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Ooh New and Shiny Right? Eh, Your Tech Love Is Oh So Fleeting

Soo I tried to watch a VHS this week and it just hurt!

Dude, did we really rejoice when auto-tracking was introduced!? Gaaah, I mean I feel a seizure coming on! The lines and the grey and the white and the lines and the grey and it starts again and I just want to throw the VCR ACROSS THE ROOM!

I remember the excitement of auto-tracking’s advent. When it changed our entertainment lives; revolutionizing the ease of viewing entertainment.

-Drum roll please-

Auto-Tracking: The VCR does it by ITSELF (sort of).

We actually needed to 'track' the video back then...

I don’t have to sit on the floor in front of the VCR playing with the two little nobs trying to make the picture better…[here's a secret, it NEVER stayed better.]

I learned to just watch the video from the floor in front of the player cause getting from the couch or the table across the room every time my Video Tracking OCD kicked in, I had to climb down there and mess with those little knobs again!

I am liberated–For Now.

However, it is a surety in my mind that very soon the majority will feel the way about the iPad and the Droid as they did about VHS (with auto tracking) when DVDs came along. We wont believe we used to have to sit there and TOUCH the screen with our fingers! We will have moved on to the mastery of accurate voice commands.

A new Day has dawned; I’m sure there will be a parade.

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