Tfw your dad bought the complete M*A*S*H series on VHS and didn't even watch them because he thought the tapes would be...

>tfw your dad bought the complete M*A*S*H series on VHS and didn't even watch them because he thought the tapes would be worth big money

Bad DVD or VHS purchases anyone?

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I bought It Follows on bluray

That is pretty cool. There are people on Sup Forums who never seen or even held a VHS tape.

a what?

A videocassette like in OP's picture

>go into thrift store
>startrek TNG collectors edition VHS tapes
>some nerd in the 90s probably paid $10 per tape
>now completely worthless

>10$

try 30_40$

You should open those.

I bought Man of Steel on Blu-Ray thinking BvS was going to be good.

lol.

Yeah... bullshit. They were still common in 2006, unless you are implying there are people less than 10 here

Nigga fucked around, got a triple double

>They were still common in 2006

lol more like 2002

bad?
or soaring?

Anime was a mistake.

>tfw I bought a bunch of anime and in retrospect 95% of it wasn't worth watching the first time

How about Sup Forums related vidya?

anyone who bought tv shows on vhs that shit takes up so much room

Is that the one with the smoking hot Latina in it?

Dude, there is probably literally people on Sup Forums right now who have never held a DVD. No one under the age of 18 uses them or even remembers they exist half the time.

DVD's are already Dad-Tech.

I'd say more 80-20 for me

Lol for his second venture he'll invest in Zimbabwe currency

youtube.com/watch?v=Ggv17xLfDkY

Sell that shit on eBay, shouldn't be too hard to find a buyer

>tfw remember renting the Matrix on DVD in 2000 after watching it on VHS
Might have been the first DVD I watched, or at least one of the firsts. Was pretty cool. Also I rented it from Blockbuster. A whole lotta history in that event.

I wish they had the packaging they have now when I first started buying anime on DVD. I have YuYu Hakusho on DVD taking up a shitton of space in boxsets (like that Trigun boxset in your image, 3 of them for the entire show) but now you can get it (and other shows) in really compact packaging and for a hell of a lot cheaper. I also remember watching Speed Racer on VHS.

>get anime on dvd
>never actually watch because it aired on tv constantly.
>better blue ray version comes out
>most episodes can be found on youtube now.
never again

And tape over them

planetes is ok

>tfw every single time you go to watch a movie on VHS and you have to fucking rewind it first

I remember seeing those VHS rewinding machines so you could just rewind it real quick rather than having to do it through the VHS set but I never ended up getting one.

>no moeshit

decent collection.

I've got almost all of the twilight zone on vhs, only missing like the first 4 episodes

You only need the three episodes that were shot on video. The rest require high definition media due to being shot on patrician film.

>tfw I have the entire Buu saga in DBZ and up to baby in GT in VHS
I missed how every week, block buster would release the "newest" DBZ episodes before they Aired on Toonami uncut.

I had one growing up, it was loud as fuck

TFW paying $80 for each box set of Twilight Zone on DVD.
Now they're available on Netflix (except season 4) in better quality.

I bought the complete set of COSMOS (7 videotapes) only for $2.73 dollars. Now I can die in peace.

not Sup Forums related but my mom hoarded those little plastic toys you'd get in cereal boxes and kids meals for like 15 years convinced they would be worth money someday

>mfw i still buy them

>Vinyl record > VHS.

> buying tapes
> not just recording off the air

VHS began declining in 2000 and officially "died" in 2006-2007.

I think even an 18 year would be able to remember VHS somewhat, you should remember shit from when you were 8 years old unless your parents smashed you in the head with a metal bat when you were younger.

>Australian DVD/Blu Ray prices
Would you pay this much, Sup Forums?

how is that a bad purchase?

It's not in English.

> not buying movies on vinyl

A person born in 2007 would be 9 years old now.

oh

I bought a tape once that was labeled WWF King of the Ring 95' for 25 cents once at a swapmeet and it was 8 hours of porn. Two Traci Lords movies, rest was stuff recorded off spice channel, a few episodes of red shoe Diaries and a shemale porn called bi and beyond.

>No doing both.

Isn't a bad purchase. I just wanted share this buy

I'm from México, you silly.

2hipster4me

conglaturation you bought a great game

Recorded on SP or SLP?

recorded on EP

>dad dropping me off at the bus stop
>find box with shitton of dvds
>tell him to get them and go off to the bus
>turns out they were all empty

Back in 05ish, bad day that.

>in spanish
>probably dubbed because latinos and spaniards are tards who can't into english
shit purchase is shit.

VHS is objectively a shitt format, which is why in those days there was also the hi-end option of LaserDisc. Regular VHS has 240 lines, that's half of SDTV resolution.

Vinyl isn't inherently a bad format, its quality is at least on par with CDs. They're just somewhat more easily damaged, and they wear off with repeated use (after playing it like a gazillion times though)

>He didn't have 1080p vhs what are you poor or something
youtube.com/watch?v=fT4lDU-QLUY

Why is this a bad purchase? Is the bluray transfer fucked or something?

If there's one artifact from my childhood I wish I still had, it would be my roughly 8 hours of material taped off of CityTV's Baby Blue Movies.

