apparently me and JonG97's dad have them on DVD if you want to watch... (is this the part where I even confess to setting the timer on my VCR to record it so I could have the entire series on tape? nah... that's even more embarrassing and moderately depressing.)
She was my most-recent ex-girlfriend's ex-best-friend, she was a dead ringer for Shannon Elizabeth, and she'd grown really, really close over email as I helped her get over ex-husband #3. I had just started dating my wife about a week previously or things might have gone very differently. It's entirely possible she fucked up my recording in a passive-aggressive sort of way. I mean, I was the first person she asked her dad to add to his prison visitation list. Shades of Say Anything.
I own all the seasons... COME AT ME BRO (if you'd like to borrow them) a lot... and I was enough of a nerd to want "high quality" recordings, so I was doing the "SP" setting so I could only fit two hours (two episodes) per tape. It was obscene. I think I got through about three seasons like that - and switched to LP which gave me four per tape? And then I couldn't afford cable for a while.... and the streak was broken... and then DVDs came out... and then I had kids... and then I was like "hell if I'm ever moving this box again" and then I got cable again... and then I filled up my DVR with them... and then I figured out that I could export the contents of my DVR to my Mac (via the handy firewire port on the back)... which I could import using some janky old Mac utility I dug out of some obscure forum online.... and then I started to convert those files into something I could burn to DVD... and then the Northern Exposure series was released on DVD and I bought the special collector edition of season 1 and 2 (complete with little down parkas) for $25 per season... and then a year later seasons 3,4,5,6 were in a multipack in a Target discount bin for I shit you not $10. and this is the sad, sad world that I call my life.how many VHS tapes
You're right, dude, that is sad. Great story, though! I felt your pain quite keenly. I wonder about those poor souls who got caught in the middle of the transition from VHS to DVD. You've got a stash of tapes with entire seasons of TV shows stored away in them. How do you cope with the fact that DVDs offer more storage space than analogue tapes?
You and me both. The only time I ever purchase digital media is if it's the only option (or if it's a book in the public domain that I know I'll pretty much never find scouring bookstores high and low). There is something really special about looking at your shelves and seeing your collection. Even more so, there's something special about taking something off your shelf and giving it to a friend.
