Such is the pace of life and the cheapness of DVDs that there's seldom any desire to use the VCR for recording stuff off the telly these days - a contrast to the peculiar period in time when I purchased my state-of-the-art Sony Betamax recorder and taped everything and anything that moved, typing up fancy labels and indexing it all. It was a sad couple of years. I don't know if you encounter this too or maybe you've just abandoned the VCR for TiVo or Sky+ or just filling up your PC/laptop's hard drive but when I went to pop a tape in just now I couldn't actually remember how the thing worked. There was a baffling few minutes when, well, I just stared at the bulky device in a bit of a panic in a moment of technology Alzheimer's . Then, just as quickly as it left me it came flooding back. But, as I look forward to tomorrow when I will be moving through the tape via fast forward and rewind and staring at the tape counter, it all seems so archaic.
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