I mean at least my parents had rabbit ears... kinda cruel to force a kid to rewatch Barney when PBS has been accessible over the air to 95% of people for like the last few decades.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't force them to to anything. Not sure how anyone jumped to that conclusion.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I just don't understand why you would rewatch something 500 times when you get hot barney straight off the press back then... it was even super easy to watch barney later, you just pressed the red button and recorded over the tape.

And if one even bothered to read the manual, you could usually preset recording times on most devices. Although shows also had this weird habit of being offset by ad hoc commercial inserts or unplanned interruptions. So it wasn't super uncommon on most channels (PBS was actually a bit of an exception, due to lack of ads) to be off a few minutes from schedule.

The 90s were neat.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

You know that shows only come on at scheduled times, and having a set of various tapes was the same as having an online subscription that's being discussed in this thread. And yes, we taped shows for the kids to watch and add to their library. There's a million things I can't explain why a couple of kids aged 3 and 6 would do. Watching Barney over and over is just one of them.