Any oldfags here that can describe what it was like?
>>63323260
it was shit blurays are way better stop being a nostalgia fag
>>63323260
Better than sex.
Like fucking an underage virgin.
kinda like putting your dick inside a hot pussy only your dicks a tape and the pussy is a robot
>>63323260
Pretty satisfying you'd push it in a little bit and then it would make that sound as the casette went into place, god help you if some faggot hadn't rewinded the tape and then you spend 5 minutes waiting for it to rewind.
>>63323260
I'm 19 and I know what it feels like to push a VHS tape into a VCR. It feels just like what it looks like.
VCRs were a pain in the ass
>>63323260
Still do it all the time, have my drugs in a VHS. Feels good man.
>tfw you believed that stopping the movie (when the screen turned completely blue) and then rewinding it made it rewind faster
Did it? Because it felt faster to me.
You will never know what it feels to rape a VHS into a VCR
>>63323260
The movies turned to shit the more you watched them. Pretty fucking shit desu lad
You'd insert the tape by the back end, then gently push it until you heard a satisfying locking/clicking sound, after which the casette would be moved backward mechanically then lowered onto the headers.
>>63323260
like salty coins and bags of sand.
now seriously I am 24 years old and probably one of the last persons that used VHS,it felt like pushing a brick into some kind of automatic trash can,it was nice.
>>63323260
>>63323296
You used your finger to push the VHS into the VCR and felt that brief and gentle resistance before it went in. Just like the moment when your penis finds its way into the vagina of a sweet and innocent teen.
>tfw
>>63323386
Das it
>tfw you walk home from school 5 miles uphill in the snow and put in your favorite tape thats fucked up from you watching it so much and your vcr eats the whole tape real and ruins your favorite movie and the vcr is broken too so you eat an ice sandwich and wait for the mail man
>>63323260
>VCR
>oldfags
You have to be 18 to post on 4chan
>tfw when you can't even understand what's going on anymore
>there's only the static
>>63323418
kinda ur own fault tbqhwyf
>>63323260
You could buy a vhs player and a tape for like $5 and find out for yourself. But unless you are a tarantino tier autist it is not worth it.
>>63323330
Either OP is like 14 or he grew up in ethiopia. My family got on the DVD train right away and I still remember multiple years of using VHS tapes.
The sounds it made were orgasmic.
>>63323260
I remember my rewinder for my Disney movies Betamax tapes. Maybe it's still around somewhere
>>63323351
>Parents have old war movie
>Something about Amerians on a submarine
>Parents tell me to pop it in while they make popcorn
>I try doing so
>hmmm won't fit
>Try pushing it in harder
>Eventually manage to get the thing in
>Dad comes into the room
>Presses play
>Bunch of tape comes shooting out of the vcr
>The tape is kill
>Parents never trusted me with a tape after that again
>>63323343
I am 100% certain that it was faster. I say this with no factual evidence, but my heart knows it's true.
They were truly shit and I am glad we have what we do now. The only time I'm ever dealing with VHS again is to convert old family movies to my computer.
One day.
>tfw you tried a DVD for the first time and the quality was so good compared to VHS
desu senpai
>>63323260
You can buy vcrs and tapes at thrift stores, you know. Live the feeling, friend.
>could fast forward through adverts, no unskippable shit
>no clunky menus and shit, straight to the point
>no intro animations that spoil scenes
VHS had lots of good shit going on. I was absolutely furious when I saw the first unskippable adverts on DVD's, it made me so mad that I had to watch through the same fucking commercial every time I wanted to watch that disc.
WWE Unforgiven 2002 DVD had this few minutes long preview video that made the whole thing look like porn, and you couldn't skip over that. It was something about those superstar divas and their thongs or something.
>>63323260
I can describe the shitty plastic cases they came in.
>raw laminate edges
>dry rot and yellowing
>denting
>that nasty squeaking sound
Every day I praise allah for high speed internet, file sharing, and touchscreens
>>63323260
You really need to get in touch with an expert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4iw8Ppo1o
Anyone used to have a tape rewinder? We had one that looked like a car and the headlights lit up when it was on, pic related.
>>63323527
>I was absolutely furious when I saw the first unskippable adverts on DVD's
>>63323260
>tfw the VHS gets stuck inside
Who here experienced a top loader VCR?
My grandparents are the only people I knew who had one.
>>63323569
Lol always thought those fucking things were stupid. You have a VCR that rewinds the damn thing.
