VHS's?

[thriller]

Anyone here still use vhs's? I have more vhs's than DVDs. They don't get scratched and seem to last longer. I have the original star wars 1st edition on VHS, yet all my star wars DVDs skip. Take that blu-ray!

[Q]

You should care about your dvd's better.

My mom still has a vhs, because she thinks its easier to record programs. I myself am more someone who doesn't watch a lot of tv at all and when I do I watch them on the internet and when I want to watch a movie I download it. My sister has interactive tv and records through that.

[Widerstand]

I even have Vinyls. Solidarity with all retro-comrades.

[GPDP]

I don't. VHS tapes deteriorate over time and repeated viewings, have far inferior picture and sound quality, and do not have the advantages that DVDs have, such as DVD extras and chapter selection.

About the only thing they have over DVDs is that you can stop them and continue from the same point whenever you want, and they do take a beating better. But as long as you take care of your DVDs (don't leave them lying around ffs, put them back in their cover), and use the skip function, DVDs are just overall superior.

However, I do still have my Star Wars tapes, since they're the original versions without all the stupid CGI shit Lucas decided to add later because he's an asshat.

[Wanted Man]

We still have lots of VHS at home. We used to record loads of films that were on TV, so we have quite a large amount of them. I hardly ever use them these days, but if I ever need to record a film, it's on VHS.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Yeah, I still use VHS, but only for films that haven't yet been released on DVD.

[JazzRemington]

I used to have a shit house of VHS tapes, mostly old 80s horror. I had the beginnings of a Wizard Video collection (80s big box horror, ftw). Unfortunately, I had to move suddenly and got owned by bed bugs at the same time - so, they all had to go.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

I've got a fucking wardrobe full of awesome films on VHS, but nothing to play them on :(.

DVDs suck. Its even worse now that blue-ray is going to take over, rendering another collection of second-hand films worthy of no place but the wardrobe.

[thriller]

I even have Vinyls. Solidarity with all retro-comrades.

I wish you could 'thank' in chit-chat.
Vinyls for the win! I buy vinyl realeases of bands rather than the cd. They have superior sound quality. Fuck you if you think differently. I have perfect pitch. Take that!

[Sasha]

-z4iw8Ppo1o

[Widerstand]

I wish you could 'thank' in chit-chat.
Vinyls for the win! I buy vinyl realeases of bands rather than the cd. They have superior sound quality. Fuck you if you think differently. I have perfect pitch. Take that!

In fact I downloaded a Vinyl rip of Refused's The Shape Of Punk To Come the other day, and the mastering is crassly different from the CD's mastering. The Bass and Drums are much more dominant.

[Magón]

I had a friend who took all my VHS's and convert the movies on them to DVD's. I still have them though, just incase something with the DVD goes wrong.

[JazzRemington]

I had a friend who took all my VHS's and convert the movies on them to DVD's. I still have them though, just incase something with the DVD goes wrong.

I thought about doing that, or at least digitizing it for my computer. But, the quality of some of the tapes was rather poor. I'm talking about VHS from at least the early-mid 1980s, when VHS started to catch on and was, oh, $50-$75 a pop.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

I play my SNES too much to care about movies. Fuck movies. Yay old video games.

[thriller]

Refused owns!
SNES? I prefer Genisis. Toe Jam & Earl ftw

[Dr Mindbender]

I have seen VHS players with high definition upscaling and HDMI ports.

wtf?

[GPDP]

I have seen VHS players with high definition upscaling and HDMI ports.

wtf?

I'm pretty sure you're talking about VHS/DVD combo players, some of which do have an HDMI port, but only for use with DVDs. VHS tapes can only be encoded with an analog composite signal, and thus players can only output in composite (well, sometimes also in S-Video, but that comes out of a built-in comb filter in the player itself, while the actual image in a tape is always composite). So yeah, you can't actually watch a VHS tape in HD.

[Pretty Flaco]

My family has this bigass collection of old VHS movies! The only one we ever watch anymore is the original star wars. :lol:

We have it on DVD too, but on the DVD they editted a whole ton of shit and it just isn't the same...

[Aloysius]

I'm not sure if my VHS/DVD combo player works...If it does, maybe I'll watch the first edition Star Wars trilogy on VHS...Well...One of 'em.
George Lucas is actually one of my least favorite directors, because of all the stupid changes he makes to movies. Like Anakin Skywalker at the end of Return of the Jedi.
Sebastian Shaw is significantly more handsome than Hayden Christiansen...

[GPDP]

You guys do know Lucas released the original non-Special Edition versions of the original trilogy on DVD, right?

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Han shot first.

[mikelepore]

I have the Panasonic combo DVD recorder / VCR. I am using it to convert my camcorder VHS tapes to DVD, but I'm not bothering to convert any TV programs.

