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VHS was garbage when it was new, you underage hipster. Fuck off.

VHS
>Sometimes worked
>Could become unwatchable at any moment
DVD
>Had scene selection
>Menu abuse
BD
>High definition
>Much fewer special features than on DVD

Did people really have this much bad luck with VHS? I've never had any issues, besides tracking problems on 15+ year old tapes.

VHS
>nothing nice about it
>shit, lot of movable elements easy to fuck up
DVD
>long lasting format, cheap and often comes with nice booklets/digibooks
>doesn't hold up in HD era
BD
>DVD, but better and better
>nothing bad about them, maybe price

>VHS
best cases, most nostalgia/looks like shit on newer tvs
>DVD
cheapest/ratios can be fucked
>Blu
looks perfect/ugly case and expensive

I've still never watched a Blu-ray.

Are they really that great?

VHS
>labor of love product
>rewinding
DVD
>nostalgic good resolution
>pre-movie bullshit
BD
>actual good resolution
>not worth the extra $$

>DVD
>long lasting format
How's that disc-rot working out for you?

>disc rot
How's living in a crackhouse working out for you?

dvd is most comfy

all my favorite movies I first saw on VHS

dvd special features were very cool

blu ray rips have saved me a ton of money by letting me skip paying extra money to avoid my theater's no singles policy

VHS
>rewinding tapes
>rewinding tapes

DVD
>long family road trips watching movies in the back seat
>scratched disks

Blu-Ray
>crisp clear picture
>loading times

I'll just say 2 positive things about both!

VHS
>fast forward anything you like (adverts, trailers)
>pickup where you left off
DVD
>plethora of special features (compared to blu-ray) since it was a new format
>huge back-catalog, almost all mainstream releases
BD
>unbeatable quality
>best looking cases IMO (many labor of love releases)

Nice rebuttal, enjoy your worthless medium.

not really common in DVD case. CD sure, but DVD got different structure thats why "longlasting"

VHS
>you could tape your favorite movies and shows directly on them
>bad quality

DVD
>easy to copy and reproduce
>7 disc edition for a couple of features

Blu-ray
>luxurious high quality
>too enormous to backup to the computer

VSH
>never used it
DVD
>never used it
BD
>nice and practical with awesome quality
>tho expensive

>never used VHS
Underage get out.

Quality trips

I unironically love magnetic tape based media and there's nothing you can do about it.
>mfw i buy cassettes off ebay

pleb

Quality dubs

Retarded youngfag

diskfags will never experience the joy of hearing a VHS tape entering the VCR. They will never know the joys of the TV cart at school.

The first wave of BD had awesome features including some live internet stuff and epic bitrate. Now they're just DVD put on a BD disc at 1080p.
At least they're cheap

I never had a problem.
As a kid I'd get up every Saturday morning and watch Commando on a VHS recorded off the TV. Must have watched it 100 times.
I had many tapes, dubbed over many times.
Break out the anti-write tab and just block it up with some tissue.
I even used to open the VCR and clean the head with nail polish remover on a cotton bud just for shits and giggles. I must have been 8-10.
More reliable than DVD which always seemed to be scratched.
The quality on tape was crap but the TV screens were equally crap so it didn't matter.

It's just 1080p which is considered true HD.
DVD's are something like 480 which is really low res though looked amazing after coming off VHS.
Yes a proper BD mastered for BD on decent TV looks impressive.
4K looks even better on a good 4K TV but the jump is not as huge

>That "blu ray" pic
Thanks YIFY!

Is that Amy Adams?

VHS has great aesthetic power. Anything (even modern stuff) feels comfy with a vhs patina.
DVD's were nice, but they had unresponsive and pointless menus.
I've never used a bluray.

Did you ever use Betamax? Are they inferior to VHS?

VHS
>comfy
>no annoying looping menu playing for hours when you fall asleep
>tape rewinds when finished and shows nothing but a comfy blue nightlight
>nostalgic and comfy reminds you of a better time

DvD
>post 9/11 easy to scratch meme disks

bluray
>meme disks

Beta was before my time, but the general consensus is that Beta was superior in quality, but more expensive. VHS was slightly lower quality, both in sound and video, but the hardware was less expensive and it could record for longer, so it ultimately won out. At some point I would like to get a Beta player and some Beta tapes, though.

I just miss the sound VHS made when rewinding.

Some guy on YouTube actually did an incredible analysis of Beta vs VHS and the ultimate conclusion was that both formats have various advantages and disadvantages, and there's no clear superior format.

Do you have a link? I'd like to watch that

How much of a child are you? I could maybe give you VHS but blu ray are what? Something like 10 years old?

youtu.be/_oJs8-I9WtA

This guy is a real turbo autist too, he went to great lengths to set up the experiment as exact as possible

VHS was the clear winner because it was easier to market to the masses. The cheaper price tag and the fact that they could hold larger movies on a single tap outweighed any benefits that beta had.

