Literally no one called them VHSs. They were just called video tapes. The players were called VCRs.
I don’t miss VHS or optical media.
It was fun though. I could tell where did my brother stopped and rewatched a scene in a VHS of Return of the Living Dead.
At some point it even became censored due to the amount of static.
Wow. I had to look that scene up. I must have watched the censored version or something, because I definitely don’t remember that.
Are you sure we’re talking about the same movie?
https://www.mrskin.com/anatomy-of-a-nude-scene-the-return-of-the-living-dead—25364
It is quite memorable
I mean, my memory of the show is pretty fuzzy at this range, but, yeah, I don’t remember any Romero film going that far. Not that I’m complaining, mind you; I get to experience it like it’s new, apparently.
BlueRay came out in 2006, there are Teens that have probably never seen a CD or DVD.
Blockbuster died around 2010, apple stopped shipping optical drives in the last of their computers around 2013, Streaming became the norm, there might be teens that haven’t used “Discs” for video and have streamed everything.
Got one living with me who falls into this category. She about lost her mind when I showed her a laser disc; thought it was some kind of special record. Yes, that’s the world we live in, now: kids collect records and cassettes, but have never seen a blu-ray.
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I mean technically it’s kind of like a laser record haha
Even more so when you realize they aren’t even digital, they use analog NTSC, PAL signal modulation / encoding.
Wait, they do? I always assumed they were digital…
Edit: well damn yeah they’re just shiny records… from Wikipedia “The surface of the disc is covered with small holes that are read by a laser.”
Thought it was some kind of special record
Well, there was something like that. CED: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc
To be fair, adoption of bluray took a bit of time. The cheapest blu ray player was the PS3, and that was like 600$
A lot of people I know had fairly large DVD collections but never accumulated very many Blue-ray releases.
“Be kind, rewind”
What is it? Some sort of STD?
I used to use my VCR to tell time. It was always 12:00.
Just watched the Futurama episode I dated a Robot, the professor kept the robot dating advisory special in the VCR. Always gives me a laugh.
I’m 21 and I’ve used VHSs when I was younger, we still have them and a player and I’ve even recorded something on one by myself.
But genuinely? It is an outdated technology and there is nothing bad if other young people just don’t know about it. The only thing making is special to you is nostalgia, and that’s genuinely okay for you, but other people aren’t worth less for not feeling the same way about it or not knowing it.
This is just saying it makes people feel old, not that there was anything special about it.
Well, it’s special because that’s where all our most important family videos are, and I don’t know how to get them onto a computer without paying a bunch of money, because we’re poor and can’t splurge on unnecessaries >.<
VHS to Digital Converter, Video Capture Card USB 2.0 Audio Video Capture Card Device Old VHS Mini DV Hi8 DVD VCR to Digital Converter for Mac, PC Support Windows 2000/10 / 8/7 / Vista/XP/Android https://a.co/d/63J6YvU
Looks like you can just plug this into a VHS player, hit play, and convert it yourself for $15
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im like 13 and i know what it is
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I can program a VHS machine to record a show while I’m not at home. Bow to your GOD.
I have MythTV for that
Rent in Peace by Psychostick. Lovely song.