>>63323532
>touchscreens
I hate touchscreens. I feel like I'm already out of touch with modern technology, and I'm only 23 years old.
>>63323260
I just did the other day. It's been a few years since I saw the Star Wars trilogy so I popped in my old (Han shot first) VHS tapes that I bought back in 95.
>>63323569
That shit looks awesome, but I never understood why tape rewinders were a thing when everyone just rewound the tapes in their VCR.
>>63323527
>no intro animations that spoil scenes
I hate those things. The worst one I ever saw was the DVD for The Italian Job, the original. Whoever made that thing should be shot.
>>63323527
Yea but the extras were shit, if they even had any you had to fast forward all the way to the end. And tapes had advertisements you had to fast forward through too. At least most dvds you can skip to the main menu unless your buying pig shit WWE dvd's, in that case you deserve whatever they put on it.
>>63323505
>mfw the first movie my family ever had on DVD was The Mummy
>>63323582
My parents have one still. Use to watch VHS tapes all the time with it.
>>63323260
It was fucking shit, especially when vcrs would get stuck int here and you'd have to untangle and rewind the tape back in. I'm glad everything is digital.
>>63323260
It's kind of like the tray on Blue Ray player.
First you, push it in past the flap. And it goes in really easy but then there's this resistance and you have to give it a harder push but after that the machine kind of takes it and pulls it in from there.
>>63323627
They tend to rewind faster, and it allows you to watch something new while the previous tape is rewinding (albeit the process doesn't really take very long)
>>63323534
>that background music
>>63323646
That's a very good description. Brings back memories actually.
>>63323260
Erry real nigga had a collection of orange VHS tapes.
>>63323627
I don't know either, it was my dads. I don't know if it rewound tapes faster or if he was just a giant fucking dork back then that wanted to display a car shaped tape rewinder on top of that wooden big as fuck wooden tv.
it really is a unique feeling. during the push theres a point where the vcr would steal the tape from your touch like feeding food to a baby. it was like it was angry with you because it wanted you to just sit down and enjoy the movie. Machines are so cold and scripted nowadays.
>>63323260
>that moment when it switches from you pushing it, to it sucking it the rest of the way in
I used to tape the History Channel all the fucking time back when it was actually good. I may actually have them in a storage container somewhere.
>family always had a cheap worn out VCR that could barely display anything
>could never make out what's happening during dark scenes
>watching a horror movie
>can'tseeshit.gif
>>63323606
If you're a fucktard and don't properly stop the film and rewind it on some machines, the film spools inside the case would get missaligned. Machines like >>63323569 wouldn't do this (idiot proof) and would rewind faster. Of course a con is that if the tape is old enough it would tug on the adhesive keeping the film attached to the spools, which over time can cause it to also mess up the playback of the tape.
>>63323260
Annoying having to rewind.
>>63323743
Glad I am not the only one. The Hitler Channel was best channel in the 90's and even early 00's.
>>63323343
of course it fucking did. also, rewinding for more than a few minutes of runtime without stopping was insanely bad for the heads.
>>63323437
life was so much simpler back then
>>63323582
I had a few. I liked them better because the tape wouldn't jam as often.
>>63323606
>>63323569
We had one of these at the video store I worked at that we used when people didn't rewind the tapes they returned. I believe we charged a fine if they weren't rewound, also.
>>63323637
Holy fuck, same here. I think it had a preview for a pc game on it, right? Where you could put the dvd in the computer and play it. How old are you?
>>63323637
Mine was the Fiddler on the Roof on laser disc.
>>63333333
>>63323805
TRADITIOOOOOOOOOOOON
TRADITION
>>63323527
Agreed.
VHS meant freedom for the consumer.
>when the dust protector on the VCR snaps at your fingertips after you put in the VHS tape
>>63323534
I've been looking for this video for ages. Thank you
>rent titty flick
>tape was obviously paused and rewound by multiple anons for fapping purposes
>picture skipping everywhere
>adjust tracking furiously
good times
>>63323386
this
>that slight resistance of the machine
felt good
>>63323828
If I were a rich man, diddly diddly diddlo dah...
>>63323692
Epic. Simply epic.
That little tab on the back of the cassette, what was it really for?
