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I still have all my VHS tapes in a box, with my old VCR. Sometimes I like to watch B movies on it just for the nostalgia because nothing says nostalgia like film grain and tape overlap.
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My parents had this because they'd tape stuff off the TV, watch it, pop the thing in the rewinder, pop it in the other VCR so it could be ready to record stuff. If memory serves, you'd also get fined for not rewinding back in the day, but I could be wrong. VCRs at one time were also not very cheap; you could get one for $100 in the 90's, but it would be total poo poo. To get a good one, you'd want to spend at least $200. In 90's money. A $10-15 rewinder was cheap insurance that the VCR investment would last a longer.
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Aug 11, 2016 06:49
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I remember when video stores used to charge you a fee if you didn't rewind a tape when you returned it, too. I also remember when our video store used to check out the game instruction manuals as separate items from the game itself, but forget to check them back in. Tat was fun being told I needed to come up with $20 for a missing manual because they didn't ring it up when it came back in.
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Aug 11, 2016 06:52
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I no longer own a VCR, but I still have something like 24 hours worth of 9/11 CNN/Fox News/ABC/CBS footage on a handful of long play VHS tapes (I figured it was a pretty major historical moment, and I had a bunch of empty tapes laying around that I used for monthly wrestling PPV's, so I just recorded various channels until I ran out of blank tapes; each tape was a different network.) I wonder how much that'd cost for digital transfer, for posterity's sake?
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Aug 11, 2016 06:59
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Gonz posted:I no longer own a VCR, but I still have something like 24 hours worth of 9/11 CNN/Fox News/ABC/CBS footage on a handful of long play VHS tapes (I figured it was a pretty major historical moment, and I had a bunch of empty tapes laying around that I used for monthly wrestling PPV's, so I just recorded various channels until I ran out of blank tapes; each tape was a different network.) Unless you want to do it yourself, a lot. It would be cheaper to just get the equipment yourself than pay someone to transfer all that poo poo.
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Aug 11, 2016 07:03
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Skoll posted:Unless you want to do it yourself, a lot. It would be cheaper to just get the equipment yourself than pay someone to transfer all that poo poo. I've been browsing around online regarding the financial aspect of doing this, and yeah, you're absolutely right. I'd probably just be better off doing it myself. That might be a project I put forth later this year.
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Aug 11, 2016 07:06
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Cool things from the 90s: a) VHS rewinders shaped like things, a car perhaps b) grungy small independent rental shops with cool horror movie sections and cardboard cutouts of movie characters, and old sun-bleached posters on the walls
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Aug 11, 2016 08:24
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Code Jockey posted:Cool things from the 90s: Speaking of things shaped like things, I had one of these (except the golden retriever model instead of the Dalmatian): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5frM5uQ9xM0 After a while something hosed up with it and the barking ringtone became slow and distorted and almost demonic. The dog phone from hell.
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Aug 11, 2016 08:32
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I had one shaped like Tim Burton's Batmobile. It was boss as hell.
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Aug 11, 2016 08:43
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Skoll posted:Odd way of spelling Nokia FTFY 
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Aug 11, 2016 09:25
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Casimir Radon posted:I've been helping my grandma move. She has a VHS rewinder that she never took out of the box. Keep digging! you might find the elusive DVD Rewinder!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guQMShOEchM
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Aug 11, 2016 09:34
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Why did they stop making weird phones  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brL1TFsaEFs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL9FzUdd_7U
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Aug 11, 2016 09:49
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Gonz posted:That's basically what I used mine for. As soon as I was done with a movie, it went right in the rewinder and then back on the shelf so I didn't have to bother with it next time. Same except instead of rewinding it in the rewinder right away like we were supposed to, we would just toss the tape back on the rack (usually ignoring dad's very complicated and precise filing system based on genre)
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Aug 11, 2016 09:57
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Code Jockey posted:Cool things from the 90s: I made an entire thread about this. I even tried to emulate the sun bleached poster thing later in the thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3684390
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Aug 11, 2016 10:06
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I made an entire thread about this. I even tried to emulate the sun bleached poster thing later in the thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3684390 Of course Cool as Ice would be on page one.
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Aug 11, 2016 10:11
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error1 posted:Why did they stop making weird phones Because we stopped having landlines.
