When I was like 13 I would record those softcore sex movies on Cinemax for fap material. I think I had about 6 tapes full. They probably still exist somewhere.
Even then there were signs that I was destined to be a porn collecting coomer.
>be kid >dad regularly buys packs of blank vhs so we can record stuff we like on tv >puts me in charge of taping schedule >mfw he would come home from work and we had a new episode of Star Trek TNG taped and ready to watch
My dad taped the entirety of the Non-Stop 'Stones-a-thon back in 1994. I popped one of the tapes in recently. The most fascinating thing about it is commercial breaks with just ONE commercial.
lol my dad owned one of these when i was a kid in the 90s i totally forgot about it until seeing this post as a redditgay zoomer would say, "zOMG MEMORY UNLOCKED FR FR!"
He's talking about the channel you had to tune your TV to in order for the VHS feed to tap onto. You've failed the question and after I've explained it (poorly) nobody else's answer counts.
Does anyone remember the smell of a video store? I know Blockbuster always smelled like stale popcorn with a slight mildew undertone. Didn't matter which one you went to, they all smelled the same.
>they all smelled the same
no they didn't.
t. went to the mom and pop headshop/tape rental store that smelled of fricking patchouli and rotten dead ass.
you tried but you failed.
We had about half of the Disney canon on VHS, the most recent one being Mulan, which we watched regularly. We used the fast-forward, rewind, and tracking features.
Such is the way of the corpo. SED lost to LED screens despite being SO vastly superior, that it's still better than current technology... but since LED owners bought the patent, it's development is stalled until kingdom come. I still wonder how far we'd be if that hadn't happened.
My dad had one of these way back when, mostly to record sports and watch some rentals. I don't think we ever had more than a couple pre-recorded movies on Beta.
grew up on VCR and remember when DVD was the new exciting thing but never totally ditched the vcr. hell, i still use my VCR when i find something good on VHS to watch at the goodwill thrift stores
I was a poorgay millenial and I nearly came in my pants when I saw Ghost in the Shell on VHS at a Goodwill back in 2007 or 2008. I also used DVDs of Cowboy Bebop from the library to record bootlegs of the whole show onto tapes in SLP mode. The tapes had weird blue/red lines over the image at times.
Watching anime in that format was comfy in ways that Blu-ray and 4K cannot duplicate.
I've been amazed at the quality of the VHS rips people have been doing using RF capture and domesday. it's just sad that all the older rips using composite can't be redone using this method
and it has to be a top loading one
and the VHS had to cost at least 100 bucks each
I didnt know anyone who had this. I knew quite a few beta holdouts who kept their tapes until like 2002 though.
you never used a vcr, they're called tapes. nobody called them "vhs" you homosexual.
Wrong again
nice photoshop
don't congratulate him
he could have done better splicing film from tapes.
NTA but I called them "VHS" as a kid.
I called them cassettes
Not VHS.
okay
I'm gonna post in this thread anyways frfr
Watchu gonna do about it, gramps?
When I was like 13 I would record those softcore sex movies on Cinemax for fap material. I think I had about 6 tapes full. They probably still exist somewhere.
Even then there were signs that I was destined to be a porn collecting coomer.
I'll be the Black folk in this thread don't even have a single CRT in they're house
Combo units and built in to the TV don't count.
>be kid
>dad regularly buys packs of blank vhs so we can record stuff we like on tv
>puts me in charge of taping schedule
>mfw he would come home from work and we had a new episode of Star Trek TNG taped and ready to watch
my dad taped me power rangers to watch after school. that was pretty nice of him now that i think of it
My dad taped the entirety of the Non-Stop 'Stones-a-thon back in 1994. I popped one of the tapes in recently. The most fascinating thing about it is commercial breaks with just ONE commercial.
And half the time those commercials were just for other things on that channel. Like the Boomerang interludes.
I love going through my families old tapes and seeing all the old commercials and ads for upcoming episodes
Don LaFontaine must have worked 16 hours a day back then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBayAKb-6o
Dude was definitely working overtime. I remember seeing a local ad like this and the pure hype of everyone at school the day of the premiere
Something was lost when ee move donto DVDs. I don't know what, but it was.
car-shaped tape rewinders
lol my dad owned one of these when i was a kid in the 90s i totally forgot about it until seeing this post as a redditgay zoomer would say, "zOMG MEMORY UNLOCKED FR FR!"
i'm going to sort this out real quick.
channel 2
or
channel 3
there is only one correct answer
always 3
3
I swear my very first TV was 4
Whatever channel this was.
