The memories of VHS

[ubelaffe]

I still keep some vhs tapes around. I picked up some gems back in the early days of dvd when vhs was cheaper and I was only in high school and broke. Also, a lot of the stuff I want(ed) to see never made a DVD release. To see "Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park" I had to get it on vhs. Also, there's something about watching a really horrible 80's-90's horror flick on vhs.

With the move to digital, there is an actual physical lack of depth in the projection of the movie. It's part of why I still pay to go to a theatre. There's just something great about film.

[Anayo]

Was the Star Wars Holiday Special preserved through VHS tapes?

[Ziggy]

[quote="lordofduct]count 3, all three are part of the war unlike your beta/vhs/dvd mount. DVD wasn't around during the beta/vhs war, and beta wasn't around during the DVD/vhs war... and that was hardly a war, that was a progression (the vhs to dvd part). With BD and HD-DVD on the market trying to absorb a share in the film distribution, you have a war. You have 3 guys, all viable storage mediums, and all 3 have supporters who want them to win or stay. When DVD came along, we were ready as a market to get rid of our VHS tapes en mass. We aren't ready to toss away our DVDs for the next best thing. It thusly is part of the war.[/quote]

Yeah, but I look at DVD to Blu Ray as a progression just like VHS to DVD, which I find different then Blu Ray vs HD DVD. It's just weird that it's taking place this soon.

But to go back on topic, I still have all of my VHS tapes save for my 007 box sets which I sold (taking up too much room, plus I got the new DVD box sets). I plan to keep my VHS tapes until I either have them all on DVD or they stop working. One of these days I need to stock up on some blank VHS tapes because, as I said in my other post, I find the timer programmer very useful like a DVR. I don't see them around too often, but when I do they're usually very cheap, like a 5 pack for 5 dollars.

[executioner]

When anime first came out here, it was all VHS. Store bought or bootleg/dub'd, if you wanted anime, it was VHS. Some purist (read: fanboys) had LD's, but it was too much dough for my ass back then. I still have few shelves of tapes collecting dust, never to be watched again...too much new shit coming out plus so easy to get with the internet.

On a side note, I never got into collecting DVDs after I looked at all the VHS tapes I had plucked money down on.

I remember the days of copying vhs anime tapes, it was the only way to get it and sometimes you had a copy of a copy of a copy with so low quality but you didn't care. We had betamax when I was a kid then we switch to vhs when video rentals didn't want to bring beta tapes anymore. The bad thing about that format was the duration, humidity just kills them.

[fastbilly1]

I still think the best way to watch kungfu is on VHS. Granted my BBC Scifi collection on VHS is growing monthly - Red Dwarf and Doctor Who mostly, though there are some others mixed in.

[Pulsar_t]

I revived this topic to ask a question..



For VHS aficionados they made a film called Be Kind Rewind.. Anyone watched it?

[Ack]

Yes, and it was bloody brilliant. I loved every minute of it.

[Pulsar_t]

Fantastic! That's all what I needed to hear to (ironically ) order the DVD!

[lordofduct]

Yeah I got the movie as well...

not a big fan of Jack Black, actually I find him really annoying and I want to punch him in the face when I see movies he is in.

But he is all right in this film. I didn't want to punch him as frequently, and when I did it seemed more like I wanted to punch the character and not Jack Black for being Jack Black.



Mos Def on the other hand, love him!

[ubelaffe]

I was really really skeptical about that flick, but it turned out to be GREAT.

I'm glad this topic got revived. I just recently got some gems on vhs. Masters of the Universe(live action), Night of the Zombies, Shane, High Plains Drifter, and a few others...