Outdated Technology Greentext Thread

>things that never happened

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>>60684141
As far as OP's story actually happening I don't know. But I've seen an interview with a former VHS store rental owner, and he talked about this guy who would come in and rent kids VHS tapes and splice in short porn scenes mid way through.

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when I was really young I recorded an episode of Teletubbies over the Charlie Brown Christmas Special

i didn't know what the red button did

>>60684340
Thats both completely fucked and totally ingenious.

I don't think tape is enough to keep VHS tape from separating in the event of a splice due to the speed that the play head spins at. I could be wrong...but there are easier ways of doing this. Two VCRs and dubbing.

>>60684340
There is an emerging subculture among internet pedos that involves tricking kids in child friendly video chat services into watching porno featuring other children getting fucked.

It sounds p hot if I do say so myself.

>>60683181
>checking out the film and having your name and details on the checkout info
>are you even trying

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EYE
FREE
CLUB

>>60684563
yea, I talked to a girl on there who said she was a cop. Impressive for a 6 year old.

>>60683181
>tfw in 9th grade
>tfw I just put custom firmware on my psp
>bring it to school
>proceed to fuck with every TV in school by turning them on and off


Oh one time one of my friends in senor year of high school got pissed off one of the teachers failed him and that he couldn't walk across the stage, such a trivial thing looking back on it considering he is in med school now, so supposedly he puts CP from/b/ on the teacher's computer. Nothing happens so I think he is full of shit. A year later I year they caught said teacher with CP and arrested him. It was found on a home computer but I couldn't help wonder if he was set up or he was legit into that shit.

>>60683181
A buddy did that at my catholic highschool a few years back, but when the teacher walked out he switched the unlabeled porno tapes with the unlabeled abortion tapes.

>>60684340
Reminds me of what one of those characters did on Fight Club. The one that was a movie film operator would splice in a quick one frame of dick here and there since no one would see it.

it only took you 6 (SIX) posts to bring up child pornography

how many posts until someone mentions hitler?

>>60683181
>splicing the tape
>when you could have just recorded over part of it
seriously? were you not aware of the cellotape trick to record to "prerecorded" tapes?

>>60685073
>one of those characters
>The one that
are you sure you watched fight club?

>>60685086
13.

>>60684677
one time me and a friend walked around town at around 3AM and turned on and turned the volume up on as many tv's in a tv shop as possible with our psp's

>>60684510
I collect VHS and sometimes the tapes snap or get unattached on one end during rewinding. For the snapped ones tape seems to work just fine.

>>60685283
Ah, I just collect Laserdiscs, when they rot or get Laser lock...you are fucked. I'd love to find some D-VHS tapes though

>>60685175
It's because op is lying

>>60685283
>>60685336
you guys take digital backups of them, don't you?

>>60685209
[spoiler]spoilers[/spoiler]

I only read the book, and the lost the book before getting to the big reveal.

>>60685391
man, you need to finish it
you got through the build up and missed the gigantic punchline

>>60685369
VHS guy here. Not at the moment, but I have thought about it. Not like it would be expensive or anything, just a bit time consuming. Large part of my collection is of course mainstream stuff, for which much better copies already exist.

>>60685651
you should consider it, at least for the vhs-only/rarer stuff, and especially any home videos
even just an inexpensive usb composite capture device will do VHS justice, it's not exactly a high quality bar to hit

>>60684340
>>60683181

>splicing vhs
>not just recording over shit

wut

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>>60683181
>>60683181
>Refurbish IT equipment
>Also recycle useless crap from time to time
>We take e-scrap as donations
>People bring in old Dell Dimensions and Compaq before they were bought by HP
>Fucking old people bringing in 20-year old boat anchors as "new" and want to trade for newer computer bundles
>"It's complete, it's still in the box, and it still works, so does the printer (fucking Deskjets). So I think that deserves a half-off on the computer over there."
>Points at a custom built i7
>mfw

>>60685175
you needed two VCRs for that

>>60685349
Not only is OP lying, he apparently thinks VHS is film.

>>60685674
>>60685651
-- oh, and as for time consuming
if you set it up on a spare machine/laptop, you only need to swap out tapes once every ~1.5-4 hours, depending on content and tape type (apparently you can get up to 10 hour LP tapes, but i only ever used up to the 2/4 hour (sp/lp) tapes)

as for transcoding, those can be batched so it's just set and forget

>>60685738
wasn't really uncommon to have more than one VCR in a household by that point in time

>>60685741
not sure what makes you say that
are you suggesting vhs tape can't be spliced? because it can

>>60685771
Sounds reasonable. Thanks for the tips. I actually have a PCIe tv tuner card with analog input, so I might try this out soon enough.

>>60685960
np, probably the hardest part will be dealing with interlacing
i highly recommend QTGMC (with avisynth or vapoursynth) as a deinterlacer, it's slow but the results are amazing
thankfully you can just record interlaced and deal with that later
you could opt to just not deinterlace at all, but nothing these days uses interlaced displays, so one way or another the content will be deinterlaced before display, progressive (non-interlaced) is just easier to work with/use now

>>60685086
You just fucking did you faggot.

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>>60686060
an example
here's without deinterlacing

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>>60686208
-- and with deinterlacing (QTGMC)

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>>60683181
>teacher is a total bitch
>story doesn't end with OP fucking his teacher

>>60684677
>senor year of high school
I never took spanish class that serious

>>60685685
>custom built i7
holy shit how did you make it?
have you shared this with anyone?
what fabrication process?

>>60684510
You'd probably just fuck up or scratch the head. It's really smooth, so maybe the tape won't get caught in it.

>>60683181
>nobody ever got on the floor

yeah I'm not buying this

>>60686551
nobody says that anymore

>>60685685
tell the baby boomer faggots to fuck off.

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>>60685675
I thought he said spliced but could have also been just recorded over, I don't remember the exact term he used. If I were to do the same, I would probably just record over it too. Just have to cover over the write protection hole.

The interview I was talking about is in the documentary "Rewind This"