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It’s clear you don’t want to be right regardless of what being wrong is, because you hate vanilla ice cream.
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Even though we live far from where Irma will make impact, they’ve already closed school for Monday and Tuesday. It’s been quite a bit of a predicament, especially with traffic. Seeing scores of cars by the rural roads with Florida license plates is uncanny.
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It’s clear you don’t want to be right regardless of what being wrong is, because you hate vanilla ice cream.
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That’s some terrible editing.
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People should stop saying “I bought the VHS”. It’s a tape, or a video, or a VHS tape, it’s not “a VHS”. Likewise, it is a VCR, not a “VHS player”. This seems to be a new trend.
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Probably is a new trend we like to drop unnecessary words from sentences.
Just like I dropped “it” from the beginning of that first sentence.
Also people say I bought the Blu-ray. That’s about the same right?
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With the multitude of videotape formats, being specific usually helps. I’d hate for someone to lead me to believe they bought a movie on the obscure Video 2000 format. 😉
There were playback only VHS VCR’s though.
Where were you in '77?
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People should stop saying “I bought the VHS”.
People are still buying the VHS?
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VHS is going through a it’s so retro it’s cool again phase right now.
Some smaller horror DVD labels have included bonus VHS tapes in recent years as well.
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The British method of writing out dates makes so much more sense than the North American.
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The British method of writing out dates makes so much more sense than the North American.
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The Brits write dates out in the order of day-month-year. A much more sequential, linear approach than the haphazard “month-day-year” method popular this side of the pond, wouldn’t you say?
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Probably is a new trend we like to drop unnecessary words from sentences.
Just like I dropped “it” from the beginning of that first sentence.
Also people say I bought the Blu-ray. That’s about the same right?
You would say, “I bought it on VHS”, or “I bought the VHS tape”. Saying “I bought the VHS” just sounds silly, considering I never heard anyone say it like that when people actually used the format. I know I’m losing this war, anyway.
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People should stop saying “I bought the VHS”.
People are still buying the VHS?
I don’t know, but I read people putting it like that when reminiscing on their exposure to a longtime favorite movie, and other similar situations. My local library just got rid of all their VHS tapes in the past few months.
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Mostly, I’m just annoyed the terminology has changed long after the format died, and everyone seems to think the new way of saying things was the way it was always said. It just sounds wrong.
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Technically not dead until they stop making combo players. Walmart still seems to sell them for the moment.
And we’re talking people who were mostly oblivious things like Betamax and Laserdisc existed anyway.
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I wondered why my twitter notifications suddenly blew up, but I traced it back to the tweet in question being retweeted by the official Star Trek page, which was cool. This ranks up there just below the time Mark Hamill liked a couple of my tweets and the time I briefly discussed character naming with Joel Hodgson.
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People should stop saying “I bought the VHS”. It’s a tape, or a video, or a VHS tape, it’s not “a VHS”. Likewise, it is a VCR, not a “VHS player”. This seems to be a new trend.
Regarding this subject, I don’t think it’s a “new trend”. I grew up using VHS tapes a lot in the early 2000s with parents who would have used tapes in the format’s prime, and when I was little people called them whatever they felt like. Everyone said “a VHS” and “VHS player” at one time or another.
I’m not saying that my experience is any more valid than your own (it’s most definitely not), but I think it’s a non-issue.
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People should stop saying “I bought the VHS”. It’s a tape, or a video, or a VHS tape, it’s not “a VHS”. Likewise, it is a VCR, not a “VHS player”. This seems to be a new trend.
Regarding this subject, I don’t think it’s a “new trend”. I grew up using VHS tapes a lot in the early 2000s with parents who would have used tapes in the format’s prime, and when I was little people called them whatever they felt like. Everyone said “a VHS” and “VHS player” at one time or another.
That is incredibly strange.
I think it’s a non-issue.
Most people do. That’s why they use the wrong terms. I’ll just need to accept it.
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I recall kids using Atari or Ataris for video games in general. I’m sure Nintendo superseded that at some point.
I also remember a flyer or something where the Lego corporation tried to correct people who called their product Legos.
My pet peeve is how people use film to describe shooting something with a digital device.
I blame that on a teacher back in college who fumed if you said you were filming when you were actually shooting on videotape. He was secure in his belief video could never replace film and mocked early attempts at shooting movies in High Definition video.
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I recall kids using Atari or Ataris for video games in general. I’m sure Nintendo superseded that at some point.
And game cartridges were called “tapes”, haha.
My pet peeve is how people use film to describe shooting something with a digital device.
It may be unsurprising to learn I also find this grating.
I blame that on a teacher back in college who fumed if you said you were filming when you were actually shooting on videotape. He was secure in his belief video could never replace film and mocked early attempts at shooting movies in High Definition video.
I don’t blame him, looking back on those early digital movies is not a pleasant experience. And I wouldn’t be on this forum if I didn’t have some love for film.
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The problem is that film used as a verb is quite efficient, compared to capture with a digital movie camera or even shoot in digital 4K.
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
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I recall kids using Atari or Ataris for video games in general. I’m sure Nintendo superseded that at some point.
And game cartridges were called “tapes”, haha.
My pet peeve is how people use film to describe shooting something with a digital device.
It may be unsurprising to learn I also find this grating.
I blame that on a teacher back in college who fumed if you said you were filming when you were actually shooting on videotape. He was secure in his belief video could never replace film and mocked early attempts at shooting movies in High Definition video.
I don’t blame him, looking back on those early digital movies is not a pleasant experience. And I wouldn’t be on this forum if I didn’t have some love for film.
I know I’m dating myself, but I refer to 80’s projects shot with analog HD. I can’t recall which movies my teacher actually talked about anymore. And those projects might also have shot on film as a backup. The only one from the 80’s I’ve been able to find is Julia and Julia from 1987, but the video master was not made from a film print, so no way to tell how it would have looked theatrically.
Where were you in '77?
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I recall kids using Atari or Ataris for video games in general. I’m sure Nintendo superseded that at some point.
And game cartridges were called “tapes”, haha.
My pet peeve is how people use film to describe shooting something with a digital device.
It may be unsurprising to learn I also find this grating.
I blame that on a teacher back in college who fumed if you said you were filming when you were actually shooting on videotape. He was secure in his belief video could never replace film and mocked early attempts at shooting movies in High Definition video.
I don’t blame him, looking back on those early digital movies is not a pleasant experience. And I wouldn’t be on this forum if I didn’t have some love for film.
I know I’m dating myself
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The problem is that film used as a verb is quite efficient, compared to capture with a digital movie camera or even shoot in digital 4K.
And no one has coined a similar term that conveys the technology involved. We could steal a phrase from A Clockwork Orange and say we’re viddying it? 😉
Where were you in '77?