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Wipfmetz posted:Well, yeah, who even has a VHS player anymore? this reminds me of a mild argument i've had more than once now do people actually call the device that plays VHS tapes a "VHS player"? Did they before the last 15 years? In my experience we always just called it a VCR. Seems like a VHS player would be something that cannot record. Maybe I'm the weirdo here. maybe i heard "tape player" during it's active lifetime? edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Cassette_Recording wacky drat check this poo poo out: 
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Light Gun Man posted:this reminds me of a mild argument i've had more than once now I remember when I was saving up to buy a VCR for my bedroom when I was a kid (1991 or there abouts), the local electronic shop had a VHS player that was the cheapest option. It could not record, only play. I want to say it was about 60bux cheaper than the cheapest VCR they had. I didn't get that one because I wanted something that I could set a timer on to record my favorite shows while I was out doing things.
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My dad had some bonkers expensive VCR from like 1978 he paid a thousand bucks for and I wish he kept it. It had a really satisfying eject mechanism that lifted this little elevator thing out with the tape. It rewound super slowly, so we had a tape rewinder sitting on top of it. I remember hooking things up through it via composite cables to TV's that only had the RF (or antenna screws) and it made a huge difference in visual quality despite ultimately going through that RF input for whatever reason. EDIT: The composite thing might've been a different VCR. I'm trying to find it in google, but all I'm finding is a similar-ish looking Panasonic (which only has the RF ports itself).
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Jun 23, 2022 19:07
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For as long as I've known them, I've called them VCRs.
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George RR Fartin posted:My dad had some bonkers expensive VCR from like 1978 he paid a thousand bucks for and I wish he kept it. It had a really satisfying eject mechanism that lifted this little elevator thing out with the tape. It rewound super slowly, so we had a tape rewinder sitting on top of it. I remember hooking things up through it via composite cables to TV's that only had the RF (or antenna screws) and it made a huge difference in visual quality despite ultimately going through that RF input for whatever reason. The satisfying lift makes me think of the JVC HR-3300
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I'd always said VCR, one time I asked a friend if there was a VCR around, and he said there was a VCP - just a player, not able to record.
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Jun 23, 2022 21:15
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You pronounce it as a word. It sounds like Vicar
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Lurking Haro posted:The satisfying lift makes me think of the JVC HR-3300 It looks close, but I definitely remember the eject mechanism itself used a spring-loaded button that was on the corner of the unit towards the left. You pressed it, and the aparatus just sort of scissor-lifted up and forward and the tape spat out an inch or so to let you grab it. It was primarily silver, I wanna say there was wood trim and a green clock. It's been forever, so I forget the exact buttons but they weren't the long-press ones you see on full-size tape recorders; they were just regular old buttons. It didn't have a remote (this is kinda duh but I wouldn't be shocked if those tethered-by-cable remotes existed at the time). I also recall the rewind being quite loud in addition to slow, but that could've just been the state of the thing. I should ask my dad. He was pretty adept at VCR repair in his day.
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It’s called a magnetowid in polish cuz you use it to wid magnetic tape
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I've been wanting a vintage titler to really jazz up my online videos, so I ordered the Videonics Titlemaker 3000 today. I wanted an earlier era titler, but I liked that this one has an external keyboard, because I want to try and use my PC to send commands to it instead of trying to do it manually on the keyboard, and I figure worst case I can create a custom keyboard plug to connect a raspberry pi or something to the keyboard port. I also liked the feature set on this one, it's got a lot of those vintage titler effects I really like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAlNWImmwTg Post your favorite titlers.
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Light Gun Man posted:this reminds me of a mild argument i've had more than once now We, and everyone I knew at the time called it the video. No player, no vhs, no nothing.
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Chainclaw posted:I've been wanting a vintage titler to really jazz up my online videos, so I ordered the Videonics Titlemaker 3000 today. Semi-related - can the MiSTer's Amiga core run Video Toaster? It just occurred to me that this might be possible. (not really an edit): I did a quick google and one of the first things I found was someone joking about it in a thread from 2020, so I suspect it's not a thing quite yet. I don't think it's impossible, but the demand is probably....low.
