andrew steven wells
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- Mar 22, 2001
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Just wanted to tell you a little about myself,and this DVD hobby of mine (more like and addiction really,but i'm sure i'm not the only one here with that problem.
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I actually sarted collecting movies quite some time ago on VHS.If there was a movie i liked,i ALWAYS bought the original,rather than tape it from HBO like so many of my friends did.I even remember paying around 80 dollars for aliens when that was released.I had quite a nice collection of movies going,but in the later years of my VCRs life it kept getting hungry every so often and decided to eat my tapes.Being the movie collector i was i really didnt want to keep seeing my investments going down the drain,so i decided to take the plunge and get a laserdisc player.Cliffhanger was the first time i had ever seen a movie in widescreen format,and i honestly couldnt stand it at the time.I had no idea what i was really missing,so yes,at one point i was a regular joe six pack.It wasnt until i bought Jurassic park for my brother (he still had a VCR and the laserdisc hadnt come out yet) that i understood the horrors of pan and scan.A few years later,local stores that had carried laserdisc stopped carrying movies.Only a local record store carried them anymore,and didnt get new releases very often.I surely didnt want to return to VCRs.
It was at that time a friend mentioned a new format coming out.I thought he was making it up,but it turns out he wasnt and it wasnt too long after release,that i had a DVD player.
I am into movies now like never before,and i just recently bought a portable DVD player (panasonic LV55).So now,i can pretty much watch movies wherever i want,and have talked quite a few freinds into getting DVD players of their own.I always explain to them about widescreen (i wish someone had been there to explaing to me about those black bars and how much i had really been missing alll those years.)and although at first some dont like it they do end up getting used to it and many of them no longer my the pan and scam versions of movies.A friend of mine across the street who was never really too into movies a couple of years ago already has over 80 movies in a 2 year period for his DVD player.
Well.. guess i'm done rambling now,and i look forward dicuusing DVD with you all.take care
I actually sarted collecting movies quite some time ago on VHS.If there was a movie i liked,i ALWAYS bought the original,rather than tape it from HBO like so many of my friends did.I even remember paying around 80 dollars for aliens when that was released.I had quite a nice collection of movies going,but in the later years of my VCRs life it kept getting hungry every so often and decided to eat my tapes.Being the movie collector i was i really didnt want to keep seeing my investments going down the drain,so i decided to take the plunge and get a laserdisc player.Cliffhanger was the first time i had ever seen a movie in widescreen format,and i honestly couldnt stand it at the time.I had no idea what i was really missing,so yes,at one point i was a regular joe six pack.It wasnt until i bought Jurassic park for my brother (he still had a VCR and the laserdisc hadnt come out yet) that i understood the horrors of pan and scan.A few years later,local stores that had carried laserdisc stopped carrying movies.Only a local record store carried them anymore,and didnt get new releases very often.I surely didnt want to return to VCRs.
It was at that time a friend mentioned a new format coming out.I thought he was making it up,but it turns out he wasnt and it wasnt too long after release,that i had a DVD player.
I am into movies now like never before,and i just recently bought a portable DVD player (panasonic LV55).So now,i can pretty much watch movies wherever i want,and have talked quite a few freinds into getting DVD players of their own.I always explain to them about widescreen (i wish someone had been there to explaing to me about those black bars and how much i had really been missing alll those years.)and although at first some dont like it they do end up getting used to it and many of them no longer my the pan and scam versions of movies.A friend of mine across the street who was never really too into movies a couple of years ago already has over 80 movies in a 2 year period for his DVD player.
Well.. guess i'm done rambling now,and i look forward dicuusing DVD with you all.take care
