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What does Sup Forums think of the recent trend of younger people getting into VHS & LaserDisc?

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young people will never know what it's like to live in an analog world

they should seriously kill themselves

i grew up with vhs so anytime i see a tape that i want in whatever thrift store, i usually get it. if you didnt grow up with it i dont see the point. fuckin rewinding and shit.

To think that people will never physically own their movies again really gets to me.

>put in an tape
>it automatically plays from beginning to end without any menu navigation
>pass out & get woken up by a comfy blue screen

It's so distancing to watch something online. I always get too distracted,

Local thrift store has a deal where you can get THREE tapes for $1.00

I should probably jump on that one of these days so I have something to play in the background while I do some housework. At that price they're basically free.

fucking stupid

>To think that people will never physically own their movies again really gets to me.
Blu-rays exist dude.

>To think that people will never physically own their movies again really gets to me.

I think it's stranger that most families are not going to have physical photo albums. Everything will be digital. Yeah, you can get them printed, but I don't know anyone who gets prints of all their photos.

anyway VHS doesn't make much sense to me, especially if you weren't around for it. it's objectively an inferior format. you don't even have the wiggle room for quality argument like the vinyl vs. cd debate, and even then collecting vinyl at least makes sense from an artwork perspective.

Anything that gets people into older titles is ok in my book. A friend's brother said something about it recently that made me want to deck the kid.

>I've got some blurays if you want to watch some old movies
>I don't watch old movies user
>What? Why not?
>it feels weird watching something from before you were born

I don't understand that way of thinking.

>if you didnt grow up with it i dont see the point
this.
how young are we talkin', OP? I'm 22 & started collecting a few vhs tapes here & there for the nostalgia sake.

You know, I love watching stuff from before I was born. But watching adult stuff from when I was a little kid is weird to me.

Half of what was released on VHS never got re-released. It's surprising how much certain horror movies & WWF wrestling tapes go for on eBay.

>$1000 for beauty & the best on VHS

I want to shake the hand of whoever convinced hipsters that movie was worth anything.

I don't know but recently I've been wanting to get my old anime DVD collection back, thinking they'd be dirst cheap and turns out some of them are more expensive than the BD versions, what the fuck.

>watching adult stuff from when I was a little kid is weird to me.

Weird how? Why does that make you uncomfortable?

Teenagers maybe? I don't even know what that generation is called. They're certainly not millennials.

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>remember we used to have a huge collection of VHS movies both original and recorded from TV when i was a kid
>my mom threw it out few years ago because noone needs vhs anymore

I associate the time period when they were made with being a kid and shit, so imagining adult stuff from that time throws me off a little bit.

As someone who owns that exact release on DVD, there's 3 reasons that's expensive.

1: made in 1998-2000 , literally one of the first DVDs released so it's fairly rare
2: They botched the Bluray by cutting off the top & bottom to make it 16:9 so people wouldn't complain about Autism bars on their $5000 HD-TVs. Due to that, the DVD is actually the best version since you see 40% more of the movie.
3: 35th anniversary of the series is probably driving up price

do it dude. ive found some gems that made me wet from nostalgia. mainly star wars OT.

huh WTF is that thihng lmfao?

>be me
>be early 90s communist bloc fall
>mom and dad starting small business
>its doing great
>dad buy me nintendo its great
>dad buy big ass tv and VCR
>give me money for VHS rent
>uncle work on ship
>not home for moths
>when back bring me boxes of Twix, Bounty, Snickers
>also animu VHS because no animu here
>those were the days
>look at the tapes
>tfw Dominion tank police
>tfw The fist of the north star
>tfw Tenchi muyo
>tfw Ninja Scroll
>tfw Venus Wars
>tfw Vampire Hunter D
>tfw Violence jack
feelsgoodman

that sucks. my mom kept ours. but keeping care of them is a different story.

>throwing away irreplaceable home movies

at least your mom didn't sell all your stuff while you were away at college.

Games, books, VHS. CDs, all gone for a quarter a piece.

Owning Anime is worthless. Just torrent it. Except Studio Ghibli, Hokuto no Ken, and Robotech/Macross.

