Anyone Still Have & Use a Betamax?

[theantiquetiger]

Just wondering...

and for all you young'ns who don't know what it is, google it

[HardyGirl]

Why is everybody looking at me?

I do have 3 VCRs but no Betamax, although I do have a beta tape I got by accident a LONG time ago.

[SeattleEd]

Not betamax. Just betacam and digibeta.

[mego73]

I have a Beta hi fi, hasn't been used in a while and I suspect that the mechanics would need to be refreshed before it could be used. But it is powered up and used as a audio level manipulator (it has audio level dials) for when I am editing together stuff on DVD so one source won't have higher audio levels then then other.

[Mikey]

Never owned one ...

Went from SelectaVision to VHS to DVD

[megoapesnut]

Proud owner, and user, of a Sony SL-HF900. I have a few old miniseries, old Errol Flynn movies and other odds and ends that I still watch on Beta

[Mr.Krusher]

Some of these archaic machines are highly valued...I know that there is one in a famous museum in the UK.

I actually always scour the fleas and GWs for 8-Track players...their designs remind me of the 'computer panels' of classic sci-fi.

"Selectavision"....WEIRD....

I remember freaking out when I found a VECTREX system at a GoodWill...I had NO idea what it was, and to make it even MORE of a science fiction curiosity for me, it came with a Star Trek game!!

[gaga4toyz]

We had a betamax right when they came out. Din't switch to VHS for a while because we didn't think it would catch on. I had the same problem when CD's came out, I was still buying Vinyl. I always wanted a VECTREX system. I remeber a cool asteroids game they had.

[alex]

Yep still have a betamax, with a 5 metre cable with a remote control at the end LOL. When my parents moved to Poland, my Dad thought that he would be clever and just record anything that moved on tv in England (at this time in Poland, U have to remember there were 3 channels, where half the time they were showing U how to grow bigger pigs, or get more potatos out of your field) So we have at least 500 tapes.

[Trappy Trek Freak]

I had BETA when I was a kid and the only place I could rent movies was Rite Aid for 99 cents. I remember watching James Bond movies on that thing and I had Wrath of Khan for it too.

[mego73]

I lived on Selectavision when I was a teenager. Parents wouldn't yet spring for a VCR and a RCA selectavision CED disc player was the only thing that played movies that was within striking distance of a high school kid's budget.

[Earth 2 Chris]

I vaguely recall Betamax, but all of these other things are new to me. We got our first VHS VCR in 1984. Same year we got a microwave and cable. The Franklins had finally entered the 20th century! We got running water two years earlier (I kid! I kid!).

Chris