VHSfags on youtube

[sparklemilhouse]

Can anyone else understand what this guy is saying?

":autism::autism::autism::autism::autism:. :powerlevel::powerlevel::islamic::autism::autism::autism:. "

 

[Echs Why Zed]

Oh, look. I found @x86x2. This is probably what he's doing after he left Whitecap Grave.


VHS tapes are Barneyshit.

 

[Very Clever Nickname]

Oh, look. I found @x86x2. This is probably what he's doing after he left Whitecap Grave.


VHS tapes are Barneyshit.

What are you doing?! You'll summon him from his lair!

 

[Echs Why Zed]

What are you doing?! You'll summon him from his lair!

Not without forming a pentagram made out of Barney and MLP plushies.

 

[Van Darkholme]

I grew up with VHS, but I really don't think these tapes are anything worth preserving (unless a certain movie or version only exists on VHS). Back then if you wanted to watch a movie at home it was either VHS or nothing, nobody owned a Betamax , Video 2000 or Laserdisc and most rental places only had VHS anyway. Laserdisc and its players were super expensive and not very economic.

Quality was shit, the tapes would wear out over time, they take up lots of space and you had to rewind them. Pretty sure we went through a few players because some critical part inside stopped working. Being able to record off the television was nice though and skip through warnings and whatnot.

I can somewhat understand being a fan of Laserdisc (hell, I own a LD Player and several discs myself, but it's nothing I actively collect and I mostly use it as a CD player these days) but VHS is just old trash to me and I was glad when DVD became affordable and I didn't had to bother with it anymore.

Destroying tapes is edgy, spergy shit, just trash them if they bother you so much and stop being an edgelord on youtube.

 

[Zorceror44]

I don't think anything in this thread could top this. Just watch and wait.

 

[Big Nasty]

Holy dogshit.

That must have been the most pointless video I've watched on Youtube so far this year.

 

[Zorceror44]

Holy dogshit.

That must have been the most pointless video I've watched on Youtube so far this year.

I was mainly just referring to the part when he says "GOOD THING BIN LADEN IS DEAD" more than anything else. It's just so absurd that he's saying that in a review of a Scooby Doo VHS tape.

But yeah, it's totally pointless.

 

[Maggots on a Train]

Back in the late 90's early 2000s I collected betamax and oddball vhs movies the cheapness of DVD made my collection trash,

later I wanted to move some home videos and researchedo how to ripe them. Turns out a good video deck is basically a unicorn and it's just a bunch of gearheads trading back and forth on ebay.

My parents paid top dollar for a "deluxe" model VCR back in the late eighties. It was always at the repair shop, and ultimately had no better playback than a $70 Walmart special from the late nineties. It really was a terrible format. I have to assume there was never any demand to develop truly high end VHS tech, since on the consumer end there was already laserdisc and actual film, and actual professionals had access to slightly higher end magnetic tape formats.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

Pretty sure we went through a few players because some critical part inside stopped working

Should've bought a dedicated VHS rewinder. I had one that looked kind of like this...

And, yup, that's all it did. Supposedly saved a lot of wear and tear on the heads.

Also, anybody else remember the ultimate in pointless formats, Super VHS? I never actually even saw a player, just remember hearing about them, at about the same time DVD players first started appearing.

 

[Steve Mayers]

Evidently there was a HDVHS format that was very short lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS

 

[SaucesAreForDipping]

I know this is considered necroposting, but here we have a Russki (well, Latvian since his channels confirms he's from Latvia) VHSfag

 

[Syaoran Li]

But it preserves them, and that's what really matters in the long run.

Still, the guys who collect preschool video tapes are pretty lulzy. There are few people who collect VHS who are interested in preschool tapes. 80s and 90s kids' cartoons, sure. But preschool shows? The few people who do that are autistic - literally.

Agreed.

The only kind of preschool tapes I could see actually trying to collect and preserve are the more obscure or hard to find stuff from the 80's and 90's that are unavailable in disc or online formats

Even then, the only example I can think of would be Shining Time Station, since that was the debut of Thomas The Tank Engine as a franchise in the United States and is also known for having Ringo Starr and George Carlin as Mr. Conductor. It's notoriously unavailable on streaming or even DVD since the owners of the Thomas IP want to focus entirely on the newer iterations of the franchise, since that makes the most sense business-wise since it is a preschool show.

Still, I've noticed VCR's are becoming more and more expensive on Amazon as well as eBay and I've noticed VHS collecting is starting to get more popular compared to three years ago. CRT TV's are also getting more expensive, although the prices were already pretty jacked up thanks to the retro gaming trend/

Also a lot of YouTube videos and amateur movies try to deliberately imitate the look of the VHS format too, and the low quality lends itself well to certain genres like horror.

