Have a DVD but the kids have a VHS in their room for all the Disney movies we have. Can't see letting them all go to waste.....

Yep, I still have VHS and a VCR, but I don't watch/use them much.

I have my boom box from 1989...still works

VCR

VHS and.......

Wait for it.....

anticipation.....

My original VHS "REWINDER"!!!!!! BAM!

My VCR recently died actually and I plan on getting a new one with a combo region-free DVD player. I still have a few 80s music video VHS tapes that I would like to watch that have never been released on DVD.

I still have mine for recording some tv shows/movies that I might not be able to find online. I also have a DVD player of course.

shortnsweet said:

Have a DVD but the kids have a VHS in their room for all the Disney movies we have. Can't see letting them all go to waste.....

Same here. My parents have our collection.

I still have a VCR for backup just in case I want to record a show and the DVD recorder wants to act a fool that day. Some days the DVD recorder will act just fine and other days it will say "bad disc" but hours later the disc will read just fine. They've still got flaws to work out with those DVD recorders. Last night, I was dubbing a DVD from an external DVD player and the damn recorder started making a loud noise like a fan and froze up. I went through 2 blank discs and had to throw them away while it did this. It has done it before. A friend of mine also has a DVD recorder and he says his does the same thing from time to time.

Like I said, I use the VCR for backup. If that damned DVD recorder acts a fool, I just record the show onto a VHS tape and then record that VHS tape onto a DVD later when the recorder wants to act right.

I'd still use it, but it doesn't work too well anymore. Otherwise I wouldn't really know why I'd stop using it. The Sign "O" The Times concert movie just isn't as good on DVD! I still have the same player that my mom bought for our family in 1986, I think. It didn't start crapping out until about a year ago.

I'm not sure if I even like watching DVDs that much. Sure, VHS tapes had to be rewound, but the menus and other nonsense on DVDs are quite annoying too. I've also done some sample-based records where I've lifted up bits and pieces from movies and documentaries (sound effects, lines from conversations etc.). I quite like the character of the sound on VHS.

DAV123 said:

I have my boom box from 1989...still works

VCR

VHS and.......

Wait for it.....

anticipation.....

My original VHS "REWINDER"!!!!!! BAM!

fool.

but

Anyone here still have a Betamax, or are you all too young to remember those?

Our Sony VCR finally did last year after 13 years of solid use.

We boucht a cheap Toshiba VCR/DVD unit so that we can transfer the kids' old VHS-C movies onto DVDs. Haven't transferred a single on.

Anyway...the other night we had a thing at school for one of the kids, so my wife wante dto record Bones. Turns out.. the damed thing doesn't have an input for the cable-tv. So far as I can tell, it's output only. I think.

RodeoSchro said:

Anyone here still have a Betamax, or are you all too young to remember those?

Not too young...

Never had one, though. By the time I got my mother interested in the idea, VHS had come out.

RodeoSchro said:

Anyone here still have a Betamax, or are you all too young to remember those?

I don't have one now...but the first VCR I bought was a Beta.

RodeoSchro said:

ZombieKitten said:

We have one, but it's not plugged in any more.

So it finally quit flashing 12:00? Yay!

it's display was the first thing that stopped working, just weeks outside it's 12 month warranty period, shortly after came the remote control.

I wish I could say that was the last time I bought a SONY product

i still have it but its a poxy piece of crap that eats all my videos.

RodeoSchro said:

Anyone here still have a Betamax, or are you all too young to remember those?

Who you callin' old???

I still have a VCR. I tried to watch some of my old Marilyn Manson videos and the screen went blue. Then there was print that said I needed to clean the heads of my VCR. I don't know if that was my VCR commenting on Marilyn Manson or what. Anyways, I don't have a VCR cleaner and you can't exactly go to the store to buy one.

JuliePurplehead said:

I still have a VCR. I tried to watch some of my old Marilyn Manson videos and the screen went blue. Then there was print that said I needed to clean the heads of my VCR. I don't know if that was my VCR commenting on Marilyn Manson or what. Anyways, I don't have a VCR cleaner and you can't exactly go to the store to buy one.