Help, I have a technical problem. I can't see how it could be a cabling or setup error, and I think it must be a hardware defect. It stopped playing tapes if I just want to watch them. It used to work. Now it only plays tapes when set to the mode to dub from VHS to DVD. Now if I try to play a tape I hear the sound from the tape but I see the picture from live TV broadcast on the cable TV receiver. Dubbing VHS to DVD works normally except that the inability to play part of the tape before switching to dub mode makes it impossible to queue up the tape to a precise point.

[EvilRedGuy]

I still use VHS's, and when blu-rays becomes a majority i will still use VHS's and DVD's.

[Sasha]

i think this vid is not getting the apriciation it deserves, maybe i should post it in the stonerthread

-z4iw8Ppo1o

[EvilRedGuy]

Thats a great video. I dont see whats wrong with having a collection of something, to each their own, hobbies, etc.

[thriller]

You guys do know Lucas released the original non-Special Edition versions of the original trilogy on DVD, right?

I have those as well. I like how it's actually on the "Bonus" discs of each movie. The whole I bought em was for the Bonus disc lol.

And yes, Han Shot First.

One thing I never understood is how did Yoda go from being able to do flips and shit the day Luke was born, to being a cripple just 20 years later? That's only 2% of his life span? Ohh yeah, George Lucas is fucking stupid.

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

One thing I never understood is how did Yoda go from being able to do flips and shit the day Luke was born, to being a cripple just 20 years later? That's only 2% of his life span? Ohh yeah, George Lucas is fucking stupid.

Did the plot of the old movies ever call for Yoda to pull such stunts? The reason he didn't do such things is because he did not need or want to, as far as I can see.

[Bright Banana Beard]

So... Star War or Star Trek?

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

So... Star War or Star Trek?

I like both, but I also have criticisms of them. Star Trek science can be incredibly wonky at times (a terrible sin indeed) and Star Wars is actually fantasy with sci-fi dressings. Of course, Star Wars fanboys will point to the Expanded Universe, but they forget that nobody but Star Wars fanboys give a shit about it.

As you may have gathered, I prefer my hard science fiction.

[Quail]

So... Star War or Star Trek?
Star trek, definitely. Although occasionally the techno-babble can sound quite funny.

[Sentinel]

I have one, but I think it's broken, the sound doesn't work anymore. :( It's a shame as I have a lot of classics on VHS.

[Quail]

Because I'm only 20, the only stuff I have on VHS are films for children. I feel so young when threads like this pop up :blushing:

[mikelepore]

Because I'm only 20, the only stuff I have on VHS are films for children. I feel so young when threads like this pop up :blushing:

I'm so old, these are the first things that I taped when I got my first VCR for about $700:

Many hours of a weekly NBC program called Friday Night Videos, which aired starting in July 1983. That was when music videos were first invented.

Philosopher Mortimer Adler, six part series, "Six Great Ideas" (truth, beauty, goodness, liberty, equality and justice) on PBS August and September 1983

Pat Benatar concert on HBO, November 1983

George Carlin at Carnegie Hall on HBO December 1983

David Bowie concert on HBO, February 1984

***

At first it was illegal to record TV broadcasts. VCRs came with instruction booklets telling you how to program them to record TV shows, and a paragraph telling you not to do until such time that the law gets changed. In January 1984 the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the use of the VCR to record TV shows in the ruling called "Sony vs. Universal Studios".

The remote control was connected to the VCR with a long wire that people had to trip over and untangle the knots in!

[KC]

I own a nice tv that I have trouble hooking up a vcr to. Sucks because some films are just better on VHS with that quality. For example, I just bought Clockwork Orange from Goodwill for like $0.50. That is way more awesome on VHS.

[La Comédie Noire]

I used to build little forts out of all our VHS's did anyone else do that?

[synthesis]

I still have The Adventures of Milo & Otis on VHS. That movie was a lot better when I didn't know that they killed so many animals in the making of it. I don't know how I thought that cliff scene was actually made.

[JosefStalinator]

Most annoying aspect of VHS's is that they degrade so quickly

[MarxSchmarx]

I even have Vinyls. Solidarity with all retro-comrades.

My Laserdiscs shed your vinyls.

I remember when I was a little kid I wanted to have a snazzy laserdisc collection as an adult just to prove how above and beyond and tech-savvy I was compared to mere VHS peons. So in anticipation of saving up to buy a laserdisc player when I would eventually be an adult, I got a few really bad movies on laserdisc. Then after about a month or so I moved on to the next corporate trinkitry, but presumably those laserdiscs are in boxes somewhere because I have a shit ton of boxes from when I was a kid.