Who still has a VHS VCR?

danger boy
danger boy Posts: 15,722
edited May 2011 in Electronics
Who still has a VHS VCR?
PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
Vancouver, Canada Sept 30th, 2012 - Madonna concert :cheesygrin:
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,952
    edited April 2011
    >Me.<
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • wayne3burk
    wayne3burk Posts: 939
    edited April 2011
    me too
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited April 2011
    poll is ready now :wink:
    PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
    Vancouver, Canada Sept 30th, 2012 - Madonna concert :cheesygrin:
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,995
    edited April 2011
    I still have two sitting in the closet!!
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,930
    edited April 2011
    well, none of the poll choices really fit us. We have several, but really only use them for VHS HiFi audio - a pretty dandy analog format (FM audio recorded via helical scan heads) - close to 100 dB dynamic range and no need for noise reduction.

    holidaydubbing121209.jpg

    That's a Zenith VCR in the photo; bought that new ca. 1986 and it still serves well.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,952
    edited April 2011
    *puts on the magical invisible cloak*

    I have an old Mitsubishi Super Hi-Fi VHS-VCR. It is there for a reason and will not be going anywhere as she runs like a champ [still] after all of these years. It's my RTR and my cassette deck for compilations.

    * takes off the magical invisible cloak*
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  • Sherardp
    Sherardp Posts: 8,038
    edited April 2011
    I have a nice Sony model new in the box out in storage. Used it once.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,930
    edited April 2011
    The Mitsubishis were sweet machines.
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited April 2011
    I was just thinking that the only reason I have one is for my old adult movies and the option was on the poll lol
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  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,995
    edited April 2011
    polkfarmboy wrote: »
    I was just thinking that the only reason I have one is for my old adult movies and the option was on the poll lol

    Let me guess!!! Midget **** ****???
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,576
    edited April 2011
    Sherardp wrote: »
    I have a nice Sony model new in the box out in storage. Used it once.

    What model? Does it have the "jog dial"? Let me know if you want to get rid of it.
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  • polkfarmboy
    polkfarmboy Posts: 5,703
    edited April 2011
    TOOLFORLIFEFAN wrote: »
    Let me guess!!! Midget **** ****???

    Thats really disturbing that you think like that ewwww looser
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,699
    edited April 2011
    I have two Mitsubishi HD Digital Super Hi-Fi VHS-VCR's that get used here and there. Both work like a dream.
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  • B Run
    B Run Posts: 1,888
    edited April 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    That's a Zenith VCR in the photo; bought that new ca. 1986 and it still serves well.

    Your VCR and I are the same age :wink:
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  • WastelandWand'r
    WastelandWand'r Posts: 466
    edited April 2011
    Mitsu Super VHS, because as a flag bearer of all things new, I had to have one. Tell me again why i bought it? Use it 2-3 times a year to watch old videos of me when I could run. (I use it to motivate me to get off the couch)
    On a different note, mhardy, how is it you record as you talk of?
    Someone in college confided in me that VHS was the perfect medium for recording audio. Never knew what the heck he was talking about.
    If you don't mind answering that.
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  • grimmace19
    grimmace19 Posts: 1,429
    edited April 2011
    How the hell is NO not an option. A guy my wife works with recently tried to give her a VHS about the polar bears at the denver zoo and she had to decline the tape because we don't have a player. Christ, I don't even have a regular dvd player anymore.
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  • Pycroft
    Pycroft Posts: 1,961
    edited April 2011
    I have one that I use to watch old videos of my performances when I was younger. If I could ever figure out how to convert them to DVD, I'd get rid of it :)

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  • slk55amg
    slk55amg Posts: 305
    edited April 2011
    I have the big SONY Super vhs, its in the attic wrapped in plastic, I think I bought in 1996 for about $1200, My very close friend was at the time a sound engineer for Sony so I got anything I wanted at cost.Still have an old Crt 32inch xbr,going strong, picture looks the same as it did when new in 1994.
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited April 2011
    Just took the last two in the house to Salvation Army last week.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited April 2011
    I have two, a Panasonic and a Toshiba pro-drum something or other with a nifty remote. We use them, infrequently, on old tapes we own and sometimes to video-tape something on down-converted stations we receive in our service package. We use the Toshiba mostly and have the Panasonic as a 'clock' in the bedroom?

    I also have an old Sony of the kind Doro is talking about but the Dial is falling apart and the VCR is more or less 'dead'. A parts only unit--possibly repairable.

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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited April 2011
    treitz3 wrote: »
    >Me.<
    Little shy to show up, I believe many of us older folks still do have this old media in the home... You are not alone :wink:
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    The Mitsubishis were sweet machines.
    Mitsubishi VCRs were built solid. Little hard to repair but worth while repairing.
    Sherardp wrote: »
    I have a nice Sony model new in the box out in storage. Used it once.
    dorokusai wrote: »
    What model? Does it have the "jog dial"? Let me know if you want to get rid of it.
    We often **** about Sony products nowadays but as far as consumer grade products, Sony was top gun with their VCRs (afterall, they created both VHS and Beta). I always found Sony always had extras on the technology side (such as their jog dial).