Blu-ray and UHD is where it's at. Laserdisc and VHS is great for those titles not on those formats.

shit mang that sucks
She did transfer the home videos to pc tho

>UHD

Thought you were talking about those PSP movies. Is UHD even a thing yet?

>Owning Anime is worthless.

but I like to collect

Eh, barely. Better to buy the titles which are natively 4K in the format.
Sell that shit.

A local cafè owned by three 20-30something with artistic beards and thick glasses recently made a special event that took place once a weekm you have to make your own movie on VHS, do it as 80s as possible and they will show it in front of an audience while drinking beer and eating organic food.
Majority of videos were girls dressed as 80s pop stars dancing on some tacky 80s hit

Nah I'll keep it.

WHERE THE FUCK DO I BUY A CRT?

That's the real question here. None of the resale places near me carry them anymore. Do I have to physically dig one out of a landfill or exhume one from the bottom of a Mayan tomb?

>find one being thrown away on a curb in the suburbs
>They cut the power cord

Trucking WHY?

Why don't you have that on Blu-ray disc? I sold a huge amount of my ultra Weeaboo Anime faggot DVDs ages ago. Glad I have a more normal collection.
Oh wait, Anime is as overpriced on disc same with Porn.

it's a horribly shit format, good only for nostalgia. the tapes i had as a kid were already disintegrating 10 years later. good thing I had one of those transfer doohickeys so they live on in a DVD binder.

>trucking

I think I need a new keyboard. That's a 5 star typo right there.

But it's fun!

Because I'm not a pleb like you.

Do you use DVDProfiler or FilmAF?

>Sup Forums has best taste in anime
>Sup Forums has best taste in movies

Why am I not surprised.

Physical medium possibilities still exist. I have a hardrive exclusively for films. I also buy memory sticks. I put a director's filmography on one, and gift it to someone. It's nice, brings some tangibility back to it.

Why don't you have any Akira Kurosawa or Zatoichi or Lone Wolf and Cub? Or The Yakuza Papers?

That's nice but I'd rather have Blu-rays or UHDs.
Still looking for some OOP Criterion Collection DVDs. Namely Alfred Hitchcock and other shit.

that seems a little odd to me. kids born after 96' are considered Gen Z I'm pretty sure. maybe old Gen Zeds might be interested in vhs but I doubt 16&unders would give a hoot.
kids these days have mobile phones at 5 years old, they're probably more interested in the latest candy crush.

I know I've bought VHS tapes of movies that were either some cheesy b movie that never got put on DVD, or something like the original VHS release of Star Wars, unless it was a situation where it would cost less Money to buy a VHS of a movie and convert it to DVD than to look for it on DVD.

The James Bond films are best on Blu-ray. Except all of them need new 4K remasters cause Lowry is shit. At least the first 15.
Easy to convert VHS and Laserdisc to DVD without any menus. But if you want to add menus that's a whole other thing.

Oh man I do, Jingi naki tatakai is one of my favorite movie series.

Zatoichi is really cool too, I own the OST. Keiichi Suzuki is my weakness.

Also got a couple Kurosawa classics and everything by Shinya Tsukamoto.

Your local craiglist or whatev.
People sell bulky amazing Trinitron CRT for like 20 dollaritos.

I'm twenty and my family used exclusively VHS tapes until about 2002 for reference.

VHS is objectively a shit format. LaserDisc is about at par with DVD.

The real deal is owning 16mm or 35mm copies. That's the true patrician's way.

Anyone here own a Super VHS machine? I hear they bring VHS up to DVD quality. I didn't even know they were a thing until recently.

I still should get the ARROW Blu-ray release.
The Criterion set is the one to own for Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi. Without the DVDs. I haven't seen the Takeshi Kitano one.
Wish more of Kurosawa's contemporary films would reach Blu-ray.
How about Sansho the Bailiff, The Bad Sleep Well, High and Low, Dreams, etc.?
Not really. No matter the resolution, even SVHS, eh.

I don't have any Laserdiscs, I've heard certain films like those on the criterion collection or the original Star Wars trilogy are worth more.
I thought i might get one if I saw a laser disc for sale, but I haven't.
How expensive are laserdisc converters, and where do you get them?

