Say something nice about VHS

Say something nice about VHS.

Say something nice about DVD.

Say something nice about BD.

VHS: Best shape
DVD: Cheap and still available everywhere
BD; Better then DVD

VHS gave us films in interesting aspect ratios that in some cases have been lost with the switch to DVD and Bluray

DVD gave the world their first taste of high definition video and revolutionized the home theater.

Bluray furthered that revolution.

I miss when movie ads used to say "own it on video and DVD now".

>interesting aspect ratios
you mean garbage cropped shit

>VHS allowed me to record porn from spice channel and sell it to friends at school because based dad had a descrambler
>DVD was cool because you didnt have to rewind it
>Blu ray is best because of HD

>VHS
nostalgia, freedom to tape whatever you pleased if it was on TV, video rental shops feeling like you're a kid in a candystore (returning late rentals not so much)

>DVD
biggest leap forward in terms of picture quality for regular consumers

>blu-ray
it's got the sharpest quality atm, I guess

Better than the ultra-super-panoramic-widescreen shit we're getting now. Movies are starting to take up less than a third of the vertical space of a 16:9 screen.

At least 4:3, while cropped, worked. Movies don't even offer cropped "to fit your screen" (16:9) anymore, they just release it in their ridiculous ratios that the theaters aren't even set up for.

This

>DVD gave the world their first taste of high definition video
No, it didn't. The DVD format supported 720x480 for NTSC and 576 for PAL. It was also interlaced crap that needed de-interlacing.

>VHS:
can rent, can copy, can record
>DVD:
Cheap and still available everywhere
>BD;
better quality than dvd, but expensive disk and player

sorry you're all dead

I got lot of nostalgia towards VHS so it holds a special place to me
When DVDs came out, all the extras were cool as shit and the quality was massive improvement, not to mention no hassle with too old DVDs unlike tapes which got worse over time
Blu-ray I guess again was leap in quality but at this point I was basically strictly digital already

>DVD gave the world their first taste of high definition video
No, that was D-VHS, which came out around the same time as standard DVD, which was barely better than VHS quality. HD DVD came later.

>VHS
nice warm feeling thinking about the past.

>DVD
was cool for its time

>Blu Ray
Good for what it is.

this.

>Say something nice about VHS.
affordable for home viewing, no other nice things. glad they are dead now
>Say something nice about DVD.
huge step. beside qulity, offering lots of bonus content - still holds up
>Say something nice about BD.
DVD 2.0

VHS
Has some of the best cuts of movies released.

DVD
Cheap.

Blu ray
Best quality.

I once saw a sign on an abandoned shop in LA that said "HD DVDs sold here" on it.

That was a thing user. But like all Microsoft's investments it died.

There are people on Sup Forums who don't remember Blu-ray vs HD-DVD?

Yeah I remember. I saw that sign in 2015, so it might have been hanging there for 7 years.

>VHS
Easy to record stuff, no DRM, dat nostalgia

>DVD
Cheap, shared format used for movies, vidya, applications and data storage for a brief while before flash memory became a thing

>Blu-ray
I can't really think of much good to say. It's (usually) full HD? Optical media was dying before BD even came out. And even today they're fucking expensive compared to DVDs. I can understand them charging a premium when they first came out because they offered an increase in quality over DVDs but by now their quality is considered standard and 4k is the new hotness, the economy of scale should have kicked in and they should be cheap.

HDDVD was backed by toshiba. Only thing microsoft did was release the hddvd attachment for the xbox 360 so they could say it competes with the ps3 as an hd movie player.

doovde lucd teev

I still can't believe D-VHS was actually a thing. I've never seen a used D-VHS tape or player for sale. People still have nostalgia for laser discs and laugh about Betamax but give me a blank look when I ask about D-VHS.

VHS: Always remembers where you left off, down to the second. Also very durable. Accidentally step on the movie? No problem.
DVD: Better quality, easy scene selection, great for packing in tons of extras.
DB: I've literally never used one and don't know lol

I wish HD-DVD would have won based on the better name alone.

>VHS
Shit you had to rewind.

>DVD
Introduced shitty menus, angles and extras no one cares about.

>Blu-Ray
More of the above.

>VCD
Multiple discs, hardcoded subs

>SVCD
Still multiple discs, but better quality

>DivX/XviD
Pleb format for people who couldn't afford CD-Rs

>DVDR
Ruined by attemps to squeeze in as much of the DVD9 onto a DVD5

>h264 mkvs
Now we're getting somewhere

>h265 mkvs
The crown of creation

>VHS
Brought home video to the masses
>DVD
Brought home video that didn't suck balls to the masses
>BD
Literally who?

It was Toshiba all the way. But Microsoft did invest billions on the format wars backing Toshiba and hddvd to fight Sony. It was not just a DVD add on. But by not going all out they tried to have it both ways, risk and hedging bets in the end it costed them a lot but it also did hurt blu ray and Sony's pockets.

Why won't the compact disc fucking die?

>doesn't know what BluRay is
Hi, great-grandpa.

VHS: You were so cheap and easy to access that dvd adoption actually caused a drop in shitty porn and movies
DVD: vice versa of above but unironically
BD: Your encryption is so fucking annoying that I haven't bought a physical copy of a film in 2 years and I pirate everything now.

VHS: Surprisingly good audio quality

Why up to Blu Ray and not include 4k?

I like how a vhs feels and smells when it's all warm from being watched.