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Dysgenesis posted:We, and everyone I knew at the time called it the video. No player, no vhs, no nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9xBAtCsCTQ
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goblin week posted:It’s called a magnetowid in polish cuz you use it to wid magnetic tape It's a videospiller in Norwegian because it spills videos.
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Gaius Marius posted:You pronounce it as a word. It sounds like Vicar I have only ever heard this in Babylon 5. I assume they became known as VCRs, not VHS players, because their primary appeal was timeshifting broadcast television, not home video collecting.
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George RR Fartin posted:It looks close, but I definitely remember the eject mechanism itself used a spring-loaded button that was on the corner of the unit towards the left. You pressed it, and the aparatus just sort of scissor-lifted up and forward and the tape spat out an inch or so to let you grab it. It was primarily silver, I wanna say there was wood trim and a green clock. It's been forever, so I forget the exact buttons but they weren't the long-press ones you see on full-size tape recorders; they were just regular old buttons. It didn't have a remote (this is kinda duh but I wouldn't be shocked if those tethered-by-cable remotes existed at the time). I also recall the rewind being quite loud in addition to slow, but that could've just been the state of the thing. I should ask my dad. He was pretty adept at VCR repair in his day. GE 1VCR5002X, maybe? That's the model my family had growing up, and I remember the eject mechanism being super-satisfying to play with, too.
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Light Gun Man posted:this reminds me of a mild argument i've had more than once now It's videos. 
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Gaius Marius posted:You pronounce it as a word. It sounds like Vicar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnxxkrXvQko
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It's carbitch but it has good mechanics.
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Computer viking posted:It's a videospiller in Norwegian because it spills videos. Truly, the english language is a needlessly confusing mess in comparison.
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Light Gun Man posted:this reminds me of a mild argument i've had more than once now I may or may not be eyeing off one now on buyee...
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Computer viking posted:It's a videospiller in Norwegian because it spills videos. Remember the days when you'd go to the video store and rent a "moviebox" package deal? A VCR and a handful of tapes for the weekend. Because most people didn't own VCRs. If one of the movies was especially good you'd have time to watch it 2-3 times and get some friends over. (This was basically over by the late 80s since most people did own VCRs by then.)
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Groke posted:Remember the days when you'd go to the video store and rent a "moviebox" package deal? A VCR and a handful of tapes for the weekend. Because most people didn't own VCRs. If one of the movies was especially good you'd have time to watch it 2-3 times and get some friends over. I'm a bit younger but I remember my rich mate approaching his mum asking if we could rent the PS2 for the weekend. It came in a hardcase, with Smugglers Run. Deposit was $500. EDIT, just now noticed my DVD/VCR combo plays Divx video... As it doesn't have a USB input Im assuming DivX Discs...  Na, just DVIX/XVID etc files off discs 
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Pretty sure that’s just divx encoded files on a disc. Not actual crazy DRM nightmare divx discs.
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Groke posted:Remember the days when you'd go to the video store and rent a "moviebox" package deal? A VCR and a handful of tapes for the weekend. Because most people didn't own VCRs. If one of the movies was especially good you'd have time to watch it 2-3 times and get some friends over. Oh yeah absolutely - it was a whole occasion when we went to rent one. Ours also had sega megadrives, which was incredibly exotic coming from a one-gameboy household.
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The rentals we had were VCPs not VCRs.