>>63323260
>anons will never know the joy of running home from school to catch what happened on the last episode of Dragon Ball Z
my dad also set the vcr up to tape band of brothers and then he would ship it to my grandad what a time to be alive
>the vcr cleaner vhs
were these a scam
>>63323882
Opening up the case to fix tape that might not have rewound completely or is all crinckled up/looped around itself
>>63323788
I can't remember if it had the game thing on it, but it definitely might have. I'm 21 familia, you?
>>63323805
What were laserdisc players like? I can't imagine they were too different from DVD players but nobody I knew ever had one.
>>63323914
No it worked, because of some sciencey reason involving dust and magnets.
>>63323260
you put them and press play only to find some faggot hasn't rewound the thing, then rewind it, watch it with distorted interferance, halfway through cutting to the gay porn that was previousley on the tape for half a second, and eject it while the vcr glitches and decides it would rather pull all the tape out of the vhs.
They were shit.
>>63323260
Pretty nice senpai.
I still remember recording 6 hours worth of Naruto when it was being marathoned on cartoon network.
>>63323637
>not shrek
SOMEBODY
>>63323534
FINLAND
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I have a VCR, it still works.
Used it recently to re-watch the original Star wars trilogy (without those later changes)
>>63323943
>What were laserdisc players like?
A lot larger and bulkier then vcr and dvd players, and it took forever to read the disc.
>>63323260
like fucking warm apple pie
>>63323775
what the fuck do they even show on history channel anymore, shitty reality tv shows like on the rest of the discovery channels?
>tfw you found your parents VHS porn tapes and they had cicciolina, bestiality and all sorts of fucked up shit in very shit quality,with color and sound shifts ocassionally
>tfw VHS porn was so nasty
>yfw you had to memorize the exact second the tape was left and left it rewound exactly there, so no one would know you watched the tape.
it was the best feel, i dont think anything will top that.
>>63323260
now this is trolling
pretending to be underage and misusing "oldfag"
not even mad. just proud
>>63323260
It was great senpai being 10 and watch teenage mutant ninja turtles the movie on vhs
>>63323637
mine was treasure planet
>>63324010
basically everything that has nothing to do with actual history
>>63323725
>>63323724
>>63323876
why did this feel so damn good
modern electronics just feel too artificial and distant
those appliances at least still had some mechanical feeling
>i will never have to be kind and rewind ever again
>>63323328
>not having a turbo rewind that sounded like a plane taking off
>>63323882
>That little tab on the back of the cassette, what was it really for?
I you removed that thing it became impossible to record anything on the cassette.
A guarantee that no asshole would tape over your stuff
Never get married, she'll take your porn
>>63323343
It definitely did, at least on VCR's that had a fast rewind thing. Also it wouldn't show the stuff going backwards, or at least mine wouldn't.
>that feel when vcr recieves the vhs and pulls it in
i come every time
>>63323864
This was the greatest thing about DVDs. No more multitasking your dick and the tracking.
>>63323943
I'm 28, I grew up with lots of tapes. I had a massive tape and old vcr collection until I was accused of being a hoarder, to be honest I was a hoarder. I got rid of all of it.
>dad used to dumpster dive at the back of blockbuster finding broken VHS tapes
>usually the film snapped, or cassette was broken etc
>mum would chop away twisted frames, straighten it out and stick it all together
>whatever they found we watched for moovee nite
watching shit like 1980 Evil Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre when i was 8 yrs old in flickering shitty picture quality had a new dimension reflecting back on it. At the same time i saw The Mummy, Philosphers stone and The Goonies on those old tapes
>>63324055
it was a better design. touchscreens are the downfall of product design.
>no more friday night trips to blockbuster
>no more stagnant smell of plastic and cheap popcorn
>no more arguments with your parents to pick 2 candies instead of just one
feelsbadman.jpg
>
>>63323627
Twofold. Does it better, and reduces strain on the VCR. There was a time when VCRs were $200+ pieces of equipment.
>>63324084
bitch.
The little foibles of VHS actually added to the viewing experience in a huge way. To the point where you see many retro themed movies deploy the same type of effects artificially
Tracking errors
Garbled audio
Over-saturated colors, etc
>>63323637
The Matrix and The Rugrats Movie, both at the same time.
>>63324084
Brendan?
>>63324084
Holy shit that bitch.
>>63324147
moving parts break
>>63323489
Fuck that gif kills me.
>>63323260
It's like putting bread into a sideways toaster, except the toaster is tsundere for the bread.