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Aug 11, 2016 10:32
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i had completely forgotten about having to rewind VCR tapes before returning them to blockbuster. occasionally we would rent something and it wouldnt be rewound and my dad would get real miffed about it
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Aug 11, 2016 13:22
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And if you were a poor you bought used tapes after the rental store was done with them. Scenes like the tits in fast times at Ridgemont high would be static from everyone who rented it pausing it. You might be missing snippets where the tape broke in someone's lovely VCR. But that poo poo was cheaper and you got a beat to poo poo box and a Be Kind Please Rewind sticker.
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Aug 11, 2016 13:35
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Gonz posted:That's basically what I used mine for. As soon as I was done with a movie, it went right in the rewinder and then back on the shelf so I didn't have to bother with it next time. Oh yea popping in a movie that you wanted to watch already halfway through sucked.
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Aug 11, 2016 14:06
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And pausing usually had lines or something distorted over what you wanted to see anyways. I remember the first DVD I ever watched at a friend's house was Wild Things and we paused on some boobs and the image was crystal clear and it totally blew my mind. Bought a DVD player that very week.
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Code Jockey posted:Cool things from the 90s: c) A room full of VHS porn behind a curtain in the back of the store and bonus: d) people who rent porn at a video store We didn't charge for not rewinding or anything. There was a bank of rewinders under the N64 demo station. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 14:12 on Aug 11, 2016 |
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Aug 11, 2016 14:10
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SLOSifl posted:There was a bank of rewinders under the N64 demo station. Thread title please.
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Aug 11, 2016 14:32
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Every early (pre-1986 or so) VCR that I ever saw had a broken rewind feature, those early mechanisms were utterly terrible. So if you were poor, people would give you perfectly good VCR's and all you had to do was buy a $15 rewinder and you were good to go.
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Aug 11, 2016 14:47
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CubanMissile posted:And pausing usually had lines or something distorted over what you wanted to see anyways. I remember the first DVD I ever watched at a friend's house was Wild Things and we paused on some boobs and the image was crystal clear and it totally blew my mind. Bought a DVD player that very week. The first movie I remember using pause and frame advance in a DVD player was Final Destination for the scene with the bus.
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Aug 11, 2016 15:30
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Cojawfee posted:Thread title please. yaaaaaay thank you mystery moderator 
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Aug 11, 2016 15:45
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GutBomb posted:Wait... It isn't like this with other providers? I've always used t-mobile so I've always just assumed it's like that with all of them. sprint, yeah but sprint is so bad that like you legitimately shouldn't compare it. sprint doesn't have 3g. or lte.
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Aug 11, 2016 15:51
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when i switched to tmobile i did a speed test expecting like slightly better than sprint (300 kbps? 400kbps maybe) and when i looked down it said "8400 kbps" and that was when i realized that there is a reason sprint does unlimited data with no strings attached
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Aug 11, 2016 15:59
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You'll never see VHS make a comeback like vinyl or even cassette tapes have, right? They have no advantages, and a lot of them even cut off the picture for pan and scan. I just don't see it happening, not even for retro fun times.
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Alan_Shore posted:You'll never see VHS make a comeback like vinyl or even cassette tapes have, right? They have no advantages, and a lot of them even cut off the picture for pan and scan. I just don't see it happening, not even for retro fun times. It's probably limited to obscure titles that never made it to dvd, though nowadays it's so easy to rip a digital copy of a VHS that you don't even see that very much anymore. Really it's more of a cheapness thing. A few of my old crust punk friends liked 'em because they were able to amass a huge collection of solid movies for next to nothing.
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Aug 11, 2016 16:32
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Alan_Shore posted:You'll never see VHS make a comeback like vinyl or even cassette tapes have, right? They have no advantages, and a lot of them even cut off the picture for pan and scan. I just don't see it happening, not even for retro fun times. yeah i cant really think of an avenue for them to make a comeback. it's much less likely to find somebody who still has a vcr versus people that still have turntables or even cassette decks. it's not like people ever went gaga over vcr packaging and extras like they do with vinyl and tapes even. the vhs tapes have 0 aesthetic value. if you wanna retro nerd out over video formats it seems to me LaserDisc is king
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Aug 11, 2016 16:41
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There is a small community of VHS collectors but it seems to be mostly horror movies as theirs a shitload that will likely never see a digital release, some really obscure titles have a pretty impressive value.
