>tfw your dad bought the complete M*A*S*H series on VHS and didn't even watch them because he thought the tapes would be worth big money
Bad DVD or VHS purchases anyone?
I bought It Follows on bluray
>>69842644
That is pretty cool. There are people on /tv/ who never seen or even held a VHS tape.
>>69842755
a what?
>>69842818
A videocassette like in OP's picture
>go into thrift store
>startrek TNG collectors edition VHS tapes
>some nerd in the 90s probably paid $10 per tape
>now completely worthless
>>69842922
>10$
try 30_40$
>>69842644
You should open those.
>>69842644
I bought Man of Steel on Blu-Ray thinking BvS was going to be good.
lol.
>>69842755
Yeah... bullshit. They were still common in 2006, unless you are implying there are people less than 10 here
>>69844411
Nigga fucked around, got a triple double
>>69844411
>They were still common in 2006
lol more like 2002
bad?
or soaring?
Anime was a mistake.
>>69845763
>tfw I bought a bunch of anime and in retrospect 95% of it wasn't worth watching the first time
How about /tv/ related vidya?
anyone who bought tv shows on vhs that shit takes up so much room
>>69845598
Is that the one with the smoking hot Latina in it?
>>69844411
Dude, there is probably literally people on /tv/ right now who have never held a DVD. No one under the age of 18 uses them or even remembers they exist half the time.
DVD's are already Dad-Tech.
>>69845917
I'd say more 80-20 for me
>>69842644
Lol for his second venture he'll invest in Zimbabwe currency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggv17xLfDkY
>>69845763
Sell that shit on eBay, shouldn't be too hard to find a buyer
>>69845514
>tfw remember renting the Matrix on DVD in 2000 after watching it on VHS
Might have been the first DVD I watched, or at least one of the firsts. Was pretty cool. Also I rented it from Blockbuster. A whole lotta history in that event.
>>69845763
I wish they had the packaging they have now when I first started buying anime on DVD. I have YuYu Hakusho on DVD taking up a shitton of space in boxsets (like that Trigun boxset in your image, 3 of them for the entire show) but now you can get it (and other shows) in really compact packaging and for a hell of a lot cheaper. I also remember watching Speed Racer on VHS.
>get anime on dvd
>never actually watch because it aired on tv constantly.
>better blue ray version comes out
>most episodes can be found on youtube now.
never again
>>69843481
And tape over them
>>69845763
planetes is ok
>tfw every single time you go to watch a movie on VHS and you have to fucking rewind it first
>>69846508
I remember seeing those VHS rewinding machines so you could just rewind it real quick rather than having to do it through the VHS set but I never ended up getting one.
>>69845763
>no moeshit
decent collection.
I've got almost all of the twilight zone on vhs, only missing like the first 4 episodes
>>69846937
You only need the three episodes that were shot on video. The rest require high definition media due to being shot on patrician film.
>>69845763
>tfw I have the entire Buu saga in DBZ and up to baby in GT in VHS
I missed how every week, block buster would release the "newest" DBZ episodes before they Aired on Toonami uncut.
>>69846546
I had one growing up, it was loud as fuck
>>69846937
TFW paying $80 for each box set of Twilight Zone on DVD.
Now they're available on Netflix (except season 4) in better quality.
>>69842644
I bought the complete set of COSMOS (7 videotapes) only for $2.73 dollars. Now I can die in peace.
>>69842644
not /tv/ related but my mom hoarded those little plastic toys you'd get in cereal boxes and kids meals for like 15 years convinced they would be worth money someday
>>69842755
>mfw i still buy them
>>69848055
>Vinyl record > VHS.
> buying tapes
> not just recording off the air
>>69845514
>>69846269
VHS began declining in 2000 and officially "died" in 2006-2007.
I think even an 18 year would be able to remember VHS somewhat, you should remember shit from when you were 8 years old unless your parents smashed you in the head with a metal bat when you were younger.
>Australian DVD/Blu Ray prices
Would you pay this much, /tv/?