Spice channel
>Spice channel
https://archive.org/details/spicechannel1990s
https://archive.org/download/spicechannel1990s/spicechannel1990s.thumbs/
CH 3
He's talking about the channel you had to tune your TV to in order for the VHS feed to tap onto. You've failed the question and after I've explained it (poorly) nobody else's answer counts.
That fascinating, grandpa.
Go play with tiktoks, the adults are talking
Had to have the VCR set to 4 , Channel 3 here was the CBS station would interfere.
>not running your antenna through the unit
Not like it makes a damn difference
>remembering what channel it was
>not just changing channels until you see something on the screen because you can't remember which one it is
I still have VHS tapes in my garage but no VCR on which to play them, although I don't need to because I own every movie there on DVD or blu ray.
>that horrible sound when you rewind and it jams
Does anyone remember the smell of a video store? I know Blockbuster always smelled like stale popcorn with a slight mildew undertone. Didn't matter which one you went to, they all smelled the same.
It's the head cleaner. Very pungent.
>they all smelled the same
no they didn't.
t. went to the mom and pop headshop/tape rental store that smelled of fricking patchouli and rotten dead ass.
you tried but you failed.
Yeah, it's from the plastic tape cases.
Is it normal for VHS tapes that haven't been played in decades to no longer play audio even if the video works?
it's your player
plug in the audio cables homie
It may be that the tape was recorded with VHS HiFi audio, and you're playing it back on a non-HiFi deck which can't demodulate the audio.
I recorded 90% of that one Nova episode about the Darpa Grand Challenge voiced by John Lithgow (kino incarnate) when i was like 9
the self driving car challenge?
I remember watching that until my father came and yelled at me and my brother for watching too much tv
Even as a kid, I thought those things sucked.
I'm a zoomer who grew up in the last years of VHS use.
go to bed gramps, everyone know that trick.
There were plenty of older zoomers alive in the 2000s when VCRs were still in use. Families had combo VCR/DVD players.
>older zoomers
>older
>zoomers
well, you tried
The oldest zoomers are in their late 20s.
We had about half of the Disney canon on VHS, the most recent one being Mulan, which we watched regularly. We used the fast-forward, rewind, and tracking features.
I remember having Lion King 1 1/2 on VHS.
Where are my Betamaxbros at?
>objectively superior to VHS
>still loses
wtf bros
Such is the way of the corpo. SED lost to LED screens despite being SO vastly superior, that it's still better than current technology... but since LED owners bought the patent, it's development is stalled until kingdom come. I still wonder how far we'd be if that hadn't happened.
My dad had one of these way back when, mostly to record sports and watch some rentals. I don't think we ever had more than a couple pre-recorded movies on Beta.
grew up on VCR and remember when DVD was the new exciting thing but never totally ditched the vcr. hell, i still use my VCR when i find something good on VHS to watch at the goodwill thrift stores
I put a cookie inside once as a young kid and my father slapped me 🙁
was it one of those keebler fudge stripe cookies?
those fuggers were kino and if it was you deserved the slap.
I still have my VCR
I was a poorgay millenial and I nearly came in my pants when I saw Ghost in the Shell on VHS at a Goodwill back in 2007 or 2008. I also used DVDs of Cowboy Bebop from the library to record bootlegs of the whole show onto tapes in SLP mode. The tapes had weird blue/red lines over the image at times.
Watching anime in that format was comfy in ways that Blu-ray and 4K cannot duplicate.
It's the constant spray of light as opposed to even the highest of frame rates. Makes a lot of animation seemless and beautiful.
I used to use VCRs daily for years.
Now I just use Plex.
>tfw you got your first long-play VCR and could record up to 6 hours.
>mfw setting it to super long play and getting 8 hours out of one tape
there are older zoomers itt right now
I know at least 3-4 other people only answered the one question that proves they know
Coming soon to own on VHS and DVD
I've been amazed at the quality of the VHS rips people have been doing using RF capture and domesday. it's just sad that all the older rips using composite can't be redone using this method