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17 Feb 2018, 2:52 am

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A year where I can travel the world....

well I hope for your sake that it is ASAP.



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17 Feb 2018, 12:40 pm

The thought of not remembering such a groundbreaking thing! 8O


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18 Feb 2018, 12:40 am

I wonder who else here ever used their VHS-HiFi decks to record music programs with off the radio?



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25 Nov 2023, 12:03 pm

I disn't know they were considered "Old fashion" until someone looked round our house recently as Mum has it for sale, and whilw in our garage they said "No one uses them any more" whils pointing at our video tapes and told us we needed to chuck them! We still use them! Wondered why they have dissapeared from shops and the video hire places have closed. Guess it is all DVD hire these days! (We do have a DVD player but we can't play those blue rays that some people have). :D


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25 Nov 2023, 12:08 pm

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I disn't know they were considered "Old fashion" until someone looked round our house recently as Mum has it for sale, and whilw in our garage they said "No one uses them any more" whils pointing at our video tapes and told us we needed to chuck them! We still use them! Wondered why they have dissapeared from shops and the video hire places have closed. Guess it is all DVD hire these days! (We do have a DVD player but we can't play those blue rays that some people have). :D


I believe at this point that streaming has largely replaced any sort of physical distribution methods, whether they be tapes or disks.


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25 Nov 2023, 12:18 pm

What is streaming anyway?


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25 Nov 2023, 12:25 pm

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What is streaming anyway?


Like Netflix.
The video isn't stored locally, it's downloaded as it plays but not stored at the user's end.


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25 Nov 2023, 12:26 pm

I have a VCR in my cupboard minus the plug unfortunately.


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25 Nov 2023, 12:32 pm

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I wonder who else here ever used their VHS-HiFi decks to record music programs with off the radio?


I own a hifi thing. I love it. It has twin cassette deck.

It's this exact model.

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25 Nov 2023, 12:42 pm

We didn't really switch to DVDs at my house until like 2006! I was 14, 15 ish


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25 Nov 2023, 12:48 pm

We had an 8 track player when I was a kid. That's how antique my house was.

8 track is like prehistoric cassette player type thing for those who don't know


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25 Nov 2023, 12:57 pm

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We had an 8 track player when I was a kid. That's how antique my house was.

8 track is like prehistoric cassette player type thing for those who don't know


Compact Cassettes were on the market before the Stereo 8, for what it's worth.

Compact Cassettes had poor sound quality at first, which led to the 8 track gaining more of a market hold for music initially.


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25 Nov 2023, 12:59 pm

I didn't know that

We had the player but I can't ever remember seeing any cassettes for it.


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25 Nov 2023, 1:08 pm

I've still got about half a dozen functioning VHS players and more than 300 tapes, some homemade, some commercially produced. From time to time I transfer the contents of a VHS tape to recordable dvd, and from there to a hard drive, but I still find it difficult to throw out a VHS tape when it's still in excellent condition, as most of mine are, even after thirty or more years. I'd gladly donate most of my homemade tapes to someone who would give them a good home, but finding such persons is probably close to impossible.


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25 Nov 2023, 1:16 pm

babybird wrote:
I didn't know that

We had the player but I can't ever remember seeing any cassettes for it.


I don't think my folks have had an 8-track player in the house within my lifetime, although I know they've had them. I've only ever seen the tapes at second hand stores.

Meanwhile cassettes, we had a player when I was a kid (I've owned a boombox with one as well). I still have some Maxell tapes I've never opened. I've got about 40 mix tapes and about the same number of pre-recorded tapes.

I have Divine Intervention on cassette, with the booklet signed by all four members of Slayer at the time.


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25 Nov 2023, 1:17 pm

Still have ordinary cassette player but don't know 8 track.


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