This is fascinating and I'm really glad you posted it. I hope you know how much I love, love, love this vid.
Something that confuses me, though, and concerns me a bit is the repeating commentary about fans' refusal to move on to new technology -- I can't help but remember the snotty little creep on Vidder who insisted that a lot of us VCR vidders were clinging to our old technology out of fear or something else... I'm not sure if this is part of what you're discussing here. In the vid it's a humorous approach to this, but now I'm almost worried that maybe it's a harsher criticism of people using older tech during the different changes? I'm not sure how to read it...
For most of us on VCRs, the reason we didn't change at first had nothing to do with desire or fear. It was solely financial and ability to make the systems work. In the transition from earlier VCRs without editing capabilities, again, that was financial for most people -- editing VCRs, when they first came out, were over $1,000. A lot of folks in other countries couldn't even get decks like that.
I saw this inititally as very lighthearted in its approach, but it worries me a little that some of us are seen as having been resistant to change when it was nothing of the kind -- simply financial inability to afford change.
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Date: 2005-10-14 04:43 pm (UTC)Something that confuses me, though, and concerns me a bit is the repeating commentary about fans' refusal to move on to new technology -- I can't help but remember the snotty little creep on Vidder who insisted that a lot of us VCR vidders were clinging to our old technology out of fear or something else... I'm not sure if this is part of what you're discussing here. In the vid it's a humorous approach to this, but now I'm almost worried that maybe it's a harsher criticism of people using older tech during the different changes? I'm not sure how to read it...
For most of us on VCRs, the reason we didn't change at first had nothing to do with desire or fear. It was solely financial and ability to make the systems work. In the transition from earlier VCRs without editing capabilities, again, that was financial for most people -- editing VCRs, when they first came out, were over $1,000. A lot of folks in other countries couldn't even get decks like that.
I saw this inititally as very lighthearted in its approach, but it worries me a little that some of us are seen as having been resistant to change when it was nothing of the kind -- simply financial inability to afford change.