No contest. Home videos provide the best TV entertainment possible. It's amazing how we think we remember those little moments, what our kids looked like at that age, how their little voices sounded, but pop in a DVD of that impromptu family gathering that happened last year, and a flood of unexpected memories and emotions come rushing back. The experience is very bittersweet -- look at how much they've grown, how much time has passed, how many things have changed.
We didn't have a video camera growing up, so I can't go back and relive those moments from my childhood, but I'm so grateful we are able to capture some of those moments now. We just recently subscribed to a cloud-based back-up service (finally accomplishing a goal I've had for like five years to safely preserve our precious family memories), so theoretically, all of the family footage we have on our computers is safe and will be there for family viewing for years to come. Home movies may not be the go to for prime time viewing, but don't just save them to the hard drive and forget about them. Make sure you have some sort of back-up to preserve them, and pull them up every once in a while to be reminded of what is truly important in life.
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