Do you still own a VCR?

[CZroe]

Then how do you rip them without a DVD or BR drive? If you're ripping discs then obviously you own an optical drive capable of playing them.

It takes more than a drive to play a BD.

 

[Perknose]

I have two fancy video editing VCRs from some TV studio or something. They donated a bunch of old equipment to Goodwill and I got them because they actually have S-VHS.

TV studios generally used/use 3/4 inch U-Matic tape., not S-VHS.

 

[Mixolydian]

All you peeps who throw out your VCRs are killing the environment.

 

[stargazr]

Yes. I converted several tapes to digital a few years ago. I have a lot of expensive music videos by top drummers, and still have a few more to copy. Some day.

 

[CZroe]

TV studios generally used/use 3/4 inch U-Matic tape., not S-VHS.

They had racks and racks of that kind of stuff too, I just didn't buy that. I'm pretty sure it was a TV or some other video production studio. Not all TV studios only play tapes. A news studio needs to have a way to receive and play submitted content so they have fancy VCRs too. Some produce content too: AFV obviously needed a way to get content off VHS. 😉

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I think I still have a couple of VCRs, but they're not being used.

 

[gorcorps]

All you peeps who throw out your VCRs are killing the environment.

Everything that has ever been produced has been produced with the knowledge that it can't possibly last forever and will be thrown out eventually.

every
single
thing
ever

If you're the sensitive type it's best not to think about it.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I never owned a VCR. Bought a dvd-rom drive and used the TVout on my voodoo card ages ago (back when dvd players were expensive, but dvd roms were under $100)

that said, my fiancee has a VCR. I have tried 100 times to make her get rid of it, but she has like 10 old vhs tapes that she wont part with.

I have never seen her hook up or use the VCR. Its not been plugged in any of the years I have known her. But she is attached to it.

Women ....

 

[Anubis]

yes I own one

it however is not hooked up, it has not been hooked up in over a decade. it exists in a box just because of what ifs

 

[cbrunny]

VCR? I no longer even have a blu-ray player. lol

No DVD player, no CD player, not even a DVD Rom in any of my PCs, except my work laptop, and they paid for the thing. It's a great cupholder.

 

[mikeford]

Two svhs and one Beta, none hooked up, box or two of tapes, plus Hi8.

 

[nageov3t]

Nope... Wouldn't even own a dvd player if not for video game consoles.

Never had a dedicated vcr, but I did have one of those crt tvs with one built-in.... It made the move from my college dorm to my first apartment, but I gave it away when I moved out of that place (that was my move when I said "fuck it" and gave away / threw out everything except what I could fit in my car)

 

[Muse]

All you peeps who throw out your VCRs are killing the environment.

I have a broken one sitting on the front porch. When I see a notice for free recycling of electronics, I'll make that run. I'm keeping my working one, though.

 

[Muse]

Nope... Wouldn't even own a dvd player if not for video game consoles.

Never had a dedicated vcr, but I did have one of those crt tvs with one built-in.... It made the move from my college dorm to my first apartment, but I gave it away when I moved out of that place (that was my move when I said "fuck it" and gave away / threw out everything except what I could fit in my car)

When I went to college, for the first 3 years or so I could fit everything I had in my car (VW bug). Things changed. Now, I wonder how I can get rid of stuff, have to get the mojo to streamline my lifestyle.

 

[CZroe]

I never owned a VCR. Bought a dvd-rom drive and used the TVout on my voodoo card ages ago (back when dvd players were expensive, but dvd roms were under $100)

that said, my fiancee has a VCR. I have tried 100 times to make her get rid of it, but she has like 10 old vhs tapes that she wont part with.

I have never seen her hook up or use the VCR. Its not been plugged in any of the years I have known her. But she is attached to it.

Women ....

Did something similar back when the Pentium III launched in early 1999. I had a Sigma Designs RealMagic Hollywood Plus MPEG2 decoder with much better TV output than any VGA card (paired it with a Voodoo Banshee until the Voodoo 3 3000 launched). I recall having to update the playback software several times every time I got a new movie because each update fixed some and broke others, but it was awesome. Made me roll my eyes at all the people balking at Blu-Ray because "my DVD player never needed an update!" That's because you weren't really an early adopter. 🙂

I was still enjoying it in 2001 when the PS2 was selling for $300 and people justified their purchase with "I was going to buy a DVD player anyway" (stand-alone DVD players were about $200 then). I spent my $300 on a GeForce 3 at launch to replace my Voodoo. By 2004 I had a $20 progressive scan DVD player from a Radio Shack Black Friday deal, so it had lost its luster.

 

[WilliamM2]

I haven't used one in 15 years, and threw all mine away. That said, I now have two of them, brand new, unopened in the box. JVC 4-head Hi-Fi models.

My wife's grandparents bought spares, and after they passed away, they ended up at my house. Wife won't let me part with them.

 

[Muse]

Still have working

JVC Super VHS Hi Fi

I still have the first Super VHS VCR ever sold to the public (not the first actual piece, but it's the first model), the JVC HRS1000U. JVC developed the format, the quality of recordings it made was quite substantially superior to VHS, it made VHS look like shit. I bought it in 1989, paying $1000 for it, brought it home on my bike. Bought at a local independent electronics shop, a bargain at the price. It still works, but it doesn't rewind, have to use my rewinder. Right now its only function is as a digital clock in my bedroom! I did get a lot of use out of it. Mostly I recorded in SVHS off antenna, usually at the slow speed. I still have those tapes.