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I wonder if these idiots actually tried selling to the Nollywood industry, google tells me no.
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Number_6 posted:Because it's a pain in the rear end, thats why. And unless I'm mistaken, lots of TV programs are not really available for free, legal downloads from the internet. Hello grandad, I didn't know you had an internet account.
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Jul 24, 2016 12:31
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I'm not a grandpa and I don't get the fascination of watching the latest Hollywood blockbusters on a 5" phone, 7" tablet, laptop, etc. Sure if you're traveling or 14 and watching porn or movies your parents don't want you to watch in your bed at night, sure. Otherwise, I'll stick to streaming Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/Plex to my TV. Also, vcrs were handy for recording, but the tapes degrade so fast after repeated viewings. I "inherited" a large vhs library when I was moved from the middle school to high school and most of the stuff was apparently recorded between 2006-2009 and I'm going to trash all of it when I get back to school next week because the picture on almost all of it looks washed-out, grainy, or audio is weird. I guess it could be the player, but I have digital copies of everything now so screw it. That and rewinding sucks. Kirk Vikernes fucked around with this message at 13:42 on Jul 24, 2016 |
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Jul 24, 2016 13:36
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I'm an academic librarian and I'd like to mention that there are a ton of old (yet still relevant) documentaries that have never been digitized or made available on DVD. You'd be surprised how many professors use VCRs for their classes.
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Jul 24, 2016 14:47
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Number_6 posted:Because it's a pain in the rear end, thats why. And unless I'm mistaken, lots of TV programs are not really available for free, legal downloads from the internet. Cheap laptop, wireless keyboard and an HDMI cable.
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Jul 24, 2016 14:50
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Iron Prince posted:*plugs in VHS recording of 1995 stick stickley broadcast* Write to me Stick Stickley P.O. Box Niiine six three New York City, New York State One Oh One Oh Eight!
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Jul 24, 2016 15:13
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Number_6 posted:Laugh all you want at VCRs, but show me a modern mainstream recording device that will easily and affordably record content, especially HD content, from cable or OTA TV, for permanent archival purposes. DVD recorders are all but dead, and as far as I know, recorders that support HD cost a fortune. Not to mention the Orwellian copy protection built into everything now. I had this problem when I wanted to get some recordings off my HD dvr. The loving thing had USB and firewire ports but they were permanently disabled because someone might pirate Jerry Springer or something. I solved it by buying a Hauppauge PVR1212 and now I have the only copy of Cool As Ice on Blu-ray (seriously). As for vhs, I still have an svhs deck I bought in 2003. I like using s-video when capturing old family videos to DV.
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Jul 24, 2016 15:14
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:and now I have the only copy of Cool As Ice on Blu-ray (seriously). so uh I hate to tell u this, but uh
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Jul 24, 2016 15:25
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:this my current deck, what u all rockin I used to have a Sony but something shattered inside and I couldn't be bothered to fix it. Now I have this thing. I wish it had a remote but I'm not spending 3x what I paid for it to get one.  Here's a tape from my collection. 
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Jul 24, 2016 15:37
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I digitized a few videos my set up was a vcr a canopy capture card, a time based corrector, then used a codice called video neat. I even ripped a old Porno called video a nightmare on porn street.
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Jul 24, 2016 15:52
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Haha wow. I'm guessing four movies on one disc mean it has terrible picture quality though 
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Jul 24, 2016 16:44
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I used to pause the caddy shack cassette on the boobies parts. The trick was to fumble the vsync until the little bars of static weren't covering the boobies.
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Jul 24, 2016 16:58
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PromethiumX posted:we had a machine at my house that was dedicated to rewinding VCR tapes. We had a regular one and then one shaped like a race car. They kept the gears in the VCR from wearing out when you BE KIND AND REWINDed all the movies you rented.
