Though DVD recorders exist. (Or at least did, and I assume still do.) I went straight from VHS to TiVo, but I know some folks who used them for recording TV shows.

Well, after the VHS-Beta wars were well and truly settled, which took a while.

Yeah. While early generation TVs were always blowing tubes (when I was young there were still tube testers in stores), by the 70s and 80s CRT TVs really needed a stake through the heart to die. My parents finally got rid of their 80s internal projection family room set a few years back— the images had diverged and…

But a vast improvement on the convenience of 8-track. (About the same as reel-to-reel, but that was hardly portable.)

The base threshold of quality for something that wasn't possible at all before (at least for consumers) is pretty close to "good enough, I guess". Music shouted into a horn and recorded directly onto a cylinder was never going to be confused with a live orchestra, but when it was the only way you were going to get to…

Kids don't know this, but back in the 90s you would have a 32" tv in your living or family room and a 20" in your own room.

Siskel and Ebert's successful campaign against pan-and-scan isn't the least of their considerable career accomplishments.

Warner/DC has given them a quota of C-list villains they are allowed to use during the year now?

They can fix it again once Miss Martian shows up. Kara: "Oh, look Ms. Grant! It's Supergirl and J'onn J'onzz!

He's saying "I do the hiring and firing in my newsroom, or get another editor". Which isn't an entirely unreasonable position to take, even if she goes for the latter.

While mine isn't in regular service at home anymore for speed reasons, it's outlasted two or three later routers to serve as a backup when they inevitably die.

Though it would be sort of great if Deadshot was really there, but had bribed the guards into an elaborate gaslighting setup. ("Damn it, this sliding panel has to be absolutely silent so I can slip away while his back is turned. Get me some WD-40!")

It's like video game costumes, where the same outfit transferred from a male character to a female goes from being full plate to tailored chainmail with strategic cutouts over vital organs.

Only in that one rapidly-disavowed story in the 70s.

"Hah! I have two lungs!"

And as I suspected, the entire reason for having Barry exposit Flashpoint to Felicity on his show was so that the scene could be used to explain it in the Arrow previouslies.

Calling Chase "Vigilante" where that's been the generic term in the series for costumed crimefighter will be sort of awkward. "What, you couldn't think of a name? We've got a friend in Central City who'd be glad to help out."

Though "failed this city" seems as if it's more suited to prominent people who plausibly had a duty to the city (politicians, captains of industry, prominent costumed vigilantes) than drug dealers.

The tape probably also suffered some degradation just sitting in the box. The upper limit estimate for magnetic media lifespan is only ~30 years, and that's in ideal conditions rather than in a hot warehouse. And an analog medium is going to get visibly worse before it goes south completely.

I asked around with people who know more about guns than I do, and the consensus was that samples of modern guns don't really advance the state of the art much. Maybe in 1865, but the machine tools aren't necessarily up to reproducing them to the correct tolerances, and by the 30s or the 60s the tech just hasn't…