There's still legitimate reasons as to why people still collect old formats like Laserdisc & VHS tapes. Some things still haven't been released on Dvd or Bluray, some Laserdiscs have unique special features never featured on any modern release, sometimes you can find recordings of movies/television series off tv that have NEVER been released on any format, also some old formats have unique artwork not featured on any other release (plus Laserdisc packaging is pretty great with how big it is).

my local retro store man was telling me any of the old bond films are pretty hard to come by. at least on vhs/dvd.
I'd love to get my hands on all the Connery bonds, whatever format it may be. those ones are the best, imo.

>all those forgotten, unloved CRTs

I didn't know it, but apparently there was a VHS format that was capable of HD
youtube.com/watch?v=jiu0LPeLQPE

There's a house clearance place around the corner from me that had a bunch of tapes that must've come from a rental shop. Bought a bunch of 80s porn.

>(((HD))) is better goy
>buy out NEW TVs that burn out after 3 years, & dump those CRTs made to millitary specifications that run 24/7 with no problems for 30 years straight

I knew a newsman who said he had an entire wall of PVMs they had running for over two decades. They never broke & they ended up throwing them all away.

You should look for the recalled first three James Bond Criterion Laserdiscs.
Yeah D-VHS. Never really took off. Hi-Vision or Muse was the HD Laserdisc.

>You should look for the recalled first three James Bond Criterion Laserdiscs.

Why were they recalled? Which 3 films were they? All the SONY pressed laserdiscs failed from disc-rot & I've never heard of any being recalled before.

Found it. Apparently the commentaries were "unacceptable"

the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2011/04/21/Banned-James-Bond-Commentaries

Fuck I want this DVD solely because of the 4:3 screen ratio. But it's expensive everywhere.

when I was moving last minute I threw a huge box of anime dvds and vhs away to lighten my load

>that pink childrens car among the CRT corpses

what?

...

I'm still surprised how badly they butchered the Bluray.

I only started grabbing VHS tapes a few years back when I realized that they were so fucking cheap and plentiful. I like the look of some movies on VHS, same with Laserdisc. Obviously they're both obsolete platforms, and they're not optimal viewing, but I like old things, so I collect.

The difference with Laserdisc is that its not cheap. You have to be a certain kinda weirdo to enjoy them, and I am.

>arcade machines

Aren't those pachinko machines?

those are gambling machines

VHS look no worse than the majority of youtube videos. There's nothing wrong with enjoying laserdisc. Things like 8-track tapes are where I draw the line.

I feel the same way. Plus, I watch shit quality Youtube rips on my TV all the time, so I have low expectations....

Beta seems cool but only if I were a millionaire would I make a really nice Beta setup, otherwise its not worth it.

I like how they did those stupid trailers before the movie, it kind of built you up in a weird way. and the trailers were always for shit movies that nobody ever saw.

Beta has a shitty selection unfortunately. I would absolutely collect for it if there was anything worth owning on it.

>VHS look no worse than the majority of youtube videos.
YouTube's moved away from only 240p eight years ago.

>the trailers were always for shit movies that nobody ever saw.

Trailers like this?

youtube.com/watch?v=aNiNNQoyy6Q

youtube.com/watch?v=ubp7cylV3TE

Rental shop tapes have the most ballin' covers.

I sold all my vhs tapes to blockbuster in 2006, I think around 350 or 450 movies, not sure, I ended up with about $280. I remember using about half of that to get a brand new Xbox 360 and a psp, was bretty guud. fucking no regrets either, I was already into dvds at that point.

what I DO regret tho is getting rid of all my adult swim dvds, I had all the seasons of space ghost, aqua teen, sealab, etc etc. and those had such great packaging.

as for laserdisc, and the dweebs who collect for it, I mean I guess I don't really care. I personally don't see the point of laserdisc tho since it's basically like vhs, just an inferior version of bluray. There may be a few exceptions where the laserdisc version is the way to go, but I'm pretty sure getting a good viewing experience with laserdisc format on a modern HDTV is impossible.

hmm... after saying all this,I wonder how good vhs or even laserdisc would look on my presentation crt. probably pretty damn good.

