I could program the VCR when I was really young.
The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.
I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.
When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.
There was no DVR, no Netflix, and no binge-watching. We didn't even have a VCR till I was nearly out of high school.
My mom used to buy us a whole lot of VHS tapes - we had boxes of them, hundreds of them. So we would just go through movies all the time.
They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.
The first ever VHS I ever owned, my brother and I, was WrestleMania VII. We watched that thing to bits - I think the tape chewed itself up.