>>69847978
how is that a bad purchase?
>>69848305
It's not in English.
>>69848154
> not buying movies on vinyl
>>69848223
A person born in 2007 would be 9 years old now.
>>69848216
I bought a tape once that was labeled WWF King of the Ring 95' for 25 cents once at a swapmeet and it was 8 hours of porn. Two Traci Lords movies, rest was stuff recorded off spice channel, a few episodes of red shoe Diaries and a shemale porn called bi and beyond.
>>69848216
>No doing both.
>>69848305
Isn't a bad purchase. I just wanted share this buy
>>69848362I'm from México, you silly.
>>69848365
2hipster4me
>>69846106
conglaturation you bought a great game
>>69848216
Recorded on SP or SLP?
>>69848718recorded on EP
>dad dropping me off at the bus stop
>find box with shitton of dvds
>tell him to get them and go off to the bus
>turns out they were all empty
Back in 05ish, bad day that.
>>69847978
>in spanish
>probably dubbed because latinos and spaniards are tards who can't into english
shit purchase is shit.
>>69848154
VHS is objectively a shitt format, which is why in those days there was also the hi-end option of LaserDisc. Regular VHS has 240 lines, that's half of SDTV resolution.
Vinyl isn't inherently a bad format, its quality is at least on par with CDs. They're just somewhat more easily damaged, and they wear off with repeated use (after playing it like a gazillion times though)
>>69849271
>He didn't have 1080p vhs what are you poor or something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY
>>69842696
Why is this a bad purchase? Is the bluray transfer fucked or something?
If there's one artifact from my childhood I wish I still had, it would be my roughly 8 hours of material taped off of CityTV's Baby Blue Movies.
About a year of recording. Goddamn.
>>69849355
60 fps too. That's pretty cool. Were those tapes ever available commercially? Wonder how much they would have cost.
>>69842644
>Bad DVD or VHS purchases anyone?+ 0 post omitted.
How about regrets?
The only anime I ever loved, Macross Plus got a bluray release in 2013 in Japan, limited run.
It was $200, I was willing, I really love that OVA. I put it off because I needed other things and totally forgot.
It's now unavailable in 90% of places that will ship to Canada, most available copies are used (of varying degrees of damaged disc) and cost about $500 and any straggling new ones are even more.
PLEASE Bandai Visual, do another run of it.
>>69848689
>GB NES port
>great
No, bro. No.
Weirdly the Sega Master System had the best console port of that game, almost as good as the C64 and with better graphics
Is this thread a reference to Infinite Jest?
>>69845514
The last vhs released was /batman Begins I think.
Even LOTR extended editions got vhs releases.
The first 2 anyway not sure about ROTK
>>69848254
Fucking wow dude, even in Canada they hardly pass $27
I only buy my favourite movies/TV shows at full price, I buy about 90% of my movie blurays from the $5-10 section on amazon, they dip down there on sale all the time.
>>69849355
kek didn't know about this. Of course there was S-VHS which did reach the market and could offer 480 lines (576 in europe), but not all players could play it back. Were there ever commercial releases in S-VHS?
>>69842644
There's a market for rare dvds, I bought a bunch of Asian horror movies that were only localized with English subs in Australia when I was a teenager not knowing they were limited run and I ended up selling most of them, each for about $80-$100 to a collector earlier this year.
>>69845763
anime and manga sells well on ebay
>>69849498
a few DVHS tapes had movies on them pic related
>>69849627
Really rare for movies on SVHS i only know of a few like the godfather 3
>>69849759
>HD movies on VHS before there was BluRay
mind=blown
>>69849759
And how much were they? And were they all 1080p?
>>69848055
>you'll never walk into blockbuster to rent hella goosebumps vhs tapes for a night of spoopiness soda and popcorn ever again
>>69849786
>>69849799
Difficult to figure out pricing originally
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiu0LPeLQPE
>>69848055
>tfw I stole this vhs tape from a super market as a kid
>>69849786
>The quality of STD speed is actually superior to the average DVD, since this speed has a much higher bitrate (approximately 14 versus 5 Mbit/s average) and suffers few compression artifacts.