About a year of recording. Goddamn.

60 fps too. That's pretty cool. Were those tapes ever available commercially? Wonder how much they would have cost.

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How about regrets?

The only anime I ever loved, Macross Plus got a bluray release in 2013 in Japan, limited run.

It was $200, I was willing, I really love that OVA. I put it off because I needed other things and totally forgot.

It's now unavailable in 90% of places that will ship to Canada, most available copies are used (of varying degrees of damaged disc) and cost about $500 and any straggling new ones are even more.

PLEASE Bandai Visual, do another run of it.

>GB NES port
>great

No, bro. No.

Weirdly the Sega Master System had the best console port of that game, almost as good as the C64 and with better graphics

Is this thread a reference to Infinite Jest?

The last vhs released was /batman Begins I think.

Even LOTR extended editions got vhs releases.

The first 2 anyway not sure about ROTK

Fucking wow dude, even in Canada they hardly pass $27

I only buy my favourite movies/TV shows at full price, I buy about 90% of my movie blurays from the $5-10 section on amazon, they dip down there on sale all the time.

kek didn't know about this. Of course there was S-VHS which did reach the market and could offer 480 lines (576 in europe), but not all players could play it back. Were there ever commercial releases in S-VHS?

There's a market for rare dvds, I bought a bunch of Asian horror movies that were only localized with English subs in Australia when I was a teenager not knowing they were limited run and I ended up selling most of them, each for about $80-$100 to a collector earlier this year.

anime and manga sells well on ebay

a few DVHS tapes had movies on them pic related
Really rare for movies on SVHS i only know of a few like the godfather 3

>HD movies on VHS before there was BluRay
mind=blown

And how much were they? And were they all 1080p?

>you'll never walk into blockbuster to rent hella goosebumps vhs tapes for a night of spoopiness soda and popcorn ever again

Difficult to figure out pricing originally
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-VHS
youtube.com/watch?v=jiu0LPeLQPE

>tfw I stole this vhs tape from a super market as a kid

>The quality of STD speed is actually superior to the average DVD, since this speed has a much higher bitrate (approximately 14 versus 5 Mbit/s average) and suffers few compression artifacts.
So the standard definition DVHS was higher quality than DVD while the high definition ones were at least similar to bluray, if not about the same.

So why did DVD prevail over DVHS? Cheaper to manufacture perhaps?

I get most of mine on sale too:

Probably. That and apparently they didn't really ever market DVHS and there weren't many players that would even play them. DVD also didn't require rewinding, which I imagine people were probably annoyed with by 2000.

Not sure if VHS supported some features like toggleable subtitles or multiple audio tracks too.

i can clearly hear he has a zimbabwe pop filter also

same reason why CD prevailed over vinyl records
>cheaper to produce
>was hence pushed hard onto the consumer because there was a lot to be gained from it (index the price of the new format a little under the old one since people are used to pay a certain amount, and gain big since the production price is considerably smaller)
>arrived in a time when the quality of the older format was declining (80s vinyl pressings were notoriously thin and cheap because the demand was su huge, 90s VHS often had flimsy magnetic band you could manufacture for less)
>took less room and was hence seen as more practical
>multimedia tools, players and the rise of home computers helped too

It's not so bad. I can't imagine shit like NieA_7 will ever get a western BD release.

uh whats a vhs lol O_o

Bebop is a good shelf decoration

A meme for old poorfags who couldn't into films, betamax or laserdisc.

>mfw In an alternate universe everyone right now is watching DVHS tapes instead of blu rays and dvds.

I wish I lived there.

VHS was dead (for anyone other than poor people) long before 2007. People 18 now would've been 9 in 2007. No sane person would EVER let a nine year old touch disc media.

Sounds horrible, as the higher the resolution of tape media, the more data is lost simply from it existing (moreso with every play). Meaning you'd have to re-buy everything every couple years to maintain quality.

Everything is losing quality from simply existing.
especially me

gotta have it to lose it

i have a few hd dvds and the player thing for my 360.

Younglings today will never know the pain of having to rewind a VHS tape before returning it to the rental shop to avoid a fine.

why would they fine you? its like 30 seconds of their life to rewind it....

I remember when kiosks and such used to loan out a VHS-player. That is how I saw Mulan.

solid episode tbqh.

To me, a videotape is a like the wine: while older better.

Because they could.
And because if they had to rewind every tape that's being returned, they'd need one or two VCRs constantly rewinding tapes.

lol actually not too many.

first dvd i ever bought was 8 1/2 (i was 14, that was 11 years ago). still like that movie and still like nearly all the films i've purchased on dvd / blu ray.

haha what the fuck? i've never even heard of this tech. (i grew up with vhs)

>not having a VHS rewinder.

>not having a DVD rewinder

should I continue collecting blu rays? I feel like there will be something new soon

or it all goes full Youtube/Netflix

Get all the physical media you can, so you can play shit whenever you want and not give money to the streaming Jew.

I bought a copy of Medicine Man on dvd because I was so enchanted by Jerry Goldsmith's fantastic score I thought it must be somewhat decent.

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