I stopped watching movies on my VCR when I got a DVD player in 2001, then stopped using it to record shows when I got a DVR in about 2006. Now I don’t record shows at all, I have plenty of other ways to catch up.
I’ve got one that I haven’t used for years and years. I keep it just in case I come across something on a VHS tape I want to play at some point.
We’ve got one still connected, we haven’t used it in years, but it’s more trouble to disconnect thatn to just leave it there (until we next need a new TV or rewiring.)
I have two, one hooked up, and the other ancient top-loader is packed away. I don’t really watch it much, but still prefer to have the format, due to some tapes I cannot replace.
I sell stuff on ebay, and have pretty good luck selling certain VHS titles. But yeah, lots of those prerecorded movies are worthless.
Oh, I have one hooked up, I think I need it to be, to change the channels on the TV. I have a blank tape in there and sometimes record a show when I’m in another room watching something else. (There were 5 different shows on Sunday nights, though a couple are re-run later or during the week).
I have a lot of things I’ve taped over the years that I looked through, saved a handful, and the rest just bagged up and threw out. I have quite a few Disney tapes that it just doesn’t seem right to throw them out. But no one wants them, not even the thrift store.
we have some tapes of weddings and graduation ceremonies, so we keep the VCR hooked up in the office…and no one has ever, or will ever, bother to watch them, I’m sure.
On a similar subject…I inherited a large box full of 35mm negatives…and I did, for a few months, use every spare moment to convert some of them to digital, but the small amount of relative progress I was making made me think there must be a better way…
any ideas?
I still have a VCR that I use to watch movies. Seems a little wasteful to keep buying the same movies every time a new type of media comes out.
Even though I don’t have a DVR I almost never use the VCR to record anything since tv switched over to digital. I never had trouble setting up a VCR to record something, but having to fuss with the extra box is a pain. Plus, not all the buttons on the remote work well and the machine doesn’t have more then 6 buttons on it.
I miss things that didn’t need a remote to work. Every time they try to make things easier technology takes a step backwards.
We still have one hooked up in the basement, but don’t use it often. I think the last thing we watched on it was Field of Dreams, a year or so ago. I also use a radio with dual cassette to listen to baseball games; my wife got it when she was in college (late eighties).
Yeah, last time I remember using a VCR was back in 2003. After I moved away, I left it behind and haven’t used it since. I never did end up getting a DVD (or Blu-Ray) player, but I would play DVDs through my computer when I needed to. I don’t even remember the last time I used physical media to watch a movie at home. Maybe three or four years ago?
I just digitized a tape last week. (A long gone relative being interviewed on TV.)
That was a VHS. I’m still working on digitizing my Betas!
But I haven’t recorded or watched anything using a VCR in a very long time. This is what video capture cards are for.
Yes to VCRs “set up”. But no to “set up” in the sense of attached to a TV.
[QUOTE=WhyNot;17707876Two weeks ago, my daughter was simply appalled when she had to wait a whole 3 minutes for Anne of Avonlea* to be rewound before she could watch it. This was clearly an archaic technology, from a more primitive time. [/QUOTE]
Current technology is actually worse, at least with VHS you can fast forward past the previews and FBI warning, but on DVD they can block you from skipping all that. :eek:
I have one, and it’s still hooked up, but I use it only a couple of times a year. I have a list of old movies I want to see before I die, mostly from the 1930s to 1950s. A few of the more obscure titles are not available streaming and have never been released on DVD or Blu-ray, or if they have, they’re prohibitively expensive.
If you can find someone who still does photo printing, just take them there.
We still do, because there are a few things that haven’t made it over to dvd (Mr Boods got The Grimleys one and only VHS release for xmas a couple years back, for example).
Once in the time before time, I used one to make an 8 hourish party playlist of music…havent owned a vcr since my Aunt died and that was given to me to give to a friend who watched tv.
It kinda boggles the mind sometimes, Like driving my parents truck and finding the cassettes…When the radio has been replaced with a cd player years ago.
I still have a VCR to record shows to watch later, a DVR from the cable company is expensive.
Nope. When Beauty and the Beast finally got put on Netflix, I got rid of all my old tapes. No need to hoard content anymore. I used to watch stuff over and over. Now I just dump content on a spare hard drive.
I used it for a couple of years to digitize old soap operas and put them in YouTube, but since I’ve moved, it’s stayed in a box in my closet.
Shame, too, it’s a really nice VHS player.
I recently purchased a dvd/vhs combo unit. http://www.toshiba.com/us/accessories/Electronics/DVD-Recorders/DVR620/DVR620 It is mainly used to play dvds and cds, but it was worth the price of admission to get a few valuable vhs tapes onto dvds!
I, too, have a DVD/VHS machine that I’ve been using to dub my tapes onto DVDs. Some things were never available on DVD, to my knowledge. But now I have Zacherley’s Horrible Horror and Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders on DVD. And I had Robinson Crusoe on Mars and the Giorgiou Moroder restoration of Metropolis and the original Japanese version of Gojira on DVD before they became commercially available.