(With regard to non-porn, I have a few concert movies that I have been planning to convert for years now, but still haven't gotten 'round to it.)
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LPee23  All-Star Member  Better to be pissed on, than to be pissed off. 248 Posts 1/15 |  Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 7:39AMLooks like the world's last VCR factory closed in July of last year. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/07/vcr-vhs-production-ends/ The only way your VHS will be watchable long into the future is if you digitize it. How many of you still even own a VCR or VHS? For those of you with VHS, what are your plans for them? Do you plan to digitize them, sell them, throw them away, or just let them keep collecting dust a little longer? For me, I don't have any VHS tapes, but lots of them are rare now, and I'd be willing to buy anything with pee content for a reasonable price. Topic Moved by - Flash on Jan 28 2017 [Link] |
| Simple Simon Senior Member 12302 Posts 2/15 | Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 8:26AM (With regard to non-porn, I have a few concert movies that I have been planning to convert for years now, but still haven't gotten 'round to it.) [Link] |
| Gore Gore Girl Doctor of the Erotic Arts 7238 Posts 1/09 | Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 10:54AM [Link] |
| Stanley Moon All-Star Member 4 Wishes Left 346 Posts 8/15 | Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 11:51AM [Link] |
| Draxxx Senior Member 3831 Posts 2/07 | Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 2:56PM [Link] |
| Goldstein All-Star Member "You have sacrificed nothing and no one." 3689 Posts 8/10 | Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 5:17PM BTW, you can still buy a decent Sanyo DVD Recorder/VCR Combo brand new at Walmart for $179. The actual model is FWZV475F. I picked this up -- just so I would be able to make some important digital copies of VHS tapes, for certain (even though I already and still do have various working VHS machines). It is a decent quality product -- not a piece of shit -- and even has an HDMI output. This way, I don't have to tie my computers up doing this kind of grunt work, although I also have the ability to do that, if necessary :) [Link] |
| Stanley Moon All-Star Member 4 Wishes Left 346 Posts 8/15 | Posted - Jan 28 2017 : 7:28PM I think it's a good idea to have a VHS rig just in case. I haven't run mine in years (reminds me that I should fire it up), but you never know. Same reason I won't get rid of my cassette deck. Once in a blue moon there's something I want that's only on cassette. [Link] |
| Draxxx Senior Member 3831 Posts 2/07 | Posted - Jan 29 2017 : 10:35AM [Link] |
| Gentleman Jon All-Star Member 1881 Posts 6/05 | Posted - Jan 31 2017 : 6:12PM I didn't use my VCR in a few years, and then when I tried to watch a tape one day, it just didn't work. I considered myself lucky that it didn't destroy the tape. This was probably over six years ago. Looking back now, I probably could have found tutorials online on how to repair it and re-lubricate the moving parts. (My theory being that the lubricants had just gotten sticky and gummy while sitting unused all that time.) But at the time, I just decided it was junk and scrapped it. But I've never gotten rid of the tapes that I have, as I've always intended to someday get another VCR. Fortunately, I don't really have that many tapes, just a couple of Hollywood movies and less than a dozen pornos. So it's not as though I have boxes and boxes of tapes that I've been taking with me every time I've moved. The Hollywood movies are both in the little boxes open on one end that just slide over the tapes. But I've always wondered why pornos were so commonly put into those oversized boxes with the cheap plastic tape tray inside. I get that the larger box also allows for bigger cover art, which isn't a bad thing, but it makes storage bulkier unnecessarily. In the DVD and Blu-Ray era, adult movies used the same types of plastic cases used by Hollywood movies, and nobody complained about the small cover art very much. Was it a deal where the patent owners for the VHS covers favored by mainstream movies were moralists? Or did big mainstream entertainment companies have clauses in their contracts with box printers that those printers could not also print pornos? I can understand why makers of kids' and family movies would want to take steps to ensure that a porno is never packed into a box for a kids' or family movie, but if the opposite happens, and a G or PG movie is packed into a XXX box, it ought to be caught long before a consumer would ever see it. (Worst case scenario if that were to happen: store stocker see the adult movie in the box of new arrival PG movies, but doesn't remove the factory shrink wrap to check actual tape. So places it in adult section. Someone buys that movie, believing it to be an adult movie, and then the store doesn't believe their story when they claim that their purchase of a factory sealed adult movie had a copy of "the Goonies" inside the box. But if that store doesn't have an adult section, or someone at the store realizes that they hadn't ordered that particular movie, then it wouldn't even get that far. [Link] |
| Smiler Grogan All-Star Member the war cry 14790 Posts 1/08 | Posted - Feb 3 2017 : 11:58PM I've got tons of cassettes, mostly stuff I recorded off of broadcst TV from 1988 - 1998. Most movies that I recorded from cable I've erased since most everything is easily available on DVD I used to tape the Simpsons but that is no longer necessary I also taped Married with Children from the prime time broadcasts -- for about the first five seasons -- and I'm keeping those right now because from what I understand, many of the officials DVDs contain the syndicated versions of the show, which have cuts in them. Got a ton of shit from the days when MTV actually played videos: 120 Minutes, Yo MTV Raps and Headbangers Ball especially. [Link] |
| Draxxx Senior Member 3831 Posts 2/07 | Posted - Feb 5 2017 : 9:28AM But...I am glad we're past VHS tapes. The horrors of watching one then suddenly the picture started looking strange and then you realize the machine has eaten the tape. Trying to rewind certain tapes and the VCR sounds like it's straining and not going to make it to the end. Accidental erasures over stuff you didn't want erased. Extra rental fees for not rewinding. Expensive VCR repairs. Ugh..... [Link] |
| Pieps Senior Member Honey, come quick, somebody on the internet is wrong! 9233 Posts 11/13 | Posted - Feb 5 2017 : 11:00AM The entire series Full House home-taped on a whole shitload of vhs tapes, for $10. That ad showed up every month for years. He never gave up. It may be there still. It was funny on so many levels. The jillion tapes. The mediocre series. The $10 price. The illegal nature of selling home tapes. The never giving up. Not being able to throw them away. The impossibility of ever finding a buyer. The devoted nature and enormous time it took to tape every episode. The storage space. The amount of effort into getting the $10. Mind-blowing. I should have offered $7 just to see what happened. [Link] |
| Simple Simon Senior Member 12302 Posts 2/15 | Posted - Feb 5 2017 : 10:06PM [Link] |
| Stanley Moon All-Star Member 4 Wishes Left 346 Posts 8/15 | Posted - Feb 5 2017 : 11:38PM [Link] |
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