Who remembers what a VHS is?

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the first pre-recorded VHS I ever saw was a pink picture, in 1984. didn't see my first mainstream movie until I was in the army circa 1985. I saw my first sony Betamax in action at the seattle uwajimayas store in 1975, and I remember being amazed and impressed with the picture quality on a sony Trinitron 19" set that was playing the tape.

One of the first videos I watched was "Back to the future". My father had borrowed it from a colleague.

There were 3 videos I played over and over as a child. "Mystery at Castle House" (Aussie kiddie movie), "Lassie Rescue Ranger" cartoon, and Pink Floyd's "The Wall" (which really annoyed my father, who owned the latter, but I liked it so much so I still played it when I thought he wouldn't find out).

I remember VHS very well; my family only got rid of our player and most tapes this time last year (save family videos). I was also learned how to use cassettes as a 5 year old, and still have my CD Walkman (which I used on a car trip last summer because my iPod died). I also found my dads surprisingly well-preserved record collection and we've resolved to buy a turntable sometime soon.

I actually remember my first DVD. When I was 7 (early 2004), we went to Target, bought a VHS/DVD combo player, and got the oh-so memorable Disney Peter Pan sequel (you know, one of those straight-to-video Disney movies). A week later my mom signed up for Netflix and the first thing we got was Pollyanna.

I've got boxes full of VHS tapes that I have to make myself dub onto DVD-R someday soon. like a time capsule they contain 1980s television programming on them, commercials and all.

Yeah, hell I even remember what beta is!

We didn't get a VCR until I was primary school aged. My family wasn't that well off. I remember using it all the time to record the Rage top 50 off the TV on a saturday morning.

I dont TiVo.

Still use blank VHS's to tape stuff to this day.

Just watched "Parenthood" on VHS because I heard on WP that it has aspie characters- so I taped it because its after my bedtime (gotta be at work at 6am).

I think they still sell blank VHS tapes at the drugstore (though I havent checked extremely recently).

But I rarely ever bought blank VHS's anyway, because I recycle triple X'ers alot (just put a piece of electrical tape of that square notch in the corner). Recording over a normal hollywood film is like defacing a book ( its just not done), but one gets tired of a triple Xer fast and theyre fair game. So most of my homemade VHS library of PBS shows and Turner Movie Classics is on what were originally porno tapes.

I had VHS tapes of some of the Land Before Time films growing up, and I still have the one for Lilo & Stitch sitting on my self.

I have a VHS copy of the gary Larson cartoon video.

Heh, I remember my parents didn't even get a DVD player at home until 2002 or 2003. For a good portion of my childhood, most of the movies that I watched were on VHS. Even through junior high and high school, many of the films we watched in class were on VHS, as it was just too cost-prohibitive for the schools I went to to transfer their existing VHS libraries to DVD.

Needless to say, I have an appreciation for the format, with its warm-sounding audio, distortion artifacts, fuzzy picture... brings back so many good memories.

If I ever go into filmmaking, I want to shoot my first film on VHS, preferably with one of those bigass oldschool camcorders.

the VHS era was back when I was still young and healthy compared to now, so it has a nostalgic value for that reason. but I realize that tape [audio/video/data] was just a transitory format between analog disc and digital [non-tape] storage methods.

i remember. we still have a lot of tapes.

Oh my gracious I feel old. I don't miss rewinding.

I threw away a lot of tapes when I moved as I had more than enough to carry w/o dozens of tapes on top of it.......but only stuff I could find later.

BASF 5 hr tapes was the worst crap *ever* , always faulty........I always used to joke that the germans invented those (out of spite) cuz they lost the war