[Thor Joachim Haga]

Cool story, Nick! I’m impressed you were so quality conscious at the time, almost as if you were always looking ahead into the future.

I had a more mundane here-and-now relationship to it at the time. VHS was what it was; I never dreamed up better formats (although the extremely expensive and always elusive Laserdiscs existed at the same time I was buying tapes). I even marveled at some high end VHS transfers, like the aforementioned JURASSIC PARK — we had a great test run with that in the television room.

That’s why I can vividly remember the first time I watched a DVD at a friend’s student dorm, probably around the year 2000. Totally blew me away! But unlike music, where I was always HiFi-minded (something I inherited from my dad), I was never really the same way with films. I remember getting the cheapo DVD ScanBox version of SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE, and although I was bummed there weren’t many extra features on it, the video and sound were so much better than my old taped VHS!