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Aug 11, 2016 17:26
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8 track betamax posted:Same except instead of rewinding it in the rewinder right away like we were supposed to, we would just toss the tape back on the rack (usually ignoring dad's very complicated and precise filing system based on genre) What's it like having Gregg Turkington for a dad
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Aug 11, 2016 17:30
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Even audio cassettes are worthless as they degrade over time.
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Cojawfee posted:Even audio cassettes are worthless as they degrade over time. Quality would still fade over time, but not as quickly as a tape you'd have at home. It was pretty rare that I had to retire a rental tape. Those shits were tough.
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Aug 11, 2016 18:05
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Humphreys posted:Keep digging! you might find the elusive DVD Rewinder! I used to chat with a guy on MSN who kept telling me to go to Radio Shack and ask for a DVD rewinder and some gold-plated ethernet cables. I never did it of course because I'm not dumb and also because the nearest Shack was a three hour drive away. Alan_Shore posted:You'll never see VHS make a comeback like vinyl or even cassette tapes have, right? They have no advantages, and a lot of them even cut off the picture for pan and scan. I just don't see it happening, not even for retro fun times. Some VHS cover art was pretty dope. Like Jurassic Park was just a black case with the park logo on it and its sequel had the holographic T. rex. I'm pretty sure the DVD releases weren't as cool.
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Gaz2k21 posted:There is a small community of VHS collectors but it seems to be mostly horror movies as theirs a shitload that will likely never see a digital release, some really obscure titles have a pretty impressive value. There are quite a few cult hits that never made it to DVD. The Decline of Western Civilization movies are a good example. They finally were released on Blu-Ray last year but before that your only hope was a Torrent of the film form when it aired on IFC or a copy of the VHS. Some movies were also slightly modified when they were put on DVD with scenes missing or dialogue changed. Goodfellas used to show the airline name on the ticket the babysitter held while she was on the phone. Casino used not have the sub titles when Pesci and De Niro were talking code on the phone. I helped run my friend's video store from 1993 to 1995 and it's amazing how things changed over night. I wish eBay was around back then because the amount of promo posters, cardboard stands, cups, hats, jackets, etc. that the distributors handed out was pretty cool and I'm sure collectible. You would also get screeners for just about any movie you would imagine. The bigger titles were sometimes hard to come by but every single B horror movie or soft porn (LOTS of Shannon Tweed movies) I got a copy of. Full Moon (makers of the Puppet Master movies) sent us a copy of everything. I don't remember us really charging people who didn't rewind. Our store was part of a local chain who didn't really care and it was easier for us to just use the rewind machines and not hassle and argue with a customer over $1. Our chain was the only one in town that rented porn and that pretty much kept our lights on. These tapes were never rewound and when they came back you'd see that only 1/4 of the movie had been watched before it was ejected. Back then if you wanted a copy of a movie on VHS you paid $100 retail. This was done to prevent the consumers form buying their own copy and thus keep the rental stores in business. I don't remember the year but soon companies would release movies for sale to the public after a few months after they had been for rent, allowing the stores to make their money back. I've only see video rental stores in rural areas now or in places like cottage country in Ontario. Most of the cottages have DVD players and if it's a rainy day you're gonna want something to do. EDIT: Some movies took up two tapes so you would definitely want to switch them out right away. Stuff like Ben Hurr or The Godfather.
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LaserDisc really was where it was at, bonus-wise. I think someone posted this already, but yeah, you wasn't getting stuff like this with videotapes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOrn2hBsYKE
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Aug 11, 2016 18:21
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I never planned to get into Laserdisc in tyool 2016 but then I found sealed copies of Space Jam and Robin Hood: Men in Tights for $.50 each and it's all been downhill from there
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I may have talked about these in earlier in the thread. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc Basically a record LP in a cart that you insert into a machine. Playback is done with a stylus. The same guy that owns the PC Museum in Ontario also has the largest collection of CEDs in Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqMtjv6WcAU&t=20s
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drunk asian neighbor posted:I never planned to get into Laserdisc in tyool 2016 but then I found sealed copies of Space Jam and Robin Hood: Men in Tights for $.50 each and it's all been downhill from there Did you open them?
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