New Beverly Cinema presents the Pure Cinema Podcast. My name's Brian Sauer, and I am checking the Dropbox with Mr. Elricane again today. How you doing, Mr. Kane?

It was sad when the Dropbox changed from VHS tape to DVD, wasn't it?

Because you had to worry about them breaking.

Yeah.

Like VHS tape, you never worried.

I mean, you worried about tracking and rewinding

and you worried about like tape coming unspoored.

But I felt like once DVDs came, it all became a little too fragile, you know?

And maybe that was part of it.

No one ever talks about that though.

No one ever talks about the fragility of the medium as part of the reason why it might have started to decline.

Like there's obviously bigger reasons, but I wouldn't be surprised if that's a little bit of it too.

You know, all the broken discs, all the, you know, it's just a very different. Yeah, I mean, people don't give VHS enough props for its durability, you know?

It really could take a beating and you could, you know, have it get chewed up and you could

slice a part of it out and splice it back together and it would still work.

And, you know, DVDs, once they got two scratch-up, I mean, ultimately, when I worked at the DVD store,

we would use the resurfiser,

and that seemed to do it for a while, you know, but... But there's nothing.

Like, I can't think of a worse feeling on the planet.

And streaming is far from, perfect, right?

Because streaming can have all sorts of issues

while you're watching with internet connection,

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