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Posted on 06-04-10 02:20:55 PM (last edited by Orlandu at 06-04-10 11:21 AM)

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	My were lost some time ago, most from when we moved back from Puerto Rico. But I haven't use one in at least 5 years. They were handy for their time. We had a van with a TV and VCR in it and we kept dozens of movies on hand. This was back in 1996 though. ____________________

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Posted on 06-04-10 02:44:17 PM

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Ultimately, VHS won the battle, and tech lore has it that the porn industry played a big role in that victory. Sony reportedly wouldn’t let pornographic content be put on Betamax tapes, while JVC and the VHS consortium had no such qualms.

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My parents have a combination VHS/DVD player and bunches of old VHS tapes. They were 1 of the last to switch over to DVDs, probably

They even used to have a camcorder that would record onto VHS-C tapes, and an adaptor to play them in a full-size VHS player.

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Posted on 06-04-10 02:48:09 PM

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	Originally posted by Terra They even used to have a camcorder that would record onto VHS-C tapes, and an adaptor to play them in a full-size VHS player. My uncle used one of those for the longest time. Even when I last visited him before he died, he still used it. We actually have a video of me at 4 years old on it from 1990. They were pretty expensive back then. I believe my parent's wedding (remarried anyway) was filmed on it too, in 1994. They have a copy made to a full size VHS. ____________________

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Posted on 06-04-10 02:49:19 PM

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	Hubby's parents have a lot of VHS recordings. Me on the other hand, it was way too expensive to purchase. ____________________

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Posted on 06-04-10 03:22:06 PM

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My parents used to record things a lot. Like, any time we went somewhere, or the family visited, or we got a new home, or whatever, they'd bust out the camcorder and insist that I be in as many scenes as possible. I got rather sick of it.

Eventually they almost never recorded though. The last holdout was Christmas, which they'd often record for years after most other recording had stopped.

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Posted on 06-04-10 04:21:51 PM

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What is this archaic blather, VHS?

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Posted on 06-04-10 07:07:37 PM

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I have well over 100 VHS tapes, full of stuff I've recorded myself... including video game play (including Final Fantasy VII, Chrono Trigger, etc.), anime (from Adult Swim, Toonami, and other sources), game shows (mostly The Price is Right and Wheel of Fortune, with some Jeopardy!), and other assorted programming (including some tapes with my mom's favorite soap opera, Passion... she'd tape (or later on, DVR) this just about every day until she died. =/)

Just the other day, I was watching Mean Girls on VHS, on a Panasonic VCR from 1990 which I cleaned myself and got working on my LCD TV from 2009. (In fact, this was my main VCR until 2005, when I got a Magnavox VCR/DVD player... which I still use today on some occasions. =D)

After moving in early 2006, I couldn't really tape anything, since I only had broadcast TV (this was before the whole DTV thing, remember)... and I didn't really have any interest in it anymore.

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Posted on 06-04-10 07:21:20 PM

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	Originally posted by Ork Warboss of Crabbydeff What is this archaic blather, VHS? Way back before the modern age, the cavemen known as Americus Housicus, used a device that would record analog signals onto black tape on reels inside cassette housing. This could then be played back on a special player that read the information off the tape and put it on a box that displayed moving pictures in low resolution. Then Americus Housicus evolved into DVD Discus Many-us. ____________________

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