VHS was the comfiest medium to watch movies

VHS was the comfiest medium to watch movies.

>Dat atmosphere from the distinct sound and image quality

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>Shit picture quality and white noise create atmosphere

Shut up faggot, go be a hipster on tumblr

fuck off with your baseless nostalgia shit. If you lived through VHS you wouldn't spout such a retarded opinion.

my VHS auto-rewound the tape after the movie finished, i sometimes stopped it before it was complete

MOM WOULD FREAK

this is just gonna turn into anons bashing tapes and needlessly comparing VHS and Blu Ray as if it matters.

You can have nostalgia for going to the video store, but not for VHS. DVD might be comfiest because it involved going to the store but none of the issues that plagued VHS.

>i say you can't like the things you like

dat 4:3 baby!

Not if you don't make any sense, no.

nah, VHS conjures up memories of when that's all I had. Audio and video are absolute shit and I will never watch my copy of raiders on vhs rather than the DVD, but I still watch T2 and some of my old recordings since VHS is all I have.

>you can't like what you like because i don't understand why you like it

>you can't reminisce about media formats that are inferior to my MP4 collection

t. born in 1998

holy shit, VHS was so comfy all around.

Tracking issues, tape getting stuck in the VCR, having to rewind... yeah VHS was totally awesome.

>worked ina vid store in the 80s
>rented porn to my teachers
>hid the good stuff for friends
>charged douchebags triple for vcr rentals
>mexican coworker showed me her tits daily
>played pic related back to back on the store tv

good times

Oh yeah having to rewind was pretty uncomfy.

>Go to pick up the case
>VHS slides out the bottom and breaks on the floor

OH NO A REWIND BUTTON HELP WHERE IS MY VLC

I did live through VHS and I consider the VHS aesthetic valuable to certain films (80s action flicks like Robocop and Lethal Weapon or horror films).

>wanna re watch favorite cartoon on VHS
>mom recorded her soap opera on my tape

Many tears were shed

>Wanted to watch parents wedding video on VHS
>Brother recorded PPV porn over it

You're a fucking idiot. There is a definite charm and aesthetic when it comes to the VHS format.
It's not to say that better picture quality shouldn't be available, but I do think certain trashy movies benefit from the shittness.
You're going to tell me you'd rather watch a shot-on-shittyo movie on an HD monitor than a fuzzy, square, VCR?

I always had more problems with rental discs than tapes, though, senpai.
Every once in a while you'd get a really fucking stretched out tape which was an actually problem, but I'd rather a fuzz than a digital skip.

Not if you had the racecar

t. born in 2002

There are people nearing 40 who are nostalgic for VHS

can't we just enjoy all the formats?

this
I've been starting to miss the nice sturdy and labeling-free packaging of DVDs now, makes me sad to be upgrading to bright blue boxes with a bunch of shit plastered all over it

I just miss videostores desu

If I were ever unimaginably rich, to the point where I wouldn't have to worry about turning a profit, I would fucking love to open an old-style video store with multiple formats.
Would be nice for all the autists to chill out there; maybe have a back room for them to play D&D or some shit back there.

Does Sup Forums think it would be possible to open up a movie rental store in a large city? It would have to be memed to hell and have a lot of things like free movie showings to get enough of a crowd, and would need to be cheaper and easier to use than redbox. Oh and netflix would be an issue. Maybe start your own monthly subscription that was cheaper? Ahh shit, movie stores are never coming back are they Sup Forums?

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That's exactly what you'd have to be; a community thing.
There's some movie place in the city, and they keep themselves open by selling coffee too and having monthly BYOB screenings.

I've though about this myself. If I ever am making more money than I'll ever need I'll surely open one, I'm sure there would be a small but dedicated consumer-base.

You do not want to go down that road with me, Buster.
I have over a 1,000 prerecorded video tapes, nigger.

Besides the comfy, some VCR's just look really cool

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I have 4000+, all original. These are just zombie movies I am showing off.

>played pic related back to back on the store tv
Excellent choice

Shit, this thread is giving me feels and is probably going to end with me grabbing a free tube TV off of Craigslist and trying to find a cheap/free VHS deck to watch '80s movies on.

We used to have a big old top loader that could chop your fucking fingers off.

Also had one at one point that magically lacked something built in/had something built in that just let me steal whatever the fuck I wanted without interference. No copy protection of any kind ever fucked up this VCR. I stole so many movies that way.
Kicked it apart one day when it ate a tape. RIP.

