Memories of VHS

Will Ooi — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:06:30 +0000

~ With modern eyes we now see them as ugly, primitive-looking things affiliated with old plastic cassette tapes and perhaps somewhat related to those equally-redundant computer floppy discs. How quickly technology has progressed from the days when having variable fast-forward and rewind speeds (fast, double fast, Triple Fast!) on VCRs warranted praise and worship, and how stubborn I was when DVDs first came out, adamantly insisting that I would never (ever) convert, clinging desperately onto my collection of VHS movies with their inconsistently-sized and ripped cardboard covers and maintaining passionately that being able to record from TV was a basic human right. And indeed, by not making recording a standard feature on DVD players haven't we all turned into JB Hi-Fi bargain pile-raiding uber-consumers, needing to own entire series of shows and collector's editions of movies when we could have easily taped them for free? Well anyway, before I allow the nostalgia to forever be replaced by the progress of DVD and Blu-Ray user-friendliness, here are several of my fondest childhood and adolescent memories of VHS.

Annoying Stickers

Will Ooi — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:00:00 +0000

This blog is not so much a rant but a direct attack on the stickers that are, quite frankly, rubbish. You know the ones, they’re like the annoying kid on a rollercoaster ride: you try to peel them off but they don’t want to come off, so you keep tugging and in the end it’s [...]

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Memories of VHS

Annoying Stickers