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2015/04/24 11:29:15 (permalink)

The great VHS revival

Hipsters have gone too far this time...
 
http://www.telegraph.co.u...making-a-comeback.html

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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/24 12:00:16 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby bapu 2015/04/24 12:47:35
That would be good. I've got a cupboard full of the darn things. In some ways I miss tapes, at least they didn't skip or randomly jump back to the start of the movie.

 
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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/24 13:39:57 (permalink)
I still have a dual dvd/vhs player hooked up in my entertainment system.  I watch old VHS stuff all the time.

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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/24 14:28:54 (permalink)
I think for most people, their interest in this "VHS revival" will wane somewhat after the first time they have to rewind a tape.

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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/24 14:53:44 (permalink)

Just get one of these made for VHS!
 
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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/24 19:58:16 (permalink)
Well, I still have my original Sony Beta-HIFI unit, and a bunch of Beta recordings scattered about. Problem is the content would be hard or impossible for me to replicate again. I have trouble tossing it all probably because of the sentimental attachment. The first Beta-HIFI movie I purchased was 'Mad Max: Road Warrior'. Wow! The audio absolutely smoked in Beta-HIFI compared to anything VHS offered at the time. That was some cools times for me. I haven't actually watched anything on it in years. I don't see this VHS thing being anything like Analog versus Digital audio though.

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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/24 23:59:27 (permalink)
I remember watching Fort Apache, The Bronx on my uncles Betamax machine sometime in the early 80's. He had the audio coming out of his hi-fi speakers and I was utterly amazed at how it was possible to have a cinema in your own home. 
 
At school, you could always tell which kids didn't have a VCR player at home by the their hysterics when the teacher hit rewind on a video tape and everything was happening backwards. The kids who had VCRs were like meh, seen it a million times. 

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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/27 16:00:53 (permalink)
The special effect I was most acquainted with in school was watching the projector lamp burn through the film when the teacher would stop the reel during the movie. We could also tell which kids had VCRs at home because their parents were time travelling billionaires. 
 
No, no one at my school had one. The closest piece of technology we had was an HP programmable calculator (HP25C). It weighed about 10 pounds (Ok, it was about 6 oz.), had a single line LED display, and cost about $80. It used RPN (Reverse Polish Notation) (No, I'm not kidding) and allowed basic calculations up to 49 steps. Our Calculus teacher thought it was too powerful for us and banned it from his class. Yes, I saved up money and bought one of those in the late '70's. A calculator, not a Calculus teacher, that is. I couldn't afford the teacher. 
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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/27 16:54:11 (permalink)
I still love RPN calculators and yes, we still use them at work....

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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/27 16:58:19 (permalink)
You couldn't afford the teacher, either, right?
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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/27 17:18:47 (permalink)
Nope.

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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/28 00:21:48 (permalink)
God I remember when calculator watches were THE thing to have at school....I almost BURST with frustration that my parents wouldn't buy me one. The thought of having something attached to your wrist that did sums....SUMS! 
 
Around the same time, there was a craze for digital watches that played bleepy tunes. You could program in your birth date, and on that day your state of the art Casio would wake you with the Happy Birthday song. It felt like we were in the space age! 

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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/28 09:49:04 (permalink)
The kids with the calculator watches were total cyborgs. Their technological aura would electrocute lesser humans who crowded too close. The best I could manage was a digital watch with an LED display. It didn't even have hands or need winding! It had an alarm and an hourly chirp I could set to let people nearby know that I had a digital watch. (That's wrong on multiple levels.)
 
Years later, once calculator watches were no longer cool, my grandfather bought one for himself. The buttons were too small to use reliably and the display was microscopic. He'd use it in restaurants to calculate the tip, at the grocery store to make sure the cashier got it right, and at the gas station to calculate his gas mileage. My grandmother used to say that she was embarrassed to be seen in public with a man with such an ugly watch. Whenever they'd go out, she'd ask him if he was planning to leave the house wearing his ugly watch. This went on for years. Yes, he kept wearing it.
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Re: The great VHS revival 2015/04/28 10:22:31 (permalink)
My mom passed last year at the age of 99.  Back in the 70's I had installed a nice turntable and cassette deck at her house. I also bought her a Diskwasher to clean her records. 
 
Yesterday my sister came to town with a few things that mom had, pictures and such, and included was the Diskwasher.  No one except me knew what it was for.
 
The original product goes for $50, if you can find one.  I was so happy to have it as I still have around 100 LP's to transfer to digital and my Diskwasher from 1971 has finally given up the ghost.

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