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jessica: welcome back. it is time for the fastest. dust off your vcrs. blockbuster may be making a comeback. the official website has been turned back on. who is excited? does anyone miss blockbuster? dana: i do understand it takes the average person what did we say 7 minutes to figure out what to watch at night, that is probably true. i don t necessarily miss it, but i do have fond memories of going to blockbuster with my family on friday night. jessica: loved blockbuster? greg: it was what you did when you were single, get some indian food on macarthur boulevard in allentown, drive to blockbuster at cedar beach, stand around for 45 minutes smelling the popcorn, buying licorice, that was my life for ten years. but it s longer than 7 minutes. if you are looking for something today, it takes longer than the movie to find the movie, it s like, why am i doing this? ....
Because he lives 50 minutes from them. he has to go over and fix everything. we give my dad something technological for christmas my dad is like, no, why did you give him that. i m going to have to set it up. my parents have vcrs and stacks in their garage. get rid of them! when are you ever going to use it? you have to send those into those companies and they will put them on a steve: you can do it that way or little flashback, you can save the vcr, whatever, vhs machine and actually download yourself if you ve got the technology. ainsley: to your computer? steve: i have transfer the data. ainsley: it is all of us growing up as children. steve: it is. ainsley: all the things to do. brian: i have no video as a child. ainsley: they are all on vhs tapes. i have a very southern accent. ....
transformers and cabbage patch dolls may be the two top toy sellers this year, but for adults there s only one hot item, the vcr. christmas shoppers have again made the video cassette recorder one of the year s hottest gifts for grown-ups. they re selling at a rate of a million units per month. but the vcr is a lot more than a popular christmas gift. it s an invention some say is changing the whole idea of television. there are so many inventions where you can trace their success back to the smashing of a limitation, and the vcr smashed the limitation of time. most people use vcrs for what they call time shifting. let s say this sunday is your parents 50th wedding anniversary, but you can t miss the steelers. what you do is set the timer on your recorder, pop in a tape, and watch the steelers when you get home. it just changed the paradigm of television. the makers of tv programs and movies shown on television claim their films lose their rerun value when they re recorded ....
It was click-thunk. gorgeous, gorgeous machine. it provided you with a soundtrack to your life. transformers and cabbage patch dolls, maybe the top two toy sellers this year but for adults there s only one hot item. the vcr. christmas shoppers made the video cassette recorder one of this year s hottest gifts for grown-ups. they are selling at a million units per month but it s a lot more than a popular christmas gift. it s an invention some say is changing the whole idea of television. there s so many inventions where you can trace their success back to the smashing of a limitation and the vcr smashed the limitation of time. most people use vcrs for what they call time shifting. say this sunday is your parents 50th wedding anniversary. but you can t miss the steelers. what you do is set the timer on your recorder, pop in a tape and watch the steelers when you get home. it just changed the paradigm of television. the makers of tv programs and movies shown on television clai ....
Technology. i ll take the sony! the original sony walkman was so solid, it was a pleasure to hold. it had density, it had heft. the cassette, pop it in, close it. a very satisfying sound. not just a click, click. it was a kathunk! it was a gorgeous, gorgeous machine. it provided you with the soundtrack to your life. transformers and cabbage patch dolls may be the two top sellers this year, but for adults there s only one hot item, the vcr. christmas shoppers have again made the video cassette recorder one of the year s hottest get gifts for grown-ups. they re selling at a rate of a million units a month. but the vcr is a lot more than a popular christmas gift. it s an invention some say is changing the whole idea of television. there are so many inventions where you can track the success back to the smashing of a limitation, and the vcr smashed the limitation of time. most people use vcrs for what they call time shifting. let s say this sunday is your ....