Why did VHS never catch on like vinyl records did? like vinyl, it has soul, the quality is better with a more analogue feel, and it is a direct relic to another time.
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>the quality is better with a more analogue feel,
Way to show you've never actually seen something on VHS
VHS looks like shif
Yes, thanks for repeating my point
that grainy stuff is called "soul"
Soul means it's not as good.
i follow a lot of horror collector instagram pages and theres definitely a big community of VHS collecting spergs, for some reason only the old horror VHS are the desirable ones the collectors dont usually care as much about the other stuff
It kind of has. My record store has a decent sized VHS section and also a lot of those boutique home video companies put out new VHS releases as well.
concerts sound so much better on VHS.
i still seek those out as well as the horror.
with horror it is because the practical effects present realistically while on digital it loses it's hociu pocus and becomes a parody
>concerts sound so much better on VHS.
What? They sound like ass because of the degradation
my VHS of Peter Gabriels Secret World which i have watched 100's of times since 1994 still sounds night and day to the DVD or BluRay. doesn't look as clear sure, but the mid range and especially bass response is not even comparable. the digital versions are completely neutered.
same with everyone of my tapes. Genesis 3 sides live..sure sounds a little degraded during the interviews but the music elevates it. Tony Banks synths/organs sound like a kids casio in the DVD version.
shit taste in music but kino taste in media formats
The 1990 VHS release of Fantasia has a special Dolby pro logic track which is the closest replication of Fantasound that we will ever get and to this day has been included on the DVD or bd versions. The best part is that if you rip the audio from the VHS (like I did) you can get to work ok any stereo that still supports Dolby prologic decoding
Also the coloring of the VHS was drastically altered for the modern releases
where'd the lil baby centaur go in the dvd/vhs and bluray releases?
Digitally erased due to racism
he fell out of favor with the premier. You'd do well not to ask these questions in the future
It's like you're supposed to show black people in movies but you're also not to show black people in movies now. This doesn't make any sense.
Based disney just straight up deleting the Black person from existence. Hopefully they'll be doing the same thing in 30 years time to the films they're making today when they're considered problematically pandering.
Fricking zoomers ffs...
They were fricking awful. BETAMAX FOR LOFE
cumbersome + EXTREMELY prone to randomly committing suicide.
>my pokemon the first movie tape literally exploded out of our vcr when i was a kid and i cried 'cause of it
that said this doesn't stop me from going out of my way to pick up VHS tapes of whatever movies/anime i think'd be comfy to watch on a crt.
vhs degrades alot easier. records can scractch but if you take care of them they can sound as good as they were new. Vhs tape just doesnt hold up well. I think vhs collecting will get big again though also dvds to some degree
DVD collecting has already started. 2020 for me. it is the commentary. lots of actors on those with witty remarks. some are dead and gone and almost forgotten. same with directors/writers. alot is off the cuff and profound and stuff they would never say now for fear of 'cancellation'
been finding the Simpsons DVD boxsets and watching with commentary on those. mostly loud obnoxious israelites self congratulating. currently on the lookout for King of the hill boxsets very interested in the commentary on those.
remember much of what they have to say and when they said it is from a very specific post 9/11 pre iphone era. genuine time capsule.
DVD was such an amazing upgrade when it first came out. Every movie was loaded with extra content too which I'm guessing doesn't get made anymore.
The downside is that most people were fricking animals who just rubbed their greasy KFC fingers all over the discs and rendered them unreadable, so letting anyone else even touch them let alone borrow them was always a risk. With VHS tapes you could just swap them all the time and even if you threw it at a brick wall or dropped it in an bucket of paint it still might work
When I was a kid I was a little concerned when movie or TV characters would hold CDs or DVDs by pinching them between thumb and index finger rather than hold them by the edges. So you're saying people did/do that in real life?
You don't touch the data side, simple as. However most idiots who rented DVDs from Blockbuster didn't give a shit. Blu-rays are more resilient and more likely to play regardless of mishandling
>Every movie was loaded with extra content too which I'm guessing doesn't get made anymore.
I don't know what modern movie extras look like now, but I buy blu-rays of older movies and in addition to carrying over DVD extras, they often have new interviews with the cast, a film expert discussing the background and legacy, or even a new documentary
They would even do interesting dvd custom interactive menus, don't have bluray but don't know how often they do that nowadays.
