high tech vs low tech
im not hurt anonymous commenter, i think it is funny.
my dvr on my satellite broke the other day. just stopped receiving signal and gives me static. i lose all my recorded episodes of cops, and all the movies, and all the simpsons. oh well, they sent me a new one and it should be on its way. Wednesday night is the tv show lost and that conflicts with wed night kellie and i going out to johnny's pizza for some pizza and beer. you can see my dilemma forming that i could not record lost and we were going to have to stay home. well, i am a jenious and figured out that i have a vcr that would record the episode just fine. this got me to thinking that low tech isn't all that bad...
the low tech i am referring to concerns mostly tape players and vcr's. I don't remember ever scratching an audio or video tape, i don't remember ever bending one either and making it break. a tape has never skipped, stopped dead, or not been able to read at all ever. you knew that as soon as you pressed play, that magnetic tape was going to read... yes it would only read right where you left off, and the quality wasn't as good, but it was reliable. i feel like a crochety old man, and maybe i am (to some of you young whippersnappers) but i think i am going to keep my low tech as a good backup for a while, just in case.
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my dvr on my satellite broke the other day. just stopped receiving signal and gives me static. i lose all my recorded episodes of cops, and all the movies, and all the simpsons. oh well, they sent me a new one and it should be on its way. Wednesday night is the tv show lost and that conflicts with wed night kellie and i going out to johnny's pizza for some pizza and beer. you can see my dilemma forming that i could not record lost and we were going to have to stay home. well, i am a jenious and figured out that i have a vcr that would record the episode just fine. this got me to thinking that low tech isn't all that bad...
the low tech i am referring to concerns mostly tape players and vcr's. I don't remember ever scratching an audio or video tape, i don't remember ever bending one either and making it break. a tape has never skipped, stopped dead, or not been able to read at all ever. you knew that as soon as you pressed play, that magnetic tape was going to read... yes it would only read right where you left off, and the quality wasn't as good, but it was reliable. i feel like a crochety old man, and maybe i am (to some of you young whippersnappers) but i think i am going to keep my low tech as a good backup for a while, just in case.
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posted by josh at 2:08 PM
4 Comments:
what the hell does jenious mean?
that isn't me up there, that's a different anonymous. i must say that i disagree. i do remember tapes getting caught in all the mechanisms and screwing up the tape beyond repair. i also remember that if you played the tape (cassette or vcr) too many times the quality became unplayable. i've played some crappy cds that have been scratched to hell and have played pretty well. low tech or high tech....it's all not that great.
jenious is a play on genius. see by typing jenious, you are showing how un-genius you are.
Actually tapes stretch everytime you rewind/fast forward them, eventually getting so thin they will break. Instead of embracing the the low tech you needed to move even HIGHER tech by downloading the episode of lost you missed to you video iPod from the iTunes store.
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