Why hasn't there been as much of a nostalgia wave for VHS like vinyl records? Yeah...

Why hasn't there been as much of a nostalgia wave for VHS like vinyl records? Yeah, it's not great quality but it has an aesthetic that you can't get with DVD or Bluray.

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Vinyl at least has some plus sides that you can't get with any other music format. VHS doesn't have any plus sides aside from "muh nostalgia".

>Yeah, it's not great quality

Vinyl is quality.

Vinyl is the highest quality of music presentation. Your ears/mind pick up on subtleties that are more "pure" and warm. VHS is just a step in the evolution of film presentation in your home. It's only warm because of nostalgia.

What the fuck are you talking about, I was in high school and people were collecting VHS. I even bought this book because I thought it looked cool.

The coolest thing about VHS tapes, especially horror, were the boxes. I remember being scared of the Jack Frost box every time in Blockbuster.

Unlike vinyl it's a format that can destroy itself just from playing too many times and the picture quality just isn't very good at all (even though I get nostalgia from it too).
I do like the push in the last decade of people uploading stuff they recorded on VHS onto the internet though, watching full broadcasts of toonami from the late 90's/early 2000's (with old commercials intact) is a real treat and I wish more existed.

>Why hasn't there been as much of a nostalgia wave for VHS like vinyl records?
You've got to have CRT to still appreciate them.
Any hipster can hook up a record player to any shit speaker set and think he's listening to superior audio quality.

Vinyl is also worn down by being played too much. That's one of the most fundamental downsides of the format.

I prefer Laserdiscs, it's a clearer image than VHS and the noise on them looks like film grain, it reminds me of being at the cinema as a kid.

Vinyl is a physical process, you can assign ritual to it, a fetish. Tapes, especially VHS, are just garbage that can only degrade. There's that Brit YouTuber that has a lot of nice videos about the plus sizes of high fidelity music cassettes, like with Dolby-S and chrome tapes and whatnot, but that just doesn't exist with VHS.

Because they look like shit and look even worse on modern televisions, you dumbass
I have 2500 of the fuckers and I gotta keep in all in boxes in the basement because that would be like walls and walls of shelving

Not really if you're not scratching them or using a shit table with a lot of weight on the tone-arm

Techmoan my nigga

Yeah, Techmoan, excellent videos on how cassettes could have been so much better than how we perceive them today, but that's just in terms of audio and needing the right equipment. VHS was chosen because it was ultimately cheaper and had longer run times, there's not much to be done when your format isn't the best. I suppose there's high quality tape versions out there, but nothing you buy in the store was going to be that.

There's SVHS (that's where the S-video port comes from) which is much better quality but that flopped. It was pretty good for home movie recording though.

god techmoan is such a faggot. i hate his voice so much.

Matt is a pretty cool dude.

Have you heard VWestLife? Does similar videos and sounds a deadringer for Plinkett

VHS was terrible

Kill your worthless self.

They ware out too quick in comparison and having to rewind them is a hassle.

VHS is just a step in video quality. It's not even the directors original intention

Let's no overexaggerate the rewinding bit, especially when every house had one of those stand-alone rewinders shaped like a race car

>techmoan

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A lot of incorrect arguments in this thread.
VHS is superior to digital formats, don't believe the hype.

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>ywn get to watch hdvhs

Anybody else went to kilm themselves?

>He didn't have a racecar bed with built in VHS rewinder
How did you run a VHS in the woods anyway, you animal?

its just low bitrate 1080p

Neat thread. Posting my VX machine again from the other day,

The VX format came out in the mid 70s right before VHS and ended up one of the losers of the tape war

I'm 23 and remember VHS yet people in their 30s say I'm too young to remember it. Are my memories false?

Because music sounds better on vinyl but movies look shittier on VHS.

Any other brilliant questions?

no i remember it too and im the same age. normalfags are just retarded.

