Who remembers what a VHS is?

Post Reply New Topic

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

vhs HELL, who here remembers what BETA is? or what Umatic is?

The Walkman enabled the demise of the Boom Box. Ever see a 40 pound kid carry a 40 pound Boom Box? That's not too much of an exaggeration. I've personally seen 60 pound kids carrying 40 pound Boom Boxes.

The transistor radio, in the 60's and 70's, was similar to the Walkman, in that one could walk with it with headphones. There was no attachment, however, with a shirt pocket or whatever. Obviously, it could not play cassette tapes as well.

the Phillips compact cassette revolutionized music reproduction, making it truly portable for the first time.