After watching the Veggie Tales' Lord of the Beans DVD (by Big Idea), the kids wanted to see the entire movie again. Instead, I showed them the "extra" features including the "Sing Along" and "Trivia Game" parts. The kids had a great time with these "extra" features.
This shows how technology has changed. I recall growing up with videocassettes and the great competition back then between Sony's Beta version and the VHS version with the VHS version eventually winning out. When the video discs entered the fray, these discs were as large as record albums. Mentioning record albums can take us even further back. But let's just stick with DVDs for now, and again, when these initial DVDs came on the scene, they were huge. Now, their size is quite small. Perhaps they will get smaller as the technology improves. Even if they do not get smaller, they are light-years ahead of what videocassettes can do--better picture, better sound, more features, easier to move from scene to scene, and more. Who would ever want to go back?
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