Tweet
Still use mine all the time. Nothing but good memories throughout my life. Can still remember the HUGE deal it was in my neighborhood as a kid because we were the first family on the block to have a VCR.
-
-
RIP the VCR?????? NEVER
-
I appreciate it for what it was and able me to do...but it's just man made technology, not a family member...and don't miss it at all...thank god for DVD, Blu-Ray, and DVR...
...I'm sure one day, when the next thing, implanted straight to your brain holographic recording device is invented...that I'm not going to miss the DVD, Blu-Ray, or DVR either, lol...sigpicComment
-
Ok, Mego and toys are also man made...but I'd miss those if they were to totally disappear...
sigpicComment
-
I'll always hold a soft spot for it, but I don't get people who prefer to watch things on video tape. The quality just isn't there compared to HD/Blu-Ray, etc. With vinyl vs. digital, you do have that warm sound factor. I can see that, and even agree to it to some point. The only appeal VHS has against modern mediums has to do with the overuse of tampering with picture, color, brightness, and of course digitally monkeying with things (ala Lucas). Other than that, its inferior.
That being said, it was an exciting day when we got our first VCR in 1984, the same year the Franklins got cable AND a microwave!
ChrisComment
-
How will we watch our new He-Man tapes?!!?!?!?Comment
-
On thing VCR's had going for them that still can't be surpassed today.
The ease of recording a TV show ... stopping it to cut out commercials etc... And finally recording over it when you get tired of it.
I think when DVD's and even Blu's were invented they secretly took the above into consideration so people would not be able to easily do the above.Comment
-
Signalling that it's time for me to start hoarding VCR's. Not that I've used one in twenty years, but I still like the IDEA of them.
I kind of get a kick out of the idea that we'll start seeing them pop up in antique malls and such over the next little while.Comment
-
I have the VHS, DVD player, works nicely if you have VHS tapes not copyrighted so you can transfer onto dvd's
plus I like to record shows/movies off the tv onto a DVD, also can watch Blu-Ray on my PS4 system.Comment
-
You are absolutely right. Being able to watch pretty much anything and everything that is available to be watched in the history of TV and movies via the internet, on demand, with a few clicks and a bit of typing certainly can't beat that.
Although this ease of availability does make me nostalgic for the days when there was a certain degree of satisfaction in hunting down video rarities. I'm sure many of us have fond memories of tape-trading what we perceived as treasure on VHS back in the day because they might not be available commercially or in a particular geographical area. Whether it was bootleg concert footage if you were a fan of certain music or bands, a celebrity sex tape, kungfu/horror/monster/scifi movies from overseas, I know in Canada many of us really cherished tapes of MST3K because it wasn't aired up here. For the longest time you could only watch certain cult movies like Rocky Horror or Heavy Metal as bootlegs.
I will also concede that the one thing kids are really missing out on these days in regards to physical media, is the art of crafting a mixtape on magnetic cassette tape and gifting that physical object. Somehow the idea of sharing a digital online playlist lacks that romanticism of time and effort.Comment
-
I don't understand why they would stop making them. I don't know about the rest of you...but VCR's/VHS is more popular now than it's been for the better part of the last 2 decades. With the collectors market the way it is it's not a time to stop making them. Remember one thing...there are a hell of a lot more movies/tv series that STILL haven't been released on DVD/Blu Ray than there are officially released on DVD/Blu Ray. Most have to do with royalties for music in said TV series and Movies."When not too many people can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears,
Their eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Isn't it a pity".
- "Isn't It A Pity"
By George Harrison
My Good Buyers/Sellers/Traders list:
Good Traders List - Page 80 - Mego TalkComment
-
The reason I still use mine is to watch old obscure movies that were never made on DVD and old shows I taped when I was young. I like the old commercials.
I wouldn't go so far as to say the VCR was like a family member however we knick named or VCR "the tank" because that thing lasted from 1981-2005. We had 2 knock off brands in our household in that time period but they would break after 2 years or so but the tank kept going and going. My mom even called me at work to tell me that the tank had eventually stopped working haha.Comment
-
You are a bold and courageous person, afraid of nothing. High on a hill top near your home, there stands a dilapidated old mansion. Some say the place is haunted, but you don't believe in such myths. One dark and stormy night, a light appears in the topmost window in the tower of the old house. You decide to investigate... and you never return...Comment
-
Yeah, my family was a fairly early adaptor of a heavy, metal, Panasonic top loading VCR the size of a breadbox. Back in the days where it was still huge expensive luxury item, and likely shared production a and parts with the industrial models. My mom was still taping her chinese soap operas on it in the early 2000's.
As they came down in price and become multiple fixtures within a household, with much more plastic and tendencies for breakage, I'll assume the manufacturers pretty much had that built-in obsolescence/breakage as a purposeful component of the design and life-time of the VCR. Why sell one big sturdy VCR to a single family for a twenty year period, rather than multiple VCR's in a household over a fairly planned period towards obsolescence (particularly once DVD's came on the scene).
whenever I came back home for a visit to my parents and siblings in the 90's, the number of TV/VCR/DVD's in the household grew until there was pretty much a set of them in just about every room in the house.Last edited by samurainoir; Jul 25, '16, 2:34 PM.Comment
Comment