do you still use VHS?

[granville]

@ granville

are you burning dvd+r? maybe the booktype is not set to dvd-r. you can change that in your burning program.

or even better: only use dvd-r and try some other brand media.

sony drives are known to be picky.

Thanks for the info!

Just like me not to think about the kind of DVD. I don't know what kind it was at the moment, but I'll check it out.

 

[Toni Plutonij]

I'm watching VHS often, because I have big collection of VHS movies..

Also, as Hadrian stated, horrors, and older movies somehow "feel" better when watched on VHS..I enjoy them more then DVD/divX..

 

[BKZ]

I don't, but my parents do. They just record their Chinese drama shows on blank VHS tapes.

 

[xalphax]

my father bought a top notch dvd recorder not long ago with hdmi and everything, but still uses a CRT tv from the 80s :facepalm:

 

[Prime]

Nope.

Got a DVD Recorder a while back

 

[Twiffles]

To watch the old Indiana Jones & Back to the Future movies with all the grain.

 

[gk.7]

rarelly

 

[granville]

my father bought a top notch dvd recorder not long ago with hdmi and everything, but still uses a CRT tv from the 80s :facepalm:

I do that too!

Got an old big box in a wooden frame from 1988 and it still runs great!

And you know what's funny about DVDs? The old 35 millimeter tapes STILL outdo even blueray in quality!

 

[p1ngpong]

I dont have a VHS player in the house anymore, but I still have a few tapes! I dont even use DVD's really, I download everything I want to watch onto pc!

 

[Noitora]

We never had a VHS player in our house, so that's a no for me.

 

[Pizzaroo]

I use VHS to watch really old children movies sometimes, other than that I use a DVD player that a friend gave me

 

[mysticwaterfall]

I converted all my tapes to dvd using a dvd recorder last year. So now, only if I find something good at a garage sale or something that's not out on DVD.

 

[xalphax]

no love for betamax, i see ^^

 

[Panzer Tacticer]

Well it's not likely surprising that I have vhs tapes around here.

But do I like using vhs, not even remotely.

When I learned newsgroups was the only intelligent way to use the internet for non web browsing my vhs collection largely was thrown in the garbage.
Downloaded a LOT of my vhs movie collection in just the first year.

But some stuff is just so obscure. I have a large stash of vhs tapes from my father that are all North American steam and basically all purchased stuff at that.
It's actually worth a fair amount and unlikely to exist as digital.

The son grew up, ditched all his kiddie movies and I inherited the TV/vhs combo which I use occasionally now for those rare uses. My actual vhs player is now stored unloved in a closet.

Rewinding a tape though really reminds one why it's so nice to go digital.

 

[xalphax]

yeah, rewinding tapes is nasty.

do you remember that rental stores used to have a fine if you forgot to rewind the tape?

reminds me my grandmother asked me to rewind when we first watched a dvd together

 

[tomqman]

whats vhs??

 

[xalphax]

whats vhs??

i can imagine the big eyes of my kids when im showing them some vhs tapes

"when i was your age, this is how home video entertainment worked! and we liked it!"

 

[Votkrath]

Normally use the DVD but sometimes the VHS because of all the good movies I've taped.

 

[skawo96]

Yes. Rarely, but yes.

 

[tomqman]

whats vhs??

i can imagine the big eyes of my kids when im showing them some vhs tapes

"when i was your age, this is how home video entertainment worked! and we liked it!"

lol i was only joking i had loads of videos, (before rebuying most of them on dvd)