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FlashbladeGAF
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So you're saying the Xbox One needs VHS playback capability? Get on it MS. You can still turn the Japanese market around yet.
Nerdkiller
Membeur
Naaa. They'll probably go one step further and build 30 line mechanical televisions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DVPKxb2xpA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3CFkK5OORw
It's true...it's true.
Youtube still fucking up sub-HD content with their shit encoding I see.
I still have a VCR. I was going through mom and dad's old collection of stuff they recorded off TV to find cool commercials. I stopped when I moved into a new house and had to pack everything up, but I should really get back on that.
Legal copies of Muppet Babies episodes.
Legal copies of Muppet Babies episodes.
Gentleman Jack
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Nemesis121
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Rösti;210826533 said:
Hickbilly Deluxe
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There are actually a lot of older cartoons you can only find on VHS, movies that never made it to DVD, made for TV movies that are mostly forgotten, and the always fun super rare recordings of movies that they refuse to release ever again.
Plenty of low budget action and horror never made it over, but there are some boutique labels slowly transitioning them like Arrow, Olive Films, Vinegar Syndrome, and others. If low budget oddities aren't what you would consider "quality" then it has no bearing on you.
super-famicom
Member
You're right. I liked that episode.
My parent still have three VCRs in their house somewhere. Maybe I'll hook one up sometime and watch a movie on it.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
Member
There already is a market.
I have hipster acquaintances that collect VHS like other people collect vinyl.
I kind of want one
There is also the guy in the Knocking on Heaven's Door movie who is all about old school videogames and goes on and on about it.
RIP.
This brings back memories of elementary school. When the teacher wheeled out the TV cart you know it was movie time.
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
Yeah, and mine fucked up my Monster's Inc. tape.
Yea my mom uses hers as a DVR.
Now comes my question is there a DVR on the market that can record from an antenna without a subscription/paid service?
NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
It's weird. Back then, we would try our darnest to skip over the commercials, but now whenever I go back to watch old tapes of stuff I recorded off TV (mostly Cartoon Network), I only watch the commercials.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
mine looked like a Ferrari!
an uncle still has his VCR next to his BR Plaayer, he is such an old school fool lol then again he has a big collection of VHS Movies
The worst noise was the "CRUNCH!" tha happened when the tape you rented was being destroyed by the VCR. How did this outlast Minidisc? :-\
perfectchaos007
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So last year's Yearly Total from Media Create
WiiU:877.082
VCR: 750.000
That's scarily close
WiiU:877.082
VCR: 750.000
That's scarily close
Tom Nook
Member
Man, I would love to watch the commercials during the 90's Nickelodeon, Fox Kids era.
MrCunningham
Member
Oh man, in grade 4-5 elementary school I had this one teacher that would wheel out the TV/ VCR for the class to watch Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. I was in that teachers class for two years straight (as it was a split class), and because of her, must have seen that movie a half a dozen times when I was like 10-11 years old.
She also had a model Enterprise refit on the filing cabinet behind her desk.
blame space
Banned
can somebody post that guys that reviews VCRs on YouTube
Nerdkiller
Membeur
"BD".
What's really amazing is that Video CD is still a thing and continues to get new releases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7PbQTlv5ig
Ever been to Chinatown?
many places
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Strangelove77
Member
Time to stock up on vcrs. Once evil AI takes over all your high tech DVD and bluray players and play Adam Sandler movies nonstop, I'll still have my precious vcr and videotapes.
MrCunningham
Member
I actually have my parents old 4-Head Panasonic VCR that my dad purchased in 1983. It still works, shocking enough. It actually has a faux wood grain paneling and is a top loader. Even has a wired remote control. The thing weighs like a million pounds.
Tom Nook
Member
or a boring PBS documentary where the assignment is to write a page on what you learned.
Pr0n. Thousands of it. Waiting to fill that VHS's slot.
andythinkpad
Member
Fortunately Red Letter Media is still repairing them.
Reminds me of the Japanese guy just dumping his VHS porn in the park.
I read (but years ago) that VHS releases outdid DVD releases by more than the double amount, and BR are even less than DVD. So there's plenty of content that are not available from other media.
Thinking about, in some decades all this obsolete media will be harder to read and without parts will be more difficult by the year.
I suppose it's the same as the floppy disks, no one uses them anymore and I bet there's a lot of data in no other format that could be lost forever.
Thinking about, in some decades all this obsolete media will be harder to read and without parts will be more difficult by the year.
I suppose it's the same as the floppy disks, no one uses them anymore and I bet there's a lot of data in no other format that could be lost forever.
MrCunningham
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I've got a fondness for old random tapes recorded years ago, you're never quite sure what you're going to get. I've got a tape of a Christmas day from some years ago - I didn't date it, and can't check, but probably about '02 - that I think would be a strange experience to watch in ten, twenty years' time. It's sometimes interesting to see the warts-and-all representation of old television, with the continuity and adverts intact.
I still have a VCR. I don't know if it still works. But I'd love to keep the option of finding random tapes and just delving in as a sort of magical mystery tour.
(Another thing that has similar appeal is old C90 cassettes from the days of 8-bit gaming with a ton of dodgy stuff on them. I've spent whole days going through those, just as a completely random varied gaming experience. What with quite a lot of Spectrum games being legitimately distributable, now, it'd be quite fun to go in to a random emulated C90 'blind' and find out what you stumble onto)
I still have a VCR. I don't know if it still works. But I'd love to keep the option of finding random tapes and just delving in as a sort of magical mystery tour.
(Another thing that has similar appeal is old C90 cassettes from the days of 8-bit gaming with a ton of dodgy stuff on them. I've spent whole days going through those, just as a completely random varied gaming experience. What with quite a lot of Spectrum games being legitimately distributable, now, it'd be quite fun to go in to a random emulated C90 'blind' and find out what you stumble onto)
BAW
Banned
The PS3 of VCRs!
FreedomFighter
Member
I'm amazed that production is being ceased for these relics in 2016! Holy hell, I didn't even know they were still made!
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