When did VHS tapes become obsolete? As in, when did stores stop stocking VHS tapes of movies and tv show box sets (mostly best of's)? I want to say, 2. This awesome Feature Presentation introduction with is bombastic score and its extremely 80s era effects work is one of those pieces of media that is burned into the memory of anyone who was subscribed during the decade. Darksiders Peliculas Completas En Espa My elderly parents still have a VHS player and are comfortable with it. Sometimes I'll go to a big thrift store and just fill a basket with tapes. They're usually 50 cents or 3 for $1, and when they've watched one they can. Anonymousreply 1. I don't know, but I still own a ton of VHS tapes. Anonymousreply 1. Anonymousreply 2. I know VHS was still dominant in 2. I moved to LA. Sometimes I'll go to a big thrift store and just fill a basket with tapes. They're usually 5. Anonymousreply 5. I prefer VHS tape to DVR. It's funny to think that movies prominently featuring VHS tapes like . We have the option to dl, but when it comes to an actual physical purchase, Blu- ray is it. Anonymousreply 1. There's stuff they put on VHS that will never be put on DVD. And TV shows I taped that are priceless. I use both Twitter and Facebook since each have specific uses. Facebook, for me, is more closed than Twitter. Mostly they are people I have meet in person, chatted with online, or a friend introduced me. Finally, and once again: to all those who have been successfully programmed and propagandized to view most news out of China with scepticism, cynicism or outright sino-phobia - a reminder that range-busting Marco Loglio is a. The Spell My Name with an 'S' trope as used in popular culture. This trope describes characters whose names are almost never spelled consistently, usually April 1 Best film series of all time. My candidates: n = 3 Lord of the Rings; n = 4 Alien; n = 6 Star Wars; n = 7 Harry Potter (when finished); n = 20+ James Bond; Any other suggestions? This is a reference desk. So I've kept my two VCRs. Anonymousreply 1. KING CRIMSON Eclectic Prog Furk.net is your personal secure storage that fetches media files and lets you stream them immediately You can use it to stream video or listen to your music from PC, smartphone, HTPC or even a game console (XBOX, PS3). Is anyone else a fan of the Found Footage Festival? It's two guys who travel the country with weird clips from VHS tapes - - commercials, instructional tapes, exercise tapes, public access TV, etc. It's hilarious. Here's a commercial for Linda Evans' . I've recently been transferring a lot of shows to DVD and hoping the VCRs last long enough to complete the job. It's funny how attitudes change. A coworker said he tried donating his VHS tapes to a homeless shelter. They still didn't want them. Fewer interactive options, but the movies look better. Anonymousreply 2. R1. 9, I have tapes that date back to 1. The video boxes were on display and you would detach a little Velcro chip and hand it to the movie nerd behind the counter where they actually kept the tapes. They must have invested a fortune in them and I wonder what happened to them all. Much of that stuff will never be released again. They did transition to buying stuff on DVD around 2. Netfilx about five years ago. I still miss the experience of browsing there for something to watch on a weekend night. I haven't had a VHS player hooked up for almost a decade now. Anonymousreply 2. I remember seeing first DVDs and DVD players sometime around 1. At the time, hardly any people I knew had one and the price of players was prohibitively high. I think it was around 2. DVDs started becoming increasingly popular and I used to watch them on my laptop's DVD drive before I bought my first player shortly afterwards. Anonymousreply 2. I'd love to have VHS tapes of TV shows with the commercials on them. I miss old tv commercials. Anonymousreply 2. I love my Laser Disc player. Anonymousreply 2. VHS?! Yes, they rent out DVD's, but with Netflix and Redbox, I just don't get how they stay in business. There are still some people who don't want to stream movies and who want to watch something besides the new releases available at Redbox. I don't imagine there are enough of those people to keep the rental places going for long but there may always be a rental market for rare, obscure, cult and foreign titles that aren't readily available to stream or download. Anonymousreply 3. Oh god, I miss VHS tapes so much. It was funny how you had to pay a small fine if you returned the tape unrewinded to the video store. I know you can download any movie you want now from torrent sites in a matter of minutes but I still preferred the trips to the video rental shops. Those were the days! Anonymousreply 3. Be kind. Rewind. by Anonymousreply 3. Use my dual deck VCR everyday. No no pay for Tivo or cable company DVR. Anonymousreply 3. That's a LOT of work for so many tapes! Anonymousreply 4. R4. 1 Apparently they don't have strict air quality laws in your area. Anonymousreply 4. Have a few VHS movies that have never come out on DVD including LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR. I'll hold onto that until it gets a proper (if ever) release on DVD. I still have a combo Sony VHS? DVD player and blu ray player in the den. And a Go dual deck VHS which I haven't used in years but don't want to throw it out just yet. Anonymousreply 4. At the time, hardly any people I knew had one and the price of players was prohibitively high. I bought my first DVD player in 1. It smells like honeysuckle most of the year (R4. Anonymousreply 4. I love my VHS tapes. Anonymousreply 5. I have watched movies on Netflix streaming and on Amazon prime and the picture quality isn't as good as Blu- ray or even DVD. Their HD content has the picture quality of DVD and their Standard