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mjan posted:GE 1VCR5002X, maybe? That's the model my family had growing up, and I remember the eject mechanism being super-satisfying to play with, too. That looks damned close, at least. My recollection that he bought the thing in the late 70's is probably what messed up the search. I'll broaden it; GE's design is the closest I've seen to what my memories tell me it looked like, at least. EDIT: found it! Not a GE, but it inspired me to broaden a bit. The RCA Selectavision:  You can see that little eject button on the top left corner in front of the mechanism. Not a ton of info on these things out there, and they look to be pricey in "unknown" condition (though at this point, what isn't?) George RR Fartin has a new favorite as of 18:09 on Jun 24, 2022 |
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Light Gun Man posted:do people actually call the device that plays VHS tapes a "VHS player"? Did they before the last 15 years? In my experience we always just called it a VCR. Seems like a VHS player would be something that cannot record. Maybe I'm the weirdo here. At a yard sale many many years ago, my dad noticed a guy had a Betamax in good shape at a yard sale for $2.50. "How much for the VCR?" he asked. A puzzled look and "It's not a VCR, it's a Beta" was his answer. On the same street he once bought a brand new 5-CD changer in 1995. The guy swore it didn't work so he offered a price of five bucks. My dad, following a hunch that this was just the kind of dope to try and plug speakers into it directly instead of plugging it into an amp, took the chance. His hunch was correct and it is still part of the stereo at my parents' house.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:At a yard sale many many years ago, my dad noticed a guy had a Betamax in good shape at a yard sale for $2.50. "How much for the VCR?" he asked. A puzzled look and "It's not a VCR, it's a Beta" was his answer. hell yeah, nice
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Light Gun Man posted:do people actually call the device that plays VHS tapes a "VHS player"? Did they before the last 15 years? In my experience we always just called it a VCR. Seems like a VHS player would be something that cannot record. Maybe I'm the weirdo here. Back in the 80s we referred to our VHS player as just the "VHS" because we also had a Betamax. If we weren't being specific we just called them both VCRs. 
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Computer viking posted:Oh yeah absolutely - it was a whole occasion when we went to rent one. Ours also had sega megadrives, which was incredibly exotic coming from a one-gameboy household.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Back in the 80s we referred to our VHS player as just the "VHS" because we also had a Betamax. If we weren't being specific we just called them both VCRs. makes sense, they're both video cassettes, right?
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Light Gun Man posted:makes sense, they're both video cassettes, right? They're only video cassettes once you put video on them. Prior to that they're tape cassettes and who knows what someone will use them for (data and audio being the two obvious and extant uses).
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Different language, but when I was a kid we just called it "the video" 
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Collateral Damage posted:Different language, but when I was a kid we just called it "the video" Same. If anyone said "vcr" they'd have got beaten up for trying to be fancy. Or foreign. Probably both. Ah, the 80s
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Adolf Glitter posted:Same. Video Player here. Even though it recorded. It was actually my grandma that tought us all how to use it, wrote a order of operations for us and everything. This was before G-Code. I still love the moment at a sleepover a mates dad said "Gimme the buttons" when he wanted to change channel. Referring to the remote control. So like 30 years later whenever around that mate we always bring up something to do with 'buttons' Humphreys has a new favorite as of 09:50 on Jun 25, 2022 |
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Groke posted:Remember the days when you'd go to the video store and rent a "moviebox" package deal? A VCR and a handful of tapes for the weekend. Because most people didn't own VCRs. If one of the movies was especially good you'd have time to watch it 2-3 times and get some friends over. The engineering behind the Esselte MovieBox was a whole adventure in itself. They were trying to make a VCR that would stand all kinds of abuse, could be repaired in minutes if it broke, and could be hooked up by people who had never tuned a channel (remember, we had only one!) or touched the back of their TV. They succeeded pretty well. My uncle ran a video rental place, and still has the remnants of it in his attic. When he heard I collected old tech he said I could have it all. I've prodded him a few times about it, but never gotten to see what he actually has. I'm pretty sure there's gonna be boxed NES/SNES games there that haven't been touched in decades.
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Humphreys posted:I still love the moment at a sleepover a mates dad said "Gimme the buttons" when he wanted to change channel. Referring to the remote control. So like 30 years later whenever around that mate we always bring up something to do with 'buttons' My parents have always, as long as I can remember, referred to the remote as "the beast-minder". I have no idea where that came from.
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Pham Nuwen posted:My parents have always, as long as I can remember, referred to the remote as "the beast-minder". I have no idea where that came from. You don't have children, do you?
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Pham Nuwen posted:My parents have always, as long as I can remember, referred to the remote as "the beast-minder". I have no idea where that came from. It's you.
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