Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for May 06, 2023

The End Times………………………………………………………

‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, …’

It does seem that way!

I miss browsing in the video store. You could scan lots of DVD s at one go, pick out interesting ones and read the blurb, and put them back if you didn’t want them, in a fraction of the time it takes to search online.

Yep, DVDs are going the way of VHS and Blockbuster.

Time keeps on ticking ticking ticking into the future…Steve Miller

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end, yeah”

Adjusting to this kind of change is ‘a tip of the iceberg’. Arlo is right. The changes about to envelop us are exponentially greater that what we have dealt with in the past. The disruption will be debilitatingly extreme for many.

Bye-bye Baby Boomer? Time to fade away?

There are some things in this era I’d like to see end.

I’m sure the folks who lived during the move from nomadic society to agriculture thought the same thing.

I remember marveling at how fast they came!

Was gifted an early Nerflix account by our oldest, but hardly ever ordered first run movies. The wait was just too long. Instead I exposed the kids to some classics from the Golden Ages of both Hollywood and Masterpiece Theatre. They got a kick out of Wooster and Jeeves. The problem was our Red Envelope returns kept getting “lost” in the Chicago Postal Service. Netflix threatened to cancel our account. I couldn’t help wondering what our would be plunderers were doing with I Claudius and the like.

I still read comics.

Eras ain’t what they used to be.

May not be long before most of us voluntarily have chips or some other implants in our heads to stream entertainment and communications straight into our eyeballs, thus making TVs and phones obsolete. The few of us with more sense than that will prefer reading books along with maintaining better eye-hand coordination and motor skills, especially for driving.

I still keep mine, along with my DVD player, VHS and tapes. Streaming just does not have the romance of putting a DVD in the player and sitting down with hot chocolate and popcorn. Streaming is too impersonal. I guess I AM getting old. Sheesh!

With the quickening pace of technology advancements an era isn’t what it used to be…

At the end of all things….

Unfortunately, correct. The rise of the Kakistocracy.

I copied some of our movies to a small portable hard drive to take when we are in our camper – less space than the DVD’s and don’t need a DVD player – just plug into the laptop – good to go…

Let’s hope not…

the end of several eras of good living.

I still have DVDs and a DVD/Blue Ray player. I plan on buying more.

What am I supposed to do with my BetaMax deck?

Pearls Before Swine: These Things, Too, Shall Pass

Arlo, you can still exchange dvds with Brutus in The Born Loser.

You thought your quaint primitive ways were eternal? They all did. Welcome to the world of tomorrow.

DVD’s in the mail? Shoot, in my day, we had to actually go to the video store… barefoot… in the snow… uphill both ways…

To get the best out of your 4K TV you need DVD’s. Our library lends out DVD’s but only standard quality—not even Blu-ray.

It ended when movie rental stores closed…

tell me about it… I can’t believe how many things I grew up with are either gone or fading fast

I just bought a new TiVo, have over 1,800 DVDs, and stream (sign-up, binge, then cancel). All the bases are covered!

Yep. The End Is Near. Those crazy old guys with the signs were just a tad early. Prepare to Meet Your Maker.

A lot of era’s are beginning to end. I hear, Jenny Craig is going out of business. Bed, Bath, & Beyond has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and Burger King is closing some of their restaurants.

I do sort of miss browsing the video stores to find a movie or two my wife and I were going to watch over the weekend. I refuse to subscribe to any of the streaming channels.

all I know is that the growth of passive entertainment is the detriment of our society. In the above remarks all I see about sitting and watching. What a failure we’ve become

Strip is turning into a real downer. Need arc with Gene and Mary Lou.

Got that right girl……

I remember my early Macintosh computers had color monitors, before they had stereo sound. I had CDs long before I could play them on those little computer speakers. Now most of my music is on my computer and back up drive.

The birth pangs of the end is beginning.

Remember when everyone constantly kept their windows closed even in the summer (and this is before AC) because they were afraid they’d catch polio? Ahh, good times.

How quickly we get distracted from the fact that the medium is the message. For example, in the early days of black and white television, lots of neighbors would crowd around the only set in the neighborhood. With streaming video, you can watch anything you want anywhere you want, in a crowd if you want, and completely ignore the existence of other people.

Fine for the rest of you. Out Here in The Great Quiet, there is no High-Speed Internet worthy of the name. The nearest theater is 110 miles to the south. We really depended on DVD.com. There is a Redbox 14 miles south. We will make do. Plus, we have a sizable DVD and VHS collection.

This actually bums me out. Netflix has a lot of stuff available in hard media that I’m sure they are not going to make available for streaming. Do I want to watch the 1961 Kurosawa masterpiece “Yojimbo?” Yes! Do I want to buy it? No! Ain’t got the room! Will Netflix make it available to stream? Who knows?

Agreed,Arlo.

This does bum me out. I have no desire to stream.

Our local library still has hundreds of DVDs and they get used. I have a DVD/VHS player-recorder from Toshiba that is about 10 years old because many of our VHS cannot be found on DVDs and cannot be copied because of “tapeguard”.