>>63324150
also that blockbuster turned into a AT&T store, then a Sprint and finally a Verizon store in the span of 2 years after BB was shut down
>>63323914
I had one, it actually worked (sometimes)
I also had a CD cleaner (there was a tiny brush sticked on the CD). I used it for my first DVD player since the first DVD players on the market were so fucking fragile
>>63324218
Cheaply made moving parts break.
29 here, it was comfy. Take the tape out of the littke cardboard cover, the bus had weight to it, longer movies were heavier because more tape inside. Pop it into the vcr and there this nice whir and clicks as it seats onto the spindles. Auto tracking thing appears on the screen, audio goes a little pitch bendy, watch your movie. Rewinding was a fucking butch though, don't miss that and I don't miss fast forwarding and rewinding to watch my favorite part.
>>63324218
>implying the current technology lives longer than the one with "breakable buttons"
nigga pls
>>63324125
>tfw having to throw out all of your vhs tapes when you move out because they're literally worthless and take up so much room
>>63324224
Lel
>>63324016
Not really, but I have a similar story with parents and porn.
>Parents strictly anti-porn
>They threatened to kick me out if they found any porn on me
>One day get bored, home alone
>Go to my parents room and start looking around
>Find out my dad had playboy dvd
>Pop it in
>Use a polaroid camera to take photos of the best parts
>So mad that my dad was being this much of a hypocrite that I decided to take revenge
>Found some sandpaper, and started to scratch at the bottom of the dvd until it wouldn't play anymore (and holy shit did it take a lot, it wasn't until the bottom was entirely scratched up would it not play)
>Never got in trouble for it
If I can't have porn father, then neither can you.
>>63324279
only because people carry it around like spergs constantly.
>>63324291
He probably thought it was your mom and beat the shit out of her.
>>63324291
>not just keeping your mom out of the loop and make it so that both you and your dad can enjoy porn in secret
you're a gigantic fucking retard asshole anon
>>63324084
>Kinky
That shit is tame compared to what most of us probably have on our hard drives.
>>63324291
>If I can't have porn father, then neither can you.
he was the home owner, you were the little shit of the house. you were not equals.
Subtle 90's kids thread?
>>63324120
>tfw DVD arrived
>>63324309
also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence
i was that guy who taped nascar races over the movies and returned them
>>63323582
Always wanted one since I saw Napoleon dynamite. So sexy. Who TV/VCR combo for Christmas here?
>>63324291
>tfw he was trying to spare you from his vices
you sound like a disrespectful little shit.
>tfw slipping up and the second Titanic tape starts just after the titty scene
>>63324280
It hurt. My tape collection was bigger and better than my dvd collection, I had just amassed a really high quality tape collection. I took hundreds of them to sell at half price books and didn't make any money, I had to pretty much beg them just to take them for free. Shits ridiculous bulky and hard to move though, I'm glad I got rid of them.
>>63324382
>tfw 6-15 during the 90's.
I think that qualifies me to be on a poster.
>>63324084
i really, really like the fact that that mountain of VHS's is screaming "I WAS THIS SEXUALLY UNSATISFIED WITH YOU, BITCH"
im sure she got that exact message too.
>tfw you still own an original version Twister the first ever film on DVD
>>63324224
>except the toaster is tsundere for the bread
I think you just cracked why it was so satisfying to insert a tape
>>63324424
to be fair not leading by example is a little horseshit especially if they are really strict.
vhs was pretty terrible
rewinding was cancer. i remember when dvds came and had a scene selection and it was like magic
>>63323636
What are you talking about? I'll never forget the first time I watched star wars and let the credits roll while playing legos and then bonus features showed up. I'd owned the thing for years and never knew. I was ecstatic. I immediately fast forwarded every vhs I had to the end to check for more. All the star wars ones had different extras at the end it was a good day
>>63323260
I still have my Go Video dual-deck, motherfucker.
>tfw you could pose at any single frame
>>63323260
It was pretty cool, you push it in just a bit and then the machine would grab hold of it and pull it the rest of the way in.
>>63324332
Meh my mother is kind of a bitch anyways.
>>63324344
That's just gay, you don't watch porn with another guy in the room unless you're playing a modded video game.
>>63324365
It's extremely hypgocritical to say that I couldn't look at porn because it's evil and sending me to hell, while he'd doing it himself.
>>63324424
Still doesn't change the fact he had porn, and at that point I had seen things like naked girl and sex scenes.
i still buy vhs from thrift shops for 88 cents.
Only ones i have now are Battle of Algiers, Yellow Submarine, Detroit Rock City and City of lost children.
