I can't agree more. I miss VCR.
I much preferred watching my video version than the super-clean DVD. I think it's 'atmosphere'. Okay, so the quality is more grainy, and there may be a tiny background hiss...But at least with video you can fast forward past all the WARNING COPYRIGHT crap. I watched something the other day and no kidding, there was the Copyright Warning, that video of someone downloading at home PIRACY IS A CRIME, Copyright Theft, then trailers and I could NOT get to the damn movie for about 5 minutes.
One of my fave movies is a black & white war movie called Ice Cold In Alex. I watched the video of this movie each and every friday for over a year. As soon as I replaced it with DVD.........I haven't watched it more than twice the past year.
You ever do that? You buy a DVD and it's nice to know you have it, but you never do? But if the movie came on TV you'd watch it? LOL