Now, those formats are officially dead.  No one makes VHS tapes anymore.  Pioneer stopped manufacturing Laserdisc players (to my surprise it took them this long!).  I still have my Pioneer Laserdisc player, and boxes of VHS tapes stashed in my garage.

One day, my daughter will see them and she’ll laugh at the absurd technology.  How could I use gigantic discs that I have to get up and flip halfway through the movie?   What’s a “rewinder“?   There’s no chapter selection in VHS?

It’s like the time when I laughed at my parent’s 8-track tapes and the absurdity of having a player attached to a furniture, such as a coffee table, nightstand, or bed frame.

I have another two memorable media:  cassette tapes and vinyl.  Thankfully, they’re not obsolete, yet.  They still distribute on those two formats!   Amazon has a vinyl section, I guess still supporting the die-hard collectors.  Heck, even cassettes are popular in prison!

My collections of the above formats are still with me, with the exception of vinyls.  My vinyl music collection is with my good friend in Canada. It’s probably still sitting in his basement, somewhere.

What is it with me and my obsession to collect these things?  Is it easy access to music and movies at my finger tips?  Is it bragging right?  Or is it a gamble this stuff will become “valuable” one day and be worth thousands of dollars?

What I’m actually collecting is dust.

My collecting days are over with my DVDs (and HD-DVDs).  I rather remember the music, the image, or the motion picture – not the format it was stored in.

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