Vhs 4 Ever

[crabapple]

I have so many nifty weird movies on VHS, getting back to VHS. Creature from Black Lake, The Day IT Came To Earth, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Return of the Living Dead Pt 2 (original version), lots of neat stuff, and I like popping a tape in. It relaxes me.

I am not so much for one technology over another; I am more in support of everything. I mean, I still have cassette tapes and cassette decks. I love cassette tapes. If I could have an 8-track player and a collection of 8-track tapes, I would be so into that. I like the old and the new sort of mixed together. I put it all in a blender with some ice and I just let it happen, baby.

[Disease]

That's what I'm talking about!

[urgeok]

Originally Posted by Despare

Ah well, mine WAS manual and yeah, you wouldn't be thrilled lol. Anyway, you know what they say about vide... laser discs.

"Pirate 1: Help yourself, mates. A chest full of video discs.
Pirate 2: No!
Pirate 3: What good are they?
Pirate 4: Can't record on 'em.
Pirate 2: They're not compatible with my system"

those are video discs !! CEDs ...
those poor quality ones that came in a hard pastic sleeve - you could never touch the disc ..

those were terrible ... no better than the quality of vhs ..

[urgeok]

my biggest beef with vhs is the tracking problem - and losing the stereo track ..

cant remember that ever happening to me with DVD :)

[Disease]

I see what you meen, but that's all part of vhs, I like the quirks.

[Disease]

besides, vhs never skips!

[the_real_linda]

yeah vhs deteriorate afte rtime but who cares!? i like dvds better still

[Disease]

Last year I lived in a street which had the best video store I have ever know on the corner, I went through that suburb yesterday and bought the last four Friday the 13th vhs tapes I needed for my collection. They weren't even for sale, but this store is so good they still sold them to me.

[the_real_linda]

i dont get it....would they not sell them to other people or do other stores not sell vhs anymore?

[crabapple]

Originally Posted by Disease

I see what you meen, but that's all part of vhs, I like the quirks.

quirks! that is a good way to describe it. I have some old tapes, and the image quality, the film-to-video transfer itself, is murky, poor...and there are these weird hums and hisses...but when I watch these things, I get a strange kick out of them because they're literally old, they are some ex-rental thing someone bought for fifty cents and sold to me for three dollars.

I guess for me it's a retro thing in some ways