#vcr

It is still true that it is easier to compose a poem in the form of a manual for adjusting a VCR than it is to write a piece using just tuning as a symphony. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#compose #easier #form #just #manual

The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone. ↗

— Jack Valenti

#american #american film #american public #boston #film

Synergy is the VCR of media right now - discredited, outdated and left behind. ↗

— David Zinczenko

#left #media #now #outdated #right

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#did #ever #industry #more #movie

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?' ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#any #because #birthday #cable #country