Who remembers what a VHS is?

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Do I remember VHS? I remember the days before VHS, when, if you wanted to see something on TV, you had to be in when it was shown. Some neighbours had them when I was about 7, but I'm sure I was about 16 when my parents finally got one (when my husband appeared on the scene and introduced us to all the newfangled ideas). At that time, I had an old record player and, for Christmas, he bought me a midi system (with turntable and tape decks).

I have a VHS recorder set up with my TV and Cable box. Than there is a build in one on my TV in the livingroom. I was born long before VHS players or recorders went on the market. TV sets were just barely coming into the home when I was born. Yeah, those analog jobs with only 2 or 3 stations and had round little screens. I was one of the first people in my town to own a personal home computer as well. It didn't even have a hard drive and as long as it was left on the data was stored in chips. Back then, if I didn't want to lose the programs I worked so hard on I either had to print them out on these funky little printers that look more like adding machines or record them on a tape recorder. Talk about feeling old. LOL

I had a BetaMax. I was sure that would win out over VHS. I still, to this day, have Beta tapes I made of some interesting TV programmmes. (I keep believing that one fine day I'll meet someone with a functioning BetaMax.)

Yep. I still have a VHS player and several movies too. It makes me feel old...

VHS=Video Home System

I do! I do! Me me me! *Raises hand in the air and waves it around*

I had a TON of VHS tapes when I was a kid (mostly Disney and Land Before Time ones) and when the animated show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends was on Cartoon Network every Friday night, I would tape the episodes on VHs's, too. I think they're still at my parents' house. I'm still keeping them around, tho, cuz I found a combo DVD/VHS player a year or so ago. I have, however, gotten DVD versions of some of my favorite movies, such as Chicken Run and The Brave Little Toaster. I still want to get DVD versions of the first Land Before Time, Finding Nemo, and The Prince of Egypt, too.

For a time I sold VHS movies on Ebay. I managed to rack up a 100% positive rating, which is helpful on Ebay. But now I still have a shelf loaded with them, and my player has no audio. And I'm no longer interested in selling them for next to nothing and boxing them up for shipping.

I use VHS tapes all of the time.
Have one of those combo TV's that has both tape and a DVD player built into the TV set.

I tape shows all of the time.
Just taped an interview with the late Chuck Brown from local tv.

And half or more of my movie collection is on VHS.

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So VHS tapes are still very much in the present tense in my life.

I remember them very well, but I'm not a fan. There were sort of a luxury when I was born.

I still play most of my music on vinyl, though - but I wouldn't dream of going back to cassettes.

Yep. I remember when my parents and I got our first VHS VCR. I was about 10 or 11 at the time and thought it was the coolest thing ever.

I recorded a LOT of shows I wanted to keep. I remember attempting to get all of FRAGGLE ROCK when it aired on TNT, but at a certain point they stopped, so I didn't get the entire series. I think I'm missing the last season and a half--yes, I still have them, somewhere, even though I haven't attempted to play them in years, and I do have a combination VCR/DVD.

I was also deeply annoyed when the video rental stores started phasing out VHS tapes in favor of DVDs. (I felt the same way about the disappearance of 3.5" floppy disks, too.)