I have Jurassic Park and lots of other great movies on Laserdisc
it’s a lot easier to find VHS tapes at flea markets and yard sales tho so I buy more of those.
And irregardless of technical stuff VCR is the common name for it
If people are calling it a “VHS player” player often enough that your sick of hearing it, then isn’t “VHS player” also a common name for it?
Did you warn them about 9/11?
And regardless of common usage, “irregardless” is typically considered incorrect. Yet you feel fine using it.
Although this is probably a poor attempt at a joke.
As is the thread. It’s what the guy does. I don’t know why so many people take him seriously.
I just think its cool that in 10 years he will be asking us questions about DVD’s, then the next decade about Blu-Ray and maybe 30 years from now he’ll have some questions about downloading a video to an iPod or maybe a Nook.
[The Young Ones]Have we got a video?[/The Young Ones]
Yes, but we all understand what he’s doing in his threads. “Irregardless” could either be a subtle joke or just a mistake; his posting history isn’t as clear on this point.
Rips out window, frame and all, and slams it over Thudlow’s head.
“Video” or “video recorder” was the standard name in the UK. “VCR” was only used as an affected Americanism, if at all.
Before it was common to own a VCR my family rented VHS players from the local gas station or grocery store quite often.
How’s trying to dictate common parlance been working out for you so far?
Smartassery aside, it’s pretty easy to see how the convention arose:
Blu-ray player
DVD player
CD player
VHS player
VHS players (along with LASER lights, VIN numbers, LCD displays, ATM machines, and PIN numbers) are here to stay. You may as well resign yourself to the new NWO of English, my friend. :eek:
I think you mean the new NWO order.
Curses!
And record player before any of them.
Interestingly, in this day and age of the DVR, my husband and i will still ask one another to “tape” a show.
Forget that…did you warn them about Justin Bieber???:eek:
I can honestly say that this thread is the first place I have ever encountered the phrase “VHS player”.
a player unit could be a smaller unit. you could eliminate a lot of size, circuitry, controls and display. it could also be a tv/player package.
I think that you overlooked the fact that Sony tightly held on to the licensing of the format and would not release it to other manufacturers. While you could buy a number of VHS units from different manufacturers you were pretty much stuck with Sony.
The result was that competition between manufacturers, higher quantities of units being produced by multiple players, and improved manufacturing techniques brought on by this competition between VHS manufacturers essentially flooded the market and brought retail prices down.
Sony was squeezed on price. Most VCR buyers weren’t targeting old movies. They wanted a recording device to time-shift network programs and snag movies off of HBO/Cinemax.
The Betamax format, while better, cost more and most buyers didn’t care about the quality difference.
Betamax was also sold by Toshiba, Pioneer, Murphy, Aiwa and NEC.
I was a starving college student during the Beta/VHS rivalry, but my dad ended up owning a couple of each type. The Beta recorders were lower priced and higher quality at every price point, at least on the ones he bought. Technology improvement came a little quicker for Beta as well. Beta Hi-Fi came out about a year before JVC developed VHS Hi-Fi. Super Beta came out two years before SVHS.
The thing that hurt Beta was the maximum record times were higher on VHS tapes. You could fit three average length movies on VHS compared to two on Beta, which made the cost of blank tapes a little less for VHS.