Didn't grew up around VHS and my family already get rid of our VCR when I was like 2 or 3, so I want to ask:
is it true that movies on VHS looks better than the ones on DVDs, like the image and the sound is crispier and it's like it have actual soul?
Is it worth to start a VHS collection? I want to show some retro movie to my friends at friday night, I was wondering if an old TV set and a lot of tapes could be neat, I think they look super cool and I'm quite fed up with streaming and netflix that, to me, is too commercial oriented. They even sell VHS remasters of new movies, they're quite expensive but I think they worth the price.
an old vcr is actually pretty fun if you like watching cheesy 90s action movies and whatnot.
>>62795510
You're too young and too foreign to be on this board.
>>62795510
>>62795510
Holy shit. Rlm was right. They predicted you hipster fuck will prefer vhs to Blu Ray and dvds. Fucking hipsters.
It's crazy to me that there are people who never experienced VHS.
The answer to your questions is no btw. VHS has a specific look and sound but it is definitely not better than DVD. Also VCR's put wear on the actual VHS tape so the quality of the video erodes over time. There is literally no reason to ever go back to VHS, you really didn't miss anything there.
>>62795510
Do it OP
Even just as a rare thing to shockblast the system.
>>62795510
>I want to show some retro movie to my friends at friday night, I was wondering if an old TV set and a lot of tapes could be neat, I think they look super cool and I'm quite fed up with streaming and netflix that, to me, is too commercial oriented.
Holy shit, are you serious?
>>62795510
This is b8 but ill bite
The sound and picture quality is much shittier than DVDs. Might be fun to collect though
I imagine this meme comes from people buying vinyl. But thats a little step up in quality in both sound and packaging. The only other physical alternative CDs, which is just obsolete if not more.
You can go to any walmart and get a lot of dvds or blu rays
the actual music equivalent to vhs is cassette tapes which will never make a come back just because it sounds shittier
probably equivalent in pixels to a yify rip
>>62795636
CDs are coming back too eventually. think of it. theyre each little mini thumb drives of lossless music
>>62795636
>the actual music equivalent to vhs is cassette tapes which will never make a come back because it sounds shittier
No joke, I was at a Half Price Books a few months ago and there was this girl in her early 20s specifically looking for her favorite albums on cassette because she thought they sounded better. She had thick rimmed glasses and a flannel on too, fuck. It's like they're self-parodying at this point.
>>62795708
I liked the FineBros reaction video of little kids reacting to CDs, most of them never seen one
>>62795715
Ive bought a couple cassette tapes but thats only because my van only has a cassette player, there actually are a couple bands than have released cassette tapes versions of new albums alongside cds and LPs
>>62795708
true but if im already using a computer I don't see where that would better than downloading or streaming it
>>62795510
you are not missing anything, vhs was a pile of shit. taking 15 minutes to rewind a film because the last person couldnt be bothered was the worst
>>62795636
There are already people who own Nokia 3310 instead of smartphones because they're cooler.
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>>62795510
VHS was still used from 2000-2006. Even if op was born in 1997, he should remember shit from when he was 3-9, unless his parents whacked him in the head with a metal bat.
>>62795915
>VHS was still used from 2000-2006
By the poors, maybe
>everyone believes this was real
If there was one good thing about VHS, it sure was easy to record something. One tape could go in your camcorder to record your precious family memories, and then you could pop it into the VCR to record something off the TV. Sure, you have DVRs now, but you can't really put something in your closet to save for a few years or let your friends borrow the tape to watch.
I assume that image is photoshopped, but do they still release movies on VHS?
>>62796025
I remember people recording long stints of TV on VHS, shows as well as commercials, to watch later. I actually tried to look online to see if I could find any of those old tapes for sale but I couldn't. I'd love to be able to sit down and experience some 90's TV again.
Is there a name for those kind of tapes? Does anyone know if there's a way to go about finding them?
