Man, I know people swapping tapes. No bullshit, VCRs are cheap, and you can get old movies by the box full for a dollar or two at freaking pawn shops. So there’s a brisk tape sharing going on in my county at least. Dunno how far it’s spread, but folks seem to not give a crap that the images are lousy on modern TVs.

Makes me kinda regret dumping all my VHS years ago. Not that I’d be watching anything I could get in less annoying formats, but it would nice to be able to give them away to people that want them instead of them having gone in the trash.

Word is there’s two competing stalls at the flea market, selling tapes for pennies each. No idea how long that’ll last though. They’re bound to run out eventually.

But, yeah, I pretty freely loan out DVDs that I can replace easily. The oop stuff stays here, but I don’t mind ripping a copy of those, as long as someone has discs to burn.

I’m so fucking fed up with streaming at this point that if I had my free say, we wouldn’t stream anything at all. But I’m outvoted lol.