It was amazing for porn
I like vhs and will put one on for the novelty of it but the quality isn't good
I still have my old vcr I bought from Ames in the early 2000s
I still have my VCR too , and it even has a talk feature which seems stupid now but back then it was like holy shit.
VHS was a horrible format. Its effective resolution was 480x480 at best with lots of noise. Mass produced tapes were recorded at high speed (like commercial audio cassettes) and had worse quality than your own recordings. VHS is more comparable to audio cassette which was inferior to vinyl. It did catch on though since it was the only format available unless you wanted to go with laserdisc which was expensive and had far less titles to choose from, nearly everything was released on VHS.
You mean slow speed? SP was the fastest and used the most tape but has the highest quality
SLP/EP was the slowest speed so used little tape but the quality was garbage
Where my laserdisc chads at?
>have to stop the movie and flip it
Oof
i stop your mom and flip her over like a rotisserie chicken when i frick her but we don't need to go into this.
> his laserdisc player doesnt flip sides automatically
Poorgay
>the quality is better
are you moronic?
It will come one day. Record companies have been making the odd cassette, but I don't think anyone will produce new VHS tapes, only that they will suddenly become desirable/collectable.
There was really only a ten year period in which people weren't listening to vinyl. Other than that, it's been pretty much a cultural staple ever since it came out.
I remember the episode of Garfield and Friends where Jon needed a new record player and people didn't know what the frick records were was one of the main jokes. "Oh you mean a CD Player?"
A collection takes up a whole room is why. Also doesn’t tape fade away to nothing after a certain age?
There were HD cassettes at one time. They had a resolution of 1080i
Yeah D-VHS shame that it was too late though
The big advantage of collecting vinyl records is that they don't degrade over time. There's still a ton of vinyls from the 50s around that play just fine. And if you have a laser turntable you can play them as much as you want as well with zero degradation.
>The quality is better
VHS is shit
I grew up in the vhs era. it was shit then and it's shit now.
VHS breaks the mind of all zoomies
Most of them grew up with VHS, moron.
Sure you did zoomie
I was born in 1994. If you say stupid shit and get called out on it, it's your fault. VHSs were being produced up until 2005. I didn't get my first DVD player until 2003. You sound more like a zoomer for not knowing when DVDs became popular. Stop being a fricking moron.
Ok zoomie, whatever helps you sleep at night
Did you read my post, you fricking moron? Or are you just pretending it said something different? You're so fricking moronic I want to squash your stupid fricking head in my hands.
Calm down kiddo, its ok you just got caught larping
have a nice day, moron. You don't even know when DVDs became popular. I'm sorry you were born in 2010, but most of gen Z grew up with VHSs.
You say I'm LARPing (a gen Z term, by the way,) and yet you don't even have any idea on the time frame of when DVDs became popular. You're a fricking moron. I would skin you alive and ferment your body in lemon juice, and keep you alive like that for decades. Frick you, moronic piece of shit.
VHS was not chosen for its image or audio quality. It was chosen because it was "good enough" at the time but it could record a lot more programming or footage than competitors.
Today we don't have to settle. HDDs and SSDs are more compact than VHS but they hold tremendously more and they are more affordable on a second for second basis than VHS ever was. We can rip or download the highest quality versions of anything we can find. Plus we have Moore's Law on our side.
At least in the VHS era they still made movies using 35mm film cameras
There's not much point in collecting archaic distribution methods, unless they are the only existing versions (which is practically never the case for VHS).
VHS tapes were very popular for like 20 years. The quality sucked, but it was all we had. When we got DVD, it was obvious that it was a vast improvement. There was no reason to go back.
Why didn't this catch on?
Sony's Metamorphosis (1990 Analog HDTV HDVS High-Definition Dolby Surround Demonstration Videodisc)
VHS is generally the best way to see something aside from at the cinema (film).
Wrong, blu-ray can more-accurately capture film quality.
No, it looks like shit.
It breaks too easily, gets stuck easily and visual quality degrades over time worst than sound on vinyl
VHS rips are the best
When the tape gets chewed up or jammed lmao that was annoying. Video tapes like audio tapes fricking sucked bonerballs
he's a homosexual but so are you. who the frick deletes a post and makes and entire new one for a single word?