>>62796076
Yes anon
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>>62795828
>biting the bait
>>62796113
I'm surprised a market still exists for it desu
>>62795510
Its like the difference between cassette and cd.
>>62795510
>not storing your 320 x 240 vids on floppy disk
Grandpa please
>>62796025
No but I have over 200gb of movies on my hdd and my friends can always grab those files
>>62796099
My dad had a collection of like over 300 tapes full of movies from the late 70s to mid 90s. We probably throw them away because he died a few years ago and we don't know what to do with all that plastic shit :^)
>>62796135
I envy you for never having met a person who was genuinely that retarded.
>Mom used to always buy the new Disney animated movie on VHS when it came out
>Said it was good investment and that some day her grandkids could watch them too
>tfw VHS is obsolete
>tfw her two kids are a 26 year old loser son and another son with actual aspergers who may never reproduce
>>62796076
yes some hipster productions do release blu-ray/vhs combos for their crowdfunded 80ies "hommage" memeflicks.
won't be going on for much longer though since VHS tapes are no longer produced. the last factory that still did recently shipped their last batch and closed.
One of you guys need to post this to reddit and watch them agree with OP
Some movies are better watched on VHS
>>62796594
Betamax > VHS
>>62795715
There are some vaporware artists who sell music on casette tapes.
>>62796594
I disagree. Even with the theme Videodrome looks good enough to watch on a proper format
>>62796642
I mean, I can understand certain iconic albums that got released during the cassette era getting some collector's edition rerelease for an anniversary. But new albums? Hipsters pls go.
>>62796719
Casettes are better for lo-fi music since the shitty quality adds to it
![IMG_3668[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/yQsnmX7.jpg "IMG_3668[1].jpg")
To answer OP's question, no. On very few exceptions (Star Wars theatrical cuts is the only thing I can think of) the DVD is always going to be a higher quality than VHS.
That doesn't stop me from buying them though. VHS is a cost-affordable format for movies, I buy tons of movies that I haven't seen yet but don't want to dish out anywhere from five to twenty dollars for. The few that are still expensive are worth the price most of the time (pic related, Zombie and Maximum Overdrive cost me $10 a piece). Not only that but some titles never made it past the VHS format (Good luck finding the NSYNC/Britney Spears music video compilation on Blu-Ray). Plus, it's pretty fun if you drop online shopping and actually go out to different stores looking for rare tapes.
only for movies that were never released on dvd
>>62796719
they at least make them collector's type shit too
>>62796642
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6753870/blink-182-re-release-classic-albums-cassette-tape
>>62796907
basically a new different way to milk fans because they already own the vinyl
how many times are you going to post this
>>62795984
>just the poors
I don't think so.
The last movie to be released on VHS was "A History of Violence" in 2006. The last truckload of VHSes shipped in Christmas 2008. In 2005, about 40% of Americans polled said they still had a VHS player.
>>62797556
I technically still have a VHS player. It hasn't been hooked up in years.
>>62796285
right in the feels
>>62795510
MODS
No. VHS was just about bearable at the time.
>search for a movie
>out of print, have to buy from ebay
>have to choose between VHS and DVD
>DVD is expensive as fuck, but go for it anyway because I want high quality
>watch the DVD
>it's a VHS rip of the movie, probably because the original tapes were lost or the base quality was shit to begin with
If you want to get into a novelty older format look into Laserdiscs as they actually have some cool features, excellent sound quality (often considered to have superior mixes to DVD), and decent analog picture quality that can be on par with lower end DVD's. The analog look is also different and often times more "film like" or closer to that old nostalgia look many of us grew up with without being completely garage like VCR.
They also have some advantages to modern DVD and Bluray in that there is no digital processing or flag checks for chapter skips and the like. You pop in a laserdisc and you can chapter skip instantly unlike 99% of Blurays and DVD's that force you to wait. You can also jump to the individual frames which is kinda crazy (as you can key in frame 1,357 and it will jump to that). They often feature multiple audio tracks with commentary as well.
>>62796285
Which one are you?
>>62796209
This
