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@theynege@beige.partyHere's an attempt at thinking more positively.
The other day my brother and I were talking about movie rentals, and how the span of time those were relevant (between the critical mass of home VCRs and widespread adoption of streaming services) was only 20-25 years.
They seemed huge at the time—whether major chains like Blockbuster or the local independent ones that were charming spaces to patron and kept local subcultures together—but are a foreign idea to younger people, because they're really quite irrelevant now.
Things can come and go within our lifespan, including shitty periods of time. Not every change will be permanent.
@theynege DVD is now older than VHS was when DVDs were introduced.
@reb by far, I bet!
@reb see, I don't consider Blu-ray a full jump because it's visually identical form to a DVD. I don't consider Beta to VHS a full jump either.
@theynege well beta and vhs are effectively the same technology developed by different teams, and it was basically a coin toss which won out. They're both just a composite analogue video signal recorded on tape with a helical scan head.
Blu ray is actually a lot more different from DVD than vhs is from beta.
UHD blu ray works completely differently all over again!
