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Post by Pharozonk on Jan 4, 2016 17:43:01 GMT -5
Anyone here collect movies in VHS tape form? I grew up at the tail end of the VHS era (1996-2005ish), but I've recently dusted off my parent's old VCR and started reliving my memories of Friday night trips going to the video store again by buying VHS tapes again.  To all VHS cinephiles out there, what's been in your VCR slot? |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 4, 2016 19:25:49 GMT -5
I miss the ease of use of VHS, and for all the stocking power of DVDs or Blue-rays, I never came across a bad VHS tape... but purchased my share of bad disks that had to be returned.
The most recent thing I watched on tape was Santa Claus is Coming to Town, but I intend to watch the original Star Wars saga sometime in the near future (the non-special edition, where the only unwanted addition is that it says "episode 4: a new hope" before the opening roll!)
Long live the tape!
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Jan 4, 2016 20:16:38 GMT -5
in my latest big move, I pondered on whether the VHS' were a goner... Well, I'm now still on top of around 250 carefully selected weird movies on VHS, some with the best dubbing ever. I collected a lot of tapes from videoclubs (used to work in one for 5 years part-time), the ones that had advertising at the begining, which was highly unlikely back then in France, especially since advertising for alhcool is prohibited over there, and most of the commercials in VHS' were.
I got a quasi complete collection of Godfrey Ho french dubbed ninja movies, the pride of my collection!
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Jan 4, 2016 20:19:23 GMT -5
Oh, and I love that this spawed movies about VHS' and videoclube, as with vinyl. You don't see CDs and DVD/BlueRays inspiring directors the same way, there will unlikely be any nostalgia for those...
(shit I now remember I still have my Laserdisc player with a few discs...)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2016 20:43:57 GMT -5
oh my god, I watched my recording of "The Last Unicorn" so much it would stop and start warping/breaking/doing weird sh!t in places, and I would cry until my dad would take the tape out, do-whatever-he-did to fix it, then put it back in, and fast forward it to where I was before the tape messed up. I'm with Roquefort Raider, though, the ease of use with VHS is something DVD/Blu-Ray will NEVER have.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 4, 2016 22:16:25 GMT -5
Be Kind- Rewind
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2016 23:03:01 GMT -5
I still have 2 working VCRs and at least a hundred vhs tapes that I have at my parents house. I have 1 at my apartment which I still use every couple of months.
There are still so many great movies that were never released yet on Dvd or Blu ray that I have in my collection. I just can't seem to part with them.
Remember when the tape would jam and sounded all garbled like the machine was eating it up? Ah...those were the days.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2016 6:51:20 GMT -5
I still have 2 working VCRs and at least a hundred vhs tapes that I have at my parents house. I have 1 at my apartment which I still use every couple of months. There are still so many great movies that were never released yet on Dvd or Blu ray that I have in my collection. I just can't seem to part with them. Remember when the tape would jam and sounded all garbled like the machine was eating it up? Ah...those were the days. I YES. I remember those. We just recently tossed out a bunch of video tapes that my dad had. We were cleaning house after my mom passed, and my dad wanted to get rid of a bunch of his stuff as well. I think he recorded every single episode of The Grand Old Opry ever made. |
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Post by shaxper on Jan 5, 2016 12:29:14 GMT -5
While I feel no particular need to watch Blu Ray over DVD (it's a nice perk, but hardly a necessity), I really really don't enjoy watching things on VHS anymore.
HOWEVER...I do totally geek out over VHS recordings of things off of television. I love seeing all the old commercials, or even the edited for TV versions of movies.
It's funny. As a kid, these were the tapes I valued the least, and now they're the only ones I still want. I've actually burned several of my own old VHS tapes from TV onto DVD so that they won't degrade any further.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Jan 5, 2016 12:55:17 GMT -5
As someone who's worked for videoclubs, I can tell you that the industry hated DVDs as they tend to get damaged much easier than those bulky VHS, a format that is still in use for preserving certain types of data as it can be extremely precise in the details it captures. But they sure take more room and the magnetic principle can indeed detriate under certain conditions. But a good quality virgin VHSshould still be great even 30 years after production, while many CDs only have a 15-20 years span of life. But again, I'm not saying I'd trust VHS over DVDs/etc nowadays, just that that technology is far more reliable than we've been told with the dawn of digital formats |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jan 5, 2016 12:59:59 GMT -5
Well 99% of my anime is on VHS. I think Akira is only thing I've bought on DVD. So while I have no preference in the format of which I watch something (I am more of surround sound snob than a visual one) I will own a VCR for as long as I own my anime. I do have other recorded and pre-recorded tapes too, and most of them things I have not, nor have any real intention to get on DVD. The only exceptions were JP movies and SW prequels as the kids have/do watch them a lot over the years.
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Post by MatthewP on Jan 5, 2016 14:31:28 GMT -5
I'm a bit surprised at all the love for VHS. When DVD came out I embraced it fully. Better picture, no worries about jammed up tapes or rewinding, and all in a smaller package (with the space my DVDs/Blu-Rays take, I would be crowded out of the house if it were all on VHS!).
Yet VHS does have some nostalgia value. At a music/video store last week I saw they had a tape of some new horror movie which was released on VHS for old-school fans. I guess there is a market for that sort of thing.
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Post by Randle-El on Jan 5, 2016 15:01:20 GMT -5
The only videocassette format worth getting nostalgic over is Beta.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jan 5, 2016 15:25:58 GMT -5
My first VHS player was a 50 lb. monster from Panasonic in 1979. The stop/play/record/forward and rewind buttons were like piano keys. It was a huge clunker but lasted 10 years
I have no nostalgic feelings for the VHS format. DVD picture and sound quality win out in a landslide. Bulky videocassettes took up way too much room. Waiting 10 minutes to fast forward or rewind a film was a pain. Scanning a picture forwards or backwards would wear out the recording heads and cause problems down the road. Tracking adjustments to keep the picture steady was a horror. Videotape jamming in the machine, creasing or completely breaking....Thank god we moved on
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jan 5, 2016 16:34:00 GMT -5
My first VHS player was a 50 lb. monster from Panasonic in 1979. The stop/play/record/forward and rewind buttons were like piano keys. It was a huge clunker but lasted 10 years I have no nostalgic feelings for the VHS format. DVD picture and sound quality win out in a landslide. Bulky videocassettes took up way too much room. Waiting 10 minutes to fast forward or rewind a film was a pain. Scanning a picture forwards or backwards would wear out the recording heads and cause problems down the road. Tracking adjustments to keep the picture steady was a horror. Videotape jamming in the machine, creasing or completely breaking....Thank god we moved on My first VCR was from 1983, and was somewhat smaller. The wired remote was a complete pain in the butt. I actually ended up cutting the wire and splicing in a long wire that went around the walls of the room to avoid tripping on the wire anymore.
I also feel the same way about VHS. It was all we had available (Beta had already largely bowed out) so it was what we used. I still have a VCR today because it still works and I have some stuff only on tape, but given the choice I'll watch a DVD/Blu-ray anytime. I still remember recording shows off TV, several to a tape, and then later fast forwarding and rewinding over and over to try to find the beginning of one of the shows. Total pain.
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