darsparx wrote:something in me tells me they'd look great
Sadly, no. Despite my love of both formats, VHS, like audio cassette, is an objectively inferior medium compared to later tech.
Now, if you can appreciate the inherent shittiness of tape like some can (including myself), then dive right in. Just know that each time you play that tape is one step closer to killing it. And for the love of fried rice, don't use the deck to rewind. Get a rewinder.
^come on bone everyone knows the cool kids stick to component systems
Apartment reviews seem absolutely useless. I don't think anyone ever even bothers leaving a review unless they're pissed at something. Kinda skews things a lot and probably scared me away from seriously looking at places that would probably be fine (and inexpensive). I keep seeing complaints about things like thin walls or hot water taking a bit to come on, and that's like... that's just pretty typical apartment stuff.
Apartment hunting when you can't actually go visit any of these places is aggravating. I'd take any 2 bedroom place at this point in my price range honestly if we can get in there quickly and smoothly.
AppleQueso wrote:
Apartment reviews seem absolutely useless. I don't think anyone ever even bothers leaving a review unless they're pissed at something. Kinda skews things a lot and probably scared me away from seriously looking at places that would probably be fine (and inexpensive). I keep seeing complaints about things like thin walls or hot water taking a bit to come on, and that's like... that's just pretty typical apartment stuff.
Apartment hunting when you can't actually go visit any of these places is aggravating. I'd take any 2 bedroom place at this point in my price range honestly if we can get in there quickly and smoothly.
Any apartments near colleges? Those tend to get tons of reviews due to the frequent turnover.
But yeah, people love to accentuate the negative. My college discussion boards have a "slumlords" folder which is 100 times more active than any discussions about nice apartments.
AppleQueso wrote:
Apartment reviews seem absolutely useless. I don't think anyone ever even bothers leaving a review unless they're pissed at something. Kinda skews things a lot and probably scared me away from seriously looking at places that would probably be fine (and inexpensive). I keep seeing complaints about things like thin walls or hot water taking a bit to come on, and that's like... that's just pretty typical apartment stuff.
Apartment hunting when you can't actually go visit any of these places is aggravating. I'd take any 2 bedroom place at this point in my price range honestly if we can get in there quickly and smoothly.
Any apartments near colleges? Those tend to get tons of reviews due to the frequent turnover.
But yeah, people love to accentuate the negative. My college discussion boards have a "slumlords" folder which is 100 times more active that any discussions about nice apartments.
It is Austin after all, University of Texas is there, and any place even within a reasonable driving distance from there seems to have a lot of students, so yeah.
darsparx wrote:something in me tells me they'd look great
Sadly, no. Despite my love of both formats, VHS, like audio cassette, is an objectively inferior medium compared to later tech.
Now, if you can appreciate the inherent shittiness of tape like some can (including myself), then dive right in. Just know that each time you play that tape is one step closer to killing it. And for the love of fried rice, don't use the deck to rewind. Get a rewinder.
Well usually I don't notice quality difference on most things(especially sound wise for some odd reason, especially at church when sound checking and others hear these odd sounds, but picture wise too for some odd reason). And now i know what that little device was that I remember having as a kid, too bad that I don't recall us ever really using it to rewind the tapes. But hey if I can somehow manage use a vhs player and rewinder maybe I can prolong and save up for the purchase of the dvd versions in one fell swoop(especially because I really want to watch some of the older cartoony 20th century fox movies I have). I don't know why but vhs sounds more interesting with having to rewind them each time and I was only reminded of them thanks to that dish commercial where the man jokes around about not rewinding discs before returning them in rentals
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bogusmeatfactory wrote:Ever feel like a wild gazelle in the wilderness?
I wonder if VHS had more content or DVD. VHS of course, lived much longer than DVD (30 years vs 18 years until now) .
This got me interested and I started looking. The majority are the cheesy B movies from the 80's and horror films, especially Italian ones. I guess the companies that own the rights to them don't see them as profitable enough to convert them to digital formats. On a DVD side note, I went to Biloxi a couple weeks ago and visited Jefferson Davis' house there. I was browsing the gift shop and the majority of DVD's were Civil War biopic and documentaries, as expected. Then a little farther down were about 20 copies of Song of the South, supposedly never on VHS, much less dvd. How they got it I dont know. They weren't bootleg and looked mass produced. I thought it was in bad taste to have a movie deemed so racist Disney stored it in its vault and refused to let it out in the gift shop of the house of the only President of the Confederacy.
I wonder if VHS had more content or DVD. VHS of course, lived much longer than DVD (30 years vs 18 years until now) .
This got me interested and I started looking. The majority are the cheesy B movies from the 80's and horror films, especially Italian ones. I guess the companies that own the rights to them don't see them as profitable enough to convert them to digital formats. On a DVD side note, I went to Biloxi a couple weeks ago and visited Jefferson Davis' house there. I was browsing the gift shop and the majority of DVD's were Civil War biopic and documentaries, as expected. Then a little farther down were about 20 copies of Song of the South, supposedly never on VHS, much less dvd. How they got it I dont know. They weren't bootleg and looked mass produced. I thought it was in bad taste to have a movie deemed so racist Disney stored it in its vault and refused to let it out in the gift shop of the house of the only President of the Confederacy.
It got a mass market release in the UK. I owned a copy on VHS when I was younger.
SirGawain wrote:supposedly never on VHS, much less dvd. How they got it I dont know. They weren't bootleg and looked mass produced.
Never released on VHS or DVD in the USA, but in Europe:
Granted it was most likely a bootleg you saw. Bootleggers have gotten DVD replication down to an art. Some bootleg DVDs I have bought were better than retail releases. In not only artwork, but features.