Like what? Audio crackling? The record getting warped every time you play it? The fact that they're 400% larger than cds?

he was a big guy

Music on vinyl sounds like shit.
>no bass
>flat

Folks born in the 80s just seem to assume that if you were born in the mid 90s, you never grew up with old tech at all and you and them have nothing in common and they just automatically toss you in with 13 year olds born in 2005.

thiccque

That why you get a subwoofer

He's partially wrong about audio, DVD stereo sound isn't compressed, it's actually slightly better than CD quality in most cases.(16 bit 48000Hz) 5.1 surround sound is compressed though. Also I think he's slightly confused about interlaced vs. progressive. VHS outputs roughly 240 lines per field at 60 fields per second, so a 30fps 3:2 pulldown movie will fit all 480 lines of an NTSC TV. DVD is either 480i or 480p, in 480i mode it has roughly the same output as VHS but in 480p on a progressive display it will look cleaner than VHS. It can display the entire frame (480 vertical pixels) at once.

People used VHS well into the DVD age for TV recording, so no. It wasn't until TiVo and other digital recording boxes that VHS truly became obsolete.

Your parents would have had to throw away their VHS collection and replace it with DVDs the day they came out for you to not remember them, and that's just barely as you'd have been 2-3.

>t. audiolet

>DVD stereo sound isn't compressed
>what is ac3

>it's actually slightly better than CD quality in most cases
>ac3 is better than flac

indeed

>I'm 23 and remember VHS
You're way too young to remember that.

But it wasn't discontinued until 2006

my dad was a HUGE vhs guy. always taping stuff off of tv. He used to use a typewriter to do his labels. As he got older he eventually gave less of a damn and just used a fat sharpie

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You realize that VHS audio is shit unless the tape says "HiFi" on it and you have a compatible player, right?

never said it wasnt

he even had a labeling system

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heres a fun one. the evolution of the VHS tape from TDK. The first tape from the earl 80s has a thick laminated box, with a solid plastic tape. the final boxn from the mid 90s feels like a toy

i think i still have a bootleg of small soldiers on an ehg

My dad did this too, he fucking loved VideoPlus+ and would use it to create compilation tapes. My favourite had the 1995 Shooting Stars Christmas special followed by The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon, great memories.

>6 hours
I remember this bullshit, that's talking about LP which looks like shit, isn't it?

every once in a while he'd buy some higher end tapes, like this BASF chrome. but most of the time he just bought the first brand he saw at the store, unless he was doing a marathon taping

SLP was the worst

in the beginning you had SP (2hr) and EP (6hr)
in the 80s they developed LP (4hr)
eventually you had SP LP SLP, with SLP looking like shit BUT you have to remember too, in the 80s blank tapes were costing up to $20 so every hour was precious

I wish there was a catalog out there of the VHS boxes, some of them were really wild, from no-name brands you'd never find today

Are most VHS tapes mono or what? There's two VCRs at my parent's house but they're both mono, I was wondering if I would be missing out by not having stereo output.

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Shit quality. Same thing with cassette tapes

Cheap units (most made from like 1995 to mid 2000s) are mono. You CAN get hi end/studio grade ones if you look around. I have this Sony SLV from 1990 that does hi-fi and stereo

ITS THE FINGER OF GOD

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Nigga do you listen to vinyl by holding your ear up to the needle or some shit?

anybody ever went into the adult section as a kid?

we only had the special interest section which had some ecchi anime

>finally turn of age
>rental shop closes down day of my birthday

He probably doesn't know what a pre-amp

I had a big ole toploader that was stereo, had a 'blank' function and would let me record/pirate anything without distortion
Ate a tape once and I broke the shit out of it working on it plugged in, shocked the hell outta me
Later VCRs would fuck up the picture or audio when I recorded off of Roku/Netflix

>Later VCRs would fuck up the picture or audio when I recorded off of Roku/Netflix
>recorded off of Roku/Netflix

I had that problem too, some broadcasts would just send out a scramble signal so you couldnt record it.
Have you recorded off Netflix before? I thought of doing that for the hell of it but idk if it would be too much a hassle to avoid the mouse and seek bar and shit from showing up in the video

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Oh, I was a complete autist, yes

Nah, really no point. I wouldn't have Netflix now if you paid me. They don't have what they used to have and it's so easy to pirate online now.

is it tough to find working VCRs? I still a have bunch of old random VHS tapes: movies, stuff I recorded (boxing fights, SNL sketches), even porn and stuff. But I haven't watched any of it in like 20 years because my VCR broke down.

