I had been to college and was working overseas during the advent of consumer video tape. Although in high school we did have a large reel-to-reel tape deck that would shoot only in black and white.
It seems to me that DVD's have been around forever, but actually we were still using VHS a few years even after coming to Canada. Standard discs seem very ubiquitous around my the apartment now. Thanks to software, I've got hundreds of copies of movies for personal use. Some humans, like crows, like to collect shiny objects, I guess. I like having instant access to great cinema even if a particular movie is seldom viewed. Here's an example:
From Director Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968)
JULIET
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
ROMEO
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JULIET
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
ROMEO
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JULIET
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
ROMEO
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.
JULIET
Then have my lips the sin that they have took.