my dusty brain.<br /><br />Speaking of stuff coming and going, HBO just dumped a bunch of shows I'd wanted to rewatch, including the WestWorld series which is moving to something called Tubi, I think? Something ad-supported. So a show that never had ads will now be chopped up into 8 minute segments interspersed with 5 minutes of ads. :( I think I might have to purchase a copy. Nimgimlihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00230174946054927922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-88418968277289722352023-01-31T09:24:12.499+00:002023-01-31T09:24:12.499+00:00The idea that you can find anything online at a cl...The idea that you can find anything online at a click of a mouse has never been entirely true, although clearly you have many orders of magnitude better a chance than before the world wide web coalesced. There are still a few things on my long-term checklist I haven't been able to tick off and a lot more that I've only managed to collect in shoddy, badly-recorded, amateur uploads. It's stil; the case, though, that if anything was ever committed to hard copy format - VHS, DVD, vinyl, print - or even previously digitized, there's always the potential for it to resurface online.<br /><br />I very much agree, though , that if it matters to you, you probably need to keep a copy in your own archive, whether that's encoded in plastic in a case on a shelf or downloaded and stored on a hard drive. I don't download stuff from YouTube because I want own it; I do it because I know from experience that if I just trust it'll still be there when I go back to watch it again in a few months or years it'll have vanished.<br /><br />As far as DVDs and CDs go, the story of vinyl could be instructive. There was a point when charity (Thrift.) shops all refused to accept vinyl albums, having dropped the price to pennies and still not been able to find buyers. Now they're delighed to get as much vinyl as they can because demand has skyrocketed, not just for the new, collectible stuff but all the old back catalog records and LPs from decades ago. We weven have record shops in our town again, selling actual records.<br /><br />At the moment, those same charity shops are at the point of almost giving DVDs and CDs away at three for a pound but there's already some buzz around the CD in certain, hip circles. I wouldn't bet against the digital discs making a similar comeback to vinyl. Even cassettes are being made again.<br />I'm not sure it's going to be as straightforward as a lot of people tought to breed physical acquisitiveness out of the human psyche. People like stuff.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1510920011443550663.post-51175924067929788212023-01-30T19:48:18.984+00:002023-01-30T19:48:18.984+00:00I think we are living in a rapidly closing window ...I think we are living in a rapidly closing window of opportunity to purchase hard copies of the show we really care about. It's becoming more and more common for younger people to have no way of even playing a DVD or Blue Ray. While it has been the norm for every show to show up on at least DVD for the last few decades, that seems to be coming to a close as well, now with generally only pretty popular shows being available. Most new movies at least still seem to be available that way, save perhaps for the ones that only appear on streaming services.<br /><br />The upshot is that the resale value of DVDs is almost nonexistant, so you can often find a really good deal on old shows. We recently bought all of Black Sails new on Blue Ray for around $20 or $30. However, some things that have been out of print for a while are starting to get pricey already, and in ten years I think it will be difficult to find a lot of things. With the value being so low, most DVDs probably end up in landfills instead of the secondary market.<br /><br />Add that to how fickle and random the selection of stuff on streaming tends to be, and I would say if there is anything you care deeply about being able to sit down and watch every few years you probably need to get a copy of it now.Yeebohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08028940396189544294noreply@blogger.com