    Since I had my own repair shop for a few years, I accumulated quite a few machines. It must have been either in 2004 or 2005 that I discarded about 125 of them, many were in working conditions, some fairly new but since the format had lost its appeal, it was not worhtwhile investing time or money to fix them. I kept a couple of them that are working due to their time lapse ability.

    The TVR-VCR combo I had bought my sons in the early 90s is still working I believe. I still have a Sanyo VCR in the basement which I use only for the tuner for the odd time I want TV programming through the PJ. I have another one in the living room but haven't used it in years. Maybe a month or so ago, I picked up a mint JVC from my sister's place (she had just acquired a PVR after the holidays). I keep a few other ones in the bedroom where I keep extra gear for potential future projects.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited April 2011
    I've never heard of anyone recording music on VHS.... hi fi or digital or whatever VHS format.

    back in the day... it was common knowledge to use your Betamax home deck to record music on... it was pretty decent sounding...

    My first VHS VCR was a JC Penny brand.. mono, cost me $700 finally thew it in the dumpster last year.. burned up power supply..
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  • xj4094dg
    xj4094dg Posts: 1,158
    edited April 2011
    danger boy wrote: »
    I've never heard of anyone recording music on VHS.... hi fi or digital or whatever VHS format.

    back in the day... it was common knowledge to use your Betamax home deck to record music on... it was pretty decent sounding...

    My first VHS VCR was a JC Penny brand.. mono, cost me $700 finally thew it in the dumpster last year.. burned up power supply..

    I remember trading music with a friend on vhs. We both had Sony high end machines and the music sounded great with high quality metal tapes. That was a long time ago...mid 90's????
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  • headrott
    headrott Posts: 5,496
    edited April 2011
    Also have Super VHS Mitsubishi player. Great Machine built in about 1985 and works flawlessly when I use it every once in a while.

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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,322
    edited April 2011
    I have a really nice Panasonic VHS DVD burner combo. I use to to transfer videos of the family. I haven't used it in years but it's still hooked up in my bedroom.
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,502
    edited April 2011
    I have a DVD/VHS Combo in the bedroom rig and another collecting dust that we need to hang onto until we convert our VHS tape to DVD. We have miles of VHS footage of the kids growing up and family vacations that have never been transferred converted.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited April 2011
    I'm perplexed by the fact that an obvious option is missing from the poll given the thread title.

    I don't own a VCR
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,930
    edited April 2011
    WastelandWand'r wrote: »
    Mitsu Super VHS, because as a flag bearer of all things new, I had to have one. Tell me again why i bought it? Use it 2-3 times a year to watch old videos of me when I could run. (I use it to motivate me to get off the couch)
    On a different note, mhardy, how is it you record as you talk of?
    Someone in college confided in me that VHS was the perfect medium for recording audio. Never knew what the heck he was talking about.
    If you don't mind answering that.
    Nathan

    1) I am envious of all of the respondents with Mitsubishi S-VHS HiFI decks! :-)

    2) The Zenith and some of the earlier (as well as later/better) HiFi audio decks were designed as "audio/video" recorders (it even says so on the front of the Zenith, if you look closely at the photo I posted). BTW, both Beta and VHS HiFi formats were available; in fact, Sony pioneered the genre with Beta HiFi. Later, there were PCM converters to use VCRs to record digital audio, too! :-)

    The Zenith has line-level inputs, an "audio recorder" mode (to blank the video), and variable record level (with peak-hold fluorescent level meters). In the photo I posted, the little h/k receiver's phono preamp is being used to amplify/EQ the output from the tt and fed straight to the VCR's audio inputs. Easy-peasy, and very good quality (even at "EP" tape speed; the bandwidth of the hifi audio tracks is scarcely impacted, if at all, by the very low linear tape speed, since the audio is recorded via helical-scan heads like the video).

    I have also used the deck for live music recording (with reel to reel tape as a 'backup') with good results. The major problem is, of course, that the tapes as such are effectively un-editable. I've never tried to dub one, so I don't know how that would work out. Tape drop-outs can be an issue at EP speed, especially with cheaper tapes.

    EDIT: and, yes, I am aware that this is a completely anachronistic not to mention goofy mode of audio reproduction! I'm an anachronistic kind of guy...
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  • codyc1ark
    codyc1ark Posts: 2,535
    edited April 2011
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    I used to use one of these on a daily basis for a local PATV station, LOVED it, we still did a lot of analog when digi was just a baby. I remember watching people on Final Cut or iMovie and blowing them away on what we could do on analog. Now once I really learned FCP, I never looked back, I miss doing a lot of that video editing. :redface:

    But, I still do not own one anymore. I've got some great bootleg Nirvana VHS's I need to get on DVD.
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited April 2011
    F1nut wrote: »
    I have two Mitsubishi HD Digital Super Hi-Fi VHS-VCR's that get used here and there. Both work like a dream.

    Once a upon a time (1990), I had one of this, bought it at Roger Sounds Lab (RSL) for $650. Sadly, mine went kaput (need new head) although still sitting in my closet.

    Great player!
    I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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