VHS enthusiats

[RCBH928]

god i hope i spelled that right

I was wondering if any exist in the forums

I dunno if I consider myself one
I realise that dvd/bluray/digital has complete advantage over vhs
but vhs has that special place in my hart, basic its a nostalgia thing


IF any one knows
How long is a VCR lifetime?
I recall those malfunctioned constantly
and they arent making any more

I checked their prices and they r way up!
its like $300

[Ziggy]

I'll still watch VHS tapes. I wouldn't call myself an enthusiast, but I do enjoy watching them. Like you, mostly for nostalgia. Yes, DVDs are infinitely better than VHS, and there are no drawbacks.

I have a spare 19" (or so) TV with a built in VHS player that I put by my work bench so I can watch TV to keep me occupied if I'm working on something. I love to be able to pop in a movie if I wish. I have a ton of retail VHS movies. I also keep a VCR hooked up to my two main setups.

I would be more concerned with the life of the tapes than the player. I have a few older VCRs, one in particular that would decide to eat a tape from time to time. My newest one, that I bought new about 5-7 years ago, I hope will last as long as my tapes do. The tapes, I'm afraid wont last forever. Don't think to not play them often because they'll wear out. You might as well play them whenever you wish cause they'll wear out just sitting anyway. Tapes that I've kept in the basement for extended periods have worn way worse. Luckily, I keep all my tapes upstairs though.

What's $300? A VCR? I have this old VCR, it was my parents first VCR when they were married. It ways a ton and they said they paid like $500 for it back in the day. The VCR I bought, it weighs maybe just a pound or two and cost some where around $50.

[bryan_65]

I have this old VCR, it was my parents first VCR when they were married. It ways a ton and they said they paid like $500 for it back in the day.

I know that was a lot of money back in the day, but I wish they made stuff like they used to. Some of the old stuff that was made will out live the new cheap plastic crap.

I finally came to the point were all my VCR's crapped out on me and half of my tapes would get ate. Just about a month ago I gave all my tapes away. I am just tried of hoping things will work and not ruin any more tapes. I only kept my VCR's for a pass-though for my older systems and CRTs.

Sorry for the rant, I really did love VCR s and the tapes until they started to be made like crap. I'll use an analogy like a working NES (1985) and probably millions of RROD X Box 360s (2006). Nothing is made like it used to be.

[Nemoide]

I'm pretty sure I read that a VHS tape is designed to last only 10 years before the quality begins to degrade. However, there are obviously older tapes folks have that continue to play satisfactorily. You can't count on them forever. I've heard that it's good to play a tape every few years to keep the magnetic layer strongly magnetized, but I don't know if that's true or not.

I have some VHS tapes but I'm not much of an enthusiast. I recently got a seemingly unused commercial-quality VCR that was being thrown out as a school I was going to phased them out. It's pretty awesome, but only has coaxial output.

I only want VHS comics for titles that aren't easy to find on other formats. So I have a ridiculous old anime called Blue Sonnet that's really tough to find on laserdisc and was never released on DVD.
But for old "never-on-DVD" titles, I prefer to look for laserdiscs because the quality hypothetically won't degrade quite as quickly (although they do degrade as well). Plus putting a laserdisc in a player just feels awesome in a way VHS doesn't.

[Opa Opa]

I watch Ben-Hur on VHS still.

[Hatta]

I have a lot of old technology and I can't ever see revisiting VHS. I still have a couple players, but they haven't been used for anything but RF demodulation in over 5 years, and sparingly before that.

[Jrecee]

enthusiasts.

[Runefaust]

I use to manage a video store back when VHS was the mainstay in the living room. Now that I think about it, I remember when the DVD section was limited to a single shelf, lmao!

So it's really more nostalgia than enthusiasm for me. I still have my mini library of VHS movies, and a ton of recorded videos, but aside from the homemade videos there's really no point in me going back to that format other than nostalgia.

I always thought it was awesome how the VHS boxes were the same size as the Super Famicom game boxes, heheh.

[BoringSupreez]

I was wondering if any exist in the forums

I dunno if I consider myself one
I realise that dvd/bluray/digital has complete advantage over vhs
but vhs has that special place in my hart, basic its a nostalgia thing

I'm not an enthusiast or anything, but I still have plenty of tapes that I watch. And I'm not against saving $10 by buying the VHS version of a movie at the thrift store instead of getting it on DVD, if it's not a movie I absolutely love.

IF any one knows
How long is a VCR lifetime?
I recall those malfunctioned constantly
and they arent making any more

VCRs, in my experience, don't last much longer than 15 years if they are used regularly. They live pretty much indefinitely if they aren't used. And yes, they can malfunction, but it's worse with the cheap brands. Stick to nice VCRs, and it won't happen very often.

I checked their prices and they r way up!
its like $300

You're looking in the wrong places. They are like $5 at Salvation Army and similar stores. And last time I was at Walmart (a few days ago) they had several DVD/VCR combo units for sale, somewhere between $40 and $75.

[KillerJuan77]

I mostly watch horror films in VHS, the poor video quality sometimes enhances the atmosphere.