You mean as you would use LOL, ROFL. I wouldn’t.

Now that we’ve established what it means, why do you use it? Is there any reason that you need to keep us apprised of your emotional state and whether or not you are smiling? It’s simply not relevant to what you are trying to say.

If you really must inform us about your emotional state, then why not do it through expressive writing, rather than ridiculous symbols/abbreviations/emoticons?

G/g means “grin(s)” …same as you’d use *lol, rofl etc.

http://www.penmachine.com/2006/03/why-dvds-suck.html

The confusion over which side is playing, in which direction. The big spaces of silence when you listen to an album spanning both sides.

As to Blu-Ray, where Finding Nemo highlighted the increased picture quality and detail of DVD over VHS (watched it in each format), Wall-E might be the only movie I’ve seen so far to provide a motivation to upgrade to Blu-Ray. That won’t happen anytime soon.

It shouldn’t be overlooked that with the advent of extended storage space has come a lot of extraneous garbage in the form of copious “extras.” At least VHS tended to focus solely on the primary content; and if I wanted to fast-forward through previews I never received a “That operation is not permitted” message.

Formats provide a content infrastructure, and as formats change, so too may the content.

@ Sarah:

What’s with the “*G” interspersed with your comments? Is that supposed to mean something?

@ Tennyson:

This has been addressed by others – digital copies do not degrade, they are exact copies.

@ Devin:

Isn’t it fitting, rather than ironic, that the director of Videodrome should get the last VHS release?

@ KL and others claiming that optical media is less durable than tape:

The CD/DVD disc is not “naked”. It’s protected by a thick layer of polycarbonate. The data is not stored on the plastic, it’s stored on the aluminum layer underneath the plastic. Even very heavy scratches can simply be polished out. It’s not difficult at all to restore highly scratched discs – some good polishing, and you have a perfectly smooth, unscratched surface back.

In contrast, videotape is much more difficult to repair, and you’ll never completely restore it like you can with optical media. And once you have done the restoring, you can make as many perfect backup copies as you like.

…and re-winding. I don’t have time for that! lol.

Yes, DVD offers much that is better than VHS,, and yes video tape is an inherently fragile medium, but VHS offered (and still offers) something that DVD so far has not – ’stick it in and press play’ simplicity. Simplicity that even an old, ill and dying man used to brighten his days.

I never had to fix them like you describe, we were a big chain, and just threw them away, but they lasted forever. (multi hundred rents)

They are a pain, and inelegant, but they are rough and tumble, much more so than naked optical disks.

There have been many times where I fell asleep before getting through the preview & ads in a rental DVD.