VHS is the king of physical media. >no region locking >re-recordable

I didn't, man.

The world around me did.

>>83961818
first post elder god tier post

i got like 8 bins of tapes and ill never part with them

shit, even seeing the ratio at the goodwill slowly shift towards dvds (a decade later, but still) makes me sad

>>83961796
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00QS3lXJeI

>>83961796
What the fuck is anti-monopoly?

>watching 720p

They were fucking shit and I'm glad they are obsolete

I never had a working VHS player and only had a few movies. DVDs last a hell of longer, and you can fit them in sleeves. Now please be kind and rewind.

>>83961796
similarly, but worse, the "internet of things" is going to ruin so many household items

>>83961796
>I have seen hundreds of VHS go bad or break. I have not seen a single DVD go bad yet.
>VHS is also 4:3 apect ratio and has terrible standard def resolution.
>No selectable special features on VHS
>Has to be rewound, etc...

There is a reason it died.

>>83961796
>Why did you abandon it?
They wear out.

>>83962877
VHS isn't 720P, it's 480i

I saved all those NFL hits videos the NFL used to sell to people where you saw all the Traumatic concussive injuries.

>>83963222
>VHS player
You mean a VCR?

>>83961796
Howard stern is the king of all media

Checkmate. Hoo hoo

>>83963423
Interchangeable.
VCR = video cassette recorder
VHS player = machine that can play VHS tapes

>>83961796
So what's the best way to digitize VHS tapes these days? I have an old tape from 1987 where someone recorded a Danger Mouse marathon on Nickelodeon along with all the commercials, and some of them are hilarious.

I want to convert them to digital and put them online.

>>83963470
I did it about 10 years ago by recording from the VCR to a standalone DVD player.

You could probably digitize them to your computer if you have the right RCA to USB cord and a software that can ingest it and digitize it as it plays in real time.

>>83963498
*** sorry -- DVD recorder, not DVD "player"

>>83961796
>superior aspect ratio
>4:3
kek

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>>83963498
Is ingest a technical term?

>>83961796
usbs and flash drives do it better

>>83962845
What the fuck is Google?

VHS preservation problems are far worse than disc rot.

>>83963542
It just means your computer taking in the live signal from your VCR and digitizing it.

Yes, it is somewhat a technical term, or industry term, if you will...

>>83963470
>Archiving those weird fucking commercials for people who go looking for them at 4 AM because the memory got triggered by something inane
You're doing God's work.

>Superior aspect ratio

Are you retarded?

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>>83961796
>2017
>using physical media

All hipsters need to fucking die

>>83964117
>internet goes out
>no streaming
>hard drive dies
>no anything

Wow, so progressive. :^)

>>83964117
Thieving jews need to die

>>83964157
>house burns in fire
>no anything

Wow, so retro ;)

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>>83964157
>power grids go out
>people start eating each other
Wow, arguing over preference of media format sure did us a lot of good.

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post your collection

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>>83964173
>says while giving more shekels to the jews who will release the same thing on a different format every few years and require you to pay for it again

Good goy.

>>83964178
>your house burning down happens at the same frequency that your phone dies, you have a bad connection, or your hard drive stops working

Nice straw house.

>>83964206
Keep on jewing jewboy

>>83964186
No joke, my city had a major power outage a few months ago during a thunderstorm and some dude was arrested for eating his dog.

Not sure if it was related to the outage, but it happened at the same time, so...

>>83964214
My hard drive never stopped working. And if it does I can simply download the movie again in a minute, no harm done.

>>83961796
>no region locking
Really? Cos what I read is that NTSC VHS's won't play on PAL

Because OP is underage and never had to actually use this incredibly shitty technology.

>Why did you abandon it?

Because what replaced it was actually superior. I trashed all my VHS a while ago

>>83965373
Not OP, but I have an old 1985 vhs player that still works perfectly, even now (I have some movies not on dvd yet that I still watch with it), and never ate any tape. My dad gave it to me as a teen and it was already used as fuck.

Every vhs player that we bought after 1990 has been a piece of crap that lasted less than 5 years before being unusable.

>>83963592
I disagree. Good quality tapes have a longer lifespan than the normal dvds. Good quality dvds are the king of longevity though, but they cost a lot more. Almost 3 times as much.

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>>83964187
>Special Editions