Last month someone I know found a whole heap of old Laserdisk records. Remember them? Huge things 'bout the size of an old LP that hold there info in analogue form, unlike DVD's that hold there's in digital. Fascinated & lacking the equipment to play them, I did a bit of surfing and researching on old recording formats and data storage mediums. A vinyl record that plays video. It happened. Check out TotalRewind www.totalrewind.org for more cool old technology. Its a shame that we Australians didn't get a taste of most of these machines. Still, VCR is a tried and true method.

The Emtec blank video cassette sold in cheap shops for about AU$3. Seemed like a bargain, until going home and started recording. This cassette jammed as soon as it was put in the VCR. It took twenty minutes to remove the top of the machine and unthread what seemed like a kilometre of tape. Eventually getting the thing in, had to remove the top once more to clean the heads after recording about two minutes of footage. An hour passed and everything seemed to be going fine, then the recording just stops. The tape within the cassette broke. Several beers later I had a smoke and wondered why none of my other blank videos do this. Don't buy the Emtec cassette. Three bucks ends up with you possibly wrecking an expensive video player and missing a good copy of homemade porn.