Farewell, VHS

You can get all of them on VCD from asia/europe. It's simple,easy, and looks better than VHS most of the time. You can also VCD them yourself if you want, it's dead easy.

Incidentally, all the illegal movie-hawkers I've seen in New York recently have been selling dvds...

Just poor suckers like me who can't afford a tivo. I have to record those episodes of Lost while I'm out somehow.

You can get a TiVo for like $50 or less on eBay. If you have cable, your cable provider will let you rent a DVR for like $5/mo, you can probably get it for free with satellite.

I don't even have a DVD player!!

haha

Im screwed!!

I'll still be using tape players though, I will eventually get a DVD player since they are very cheap now. I still even bust out my walkman sometimes, and I actually get stares when I switch my tapes.

HA that cracks me up, i for some reason have like 3 tapes that are all 120 minutes episodes that i came across not too long ago.... (ok i read over that sentence like 3 times and for some reason i think its worded horribly wrong, but ill post it anyway, you get the point)

No nostalgia. Fact is theres simply stuff not out on dvd thats still on vhs. (oh yeah nevermind the original star wars series... youre NOT finding the originals on dvd so far that I know of....) But mainly price.... vcr's that ive sene run maybe around what 35 bucks now..... even the el generic dvd player runs around 85-100 --- and thats the walmart breaks on you in a year under no replacement guarantee kind---)
main issue.... make it fecking cheaper.
thats the only reason most of us already DONT use them, that and a certain availability problem with a good at least 50% of movies out there. Especially some harder to get foreign or indie films. god those are a pain.

We used to have so many recorded movies taped on VHS cassettes. Somewhere along the way they got scattered around, and a lot of them have became so noisy and of such low quality that they're unwatchable. I much prefer DVD.

I just need Wonder Years and the first few seasons of Power Rangers on DVD and I'd be totally happy.

dvd is vastly superior obviously, but i'll always have a soft spot for vhs. vhs is what i started my movie collection with so it does mean alot to me.

I've got a 5-disc DVD changer, with remote, that's lasted me 2 years, and I got it for $49.99.

yeah, I think I got my DVD player for roughly $30, and it works just fine.

Can't argue with the loss of vhs. It's horrible, I never liked it. I will miss that sound though of the tape being sucked into the vcr and then that brief moment of panic when you hit eject and wonder if its ever going to come back out.

u have to play the tapes every once in awhile or they go to crap and don't lay the tapes down on it's side the film sags.

At my old job at a video store we were the first one in the area to go all DVD. We sold off all our VHS a bin at a time for $1 each... Canadian... with cover boxes. Some people bought 30-40 at a time.

The only real problem I have these days with VHS is while it still looks totally fine on my smaller TV, it looks like absolute shit on a 52" or any other modern big screen. All my original tapes look like copies of copies.

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I can't wait to tell my grandkids that I had mad skills making VCRs work, back in the day, and they'll be all like - grandpa - WTF? you talking 'bout?

Beta failed because Sony wouldn't allow porno on the format.

This brings back a memory from one of my exes.

Every time I went over her house to pick her up, I got annoyed by the blinking 12:00 display on their VCR. So one night I spent the thirty seconds it took to figure out the thing and put the correct time in.

And then the next time I went back to pick her up, I discovered why it had been blinking that way all those years. Her father always unplugged the VCR when he found it turned on, no doubt because the blinking clock annoyed him. Of course, the next time the girls plugged it back in to watch a video I'd brought over, I discovered my work had been undone by her Dad once again.