So the standard definition DVHS was higher quality than DVD while the high definition ones were at least similar to bluray, if not about the same.
>>69849957
So why did DVD prevail over DVHS? Cheaper to manufacture perhaps?
>>69849606
I get most of mine on sale too:
>>69850144
Probably. That and apparently they didn't really ever market DVHS and there weren't many players that would even play them. DVD also didn't require rewinding, which I imagine people were probably annoyed with by 2000.
Not sure if VHS supported some features like toggleable subtitles or multiple audio tracks too.
>>69846284
i can clearly hear he has a zimbabwe pop filter also
>>69850144
same reason why CD prevailed over vinyl records
>cheaper to produce
>was hence pushed hard onto the consumer because there was a lot to be gained from it (index the price of the new format a little under the old one since people are used to pay a certain amount, and gain big since the production price is considerably smaller)
>arrived in a time when the quality of the older format was declining (80s vinyl pressings were notoriously thin and cheap because the demand was su huge, 90s VHS often had flimsy magnetic band you could manufacture for less)
>took less room and was hence seen as more practical
>multimedia tools, players and the rise of home computers helped too
>>69845763
It's not so bad. I can't imagine shit like NieA_7 will ever get a western BD release.
uh whats a vhs lol O_o
>>69845763
Bebop is a good shelf decoration
>>69850715
A meme for old poorfags who couldn't into films, betamax or laserdisc.
>>69849759
>mfw In an alternate universe everyone right now is watching DVHS tapes instead of blu rays and dvds.
>>69850874
I wish I lived there.
>>69848223
VHS was dead (for anyone other than poor people) long before 2007. People 18 now would've been 9 in 2007. No sane person would EVER let a nine year old touch disc media.
>>69850874
Sounds horrible, as the higher the resolution of tape media, the more data is lost simply from it existing (moreso with every play). Meaning you'd have to re-buy everything every couple years to maintain quality.
>>69851164
Everything is losing quality from simply existing.especially me
>>69851320
gotta have it to lose it
i have a few hd dvds and the player thing for my 360.
>>69842644
Younglings today will never know the pain of having to rewind a VHS tape before returning it to the rental shop to avoid a fine.
>>69851474
why would they fine you? its like 30 seconds of their life to rewind it....
>>69842755
I remember when kiosks and such used to loan out a VHS-player. That is how I saw Mulan.
>>69848055
solid episode tbqh.
>>69851164
To me, a videotape is a like the wine: while older better.
>>69851512
Because they could.And because if they had to rewind every tape that's being returned, they'd need one or two VCRs constantly rewinding tapes.
>>69842644
lol actually not too many.
first dvd i ever bought was 8 1/2 (i was 14, that was 11 years ago). still like that movie and still like nearly all the films i've purchased on dvd / blu ray.
>>69849759
haha what the fuck? i've never even heard of this tech. (i grew up with vhs)
>>69851474
>>69851573
>not having a VHS rewinder.
>>69851671
>not having a DVD rewinder
should I continue collecting blu rays? I feel like there will be something new soon
or it all goes full Youtube/Netflix
>>69851740
Get all the physical media you can, so you can play shit whenever you want and not give money to the streaming Jew.
>>69842644
I bought a copy of Medicine Man on dvd because I was so enchanted by Jerry Goldsmith's fantastic score I thought it must be somewhat decent.
..............
..............
..............
..............IT WASN'T
>>69851740
try keep up granddad we ultra high def blurays now
>>69843436
Yeh VHS were ludicrously expensive
Cost way more than DVDs 20 years later
>>69845514
VHS tapes didn't become mostly forgotten relics of the past until around 2008. Non blank vhs tapes were completely phased out by 2005 but I think 2008 is a good cut off.
>>69845763
>literally none of these will ever be watched again
Feels bad senpai
>>69851913
My local supermarket still sells blank VHS,which is sort of neat.
