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5. Jack Valenti led the charge against recorders...

Reply to IcyPeas (Original post)

Sun Jan 17, 2021, 06:56 PM

Jan 2021

It was obvious the big studios wanted to block video recorders since they had a monopoly on times broadcast for decades, and suddenly people could watch when THEY wanted to, not when the studios said they would be forced to.

And we could skip past the &%$#@!!! ads.

My DVR now is light-years ahead of the old VCR's, and the studios realized their stupidity was trying to block sale$ of pre-recorded movies, shows, etc.

Nowadays I can get anything, just about on DVD or through streaming.

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