Just got rid of my seventh seal.
>>63324461
My dad used to smoke, and it was terrible and made sure I knew it. But he was addicted. He eventually got over it.
>>63324291
>can't have porn in house
>find dads secret porn vhs
>watch it occasionally when home alone
>one day forget to rewind it to where it was left off
>tfw a couple weeks later you can tell your dad tried to watch it and noticed somebody else was watching his porn
>tfw he didn't say shit but I knew that he knew
>next time I'm looking for his porn it isn't there
weird vhs feels
>>63323322
underrated and double dubs
>>63324507
I never said you had to watch it in the same room / at the same time you mongoloid
>>63323527
>unskippable adverts
>2002 DVD
back then I use to think nothing on DVD could annoy me more then the ad/trailers you could not skip.. Only to find out a decade later that yes, yes there is something much worse. Being forced to watch those same 2002 sort of ads in 2015..
as for VHS players.. I think everyone should have one stashed away in the garage or back of some closet some where. You still can stumble over the random interesting VHS every now and then at some thrift store or garage sale. I mean come on, they are only around $8 at the local goodwill.
Oh and keep an eye out for cheap stand alone DVDr recorders. Really easy way to convert your rare tape find over the the PC.
>Born in 1984
Pic related is the VHS my parents owned and still have. It even works. I think it was manufactured somewhere between 80-82. I believe they paid a pretty penny for it.
Ours is actually in perfect shape compared to the one in this image. I think we eventually upgraded to one of the godless plain black VHS players in the early 90's.
>>63324224
>except the toaster is tsundere for the bread
exactly this
>tfw watching old VHS tapes my parents recorded when i was a kid
>mfw all that grain and authentic feeling
>>63324120
Setting a loop of point a to b.... good times
VHS didnt age very well
Nostalgia is talking itt, nobody would replace their blu-ray/HD rips for vhs
>>63324612
No shit sherlock.
>>63323337
Why do black people enjoy talking about their DANK drug habits all the time.
>>63324541
Also
>have Titanic vhs
>watch tit scene so many times it's the only part of the movie that looks like ass
>parents watch it one weekend and I casually slip out during that scene
>wander back in later to see the end and they give me this look
lol they noticed it
>>63324612
Literally no one is saying VHS is superior, we're just reminiscing you cum guzzling nigger.
>>63324631
When your IQ is low that is all you have to talk about.
It was the most satisfying tech-related feeling. A distant second would be inserting an NES cart.
Funny thing I noticed is that the low quality of VHS helped us to accept the shitty 90's CGI. My little bro watched Jumanji multiple times per weeks so I almost knows it perfectly, and the other day I torrented it and damn it looks awful
>>63324612
>VHS didnt age very well
well yeah, it's pure shit compared to modern level media tech. The entire point of still keeping a VHS around is for when you find random OOP sort of crap that is only out on VHS.
plus everything about VHS from the players to most of all the tape are dirt, dirt cheap. You can find some interesting stuff for a handful of nickles.
>>63324741
its far less satisfying when you have to pull the cart 20 times to get a game to work.
>>63324741
Inserting a NES cart is more terrifying if anything.
Loved inserting those giant ass floppies though. I always loved the firm and concise click sound.
>>63324783
>Jumanji
Damn, thanks for reminding me. I remember watching it thinking on the fuck did they make the animals run around like that, and the monkeys on the bike. Then I watched it years later and it looked horrendous.
>>63324783
>Dem CGI Monkey's.
Absolutely terrible.
>>63324741
Inserting NES carts was never satisfying for me as half the time it didn't work and you had to fuck around with it.
>>63323260
IIRC it would go in easily about half way and then you met resistance, you then would push a little harder and it would then get automatically pulled in
>>63323386
PANASONIC YEAH
reminder the original jap nes used floppys.
the nightmare was caused just to make people think of them like vcrs.
>>63324802
>>63324803
>>63324842
True. I was referring to NES when it worked without a hitch. Most peoples memories are of the contacts being fucked and having to do janky shit to get it working.
>tfw seeing VHS tape strewn about the city
Shit was fucking everywhere. I don't even remember the last time I saw it though.
>>63324783
Take into consideration that you were a kid watching it when it came out, so it wasn't really that jarring at the time.
In retrospect, there's a lot of shitty CGI. Hell, Toy Story's animation looks terrible at some points.