>>69846508
I liked the high speed rewinding
BREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>69845763
>anime
>>69851949
Fuck that, it made me anxious the tape might break.
Granted,all I had was a shitty VCR
>>69848154
Wtf is that nightmare fuel
>>69851946
That is the extent of vhs' relevancy today.
>>69850144
DVDs had chapters, special features, slim cases and slim players
>>69851740
>I feel like there will be something new soon
You mean the 4k meme? Just keep getting blu rays
>>69849606
Even here in New Zealand I can buy a GoTG DVD for $20. I have no idea why the prices are so high in Australia
>>69842755
Last vhs I owned was for Bruce Almighty
I'm not scrolling through the rest of this thread tbqh
>>69846546
Those things break shorter tapes,
I found Revenge of the Sith very difficult to find on VHS so I'd say 2005 would be about the end of VHS in my area.
older media died when the iphone caught on.
>>69852384
Man that guy taking a picture has great reaction times
>>69846414
Did you watch The Matrix from different angles?
I have complete anime series on VHS from when I was a kid. I wasted so much fucking money. Each tape costed a fortune and only had one or two episodes.
>>69848216
My mom recorded a metric shit-ton of Looney Tunes for me and my brother back before they started being censored to hell and back.
>>69851671
I had the red one.
>>69852384
What's the story in the gif?
>>69855680
Japanese Socialist politician being assassinated on tv during a debate by a 19 year old ultranationalist
>>69848216
how you get a floating tape?
>>69855680
Commie politician getting #rekt on live TV.
>>69848254
Aussie dollars, not yanks dollars. Different currencies, little man.
>>69842644
This better not be from r*dd*t.
>>69845598
Flyin' Ryan II: Flyin' Ryan Goes Hawaiian when?
>>69846174
Auteur Linda Shayne?
>>69847720
They are also available on Blu. Bet you feel like a schumuck now, eh?
>phonebook hording
Jesus people are strange.
>>69849552
Deepest lore.
>>69851740
I'm sticking with collecting blu rays myself, all my fave movies are oldies and will never look any better than they currently do on blu ray.
Physical media will always be better than streaming, this goes for most things.
Regarding streaming, that movie you love may end up being removed from the server for whatever reason yet in 30 years time i'll still be able to chuck road warrior into my blu ray drive and watch it etc.
Physical > streaming, the only thing I hate is that blu ray's i've had to import come in nice slim cases, here in the uk we get the standard wider case, takes up more space, but then I don't see why movies can't just come in compact disc sized cases.
>>69842755
>There are people on /tv/ who never seen or even held a VHS tape.
There are people on /tv/ who never seen or even heard of MASH.
It's fucking scary.GET OFF MY LAWN
>>69843481
>>69846498
I want to say "DO IT" for the lulz, but that's close to blasphemy, desu.
>>69848254
Odd seeing such high prices from JB, then again anything owned by Disney costs more than other movies.
>>69851740
Do it, hell I'm still doing DVDs as well, only things I want most go on Blu Ray.
>Bought entire collection of [any film or TV series] on [DVD or VHS] expecting it to be worth any money
There you go, here's the thread for you. I'm really disappointed most DVDs and videos are worthless now, I've got so many fucking collectors editions that wouldn't even fetch $5 when I paid upwards of $40 on them back in the day.
>>69846269
U wot m8? DVDs are still one of the primary methods of consumption for film and TV. They will still be sold in stores for years to come, and I don't think they will ever really die out quite like VHS did as most people will still have a device that plays DVDs even if They threw out their DVD player.
>>69845763
Witch hunter robin box set is well over 100 bucks
I myself am missing 2 and 4
>>69848555
Say trips, does anyone know where I can find scrambled vids like that uploaded on the net? especially porn vids from back in the 90s?
