Tom Walker wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

-> If those who produce music and movies get too greedy people
-> will just stop using their products. No one will die from not
-> seeing the next "James Bond" movie. We may turn to animation
-> for our movie viewing and that is getting to be so very good it
-> may just push 'live' movies out of the theaters. 

TW> I am NO longer sure of that Charles. People are alarmingy Adicted
TW> to Rental Movies. I for one though have NEVER rented one myself.

I have,  though not often,  and more often than not when we did it wasn't
my idea.   :-)

TW> And in fact I am concidered Strange and out of Step.

I remember well one time when I went to visit some friends in Baltimore. 
Took my granddaughter along,  and she was all of about 5 or 6 at the time. 
And when we got there she thought that the living room was rather strange, 
in that it had no tv in it.  :-)

I know a few people like that.  Not near enough,  mind you...

TW> But that has never bothered me.  :-)  :-)

Me either.

TW> Now I do have a VCR for Time Shifting things I might want to watch
TW> to MY Schedule instead of theirs.

Right.  And since you don't have to sit there and watch the commercials at
normal speed,  it actually takes *less* time than it would if you didn't do
it that way.  And since we've all got only so much time,  not wasting it
strikes me is kinda nifty.

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