>>63323260
>tfw Empire Strikes back got fucked in the VCR and we had to throw both away and get the Star Wars DVDs
>>63324783
>>63324825
>>63324832
Friendly reminder robin Williams hung himself when he learned they are planning on remaking jumanji
>>63324741
>not the eject button on the snes
I could play with that for hours.
Just pushing that bigass button and watching the cart jump out.
>>63324949
The dvd's are how the movie was ment to be
>>63324947
Don't even bring up toy story kid. The FIRST Pixar movie. I don't care if it looks awful at any point anywhere; it basically revolutionized kids movies forever. Toy story is flawless
>>63323717
We had that tv. Thought it was real nice in 1990.
I have a fondness for minidisc and those turbografix 16 carts. They had a good solid feel to them. Too bad they were both tied to mediums that were doomed to fail.
>>63324949
I got the full-screen DVDs because I thought that meant it showed the full image. That was an embarrassing thing to explain when I returned them for the widescreen.
>>63324981
Only if you get the 2004 version, thats how it's meant to be.
>>63325080
that actually makes more sense.
I grew in the 90s and VHS fucking sucked.
Picture and sound quality were garbage tier rewinding was stupid.
I don't even like watching DVDs anymore desu
>Push the tape in and feel the loading mechanism give you a resistant push back
>Tape clunks in and whirring starts
>Yfw you will never see this screen come up again
>tfw I used VCRs until I was 10-11 years old.
I'm getting too old for this site and the majority of the internet in general, aren't I?
I still have a VCR
>>63325179
but they still have these on movies, most of them actually
>>63325179
>>63325202
some dvds even play damn forced commericials at the start even.
>>63323505
What was your reaction the first time you attached your 360 to a TV with 720-1080p?
Because I distinctly remember the first game I did that with, it was Dead Rising.
>Tfw going from CRT television and VHS to primitive plasma tv's and dvd
I absolutely hated how shitty it looked when I first swapped over. I remember everything having that crappy digital quality to it that hadn't yet been ironed out.
>I was probably watching movies in 240p full screen due to the shitty plasma
>>63324631
Black people hate the cops. Since anything criminal is anti-cop, being a criminal is cool in black culture.
In response to this, cops hate black people. And in response to that, black people hate cops. Thus the wheel spins on.
>tfw learned to programm the vcr to automatically record stuff at a set time.
I taped so many poorly dubbed italian erotic and horror movies that came late night. I only had to be the first one to wake up and remove the tape in the morning
>>63325297
Yeah. Same here. When I switched to 1080p and bluray I was in a whole new world.
>>63325080
This was confusing until I figured out widescreen gave you the black bars which meant the full image, while "fullscreen" cut off the sides
>>63325276
>dead rising on av cables
My word... may as well have been Chinese symbols in the cut scenes
>>63323260
>25 years old
>oldfag
Fuck
>>63323582
Neighbors had one. Had to put a small dumbbell on it to keep the tape down. Good times.
>>63325373
isnt there one show that has its disks do the opposite?
xfiles i think
>>63325195
Im 29. My family switch from beta to VHS to DVD during my formative years.
Same for audio, in my youth I went from casette to CD to minidisc (top kek) to mp3.
What a world of change it was.
Kids these days only upgrade their iphones. Completely missing the amazing feeling of adapting to completely new technology.
>>63323489
There's a head that pushes against the tape while it's playing. Rewinding/FF'ing with the tape on means that the tape is going through that head. Obviously, it can't go full throttle otherwise the head would rip the tape apart. When you stop, the head recedes and the tape can move as fast as the motor in the vcr will make it as it's rewinding/ff'ing.
It's bretty basic shit.
>tfw your dad brings home a second vcr and you can now make copies of rentals.
>>63325109
Did they reshoot anakin again? I remember him giving a creepy rapist stare in the new version.
>tfw external VHS rewinder
2 movies rewinding at once imagine that.
>>63325446
>you are the last generation that will use physical media
>mfw I shoved a pb&j sandwich into the vcr when I was an infant
>Broke parents manage to buy a new one
>Immediately jam a toy banana inside
>>63325578
>you will never feed and raise your vcr
>>63325578
>the city of non-spanking parents
>>63325513
How expensive was it? I remember my rental place had them.
>tfw an old friend of mine and me went for a walk in our hometown last week and the Video rental place where we rented SNES gamesand VHS as kids had just shut down a month ago
>>63325578
vcr is what you call your ass right?
>>63325520
We are already like old farts with grammophones to them.