>Those double tape sets of Dawn of the Dead

Oh, fuck, senpai. My bad, you have BETA too.

Goodwill should have them, if you honestly just don't see one walking down the street.
People put them on the curb all the time. Walk the trash routes around town one night.

Thankfully we have the Victorville film archive!

>go to video rental store
>no imdb
>no rotten tomatos
>only way to judge a movie was to look at its cover
>9 out of 10 times we would pick a trash movie
>ended up watching a disturbing amount of steven seagal movies
>the asshole that rented it before us had NEVER rewinded them

>If you lived through VHS you wouldn't spout such a retarded opinion.

This. As someone who grew up with only VHS I can gladly say I don't ever want to go back. Fuck that.

Tfw my VCR went to shit years ago and have no way of watching some old movies. My dad has a lot of old action movies I didn't like but want to watch now

I collect all formats. Have LD , VideoDisc, SECAM, and V2000 too.

The TV's are everywhere, but for the VCR you may wanna go on Ebay and see if there's a not-to-high-priced refurbished one, so you don't have to worry about it breaking. Goodwill is fine too. Panasonic all the way though, my grandmother has been using hers since 1981...

I used to have this thing, and it was one of my favorite possessions, but the tube broke...don't do the combo TV/VCR shit, they're notoriously not well made, even the pro ones like pic related.

I wanna fuck that.

Yeah, I was thinking Goodwill for a working player.

It almost makes me want to get a Beta player for laughs.

>what are you watching, user?
>Miami Vice on Betamax

Betamax is a pain in the ass if you actually intend to watch anything.
Right now, you can go to a flea mart and pick up VHS like four for a dollar, or maybe a buck at a thriftstore.
Rarely, do I ever come across a Beta tape that isn't a blank one.

It was the best thing ever. But the VCR part stopped working, I took it apart to try and see what was wrong, and the tube exploded. The vertical door probably wasn't a good design idea, hence it was uncommon.

there is literally nothing good about watching movies on VHS other than to be a stupid hipster who views the past with rose tinted nostalgia goggles.

>Renting those VHS
>putting tape over the little square hole thingy
>hooking up friends camcorder with the red yellow white cord to overdub jerry springer shit at the climax of the rented VHS

I'm honestly sorry you feel that way.
What a narrow field to appreciate.

lol that's hilarious but I don't blame him. Probably got charged to your dad for like $15 so he better record it since shit will already be hitting the fan.

I agree with that user. This isn't retro gaming here. VHS looks like shit these days and it's just the way it is. Watching old movies remastered in HD is 1000x better, especially when you see all the details that you could never see before.

There's always this kind of dickhead who has to see everything in bleak, hacky little labels he heard someone else say just to shit "the thing you like that i dont".

You were born in 2000, you never had to use VHS anyway.

Again, I will disagree. Ascetically, some movies just look right on VHS.

Got a killer beta Craiglist hit a few years ago.

Here's a couple of them from that hit.

large city is gonna cost you a fortune.
cant compete with netflix with real life overheads.

but everything is cyclical user, so dont worry. I hope in 10 years we have weened ourselves from our constant desires to consume entertainment non-stop at all times and we return to the days of going down to the video store on a friday night to pick out a movie - making a pick based on the cover or description rather than 10,000 imdb reviews.

How amazing does the Prowler look on Beta?
What's your TV like?

This has happened to me

Are some of those VHS cases cut to fit hard plastic clamshell cases? Or were the like that originally?

Cool man. We'll just agree to disagree. Kind of like how my step mom says she can't see the difference between 1080p and 480p. I agree to disagree with her too. I assume you were the one who mentioned Robocop which by the way is a 10/10 film and one of my favorites of all time. But you need to watch it on blu ray.

Why were VHS cases/covers so fucking good?

The switch from print on VHS cases to DVD sleeve inserts was terrible.

I would just stare at the anime section at my local Blockbuster trying to decide which cover looked cooler.

>tfw I thought Evangelion was just a movie, rented episodes 19-20 and saw some weird shit in fifth grade...

There might be 1 or 2 cutboxs in there, but I don't normally collect them unless it's rare/valuable.

>no suburban commando
>no mr. nanny

user..

What kind of VCR(s) do you use?

I'd imagine an older one would have a shittier look to it but a newer DVD combo one might actually improve the picture ever so slightly...