definition content as the picture quality of the VHS. If they improve their picture quality then I might consider using them. Until then I'll stick with Blu- ray and DVD. Anonymousreply 5. I love coming across old soap operas from the eighties. The hair was the best at that time. The bigger the better. Anonymousreply 5. Some independent films and many foreign films are hard to come by if you rely on net- flicks or red- box. Anonymousreply 5. I still have my VHS and lots of tapes including many porn. A few years ago I gave someone like 1. I had. I still have like 4. I haven't looked at them in years. I actually was going through some this past weekend to throw away. Anyone want them? Anonymousreply 5. Anonymousreply 5. I used to love going to Erol's video store and renting movies. Anonymousreply 5. I found one of those old Erol's bags in my garage. And I haven't lived in the area since 1. Anonymousreply 5. Netflix is going the way of Blockbuster. Everyone I know uses the on demand video service from their cable providers. And if not, they're with Redbox. What a pointless, meaningless anecdote. Anonymousreply 5. The bad thing about Redbox is you only have newer movies. But I would prefer paying Redbox $1. Comcast does. by Anonymousreply 6. LOL, I just bought two VCR players at Goodwill last weekend. Anonymousreply 6. I'm not going to find that there. I like finding out about an old actor or actress and then seeing what I can of their work. They don't replace their older DVD's that have become lost and only stream but a fragment of what they could. Anonymousreply 6. Streamed a few movies over the weekend with Netflix using my roku. The picture kept getting blurry every three or four minutes. My internet speed was fine as I tested it using my smartphone. My computer connection was fine, so I'm inclined to believe that streaming just plain sucks and I should stick to DVD'sby Anonymousreply 6. I guess 'cause as a kid, my parents forbade anything electronic. We did have an ancient TV with rabbit ears (this was the '9. We could get Fox and the WB if we fiddled with the antennae, but even then it was fuzzy. So when our parents were out, my sibs and I really had to strain to watch MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, THE SIMPSONS, BUFFY, DAWSON'S CREEK, etc. That's why I think it doesn't bother me if the picture is not crystal clear. HOwever, I have a friend who's a . And it did happen fast. Anonymousreply 7. I'm still hanging onto my only VCR (a TV combi unit) because I've got family home videos and I haven't gotten around to buying a cable to connect a VCR to a computer and figuring out what program to use to copy them to hard disc. Anonymousreply 7. R4. 1 So you were equally concerned that no one else ever see your family reunion videos as well as your homemade porn? Anonymousreply 7. Im almost done getting rid of DVDs. Anonymousreply 7. We're weird, but we enjoy watching, say, a movie taped off of TNT in the early or mid- '9. Anybody else here have the Joan Crawford ? Margulies and Rebello hosted. Not something that will ever make its way to DVD, Blu. Ray, or streaming.. VHS. That said, I find it hard to believe there are people feeling nostalgic for the . Good riddance. by Anonymousreply 7. Who had a non- chain local video store? Did anyone ever know any place that was like Video Archives? Blu- Ray is still the best way to view movies! Anonymousreply 8. Another thing that became obsolete- floppy disks and floppy disk drives. Embarrassingly, I used a usb floppy disk drive until the end of 2. That was more trouble than it was worth. Thank god for flash drives. Anonymousreply 8. Blu- Ray is still the best way to view movies! True. Many new vehicles no longer offer them as standard equipment it seems. Anonymousreply 8. I miss old tv commercials. They're all over youtube, hon. Anonymousreply 8. I find it sad to visit someone's home, especially a hookup, and see some OCD maintained and loved collection of DVDs or CDs. God bless if you love your collection. OK some old geezer with a priceless vinyl collection, and a very fine HIFI, OK. Does having them in alphabetical order count? Anonymousreply 9. You can get Dolby Digital Plus on a Roku player when streaming Netflix or Vudu. Anonymousreply 9. I have a huge collection of VHS tapes that I won't get rid of. They still play pretty good. Better than Netflix, in MHO. Anonymousreply 9. I grab vcrs when I can from family members who are throwing them out or whatever. Tapes and vcrs both degrade and then the tapes get stuck or eaten. I have a huge collection of tapes. I've converted some but I don't have the time to do all of them. I have to admit I don't throw out the tapes afterwards because what if the DVD gets fucked up or the digital file gets wiped. The only thing I think most people can't save things that aired on TV anymore. Dvr is so ephemeral unless it's a popular show that gets torrented. Like my little cousin was on the news and her mom dvred it but couldn't make a tape to send grandma. I have a Dvr with hard drive and DVD Burner but most people don't. We finally got the cable company dvr because we were forced into it and it sucks ass. Fast forwarding the cable dvr is even less precise than the vcr. So I still record on my hard drive dvr which has better functions like commercial skip and ability to bookmark or split and edit out commercials. And no monthly fee. Anonymousreply 9. Alphebetical order is fine. He likes drill sergeant - private - boot camp role play. Anonymousreply 9. No. So what would an OCD maintained DVD collection look like? Anonymousreply 9. IA with 2. 00. 6. I was still able to buy them at Costco in 2. They still sold VCRs then too. I wish I had stocked up on those. I never dreamed they'd become totally obsolete.
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