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I can go either way, personally. Streaming has allowed me to watch shows I never saw in syndication. I'm on a very limited income right now, so plunking down $$$ for a show I don't even know is a no-go. Right now, for instance, I'm watching The Saint. I had never watched it, yet thanks to...

I've dwindled my collection a lot lately. So much stuff can be had digitally these days on YouTube. There are some things I'll never get rid of, but I went through my 45's the other day and donated probably at least 50 of those. I couldn't tell you how many 8-tracks and LP's I've donated to...

Yet there's so much stuff that will never make it to CD, especially regional 45's and LP's, plus the Hank Williams, Sr. overdubs will likely never see a CD release.

That would be my deal breaker. I have an album of my uncles (along with some other local St. Louis groups) doing gospel music. It's atrocious soundwise due to never having a cover. Software can only do so much. The laser TT sounded promising about being to read "fresh" parts of the record, but...

You have the same exact front door that I do!

I have purchased, via gift certificate, a few shows on Vudu. Heck, it is convenient. They even offer HD versions of some shows not out on blu. What happens if I lose access to my account somehow? What if Vudu decided to pull a Photobucket and start charging out the rear for their services, say a...

Where exactly do you get that idea? I'm sitting here with stuff of Hank Williams, Sr. that's never been officially released, but thanks to other collector friends I have on CD. Try finding the complete works of Johnny Horton or Jim Reeves on a streaming service. You won't! The same with Hank...

They were still present in the 1990 Radio Shack catalog. I have one of the ones featured-it's just a simple, no frills player. I'm only the 2nd owner. A German couple had it, sold it at an estate sale, and the buyer flipped it on eBay without ever using it. He said he also had another player...

As far as availability of DVD/blu-ray players in the future, here's my take. You still have people who are dedicated to keeping 8-tracks and their players alive. How much more a format that's one of the tops in the industry like DVD and blu? Someone will come along and fix those old broken down...

I used to have a couple, but I sold them. I have one Quad LP, a Floyd Cramer title, but no Quad tapes.

I have a little over 100 of those boogers left; I've culled down quite a bit recently. IF you have a quality deck and a tape that's not been beat to death, you can achieve a reasonably good sound from them running them through restoration software such as Polderbits. They're not going to be CD...

Sometimes vinyl is the only way I can find the music I like, so, yes, I will be clutching to vinyl!

No, you would still be forced to use their service to view it. I only use the "free with ads" feature. There's enough content there to keep you occupied for a while, at least me anyway. The only problem I find is every movie so far has been pan and scan, at least as far as I can tell anyway...

I find streaming more convenient as long as the picture quality is the same. I recently subscribed to Vudu and found Charlie's Angels season 2 streaming for free. I much prefer that over having to get up, find my discs, put in said disc, hope the player or disc doesn't freeze or otherwise go...

In what way is it ridiculous? I asked a question if you had heard a well kept 78. Go to the YouTube page of a guy with the handle 78ShellacAttack and then compare those same songs to the CD version. No one is saying that 78's are superior to CD's. I certainly didn't mean to imply your thrift...

Have you heard a well kept 78 compared to a "digitally remastered" version of the same song? Played with the correct styli, a well kept 78 will beat its CD counterpart any day in most cases.

I own 8-tracks, but you would never hear me brag about sound quality. They're a place holder. I find them for 50¢ or $1, try them out, and if I like the music I can then buy it elsewhere.

Good luck with that one. I've purchased 2 or 3 of those external floppy drives, and every last one has been a piece of crap. They either didn't work at all, or it failed to read a number of discs that should have been perfectly fine. If you want retro so bad go to the 8-track format.

Spotify and the like are all nice for casual background listening, but when you have somewhere around 35,000 songs on your computer, those particular services are quite lacking in what I would want. My musical passion is Hank Williams, Sr.-I have stuff that's never been released to CD. Spotify...

I liked having the best of both worlds-cassette and CD. My Ford Windstar that my son burned the motor up in had both. I loved making mix tapes because you can get 90-110 minutes on a cassette whereas only 79 minutes on a CD unless you do it as an mp3 disc. My current vehicle, a 93 Buick LeSabre...

This is true! I had totally forgotten that. My high school math teacher has a December 4th birthday, so I always tease him about two math geniuses having the same birthday. :laugh:

It probably helps curb bootlegging the same way legal mp3 files did. That should make them happy I'd guess.

I retell the story often, but I'll retell it again. Everyone knows what my favorite show is obviously, and it's a perfect example of keeping your physical media. When I got my own VCR as a teen, I taped UNEDITED episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies on a daily basis from local TV; WREG had...

As far as movies go, yes, I have to admit I'm in the boat of "can I see it for free?" I'm not much of a movie guy to begin with anyway, and I'm sure there are people who feel the same way about TV shows and music. Why buy it when they can find it online for free?

December 4th for me. No major holidays, but I do share the birthday with Max Baer, Jr.! :D