Tuesday, July 12, 2011

16. DVDs

Well, this actually includes VHS tapes as well... not just DVDs. We went to Optik TV a while ago and decided to get rid of our VHS recorder, now that we have a PVR. So with no VHS recorder... or player... what's the point of keeping all these VHS tapes? They are certainly bulky... and take up a lot of space. Yes, there are some great movies in there, but surely we can replace them with a DVD version, if we really need to? Or, in getting rid of them, maybe we'll just forget that we ever had them and not even miss them?

But what do you do with old VHS tapes? Well, a bunch of them are going to Value Village - ones that are still relatively new and playable. But the blank ones, or the ones on which we taped TV shows and movies... are all going into the garbage. You'd think that somewhere they would have recycling for outdated technology... like cassette tapes and VHS tapes... and CDs! Technology is changing so fast though, it's hard to know what's out-of-date when!

And then the DVDs... well, we're keeping most of those, mostly because we don't have a lot. There are a few that are going bye-bye... but the VHS tapes are forming the bulk of the lot. Which means that our entertainment cabinet is quite a bit emptier than it was... which means we have more space... which is always nice!

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