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Why I prefer videotapes to DVDs
By Lynda Kohn
This is about my hobby of taping from the television, classic films. Plus it is on the reasons I prefer videotapes vs DVDs.
Now I will discuss specifically why my preference. First before the newer technology came on the market my videotape collection grew to close to a hundred tapes. Then through either an inferior VCR and poor quaility tapes. In other words the machine "voraciously ate my tapes." So I bought tapes to replace the ones that became ruined. This was years before the more modern invention came on the scene. Second reason I prefer videotapes is since I took the effort that lasted for some years I don't want to think of all that taping to be in vain. I made certain I taped some of the finest films ever shown on television. There are many Oscar winning, Canne film festival , top film critics list films. Third is when I am taping I am choosing what I tape. With a DVD you get what's on the DVD and that's it. Its a take it or leave it deal. True there usually are extras such as interviews with the director, the actors/actresses. Plus outtakes, background notes on the motion picture and more. However I like to choose what I later watch. The pictures range chronologically from 1897 ( Burgular on the Roof) to various fairly recent movies such as "Being John Malkovich", Beefore Night Falls, The Prestige. My speciality is Pre-code moving pictures. Between 1930 and 1935 Hollywood films were quite daring. This was before the quite conservative Hays Code. One example of the code was every time a man and woman were in bed, it was stipulated one of their feet must be on the floor. In the mid60s it was replaced by the rating code of G to NC17. I don't mean only for that era. I mean period. Some of the themes were sleeping around to get ahead, prostitution and glorifying gangsters. Three of the top crime pictures were during this time. Everyone of them are included in my collection. They are "Little Ceaser", Public Enemy, Scarface. The version starring Paul Muni. I think the most blatent example of a pre-code movie is the German film "Ectasy. It is basically of a young woman who is sexually frustrated by her rather conservative , much older husband. So she makes love with a much younger man. It sows full frontal female nudity.
There are two I confess terrible movies I videotapes. One of the notorious "Plan9 From Outer Space" and "Don't Knock the Rock. Both were made in the late 50s. The first one most people know as the worst film ever made. The second one isn't much better. Its about rock and roll. The reason I have it is my father is in a small role in it. I love my dad but that movie really is super terrible. If it wassn't for him being in I wouldn't tape it. |
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