[mythtv-users] aereo

[Andre Newman]

On 27 Jun 2014, at 17:44, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> 
>    My first copies of the Star Wars trilogy were acquired when VHS tapes still
> went for $90. The tape of the month club was a very handy thing in those days
> as I certainly didn't have $270 to blow on movies.
> 
>> 
>>> Mike (who's showing his age by remembering the $80 VHS rental copies)
>> 
>> I remember that as well.  (Are you calling me old?)  And $80 in 1980 =
>> $230 in 2014.

I still have a “For Rental use only" betamax copy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show that I bought from the video rental show where I used to work, oh dear. :-P

Andre



>> 
>> It seems insane now, but it was a product of the times.
>> 
>> "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the
>> American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone."
>> Jack Valenti, MPAA President, 1982
>> 
>> Somehow they seem to have survived.
> 
>    It makes you wish you could make them eat those words every time they
> try to act like hysterical ninnies.
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