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Memo to Hollywood: You can't go backwards on consumer functionality | Concurrent Media
Back when the VCR first appeared, along with the video-rental market it spawned, it offered consumers something they had never had before in their home entertainment experience: do-it-yourself programmability. Renting a movie from the video store bought you not just two hours of entertainment. It bought you any two hours of entertainment--on your own schedule, continuous