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Syaoran Li said:
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.
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I think it's interesting to think about considering that CD Video was trying to come into the market too. DVD wasn't alone. Surprisingly, CDV is still popular in Asia.
 
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Shaka Brah said:
I think it's interesting to think about considering that CD Video was trying to come into the market too. DVD wasn't alone. Surprisingly, CDV is still popular in Asia.
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I know about CD Video from the 90's, mainly because a lot of movies released on CD Video could also be played on a PS1 in certain regions and some titles were even released in jewel case boxes with the PS1 branding like the Dawn of the Dead's Japanese cut. That might be where they got the idea for having the PS2 play DVD's.

I don't think CD Video ever made it to the United States though but I could be wrong. I know the format came out in Japan and was a thing in the 90's before mainly living on in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong where it's still popular today.

LaserDisc was also very popular in Asia and parts of Northern Europe compared to the United States, where it was an expensive niche format marketed at collectors and the more academic cinephiles as opposed to the general consumer format of VHS.

I think LaserDisc still exists in the East Asian market in a weird limbo similar to CD's today where it's not completely dead like VHS or Betamax, but it's more or less dead in terms of new releases and the titles that are available are the more popular older titles that remained in print in those markets. I could be completely wrong on that and it may be completely dead over there now but I remember reading about that being a thing years ago.

I do know LaserDisc was vastly more popular in Japan than in the United States and that it lasted a lot longer as a format there.
 
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Shaka Brah said:
I think it's interesting to think about considering that CD Video was trying to come into the market too. DVD wasn't alone. Surprisingly, CDV is still popular in Asia.
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No, that's Video CD. CDV is CD-Video, which was a Laserdisc-compatible video track on a CD. Later Laserdisc players were also DVD players, and are sought after for a perceived superior comb filter.

Also, I wish I had a still functioning CRT. Even though they drank juice like an alcoholic on a brewery tour.

The last LD pressing plant closed in about 2008. LD-Rs were a thing, but they were horribly expensive AT THE TIME, weren't used for mass media distribution, and there were a handful of incompatible formats.

I await my Is and puzzle pieces.
 
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My only experience with the autism that is VHS collecting came about a few years back in New Orleans. There was a guy who spent tons of time and money making copies of every VHS release he could get his hands on, he even got a short piece written about him in the newspaper. He had something like 200000 VHS tapes. And then Katrina hit and both his house and his storage space went under 10 feet of sludge-water. It pretty much broke him as a person.
 
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The most I've seen of a VHS collector is Brutalmoose who makes an amusing series out of any old shows or commercials found on sold-as-blank VHSes.
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Exploring an Unlabeled VHS Tape - Mystery Tapes

Well, not entirely unlabeled. The spine of this VHS tape reads "Blank 12/93", and that's all the info we have. Let's watch it! https://www.brutalmoose.com My...
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If this was already mentioned and I missed it hit me with those clocks.

I've a few old disney VHSes that were picked up because they were dirt cheap but its more the art on the case than the actual content. Maybe at some point there'll be a VHS player that comes combined with something and they'll get a watch.
 
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Is there a way to convert vhs to a digital format? Like if it’s possible, we could get some bizzare ass porn and potentially preserve a lot of wierd shit.
 
verygayFrogs said:
Is there a way to convert vhs to a digital format? Like if it’s possible, we could get some bizzare ass porn and potentially preserve a lot of wierd shit.
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Yeah there are tape readers with a USB attachment. You can also just run your VCR signal to a computer with the right equipment.
 
A lot of obscure movies got DVD releases that were just VHS copied on to DVDs. Case in point: The cult monster movie The Legend of Boggy Creek was only available on DVD as a copy from super shitty multiple-generation VHS copies.
 
There are only two reasonable uses for VHS in 2023 that I can think of:

1) Hi-fi recording: If you have a vinyl or reel-to-reel collection that you want to make mix tapes of, and you want to keep it all analog.
2) Pulling stuff off a dvr before cutting the cord and cancelling service. There are all-digital solutions but nothing beats the simplicity of using the composite out on the cable box and popping in a tape and hitting record while playing back your stuff on the dvr. Granted it will look like ass, but do you really need MASH reruns in 4k?
 
