03-20-16, 10:28 AM | |
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I have shelves and shelves of books, CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays (and even some VHS). I don't consider them clutter. I love them all! I love the physicality of the objects.
I could see where, if one lived in cramped quarters, this would not be a good option. Our internet connection was always too slow to do streaming. Recently, we started using Amazon Video and I usually download the movie on to my iPhone during the "bonus" hours and them HDMI it up to our TV. I never belonged to Netflix because our mail service is despicable. I have no interest at this time in streaming workouts. I like to OWN stuff! The moves I buy have added content like booklets and or many special features and commentaries. I like these. Some folks don't care for them. I am suspicious of the "CLOUD" and keep my naked selfies on local storage.
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03-20-16, 10:53 AM | |
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Alta- our house is the same we have shelves of books and cds and dvds/bluray. My dh and son collect vinyl. We have two turntables. We can still even play cassettes (concert recordings...)Our son loves cds also. I try to get rid of books I will never read again but I will never give up physical media. Ever!
We still have some Vhs. Some of our favorite concerts and music documentaries never got released on Dvd.
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03-20-16, 12:03 PM | |
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This discussion reminds me of Mark Twain:
---- It was followed by a rumor that he (Mark Twain) had died. According to a widely-repeated legend, one major American newspaper actually printed his obituary and, when Twain was told about this by a reporter, he quipped: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” ---- Kind of like DVDs,---
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03-20-16, 12:19 PM | ||
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Plus, I must add, I'm a sucker for vintage as well. As someone who still has and uses fitness audio cassette tapes, while many of you were working with VHS tapes (and maybe even Betamax; or the kind of videotapes they'd used in schools - 8-incher's?), I had graciously bypassed and sidestepped that era and more: including the era of Laser Videodiscs, Super 8 camcorders, the computer (offline) "multimedia" era .... etc, etc, etc. On the other hand, am in no way one of those twee vinyl collectors, and I'd relocated often; so of course any vinyl I'd once used in the golden age of albums had long ago been in a landfill somewhere. I "update" some of the old moves if I have to in any "vintage" workouts (usually - if they'd stood the test of time - they'd copied Denise Austin or something ...)
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03-20-16, 12:20 PM | ||
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Location: Atlantic Canada
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I'm becoming more open to streaming services and downloads, but as a supplement to my DVDs, not as a replacement. The recent downturn in the DVD market obviously is mostly to do with technological changes, but I also have to wonder if it has something to do with the seeming obsession in recent years with mainstream DVD workouts being no-fun, almost borderline violent. It seems like a disproportionate number of workouts have been about suffering and punishing the body for not being perfect. It's extreme insanity, rip this, shred that, burn this, blast that, carve this, kill that, breathlessly working out 2 hours a day, trying to be the most exhausted, high-intensity, dripping with sweat, in pain for three days afterward person, or else the lady on screen yells that you're lazy. After a lot of years of that, I'm not surprised people are getting turned off of fitness DVDs. |
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03-20-16, 12:32 PM | ||
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Location: New York City
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Well, I'd tried with mat pilates, because I'd liked pushy versions of THAT and it had not worked. Welcome to the dustpile! So that times 1,000 for everybody else ... Cue the "Country Heat" bandwagon ... country line dance workouts (as a niche, anyway) are sooooo 1986 (even if it had been on VHS at the time ...) and they don't even know it ... In the morning in my extremely diverse but upscale area where I live, you see an army of thick pilates mats heading for yoga class ... so ditto for those kinds of scenes, too. Ain't no classes for the people who sleep in .... even if they were affordable ....
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03-20-16, 01:31 PM | |
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My dh and son are not "twee" record collectors. My dh has been collecting vinyl since he was five years old. He has passed his love of music to our son. We met in a cd store. Our son was destined to be a music geek like his parents.
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03-20-16, 01:44 PM | ||
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But I'm still happy with my system
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