November 9th, 2004
I’m Not Really Sure Where This Came From…
I think we could all agree that DVDs have replaced video cassettes as the popular way to watch movies at home, right?
Based on this relatively new development, I’m going to make a prediction: when I’m the age my parents are now, there will be a faction of hipster indy-movie snobs that will collect video tapes.
Can’t you just see them, haunting little indy-video shops in whatever the futuristic indy-equivalents of dark-rimmed glasses and black hoodies are? “VHS is just warmer,” they’ll say. “You get truer image quality.” They’ll look down their noses at the customers that glance at stupid blockbusters like Top Gun and When Harry Met Sally and constantly hold conversations about the genius of David Lynch.
I wonder what they’ll rename the tape player when this happens. “VCR” isn’t going to cut it anymore. Why not? Well, I’m just following the pattern that the record-collecting craze has set. I mean, even I can remember when the thing that played records was called a “record player.” I used a “record player” to listen to UB40 over and over and over again when I was eight. Somewhere along the line it got changed to “turntable.”
So what do you think they’ll call VCRs?
“Whoa, you have Donnie Darko on VHS! Let’s watch it. Put it in the ‘movie slot’.”
And I wonder if I’ll think they’re crazy, as my parents think the vinyl-nazis are now. “Why would you do that? Records were awful. They take up so much room. They’re always getting scratched. CDs are obviously sound better.”
Just some speculation on what’s to come.
Boggles the mind, no?
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