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Shroom King said:
There are only two reasonable uses for VHS in 2023 that I can think of:

1) Hi-fi recording: If you have a vinyl or reel-to-reel collection that you want to make mix tapes of, and you want to keep it all analog.
2) Pulling stuff off a dvr before cutting the cord and cancelling service. There are all-digital solutions but nothing beats the simplicity of using the composite out on the cable box and popping in a tape and hitting record while playing back your stuff on the dvr. Granted it will look like ass, but do you really need MASH reruns in 4k?
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I have a load of old tapes and a lightning quick Mitsubishi tape player, but the main reasons I bought them were two fold: cost and collectability. Even if some shit has been ported to DVD, its either hard as balls to find or its in a big bundle when all I want is the one damn movie.

That said, most of what I watch anymore is Blu-ray, the ultimate DVD. Better sound, absolute Gucci 1080p picture, and great sound, not to mention it doesn't rely on a fluctuating internet connection and servers that get slower on the weekends due to everyone being home. 4k Blu-ray is good too, but you need to mess with your TV's color settings to really make it pop.
 
VHS was a terrible format, that people put up with because it allowed you to see movies at home for the first time.

The current fascination with them is bewildering. Most of those tapes won't even work right - they start deteriorating after a couple decades. There was a trend about 10-15 years ago of transferring VHS to digital formats, mainly home movies, precisely for this reason.

Slight autistic sperg about the topic - it's why most film studios keep their classic movies stored on film, rather than a digital format. Obviously hard-drives have a relatively short lifespan (5 or 10 years?) whereas film, stored in the right conditions, can last about 75 years or so. Stuff like the original Wizard of Oz went through a process a decade or so back where the original print was scanned digitally, before then being reprinted onto film again, then stored in a salt-mine somewhere (to avoid moisture). If you've ever seen Day of the Dead, a lot of that was actually shot in one of those film-storage-salt-mines.

Anyway, fuck VHS.
 
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verygayFrogs said:
Is there a way to convert vhs to a digital format? Like if it’s possible, we could get some bizzare ass porn and potentially preserve a lot of wierd shit.
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Basically any capture device that has RCA inputs will work for a PC. As far as ones I've actually used, there's one called the VidBox that comes with software that makes it stupid easy and it costs about $80 for the whole package. You just need a working VCR to plug into it.
 
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FudgeFish said:
VHS was a terrible format, that people put up with because it allowed you to see movies at home for the first time.

The current fascination with them is bewildering. Most of those tapes won't even work right - they start deteriorating after a couple decades. There was a trend about 10-15 years ago of transferring VHS to digital formats, mainly home movies, precisely for this reason.

Slight autistic sperg about the topic - it's why most film studios keep their classic movies stored on film, rather than a digital format. Obviously hard-drives have a relatively short lifespan (5 or 10 years?) whereas film, stored in the right conditions, can last about 75 years or so. Stuff like the original Wizard of Oz went through a process a decade or so back where the original print was scanned digitally, before then being reprinted onto film again, then stored in a salt-mine somewhere (to avoid moisture). If you've ever seen Day of the Dead, a lot of that was actually shot in one of those film-storage-salt-mines.

Anyway, fuck VHS.
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No one ever liked VHS tapes or cassettes back then. Like you said they were just formats to watch or listen to what you wanted until better technology came along, then people never wanted to go back to them again. Even back then it was annoying to rewind the VHS tapes and quality control was often bad where the tapes would deteriorate or some sections would be unwatchable even when they were brand new and you had to drive back to the rental store or video store to return it for a better tape. They were also clunky, ugly, and the paper boxes wore out quickly. Most people threw out or donated their old VHS tapes because they became obsolete and worthless except for a few obscure ones that are worth money because the content was never released elsewhere, but even many of those can be found in better quality uploaded online by fans.
 
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The amount of autism in this. This video is uploaded by the same manchild who had an autistic meltdown over his broken Minority Report tape back in 2012.
 
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