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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Regarding using tape as a generic verb to mean record, film is still widely used, even by media professionals, to mean record video. So using that would not make a book dated. It should be the same with tape. Of course, whatever one experiences while reading is valid. (And there is also dial.)
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I resisted calling Cinema Films the Movies, for decades, as that seemed too American. But now only one guy in Hollywood uses Film, so now I often call them movies as "video" for me has the connotation of recorded for purely for TV, industrial, education or by consumer. Of course DVDs are often of movies and that has video, though the V was originally to be for Versatile.
I think HD, 4K and larger than 36″ WS HDTV or UHD makes physical cinema obsolete, finally, as was feared by Hollywood when RCA demoed Color TV in 1951. Then there was no mechanism for direct to home video sales/subscription like there is with DVD, BD and streaming now, so physical Cinema buildings are destined to be a niche social activity.