I'm honestly wondering if VHS could get a niche revival like vinyl records did in the early 2010's when hipsters started getting really into it. Nowadays you can even find vinyl records at Wal-Mart and if a musician even bothers to do a physical release of their newer music, it's more likely to be on vinyl than CD.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

I know this is considered necroposting, but here we have a Russki (well, Latvian since his channels confirms he's from Latvia) VHSfag

I'm actually vaguely interested in whatever VHS tapes you can get out of the ex USSR, but only because I'm interested in watching Soviet TV. I guess a VHS deck would have been expensive and so would have been the tapes. Also Soviet SECAM is markedly different from both French AND Middle Eastern SECAM.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

Evidently there was a HDVHS format that was very short lived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS

I love Techmoan, he's the reason I have a laserdisc player I never use but love to simply bask in the presence of. D-VHS is an interesting format though, and seriously ahead of it's time in many ways. He should be shown to VHS fags as an example of how you can be interested in an older format without being an autist knobhead about it.

 

[Very Clever Nickname]

Agreed.

The only kind of preschool tapes I could see actually trying to collect and preserve are the more obscure or hard to find stuff from the 80's and 90's that are unavailable in disc or online formats

Even then, the only example I can think of would be Shining Time Station, since that was the debut of Thomas The Tank Engine as a franchise in the United States and is also known for having Ringo Starr and George Carlin as Mr. Conductor. It's notoriously unavailable on streaming or even DVD since the owners of the Thomas IP want to focus entirely on the newer iterations of the franchise, since that makes the most sense business-wise since it is a preschool show.

Still, I've noticed VCR's are becoming more and more expensive on Amazon as well as eBay and I've noticed VHS collecting is starting to get more popular compared to three years ago. CRT TV's are also getting more expensive, although the prices were already pretty jacked up thanks to the retro gaming trend/

Also a lot of YouTube videos and amateur movies try to deliberately imitate the look of the VHS format too, and the low quality lends itself well to certain genres like horror.

I'm honestly wondering if VHS could get a niche revival like vinyl records did in the early 2010's when hipsters started getting really into it. Nowadays you can even find vinyl records at Wal-Mart and if a musician even bothers to do a physical release of their newer music, it's more likely to be on vinyl than CD.

VCRs are probably becoming more expensive because less and less are still working and nobody still produces them. Same with CRT TVs.

 

[LazarusOwenhart]

VCRs are probably becoming more expensive because less and less are still working and nobody still produces them. Same with CRT TVs.

Tell me about it. I'm desperate for a decent 32' CRT, preferably a Sony Trinitron, to play lightgun games on. They're either hugely expensive or fucking knackered.

 

[TaimuRadiu]

VCRs are probably becoming more expensive because less and less are still working and nobody still produces them. Same with CRT TVs.

There's at least one place that still repairs them, only in Milwaukee though.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

If I have to go to Milwaukee to do it is it really lightning fast?

 

[Syaoran Li]

VCRs are probably becoming more expensive because less and less are still working and nobody still produces them. Same with CRT TVs.

True, but CRT's were getting more expensive online even before production completely ceased due to the retro gaming trend at the end of the 2000's/start of the 2010's.

I mean, CRT's were still being produced and were available in regular stores even after HDMI TV's became the norm when you comapre it to VHS when DVD's took over in the early 2000's.

Video stores would often still offer VHS titles for a longer while, especially in poorer and more rural areas and you might find VCR's for sale at dollar stores or even the occasional Wal-Mart or Kmart would stock them in those areas as well, but DVD replaced VHS a lot more rapidly than HDMI replaced CRT or even digital music replacing CD's.

I get why CRT lasted longer than VHS because it's naturally a lot more expensive to buy a TV than it is to buy a VCR or DVD player, but I remember in the late 2000's and early 2010's after the digital switchover most people were still using their CRT TV's and usually switched to flat screens if they were going to replace a worn-out TV or as a gift for the holidays.

You could even still find the smaller CRT models in retail stores on occasion even as late as 2011 or 2012 a lot of the time, but usually they'd only have one or two brands when they carried them and you had to actually look to find them on the bottom shelves, and they were probably surplus stock from the mid-late 2000's.

DVD came out in 1996 but at the same time, I don't remember seeing any titles available or even advertisements for DVD until around 1999 or 2000.

Granted, I grew up in a poor rural hillbilly part of the country as a kid and was in First Grade in 1999-2000 but pretty much everyone I talk to who was there has the same experience, both online and offline and it's the same thing even after I moved to a more suburban and well-off area.

I think the fact that the PS2 could also play DVD's and was the best-selling console of all time is probably why DVD helped catch on and replace VHS as quickly as it did. In 2001, a new PS2 was usually cheaper than a lot of DVD players and were sold at the same price as a lot of the lower-end DVD models and it could also play video games (including all your old PS1 titles)

I'd imagine a lot of people in the late 90's thought DVD would end up like Betamax or at best, LaserDisc but then things started to change at the start of the new millennium.