It’s tough to let go of the past.  I remember when I bought my first DVD player 10 or 12 years ago; I loved the high-resolution digital video and audio it provided, but what was I supposed to do with my huge collection of VHS tapes?  Not only would it be expensive to transfer or replace them, but I found I’d formed a strange, sentimental attachment to those clunky, obsolete icons of analog.  So away they went, into boxes in the attic, not to be seen again for a decade.  A funny thing happened, though… I missed ‘em.  When I found a great deal online on a side-by-side DVD/VHS player, opening those boxes back up and digging through my old tapes was like Christmas morning.  Oh, how empty my life had been without you, Robocop 2! 

Today’s deal of the day works in much the same way.  Sure, digital photos have proven their superiority conclusively at this point, which is what makes the frame’s widescreen digital display so enticing.  Photo slideshows accompanied by MP3s?  Yes, please!  But I still have plenty of old-fashioned paper photos lying around.  Are they no good anymore because they were taken in 1988?  Of course they’re still good!  And they deserve a place of honor next to the stupid pictures I took with my BlackBerry at 3 a.m. on St. Patricks Day. 

Choices are overrated when you can have it all.  Thanks, GPX!