It's sad, same with the posters of today.

That's the reason I got into downloading series, 2 episodes per $20 disc/tape, even a 12 episode series that's pretty crazy

No, I'm not that guy. Robocop wouldn't be included in that list of VHS-aided movies.
I'm thinking more along the lines of some Troma trash or 90s splatter movies.

>still remember buying my first DVD player and shitty old plasma tv
>movies look weird as shit on it and artificial, something is missing
>takes me years to get used to it
>go back to VHS to watch some episode of TNG I had laying around
>looks like absolute fucking garbage, just turn it off and go to blockbuster and rent them on dvd

Anyone who says VHS is superior are 20 year old college kids who consider themselves "old fags! xD". If all the kids at your school had mobile phones, then you are a young shit.

Yes, even the first gen Nokias.

Newer usually means cheaper in VCR land.

I use an old Panasonic top loader, but buy news ones all the time and check those/ watch movies.

>I'm thinking more along the lines of some Troma trash or 90s splatter movies.

Yeah I would agree with that. I can't see 1080p doing anything for toxic avenger.

>If all the kids at your school had mobile phones, then you are a young shit.
>not going to hanoi school of hardknocks

>distinct sound
lo-fi

>image quality
tracking

I have Suburban Commando somewhere, just no case. That one got a lot of watches as a kid.

Mr Nanny was okay, never owned it though.

Ooh, Navy Seals!

Got some Panasonic VCR/DVD combo from a rummage sale

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have you idiots even watched anything on VHS recently or are you just reminiscing about when you used to be children.

they look like shit

>I have Suburban Commando somewhere

You're alright user.

Yeah that's why I stopped buying anime on DVD as well, 3 episodes for $30 at Suncoast was ridiculous.

Of course its not superior....anyone thinking it is must be blind. Of course its inferior. You've missed the point.

Why do people like old cars? They don't have navigation systems and high horsepower numbers, they're not safer or more reliable *necessarily*, but can still be enjoyable and collected. There's a million examples of this. I don't think anyone would argue tapes are superior to anything more modern, they'd be an idiot.

>he doesn't know that rotational velocidensity destroys the audio on bonkle movies

They do, but there's a certain familiarity and enjoyment I get from watching tapes.

Plus there's a lot of unreleased, weird shit that will only ever be released as VHS rips.

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>high horsepower numbers
Depends on the car really

>horse power numbers

Don't give an example about cars if you know jack shit all about them. Older cars are popular because they were empirically built superior, with more qualitative means. There is a multitude of reasons why these are better both in performance ability and reliability.

Yes.....
But if you look at a 2017 Civic compared to a 1980 Civic, a basic everyday car, (I'm not talking muscle, I'm not talking exotic, I'm not talking trucks) you're gonna see one is significantly underpowered. But they both serve the same basic purpose. Driving. Just as a Blu Ray and VHS share the same purpose: watching a movie. But obviously one is superior to the other in specs.

Again you're missing the point entirely.

It was pretty epic watching VHS in a cheap small 19 inch TV with my cousin. Renting it was also awesome.

Modern times are so boring with this Netflix shit. So many movies to watch and yet i don't watch a single one.

I didn't mean to attach that pic but I guess its somewhat related...

No, I have one set up to watch certain films, actually.

Honestly, Netflix streaming has been trash for a while.
Just pirate.

Showing off some of mine

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I have a few hundred VHS films, I just like the "old-school" look of these in particular. Reminds me of the Blockbusters and Hollywood Video stores I used to shop at as a kid.

Most of 'em I buy for about 10 cents a piece at the local thrift store, watch 'em a couple of times, then pass them on to friends. Some I keep on display because I like the box art.

There's not really many that I actively search for, apart from Godzilla shit. My best friend did buy me Ginger Snaps on VHS for Christmas last year, though, which was fucking great.

Yeah the fact that they're so fucking cheap is partially why I started buying them again.

>tfw still have the fat tv, fuk switching to soulless flat screen

I still got about two Godzilla VHS tapes in storage, just because they don't normally fit on my shelf. I loaned out a few Disney movies, hence the space.

I don't blame ya. The most I've ever spent on a VHS tape was I think $10 a piece for Zombie and Maximum Overdrive, which was a fucking bargain for me. Thrift stores and record stores are always looking to get rid of whatever VHS they get in so they drop the prices incredibly cheap.