Who still has a VHS VCR?

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  • DaveHo
    DaveHo Posts: 3,583
    edited April 2011
    Still have one, but not in the main rig. Kids use it.

    -Dave
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  • bikerboy
    bikerboy Posts: 1,230
    edited April 2011
    Recording on tape, ah those were the days. Dont get me started about the nakamichi days. I was cleaning out the closet and found 2 vhs and one beta vcr. Havent used them since we got the dvr years ago. Maybe they could be door prizes for the Meet. Doro if you need a sony let me know. The one I have has the jog dial on the remote ,565 or 585 iirc.
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  • zingo
    zingo Posts: 11,258
    edited April 2011
    No VCR for me.

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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited April 2011
    inspiredsports wrote: »
    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.

    get that old VHS tape transferred over to DVD... videotape degrades pretty fast.. dust, magnetic field, etc can all interfere with the recording on the tape.. esp if the tapes were of low quality to begin with.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited April 2011
    Mitsubishi Super VHS here. Plus several others a Panasonic 4 Head and a Symphonic 4 head I got for free.

    Mitsu is still hooked into the HT setup just in case. The Panny is hooked to the game TV.
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,930
    edited April 2011
    bikerboy wrote: »
    Recording on tape, ah those were the days. Dont get me started about the nakamichi days. I was cleaning out the closet and found 2 vhs and one beta vcr. Havent used them since we got the dvr years ago. Maybe they could be door prizes for the Meet. Doro if you need a sony let me know. The one I have has the jog dial on the remote ,565 or 585 iirc.

    Oh, there are even more arcane old formats that some of us still embrace...

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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited April 2011
    Love your Yamaha gear, mhardy! And it goes without saying that when we were in college we would've killed for a good Tascam reel-to-reel. Somewhere I have some original reel-to-reel album tapes--those were something even on lesser equipment.

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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 34,930
    edited April 2011
    heh; couldn't afford it then but I can now :-)
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited April 2011
    VCwhat?

    Where's the option for "I threw it in the dumpster 10 years ago"? The only reason that I can think of for still having one is that sometimes in my courses I might want to show an old documentary or foreign film that never made to DVD (we did this earlier in the semester but the lab at the university just put it on DVD). Can't think of any other reason to have one, sorry.
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  • PolkClyde
    PolkClyde Posts: 662
    edited April 2011
    I have two in working order.had three, a combo,gave it to a friend
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited April 2011
    I can't figure out how to connect my HDMI cable to it. :mad:

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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited April 2011
    I actually have 3....2 "made in Japan" Panasonics and a Sansui-brand DVD/VHS player-recorder
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  • PolkClyde
    PolkClyde Posts: 662
    edited April 2011
    I paid $999 for my Mitsubishi VCR back in 1985..you couldn't tell me anything. Now,I have paid the same price for a Oppo 95 Blu-Ray Player.What's next?
    PolkAudioClyde
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  • TECHNOKID
    TECHNOKID Posts: 4,298
    edited April 2011
    zingo wrote: »
    No VCR for me.

    vcr-toaster.jpg
    Ah! I wondered was was a good way to recycle them! I can't remeber which thread you posted that pic in the past? :cool:
    PolkClyde wrote: »
    I paid $999 for my Mitsubishi VCR back in 1985..you couldn't tell me anything. Now,I have paid the same price for a Oppo 95 Blu-Ray Player.What's next?
    ...PVR, HTPC or maybe one of the new Commodore (64x or Vic slim...) :wink:
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  • aviator
    aviator Posts: 159
    edited April 2011
    I'd probably still have a Mits HS-U70 and a BetaMax if not for a lightning strike once upon a time.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited April 2011
    I have had Tivo for some time now, but I kept the VCR for its clock. No clock is one thing that bugs me about Tivo. Anyway, a year or so ago I bought a digital clock, and retired the VCR to some storage location in the house.
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  • AudioGenics
    AudioGenics Posts: 2,567
    edited April 2011
    panasonic VHS/VCR
    connected but almost never used.....
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  • PerfectCreature
    PerfectCreature Posts: 1,456
    edited April 2011
    I have an old old VHS made my Panasonic, was bought back when they were new technology and paid about $400, it was a hand me down from my mother when I moved out and was in that..."no cable" stage,.
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  • cristo
    cristo Posts: 231
    edited April 2011
    Have one upstairs and one downstairs - one for each cable box.
    Sometimes there's two things I want to record at the same time.
    Mostly used for time-shifting.
    Not very impressed with the DVR/Tivo/etc. alternatives currently available,
    would like a simple subscription-free DVR that works more like a VCR instead.
    Even had a Sony Beta VCR until just a few years ago.
    cristo

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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,218
    edited April 2011
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    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

    Yeah where is the " what the F*&k is a VCR?" ( I know what they are had many of them, but since DVD there has not been one in my house)
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  • DocCasualty
    DocCasualty Posts: 8
    edited April 2011
    Have a JVC S-VHS machine hooked up to the main viewing area plus a cheap VCR downstairs too. I rarely use them but still have family videos that I haven't put on other media and some classic movies (some not even available on DVD/Blu-ray) that I watch occasionally. The kids still like to watch a lot of the classic Disney's, etc. we have on VHS.

    On a 28" CRT they're not bad but are bothersome to watch on a HiDef 58" screen. The S-Video connection on the JVC provides a better image than a composite input though.
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited April 2011
    I've still got one, and use it regularly. I've got tons of movies on VHS that I don't really feel like replacing with DVD's...and plenty of movies that you probably can't even get on DVD. My VCR won't be going anywhere anytime soon.
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  • leftwinger57
    leftwinger57 Posts: 2,917
    edited May 2011
    I to have a DAEWOO and does still work and is hooked up to the main rack w/playing on rare ocassions some adult vhs.What the F happened to beta. I know most pro machines were beta then it was gone in the trash heep of history......LW
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  • greybeard
    greybeard Posts: 60
    edited May 2011
    I have a very simple Sony VCR connected to my system, and another buried in storage somewhere. I have lots of video tapes I recorded over the years and need a way to watch them. I probably should transfer a few of the recordings to DVDs.

    ...but how do I insert my wax cylinders into the slot?
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  • Robint
    Robint Posts: 10
    edited May 2011
    I have a Sony HiFi vcr hooked up to the Sony 27" Trinitron tv which is used only as a monotor. Used everyday to change channel on the cable, connected to a Denon DRA-685 which is hooked up to Monitor 7A's. Still visit the thrift's to buy VHS tapes, 50 cents a pop on 50% of day.
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