{"id":48,"date":"2004-11-23T15:48:01","date_gmt":"2004-11-23T15:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=48"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T23:00:00","slug":"the-sun-sets-on-the-vcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2004\/the-sun-sets-on-the-vcr\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun sets on the VCR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p> &#8220;The likely death of the video recorder &#8211; as reflected in the decision of Dixons not to stock them any more because of the popularity of DVDs &#8211; will come as a post-dated relief for millions of adults who claimed never to be able to programme them in the first place. But if they think their techno-problems are over they have another think coming. Video recorders, which enjoyed one of the fastest take-ups of any consumer technology, changed people&#8217;s lives by enabling television programmes to be recorded while they were out and by enabling films to be watched at home&#8221;<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>so I cant tape digital TV on a standard DVD, no, I can watch VHS on DVD,  no, so why kill it off just yet, yes there are DVD recorders and Tivo&#8217;s but give me a good VCR with PDC &#038; VideoPlus+ before jumping off the analog bandwagon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The likely death of the video recorder &#8211; as reflected in the decision of Dixons not to stock them any more because of the popularity of DVDs &#8211; will come as a post-dated relief for millions of adults who claimed never to be able to programme them in the first place. But if they think&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2004\/the-sun-sets-on-the-vcr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The sun sets on the VCR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}