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>>63325513
Man, its almost 2016. There is no robots, no jetpacks and no space colonies. But at least we got netflix and ouch my balls in HD.
>5 Years Old
>Decide to put Peanut butter toast in the VCR
Take that society
>not having your cat push the tape in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlSwq4I64iY
>>63325763
>tfw idiocracy was right
>>63323260
>tfw you push it in too quickly and it gets jammed
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>>63323606
>You have a VCR that rewinds the damn thing.
>I never understood why tape rewinders were a thing
Their main purpose was to extend your VCRs life. Rewinding and Forwarding a tape tends to wear out your VCRs heads fast. If you only use the VCR for playing movies and let a different tool do the rewinding you VCR would work better and last longer.
Also some cheap VCRs would fuck up the tape while rewinding. Thats why when you rented VHS tapes some of the movies would have lines going down the picture. Someones shitty VCR fucked up the film while rewinding.
Not only do they extend your VCRs life they also protect your films from getting fucked .
>>63323637
Mine was Gladiator
>>63325823
>Thats why when you rented VHS tapes some of the movies would have lines going down the picture
That's another aspect that sucked about VHS. When you rented a tape it was a crapshoot whether you'd actually get a watchable copy.
>>63323343
My parents told me it went faster. Also if you didn't press stop first the whole movie would be spoiled.
Anyone have a laserdisc player?
>>63325823
our old vcr would rewind steady
the newer one years later would go insanely fast and suddenly stop when it sounded like it hit something then slowly finish.
i think rewinders at the time were only like ~10 dollars.
>>63324346
Dont project your degenerate porn tastes onto me
>>63325890
Outside of sentimental reasons there really was no aspect of VHS that didn't suck
>>63325951
Except the satisfying feeling of inserting a tape.
>be me
>be in kindergarden
>dad had almost every james bond movie on vhs
>we werent allowed to watch them
>came home from school around 13:00
>parents would normally come home around 16:00
>grew the balls to put in goldeneye once before parents got home
>saw the first scene of him jumping off the dam
>pussied out and put it back and went back to playing with legos
when i was like 12 or something my parents allowed me to watch grown up movies and i was the coolest kid in class for a solid few years
>>63325620
>>63325633
Also killed all of mummys exotic fish by filling the tank with fish food.
>>63326035
I'm 36 years old. I fondly remember going to the electronics section of the supermarket to buy blank VHS tapes for recording Robotech episodes. I manually paused the recording when the adds came on. Nowadays, those old adds are more interesting.
>>63324541
Fuck I had something like this happen to me. Stole a female clothing catalogue for the underwear pages and hid it in my room. Went to find it one day and it was gone. I felt so awkward for weeks but it was never brought up.
>>63323637
My first DVD was Hidden Tiger Crouching Dragon. For some reason, my dad bought the DVD a year before buying a DVD player. I tried to inform him that the PS2 could play DVDs, but he didn't believe me.
tim and eric do some vhs related humor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UEfLCv3ivI
>You will never watch Gunbuster on VHS in the 80's just to see Noriko's pubes
>>63326104
>your parents face when they had to make a nerve racking decision to bring it up or not
It probably all worked out for the best
>>63326038
>Broke parents
>Exotic fish
Your parents deserved it. Good on you
>>63324574
Weird. Maybe my mind is mixing up the proportions, but that looks like a very small recepticle for a VHS tape.
Thought it was a Betamax player for a second there.Though then again, way too long for a betamax too.
Any tapes you still watch every now and again?
>>63326066
>Nowadays, those old adds are more interesting
How weird but true. Plus a ton of those nostalgic shows are easy to find on the web these days, but god help you if you're searching for an ancient, obscure commercial you remember out of the blue.
>>63326296
Speaking of old ads, whats even weirder are old job orientation videos.
So many of them from the 90's are hilarious to watch.
>>63323260
VCR memories, "Cassette culture". True anon stories from an oldfag.
-One of the very first VHS videocassettes that I ever owned was E.T. It was given to me when I was a little boy of about 5 or 6. I still love that movie, it holds up now that I'm an adult (yes, it does so). The cassette still works and is watchable.
-Dad taped some kid's stuff off of the TV periodically, and I'd re-watch after school. I would watch Short Circuit incessantly. We later used tapes to record Triumph the Insult Comic Dog segments, and items of extra-special interest off of TCM etc. I actually made a point of taping Family Guy eps in the first few seasons, fearing the content might be lost to time. I was quasi-vindicated during the first cancellation.