They still make VCRs as far as I know. They're a niche product though. You won't find a range, just the one VCR

I can guarantee you there are at least five VCRs at your local Goodwill.
Hit the flea marts when it warms up.

Most just need a simple cleaning.

The guy at our local video rental was cool as hell. Most of them wouldn't even allow minors to enter, but he would let us rent movies way above our age. He insisted we stayed out of the porn section, though. I still have same of the tapes and DVDs he phased out. Hell, sometimes he would flat-out sell me rental copies at a reduced price. Happened with Apocalypse Now and Road to Perdition. I loved the guy. Didn't even know his name and only referred to him as the Colonel.

I wonder what happened to him. Like many small rentals, the internet took his store as well. Considering how massively obese he was, he is most likely dead.

Yeah I miss mom and pop rentals. There was one right across the road from where I lived, and they were the first to do 1 dollar rentals on Tuesdays, so I'd hit them up all the time as a kid. Tiny joint too, there was maybe 2-3 feet between aisles.

I live in the middle of nowhere and we still have a rental store. It's the size of a really tiny house.

damn I still have have memories of renting Max Hardcore tapes from my local video shop.

>Most just need a simple cleaning
While we're on the subject, what did those "video head cleaner tapes" really do, if anything? This is the one I remember:

youtube.com/watch?v=eAj6SSjUcuY#t=40s

I think it depends on the tape, but by my understanding they collected the dust off the heads

oh I didn't think of that. Hopefully my Goodwill has some.

It ran alcohol across the heads inside the machine, cheap or old tape could shed and youd get bits of junk over the heads. its the same as if you took a Qtip with some alcohol and swabbed the inside

When the local video shop moved building and downsized to only DVD, they needed someone to box up and alphabetize all the tapes in their spooky ass basement. Paid me 15 bucks an hour under the table and let me keep any tape I wanted. Walked out of there with hundreds of tapes.

Those guys who worked there had a huge impact on my life. Had a job promised but they closed down before I was properly old enough.

>anybody ever went into the adult section as a kid?
Yes. Had to wait until I was 16 and looked adult enough to do it.

This was back in the days before internet of course.

Pawn shops also have them by the box they'll sell you for cheap just to get it out of there.
The fucking pawn shop is great and I encourage all anons to regularly browse them.

t. (((pawn))) shop owner

It's sort of like the flea market, all kinds of random shit, and the best thing is you can haggle on price.

>haggling

I always the full price they ask without question

I dreamed about working in a video store and eventually owning one all the time as a kid, was super disappointed when most of them died.

I've never been to a "real" pawn shop, but I love Cash Converters and always get my TVs there, you can get last years top of the range model for less than £200 and they'll guarantee it for a year, I've bought 2 in the last 4 years and they're both still working.

>ywn

>he doesn't haggle

>he doesn't attend and organize auctions, make connections in various industries and use them to backdoor deal with each other by being a middleman and taking a major cut, or regularly approach people about items they didn't originally intend to sell and give them a compelling offer.

>he doesn't use commerce as an avenue to assert his will over the will of other people
>he isn't a Capitalist power-user
i genuinely feel sorry for you

I like video games

That's why places like that are great, because you're never there to buy anything you actually need so it's literally some bullshit you only want because you know you can get it for that price, and if you don't, so what no loss.
I mean it's a way to kill an afternoon, and you might get a deal.

Every N64 and playstation game you ever wanted for a nickle a piece.

Go to flea markets if there's one nearby. I get vidya and DVD's all the time there. Most fun thing I found was a PC to S-video PCI card, really made emulation on a CRT easier.

great show too

Hey, did your dad like Combat?

these anons get it