Reddit reviews Sony SLV-M20HF Hi-Fi S-VHS VCR
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Do you think this is this 1970 where TV shows are still played off of analog and linear video tape??
I'm sorry, are you from the past?!?
If you have ever watched On Demand or your cable company's equivalent, it's digital and it's non-linear. You can pause, skip, rewind and jump forward if you want.
You watch commercials and television shows on the network's schedule because your cable company and the networks decided for you that you will.
Even if you subscribe to basic cable, it's still digital and could be controlled by you if they allowed it.
Netflix is coming to your cable box in 2015.
https://gigaom.com/2014/12/10/netflix-wants-to-hook-up-with-your-cable-company-in-2015/
If you are not inclined to buy a Tivo or build your own DVR, you can always pay extra to the cable company to rent a DVR from your cable company to time shift a show only after it has been broadcast, you wait until they decide to deliver a show on their schedule.
The dirty little secret is that On Demand which has been available for years and now Netflix on your cable box, every channel could be watched just like Netflix is now if the cable company allowed it. The fact is that they don't allow it.
The tech has been available for years and storage capacity is going up almost as quickly as storage costs are going down.
Usenet providers can store 5+ years of posts, every single post, including multiple gigabyte attachments to those posts, they BOAST about it in their sales literature. The NSA can copy the majority of the Internet backbone, cache and sift through it.
We have the technical capability to stream every single TV show, song and movie, past and present. Why not?
In the mid 1980's I had a VHS VCR that could grab and display a digital snapshot thumbnail of each channel so you could visually see what was playing on each channel and then compass arrow navigate to that thumbnail, select it and tune to that channel.
In the '90's, I bought this Sony Smart Label VCR that has an RFID chip embedded in the spine label. The VCR could grab the show title from the network, index the show title and fast forward to that point on the tape.
I still have that Sony VCR, one audio channel is out but it still works.
I had that tech in the 80's and 90's! Why didn't all of them have it?
What we are capable of doing today is deliberately being held back so these big companies can charge you extra for every little improvement and feature.
Go to Europe or Japan and watch somebody buy a Coke from a Coke machine with their cell phone, the cost of the soda appears on the cell phone bill. They have had that tech for more than 10 years. Can you do that here? When it eventually appears here, I know you'll pay extra for that ability others around the world take for granted and it's just part of their regular service.
My problem is that I DO think this through and it makes me angry that we are being denied and held back of what's possible. The same goes for Internet access.
Distilled down to it's very essence, it's all due to monopoly power and the absolute lack of competition and the unwillingness of those paid WHORES in government to change it.
> look at 5 minutes of blank screen?
Thank you, I needed that laugh.