I want to watch this, but this guy's voice might make me kill myself

VHS
>kind of a comfy feeling to it that hasn't been replicated by DVD or Blu Ray
>fucking tape would get ruined over time

DVD
>first format to really be convenient to the consumer, also tends to be a cheap solution to get some harder to find movies
>disks scratch easy and the quality isn't that great on HDTV's for newer movies

Blu ray
>top quality picture and sound, best way to get movies today and look fantastic especially on 4K tv's, they've also gotten really cheap the past couple years (I mean shit you can get the full series of the Sopranos for fifty bucks)
>cases tend to have annoying tape over the blu ray logo on the top and snap a little easy

Hey man you asked for it

True enough, thanks for the link

We're talking about from a technical standing buddy

I think you forgot to mention just how comfy VHS was.

After coming off blu rays back in 2013 the jump in quality is phenomenal

>VHS: set the standard for portable film
>DVD: revolutionary interactive experience
>Blu-ray: stunning resolution even on large televisions

>VHS: whoever thought lazerdisc wasn't a better alternative was out of their fucking mind
>DVD: n/a
>Blue-ray: STOP FUCKING WITH MY COLOR GRADING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Regardless of quality Blu Ray is a fucking retard name for a format

I feel like we've lost the war with color grading. Even directors like Spielberg are fucking with their old movies and ruining them now, it's so goddamn depressing

VHS
>ability to pick up directly from where you stopped it the day/week/year before
>degradation of picture quality over time, ending with your favourite movie looking like it had been shit in the snow

DVD
>Special Features (co-opted from LaserDisc, but still)
>having to flip the disks for longer movies (goodfellas, casino, etc) over mid-movie)

Bluray
>Super good looking transfers of older movies
>Shitty noise correction ruining things that should look stunning (Hello, Disney)

>vhs
>comfy
Pick two

It really breaks my fucking heart that companies like Disney are actually ruining their historical films on blu ray instead of preserving them for all time. Like I actually think about this a lot.

what's crazy is that it's always objectively worse-looking

If they commissioned a company like Criterion or something to convert their films to blu ray it would be fine, I can't believe how badly they've fucked up their old transfers.

I shudder to think that they've fucked up the negatives too. Hopefully it's all done post scanning

>tfw realizing George Lucas probably ruined the negatives of the original Star Wars trilogy with the 1997 release

He claims he did but I still believe man, there's just no way they would be so stupid at Lucasfilm. They HAD to have made at least several transfers from the negative that were then worked on. I mean seriously, if you were editing the original negatives and fucked up once that's it, you're done.

>Blue-ray: STOP FUCKING WITH MY COLOR GRADING REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I'd like to add that I hate it when they use sharpening filters or make colors shine too much when it wasn't like that in the fucking theaters. DVDs didn't have this problem.

yes

>never used VHS
>never used dvds
?

VHS
>comfiest, shit quality sure but i like the aesthetic and pushing tapes into the vcr and hearing all the noises was fun, felt nice and analog
>not ideal for watching anything outside of nostalgia

DVD
>cheap as fuck now
>absolutely a lesser experience than blu ray, hasn't got the nostalgic quality that vhs has so i'd only go back if something was only available on dvd. also the cases feel huge now compared to blu ray

Blu ray
>looks great, feels exciting even though the format is over 10 years old
>expensive, worry that maybe it takes away from the atmosphere of some tv shows like the x-files which might be comfier on vhs

VHS
>record over them once you're done
>240p
DVD
>cheap and reliable format for watching tv/movies or as a backup system
>scratched discs, 480p
BD
>luxurious high quality for movies/TV shows. 25, 50, 75 and even 100gb BD-Rs available for archiving
>price, especially for BD-Rs

>The cheaper price tag
Wrong. VHS prices were just as high if not higher than as dvd, and blu ray.

In fact in the the first ever Disney movies released on VHS like Dumbo would set you back at least $200 per copy which is why mom and pop video stores would charge you to become a member.
Disney/Kid VHS sold for $30 in the early 90s
youtube.com/watch?v=hBRKMIrtjow

A fucking Chucky movie cost $90 IN THE 80s!!! Just think how much it really was if you factor in inflation.

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>comfy and nostalgic

>cheap easy and lots of things play it

>they look good

THey worked from an original negative because the master either couldn't be found, or was in an incredibly poor state. For every scene that needed digitally cleaned up, or altered, they'd cut it out of the negative & when you do those cuts, you sacrifice a frame... apparently it was a whole fucking mess by the end of it.

There used to be a really good website that covered the process. The owner let the site lapse a few years back, but the bulk of it is still on the wayback machine web.archive.org/web/20141224152754/http://secrethistoryofstarwars.com:80/savingstarwars.html

>>DVD
>cheapest/ratios can be fucked
But this just as easily applies to VHS where you would end up buying more than one version of the film because ratios were completely fucked.
VHS a shit