Yes but I think it might have been having an issue the last time I tried it. Might have just been hooked up wrong.
Some of my Alice Cooper collection is on tape, so I’ll be hanging onto this VCR or replacing it.
I have an old VCR that still works and a few tapes I enjoy watching (music and rugby sevens.)
Why would I not “admit to” owning one? Is it supposed to be embarrassing? I have one (OK, it’s a VCR/DVD combo) and there are a couple of others in the house. How else would I watch my tapes, some of which are not available any other way?
I also have a cassette tape deck and tapes which I listen to! The horror! :eek:
I tossed it out about five years ago. All my tapes, too. There was nothing there I couldn’t find online, if I looked hard enough.
I live in a fairly small apartment. I try not to hold on to stuff I don’t need.
I have several, working models. As long as I can keep them working, I will keep them, because I do a lot of business transferring tapes to discs for others.
Yes. Though to be fair, I was cleaning up clutter a few months ago and threw out an entire large moving box of VCR tapes, which I could only get rid of by driving it down to the dump. But I still have the VCR and a few tapes of irreplaceable content. And, somewhere in the basement, are one or two big boxes of Beta tapes and a Betamax. Bet that there’s a few oldies but goodies there! I know for a fact that one of my old Beta tapes is a recording from PBS of “Mysterious Castles of Clay”, released in 1978, narrated by Orson Welles, and nominated for a best documentary Oscar. It’s notable for being one of the first things I ever recorded on my new Betamax. And I still have it. Well, somewhere in the basement.
Irreplaceable content? Now there’s a euphemism for you!! 
Not only do I have a VCR, it’s a TV/VCR combo bought off eBay to replace a dead TV and a dying VCR.
I have a VCR & use it regularly*.
- It’s got a clock & it’s more work to disconnect it than to leave it there because of how it’s in the entertainment unit.
Actually, I did attempt to use it recently. I was given the tapes & the task to see if the old supposed safety tapes are worth converting to DVD since no one was watched them in so many years as to know what’s on them anymore. However, when I put them it, the VCR spit them back out & turned off…repeatedly. :mad:
Since no one else that I’ve asked has a VCR anymore, we’re going to have to buy a VCR/DVD converter before we know if there’s anything worth converting.
Yes, why is the poll closed?
This. Lots of tapes, mostly old camcorder family stuff. Been meaning to digitize them for years and years but it always comes down to, “Let’s be honest, we never watched the tapes, why would we watch it on the computer?” But I suppose they might hold some interest to my future grand-nieces/nephews and beyond.
The poll is closed to settle a wager between myself and my associate. We needed a result to see who had to spring the hot dogs and burgers for tonight’s multi-family cookout at the little league game tonight.
Many thanks to all who replied.
I feel so used.
How do you think I feel? I lost the bet. People like their VCRs more than I expected.
Yeah I still have mine , I did use it when I rented movies from the public library before DVD came out . I have a few tapes but they’re packed away.
I have a couple, but I don’t assume they still work.
Also, you could have left the poll open, but just took the results at a certain time.
I had one until about two months ago when my brother borrowed it so he could digitize some tapes. I cautioned him to try a sacrificial tape in it first because it hadn’t been even plugged in for more than five years and I had no idea what condition the tape handling mechanism might be in. Good thing because the offering was devoured. He wound up buying one at Goodwill.
I have one but have not recorded on it in like 12 years and haven’t watched anything on it in 1 year or so. Now if we’re talking the kind built into your television: that one I use about once a month or so.
I own a DVD/VCR combo, but it is in the closet. What I find funny is that I’ve tossed all my old DVD players and have Blu-Ray players at every set now, but we’re mostly watching streamed content these days.
I still have one, but I don’t think I have recorded anything on it since 2002, when I got my first DVD recorder. I still have two of those as well, and in fact, I use one of them occasionally to record audio from my satellite radio.