What's your favorite memory about VHS?  My favorite would have to be my very first video tape, E.T.  I still have lots of video tapes that barely get used anymore.

Renting movies & buying public domain cartoon videos as a young kid.

Now mostly tape music videos, specials, "Drawn Together", and stuff...  Though I mostly buy DVDs

As a kid, my mother had one of those 2-head Top Loaders.
As I take it, Top Loaders were quite rare by the time I hit first or second grade when 4-Head Side Loaders took over.
Ol' 2-head finally bit the dust in the spring of 2000.

I was so happy when I got my first VCR because I could tape my soaps.  ;D  I swear that it was invented by a soap watcher.




Cat

I remember when they had those laser disc players for movies.  They were as big as vinyl records.

I remember when they had those laser disc players for movies.  They were as big as vinyl records.


I remember laser discs. They were cool. We never had one but I knew someone who did, and watched a movie on it once.

And VHS isn't dead! I've got one! How about memories of Betamax? (Actually, I've got one of those, too!) ;)

Absolutely Vile

I remember laser discs. They were cool. We never had one but I knew someone who did, and watched a movie on it once.

And VHS isn't dead! I've got one! How about memories of Betamax? (Actually, I've got one of those, too!) ;)

Absolutely Vile



I also have a VCR-two of them in fact-one in the livingroom and one in the bedroom. Never had a laser disc and never had a beta but my dad swears by beta.



Cat

I also have a VCR-two of them in fact-one in the livingroom and one in the bedroom. Never had a laser disc and never had a beta but my dad swears by beta.



Cat


Well, Beta was certainly a far superior format, picture quality-wise. It just wasn't marketed well enough, I don't think. Shame...

Absolutely Vile

For those of you with BETA, thank God for the internet, huh? You can get anything from the internet now!

Dang, what a shame that vcrs/vhs has become almost antiques! Well, I still miss Beta!

Tanya

I remember when I got a VCR,I couldn't wait to tape my favorite shows all the time. :)


Howard

Dang, what a shame that vcrs/vhs has become almost antiques! Well, I still miss Beta!

Tanya



DVD's are the way to go these days. ;)


Howard

Ah yes, those long forgotten memories of VHS. Wow, it must have been.....has it been that long?.......of course, it was LAST NIGHT that I dusted off the old VCR and watched a tape. Oh how time flies!

I kinda wish we still had the VHS tapes.Now just about every movie,film,sitcom,show,documentary,biography is on DVD. :(



Howard

I kinda wish we still had the VHS tapes.Now just about every movie,film,sitcom,show,documentary,biography is on DVD. :(


And I don't even own a DVD player. :-[ :-\\ We still own a ton of VHS tapes. In fact, if we want to record something from TV, we have to use a videotape.

And I don't even own a DVD player. :-[ :-\\ We still own a ton of VHS tapes. In fact, if we want to record something from TV, we have to use a videotape.


yep.those are the breaks. :(

time is going way too fast. ;D


Howard

To add: recording TV programs on the VCR seems the most logical to me...I don't see how to do it any other way. ???

there  is this funny little thing called TIVO

Please be kind...rewind!

there is this funny little thing called TIVO

I know about it...but it didn't come into existence until when?? ???

My mother and I don't own a TiVO just because we don't have enough money to fund one. I wish that the local Adelphia would just have an analogue Video on Demand and DVR.

Video On Demand rules!!!!  :)

Video On Demand rules!!!!  :)



YEAH! Watch what you want,when you want! ;D


Howard

the only thing that I found interesting was using those funny little knobs to tune in channels. I would sit literally for hours and just fiddle with them for hours. I once tuned in a channel showing this Black and white Pic. I don't know the title of it, but I do know that it starred "little people" and it appeared to be a western of some sort.(anyone know about this movie?)

Now with laserdisc, the only interaction I had with that was when my 7th grade teacher caught me and a few of my classmates using a laserdisc as a frisbee. They used to have discs with Math lessons on them. :P Needless to say, I got detention that day.

the only thing that I found interesting was using those funny little knobs to tune in channels. I would sit literally for hours and just fiddle with them for hours. I once tuned in a channel showing this Black and white Pic. I don't know the title of it, but I do know that it starred "little people" and it appeared to be a western of some sort.(anyone know about this movie?)

Now with laserdisc, the only interaction I had with that was when my 7th grade teacher caught me and a few of my classmates using a laserdisc as a frisbee. They used to have discs with Math lessons on them. :P Needless to say, I got detention that day.


Yeah Null I hated that.Did you ever get blisters from changing channels? :P


Howard

My mom would dump me off at the boys club durring the summer, and they had a laser disk setup. I remember we watched D.C. Cab on it. It was on 2 disks and each die of a disk would only hold a little bit of the movie. So we had to flip it and then swap it and then flip it. I can see why they died out.