My parents were tapeheads cos a VHS cost like a hundred bucks when they bought their first one, and we were lower-middle class so for the most part if we wanted a movie we'd tape it off TV or dub it from the dollar rental place if it was something really good (like Flight of the Navigator or Conan The Barbarian or something). Eventually we got into taping Ghostbusters cartoons and I remember editing out most of the commercial breaks. Of course now there are whole youtube channels devoted to 80s commercial breaks.
I need to capture this one tape my dad made of some good 80s NOVA episodes on Chaos Theory and Einstein. The tape also includes a wonderful special on then-current computer graphics.
Around ten years ago I was talking about 120 minutes with a friend who let me borrow his 2-dozen tape collection of episodes, which I compiled onto a 2-hour videotape. At the time I was also dubbing art films from a local TV channel.
― Adam Bruneau, Monday, 25 January 2010 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link