And I need to start shopping around again for a player or players. The one I'm using now seems to be developing issues. It was fine last weekend but didn't want to work last night. No surprise here, DVD players are getting hard to find. Maybe some day DVDs will come back as a niche kind of thing, like vinyl records.
DVD's are still a thing, there's new releases all the time, I've just gotten some. But Blu-Ray players are definitely a thing and they
also play DVD's.
My other successful prediction was CHiPs. Back in the day, when TV had actual seasons, and during the summer they ran commercials for new series coming in the fall, all it took me was one commercial view of Erik Estrada in that painted-on highway patrol uniform and I knew that show would be a hit! (I guess everybody knows Jon and Ponch's commanding officer was played by Robert Pine, father of Chris.)[/font][/size]
CHiP's premiered the season after I came to California and I used to like to watch it Saturday nights to see if I could recognize any of the places they filmed. And from watching it I learned that TV shows didn't always use accurate places. They'd often tell the officers to go, say, the intersection of Lankershim and Sepulveda Blvd. for example - two streets that aren't anywhere near each other. Or they'd say to go a certain park, but they filmed it somewhere else.
When I worked in Culver City, one day they filmed a scene for CHiP's on the corner right near where I worked. But we weren't allowed to see much of it as the boss wanted us to work.
But, one night in December of 81, after work I went to a small card shop in Studio City and while I was in there someone came in the back entrance and I heard the lady behind the counter say "Hi, Mr. Pine." I looked up and it was Robert Pine! He had a child with him and the woman remarked on his cute son.
So a couple decades later when I found out who "Chris Pine" was I looked up info about Robert Pine and discovered he has two children, Chris and Katharine. Chris was born in 1980, so, since he has only one son, I actually saw him when he was a year and three months old! Unbelievably really, on August 26th of this month, Chris Pine will be 40 years old.