*cough*

JuliePurplehead said:

I still have a VCR. I tried to watch some of my old Marilyn Manson videos and the screen went blue. Then there was print that said I needed to clean the heads of my VCR. I don't know if that was my VCR commenting on Marilyn Manson or what. Anyways, I don't have a VCR cleaner and you can't exactly go to the store to buy one.

that reminds me....there used to be a plague of people who tried their best to look like him in those days. i wonder if they've all cut their hair and become investment bankers or whatever.

Yes, Most of them are shows recorded off the tv. I have almost every episode of Forever Knight recorded! It sucks that DVD is going the way of the VHS thanks to Blu-Ray.

We have a storage container full of some good porn on vhs.

whistle said:

JuliePurplehead said:

I still have a VCR. I tried to watch some of my old Marilyn Manson videos and the screen went blue. Then there was print that said I needed to clean the heads of my VCR. I don't know if that was my VCR commenting on Marilyn Manson or what. Anyways, I don't have a VCR cleaner and you can't exactly go to the store to buy one.

that reminds me....there used to be a plague of people who tried their best to look like him in those days. i wonder if they've all cut their hair and become investment bankers or whatever.

The guy that I had the hots for back in 1997 is still trying to rock the Manson look except now his hair is thinning. But then again, so is Manson's. He's still hot though. Manson, not the dude from my past.

chocolate1 said:

I have a VHS/DVD combo. I bought it to dub tapes onto discs.

Why the "lmao"?

Me too! And I'll keep it until it no longer functions. I've actually got a few things on VHS that have not yet been released on DVD or Blu-Ray. If the DVDs stop working (because they don't have cases of their own) I'll just convert them again. Plus... I actually like watching my old Star Wars VHS tapes once in a while.

The last VCR we had met a very sad demise once it fell dow the stairs...

I had nothing to do with it.

whistle said:

JuliePurplehead said:

I still have a VCR. I tried to watch some of my old Marilyn Manson videos and the screen went blue. Then there was print that said I needed to clean the heads of my VCR. I don't know if that was my VCR commenting on Marilyn Manson or what. Anyways, I don't have a VCR cleaner and you can't exactly go to the store to buy one.

that reminds me....there used to be a plague of people who tried their best to look like him in those days. i wonder if they've all cut their hair and become investment bankers or whatever.

There's a guy in this area that dresses up like him and wears the same type of make-up. He has been doing that at least for 3-4 years and must be in his 20s now. A fairly basic mall goth, I'd say. He has the same body type and the same type of face as ol' Marilyn does.

Cerebus said:

chocolate1 said:

I have a VHS/DVD combo. I bought it to dub tapes onto discs.

Why the "lmao"?

Me too! And I'll keep it until it no longer functions. I've actually got a few things on VHS that have not yet been released on DVD or Blu-Ray. If the DVDs stop working (because they don't have cases of their own) I'll just convert them again. Plus... I actually like watching my old Star Wars VHS tapes once in a while.

novabrkr said:

whistle said:

that reminds me....there used to be a plague of people who tried their best to look like him in those days. i wonder if they've all cut their hair and become investment bankers or whatever.

There's a guy in this area that dresses up like him and wears the same type of make-up. He has been doing that at least for 3-4 years and must be in his 20s now. A fairly basic mall goth, I'd say. He has the same body type and the same type of face as ol' Marilyn does.

aren't you from Scandinavia? i reckoned with all of the crazy metal bands up there you'd have more than a few of those types wandering about.

of course, i'm just stereotyping. i've never had the pleasure of being there.

whistle said:

novabrkr said:

There's a guy in this area that dresses up like him and wears the same type of make-up. He has been doing that at least for 3-4 years and must be in his 20s now. A fairly basic mall goth, I'd say. He has the same body type and the same type of face as ol' Marilyn does.

aren't you from Scandinavia? i reckoned with all of the crazy metal bands up there you'd have more than a few of those types wandering about.

of course, i'm just stereotyping. i've never had the pleasure of being there.

I didn't see any last time I was in sweden

Marilyn Manson is a bit different type of an artist than what the metal crowd are usually into. I don't think metal fans in general try to imitate the looks of anyone else. There's definitely a lot of typical items of clothing and hair styles that bind them together, but there's not the type of a star cult present in those circles. I'd say Manson has appealed for the past 10 years mostly to the goth audiences.

During the past decade there's definitely been a lot of goth teenagers around though.