Why did the UMD format fail? I thought those were the coolest little things when I was a kid. I still have my PSP-1000 and emulate and stuff on it. I thought those little discs that popped right into the little deck in the back of those things was awesome. Now they don't even come with UMD decks anymore. I had a few games and like Kill Bill and some other movie and it felt so satisfying opening and closing that little door.

Fuck... Was it the limited storage space? It could hold decent games and obviously movies... I guess having one thing in existence that even reads them, and that being a handheld gaming device doesn't really make it worth it to keep producing them. Still, it was a cool concept imo.

Newer CRT monitors can be have surprisingly good picture quality.

i guess the idea was that they could get some free advertising for stuff that failed in theaters, like I never saw one big release on those before the move trailers.

I only collect VCDs

How do you make a movie in a week? Or does it usually cycle who's playing that week?

It would be cool if they had different themes instead of 80s and you could sign up for the one you want and yours will show a few weeks down the road.

youtube still reencodes the upload and ends up making "HD" content look like pixelated garbage.

I'll give you mine but you have to haul it.

flash memory happened.

I'm 18 and my family was still using VHS in 2008 even though we got a DVD player in 2007. I think the last time I used one to record something on TV was 2010.

I don't understand this recent trend of acting like someone born in 1998 is the same as someone born in 2006, I didn't even see an iphone in person until I was 13 yet someone who's 22 writes off everyone born past a certain year as being a faggot.

LD and DVD can look pretty damn fine on a good CRT.
VHS can vary, I've seen some that had near DVD quality. But a lot of them also had shit quality, especially worn out ones (from rentals) and bootlegs/copies. But brand new, official VHSs can look optimal.

Absolute madman.

mines a Mitsubishi from 1997

>someone gives you a gift
>it's pirated media
th-thank

Moving parts in a handheld is a stupid idea to begin with.

jackass

VHS is way too mainstream

>spanish VHS tapes

Aside from Ghost sweeper mikami, saint seiya, & DBZ, was anime popular in mexico at all in the 90s?

They fail like a motherfucker. That's why I'm surprised anyone owns them.

But flash memory was already a thing, albeit expensive back then. I have a 64 GB stick in my PSP right now. They couldn't see flash memory getting bigger and cheaper?

That said maybe during the initial years flash was low storage and expensive relatively. Still, I liked the concept. Oh well. Sony loses another platform war. This time to technology instead of a company.

I mean I won't argue. Physical moving parts are prone to shock damage and also drains the shit out of your battery.

>twn release a UMD player with higher capacity for movie extras and HD video
Kek that would be awesome to have a tiny player next to my TV. It would have no market, be retarded to do, and an absolute flop, but I think it'd be cool.

Could actually probably hook my PSP up to my TV and just leave it there upside down to act this role if I wanted to. But I don't...

gj, now you own a bunch of 1's and 0's

Those are spanish from Spain, not Mexico.
Yeah in latin america anime started getting pretty popular thanks to the boom by stuff like dbz or sailor moon.
Also a cable channel called Locomotion, they had Evangelion in 1999/2000.

It's the same thing as people in 2016 thinking vinyl sounds better than a lossless digital format

Hipster fags, every fucking one of you

>doesn't know about the loudness wars

Nobody listen to vinyl because it's a better format. They listen to vinyl because it was recorded quieter.

hi. please let me know how much you are enjoying your

laughably low audio and video bitrates
extremely low audio fidelity and awful sounding lfe due to the extreme compression. movie rips will always target the audio first and it always shows
the disgusting levels of visible video compression and artifacts that plague any scene that is remotely dark.

piratefags really boggle my mind

bluray is the only way to watch and enjoy movies nowadays, or maybe hd streaming if you have fiber optic internet able to support that
I guess I shouldn't really care tho, I'll be at home enjoying my entire bluray catalogue on my 65inch HDTV, with my kickass 9.1 1000W+ Dolby atmos setup, while you piratefags can enjoy watching Lynch on your fucking iPhones.