Vhs..

[gaz_l]

Showing my age now, but does anyone else still watch stuff on tape? I'm having a night in tonight as the Mrs has gone out to a "baby shower", and I'm watching an old Billy Joel concert I taped off the telly a million years ago.

Obviously, a million years is exaggerating, but checking up the concert was broadcast in 1982.. making it 30 years ago . And the tape still plays fine, it's a long way off Blu-ray quality but the colours are still bright and the audio spot on. Optical discs are rated for 10 years life.. I wonder how they'll play in 30 years time?

Mr Joel still had hair in them days too..

Cheers,

Gaz

 

[AMGeed]

Blimey! The VHS tape has aged better than Billy Joel

 

[developer]

Yes, yes, but tell more about the missus and the baby shower .

BJ writes some great lyrics.

 

[TDE1]

My old man was ex BBC, then a newspaper journalist. He swore by Betamax but his VHS tapes still play spot-on to my eye.

Remember the Sony C5 player? The remote control (attached by a lead) was the envy of the street, until we still had it seven or eight years on!

 

[John]

Naa, but I only got rid of my last few VHS tapes and VHS unit a year or two ago (I bought a DVR late 2007).

Last tapes I had were stuff I'd recorded off TV (like a Queen documentary 10 years after FM died) or things like Harry Enfield's Television Programme (pre-recorded).

However, HE was from 1990 ish and whilst I found it amusing at the time, the sketches I now find entertaining are few and far between on the same tapes (and not worth the bother).

 

[neilz]

Still use them, not stopping any time soon. Old VHS broke for the last time (I couldn't fix the latest fault) so now I have a 26 year old Sony I bought off eBay early last year. I even found a 25 year old matching remote with a liquid crystal display on it (the VHS has no on screen menu and the display is basically a clock and menu!)

Buying up last stocks of recordable videos from stores!

 

[Sooty_uk]

VHS?
I'm just about getting rid of my old DVD's! lol

 

[portzy]

High Definition, Blue Ray and DVD is to an extent wasted on me with my eyesight not what it once was so I brought my old VHS machine out of retirement. Its hooked up to standard definition freeview box and I feed it with s-vhs tapes, all rather fun because I feel part of the process.

There are still blank tapes to be had though, I bought a good few off of e-bay which are pretty much all s-vhs and even though my machine is standard vhs they record and play rather well!

Portzy.

 

[Mozzer]

I don't think I own anything that would play VHS

 

[WesLangdon]

I did have a recordable DVD device but the quality was poor after it broke I bought a 6 head VHS/ DVD player combo. Recording quality is superior to the DVD recorder. New VHS tapes are a problem but I managed to buy a copy of the Titanic on VHS for 10p and this has over 3 hours to record over, so why not?

 

[prprandall51]

My old man was ex BBC, then a newspaper journalist. He swore by Betamax but his VHS tapes still play spot-on to my eye.

Remember the Sony C5 player? The remote control (attached by a lead) was the envy of the street, until we still had it seven or eight years on!

Yes! I had a C5 and then a C7. Boy, those machines were so large and heavy they generated their own gravitational field.

The demise of Betamax was a great blow to Sony, it was a vastly superior format.

 

[John]

VHS?
I'm just about getting rid of my old DVD's! lol

Don't you mean Verse and Doovde?

The demise of Betamax was a great blow to Sony, it was a vastly superior format.

Which is why they won the Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD battle this time round.

 

[AANDYY]

Fonejacker - Doovde Player Jooovke Doovde - YouTube

 

[flying haggis]

I did have a recordable DVD device but the quality was poor after it broke I bought a 6 head VHS/ DVD player combo. Recording quality is superior to the DVD recorder. New VHS tapes are a problem but I managed to buy a copy of the Titanic on VHS for 10p and this has over 3 hours to record over, so why not?

Local charity shop near me were selling ten VHS pre-recorded films for £1 yesterday!

 

[neilz]

Recordable videos aren't that hard to come by at all - even poundland were selling them recently (went in to buy microfibres for the car and a pack of fuses, came home with a bag of recordable videos too!)

 

[Rich27]

I have a load of Disney VHS tapes that I bung on in the kids room when its cold and raining.

I got the whole sack of films for about £2 at a carboot and the TV with built in VHS player was free

 

[prprandall51]

I have a load of Disney VHS tapes that I bung on in the kids room when its cold and raining.

It must be embarrasing for your kids seeing their Dad bawling his eyes out at Dumbo on a Saturday morning.

 

[Rich27]

It must be embarrasing for your kids seeing their Dad bawling his eyes out at Dumbo on a Saturday morning.

Nah, not Dumbo.

The Lion King however I blub like a baby.

 

[eternalstudent]

Oh the lion king, the last true disney DEATH. Now its all nambi pambi leilo and stich!!!

We dug the old VHS's out over christmas to watch a few, but to be hones I hardly ever watch a DVD anymore - binkx and netfix do the job perfectly

 

[Sooty_uk]

Don't you mean Verse and Doovde?


Oh yea forgot about the pic! lol