-The sensation of pushing a tape into a side-loading VCR (my mainstays) involves some force, and soft push-pull. If you've ever pushed a CD into a car deck, it's very much like that, but you can feel the moving parts whirring. Once it's mostly in, then it will accept the cassette and pull it in. Obvious metaphor is obvious.
I've never operated a top-loading VCR, but an old HS biology class had one mothballed in the corner of the room, never used. I was quite curious about it, and happy to see one.
-Now about 16 years old, I had my own TV and VCR so I could record Victoria's Secret shows and E! Wild On, had a nice little spank bank in addition to other stuff. Some stores used to sell 2-VHS sets of long films such as Godfather II and Titanic. Stuff I have includes the un-raped Star Wars trilogy, Wallace and Gromit Shorts, Mr. Bean boxes, and a bunch of 90's animu esp. Evangelion and Ranma 1/2.
The medium I'm more curious about is laserdisc. The only time I've ever even seen a laserdisc was when a spanish teacher put an instruction video into a machine.
>want to tape a movie off TV
>have to justify it to a jury of your peers (siblings) or else face the fallout of having taped over something someone wanted to keep
My family never bought new tapes so what was worthy of being recorded was a source of contention in our household.
>>63324657
>when your inferiority complex and autism is so big you can't help but find arbitrary reasons to look down on people
>>63324574
I'm about the same age and I was going to make a comment with a similar intent. It's surprising (but then again maybe not, most of these were made in Japan, Germany, Holland or America) how relatively complicated pieces of machinery they were compared to modern counterparts with a lot less moving parts and how robust they were even they had children operating them. Dad's old Sony VHS with the flip front still works as I assume does grandpa's betamax. Meanwhile my laptop's dvd player I've used like twice in 3 years sounds like a coffee grinder when you put a cd in and doesn't read shit.
>>63323418
Never happened to me once.
>>63323260
Felt like the party was finna start
I actually finally got rid of my old VHS player earlier this year. I'd been saving it due to a small collection of tapes that I had that never hit DVD/Bluray. Thankfully this year they finally did.
While it's absolutely nostalgic to think about, VHS really was ass. I hated having the tapes slowly degrade on me from repeated watching and from general background radiation decay. (I never forget finding a few old tapes from the 80s that were still shrink wrapped but refused to play because of this.)
Laserdisc I have nostalgia for. Especially for all the old interviews/commentary and extras that have never been ported over.
>>63326431
>-Dad taped some kid's stuff off of the TV periodically
Damn, I used to tape saturday morning cartoons all the time, there's probably still a dozen or so 240min VHSs back home with shit like GI Joe and Inspector Gadget and Thundercats and all that jazz.
Also
>tfw meticulously choosing which brand of blank VHS to buy in which to record your precious cartoons
maaaaaaaaaaaan.
>>63326533
discs dont have proper casings just to cause this shit.
ive bitched for years the dvd case itself should have been made to be the cassette.
also to see the pictures on a table you have to lay them face down.
>>63326066
>I'm 36 years old
Finally someone on this site that is now older than me.
I was in my mid 20s when I got here and boy are my eyes tired
>>63326066
>Robotech
Jesus Christ, what a shitty life you must have
>>63326727
It's not that unusual.
I'm 31 and I know certain boards have a decent population of 30 somethings on them.
It's all about what board you are on.
>>63326066
>I fondly remember going to the electronics section of the supermarket to buy blank VHS tapes
Dude I totally used to do that when I was like 8years old in the mid 90s. I used to walk all the way to my local Supermarket and I would buy VHS tapes for like $2.99 each to record Power Rangers. Glad I did to seeing that it took them FOREVER to release the show on dvd.
In my early/mid teens I got smart tho. I started buying the $10 Ten packs of what ever brand was on sale. I swear I had over 1025 tapes at one point. Still have some of them. Regret trashing only one that had an extended USA network cable airing of Child's Play 2 and 3. That was a mistake I made when I was forced to move into a VERY small house and had no space to move around.
>>63324612
Vhs aged fucking well. It had a 20 year run at the top of its game. 1978-1998. Saw off betamax, video2000, laserdisc was always too niche to be mass-marketed. It took DVD to take up the reins for movie collectors (a trend which vhs started) for VHS to finally concede it's position as the #1 format. No other format, physical or digital, will have as great a lifespan as vhs did.