>built up a massive vhs collection by the time I was 13
>tape movies off tv, make copies from Hollywood video and blockbuster
>mainly lots of martial arts and spaghetti westerns
>buy rare movies on dvd from eBay and make vhs copies because they were shitty homemade dvdrs that would skip after 1 viewing
>cleaning out my room when I was 20
>decide vhs is obsolete and took up too much space on top of being embarrassing to still have vhs
>throw them all away
>a few years a lot of the movies are on YouTube in better quality than I had
>some aren't on YouTube or are anywhere to be found
>tfw I probably threw away the last remaining copy of some obscure 70s martial arts movies
>>69853676
Pretty sure that is a gun shot.
>bait
>>69861132
>bait
Your post? It's a fucking photo flash, there is no gunshot.
>>69860997
maybe they are only obscure because youre going by the western name.
>>69861184
The attacker suddenly jolts to the side due to the impact and his glasses break off. He also looks in agony.
>>69846284
That's like $15 right there
>>69861919
Because of the impact of hitting that guy at full speed.
>>69861999
My apologies, you were right.
>A photograph taken by Yasushi Nagao immediately after Otoya withdrew his sword from Asanuma would later go on to win the 1961 Pulitzer Prize,[1] and the 1960 World Press Photo award. Footage of the incident was also captured.[4]
>>69846269
>DVD's are already Dad-Tech
Don't get ahead of yourself there tiger
>>69849505
I've been pining for Macross Plus for the longest time too... also a canuckcuck. Jesus
I don't think I'll ever actually cave and settle for the used copies, I'll never be able to shake off my bitterness at my poor timing. It's impossible to predict these things
>>69851474
What pain? Couldn't you just leave the living room and do other shit? Does it autoplay when it's done rewinding?
>>69845763
>>69845917
My friend keeps trying to get me into Anime the only thing i liked was COWBOY BEBOP IMO.
>>69848254
>NZ/AUSSIE
>PAY
fuck no, pirating is a national cause
>>69862365
They are. Who would buy a newly released DVD in 2016? Who would even download a DVDrip if they could avoid it?
>>69848254
honestly thought that screenshot was taken on the release date. nope, just checked, thats the current price. who would pay for that?
>>69842644
It's fucking real!!!
>bought a VHS of pic related for $5 at local record store
>apparently worth big bucks
>bought Creature Classics: Return of the Jedi from the same store for $15
>going for $60 online
>>69859226
>>69846498
You can't tape over commercial VHS tapes. On every VHS tape there's a tab you can pull to make it read-only and those tabs are all pulled on store-bought tapes.
>>69865166
>not knowing you can put tape over the tab
>>69865249
>>69865166
err, over the hole where the tab was
>>69849271
>Vinyl['s]... quality is at least on par with CDs
Vinyl's far superior since it's analogue. It's like comparing video and film.
>>69848480
what a great value!
>>69865611
>Vinyl's far superior since it's analogue.
Not even your own words can back up your claim
>>69846284
>The southern African country started using foreign currencies including the US dollar and South African rand in 2009 after the Zimbabwean dollar was ruined by hyperinflation, which hit 500 billion per cent in 2008.
wew socialism is a dream
>>69849581
iirc the last VHS available was A History of Violence
I bought all the Babylon 5 VHS tapes as they were coming out. They came in packs of three and were like 60 bucks. They also came with trading cards, which I thought were cool. Anyway halfway through the run they fucking cancelled production. They didn't even release them in order so all tapes I had were from the shitty fifth season and slightly less shitty first season along with a couple of season two episodes.
>tfw when I STILL bought the entire run of the Time Life Babylon 5 VHS collection years later because unlike the DVDs the CGI scenes weren't cropped.
>tfw I later bought a LaserDisc player and Babylon 5 discs to see if the quality was better.
>tfw all the episodes in their original 4:3 format are now available on VUDU
>except for "Severed Dreams" which is still in cropped 16:9 for some reason
Why is Warner Bros. so shit at releasing Babylon 5? Do they literally have a Jew who sits around and thinks of ways they can get fans to buy the set again?
>>69842755
I just yesterday bought a vhs tape, but I forgot to check inside beforehand and someone switched out the movie with a blank tape.
