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I just remember using my first VCR starting in late 1979, and then thinking 'this is so fundamentally how video viewing should be from now on', that I had to come up with an analogy to explain it to people, comparing to reading books, that went like this:
"Imagine that you only have the choice of a few different books to read at any one time. There will be a list of these books available to choose from. At certain times of each day, each book will open and its pages will start to turn at a fixed rate, whether you are ready to read it or not. You will not be able to make the books wait if you have to use the bathroom, and reading one book means you will lose out on other books you might also like. Book publishers will intentionally try to set them up so you have to miss some good books when you choose others. Every book will have pages of ads that have to pass by before you can read the next chapter. Once the book's last page goes by, the book will close, and you may not get the chance to read it again for months or years, if ever. How asinine would it be if books were presented to the public this way? Well this is how TV-watching works."
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Chris
Quote from another forum: "(Antique TV collecting) always seemed to me to be a fringe hobby that only weirdos did."
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