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Jul 24, 2016 17:25
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Macrowave Oven posted:I used to pause the caddy shack cassette on the boobies parts. The trick was to fumble the vsync until the little bars of static weren't covering the boobies. Me too! I also did this with Slap Shot and Stripes. Late 70's/Early 80's comedies sure had a lot of rude titties.
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Jul 24, 2016 17:33
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Insane Totoro posted:I'm an academic librarian and I'd like to mention that there are a ton of old (yet still relevant) documentaries that have never been digitized or made available on DVD. I agree, and for a while I had a collection of Russian/Soviet animation on VHS that didn't become available digitally until recently (when someone else ripped from their VHS tapes). Not everything has made the transition yet.
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Number_6 posted:Laugh all you want at VCRs, but show me a modern mainstream recording device that will easily and affordably record content, especially HD content, from cable or OTA TV, for permanent archival purposes. DVD recorders are all but dead, and as far as I know, recorders that support HD cost a fortune. Not to mention the Orwellian copy protection built into everything now. gently caress the DMCA, hack the planet you can buy a $10 box to strip HDCP protection from HDMI. you need a capture card to record poo poo and they aren't cheap but that's because they aren't in demand. honestly it is way easier and faster for people to just download a scene release for what they want than it is to record it off of their tv or physical media since u need vaguely specialized equipment. of course, you wouldn't download a car, would you? so why would you download a rip of something you own on a disk 
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Friginator posted:Ah, the joys of rewinding will be forever lost. the first time i went into a store and saw that joke DVD rewinder thing i completely failed to get the joke and instead just smugly thought "heh why would you ever need one of those, just rewind it with the DVD player" they sold them at the loving wal mart near my house that I went to all the time and every time I went there I would see them and think the same loving thing, over and over it took me literal years to finally get the joke and while I do not, in fact, actually remember saying this, considering that sometimes i would be at the wal mart with someone i knew and the amount of time it took me to actually get the joke, I must have at some point said "heh why would you ever need one of those, just rewind it with the DVD player" to someone. it had to have happened at least once and i don't know whether they thought i was making a joke or what because they definitely didn't say anything about it, I would have remembered that. gently caress
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Jul 24, 2016 17:39
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this is a crime, fyi f u c k t h e d m c a
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Jul 24, 2016 17:47
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There's an old VHS tape of a family vacation that starts with me being so happy about Disneyland that I trip over and slam my massive toddler head on the kitchen floor. It would be a shame to lose such fond memories of braining myself. At least I still have my giant shitbrick of a VCR in my closet. Last I checked it was still functioning  I've got recorded marathons of shows, but the real treasure is probably whatever commercials they had running back then.
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Jul 24, 2016 17:57
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It is kind of weird to think that there will be a time, probably while I am still alive, that there's not a single functioning vcr left on the planet. Especially since they were very prone to breaking to begin with. I had a very difficult time finding an arcade CRT for my cabinet recently. They were easy as hell to find in 2008, for only $50. Now you're lucky to find one without burn in, and you're still looking at $400+. I found a guy who somehow had them brand new and I bought two of them because I know I'll be completely hosed in 15-20 years if I ever need to replace it. I'll digitize all my vhs tapes before I start hoarding vcrs, though.
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MiracleFlare posted:I've got recorded marathons of shows, but the real treasure is probably whatever commercials they had running back then. I used to upload old commercials to Youtube, but in the past few years there's tons of people doing that and there's nothing I can think of that's not already on there
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Jul 24, 2016 18:22
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I'm surprised "Be Kind, Rewind" hasn't become a rallying cry for Trump-supporting Milennials.
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i remember for a while dvd players were vaguely expensive and so a bunch of people i knew just had ps2s. too bad the drive mechanism on fat ps2s is probably one of the worst things ever designed and everyone had replaced theirs by like 2005 because it wouldn't open or read disks anymore
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Jul 24, 2016 18:34
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movies just look better on VHS
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nigga crab pollock posted:i remember for a while dvd players were vaguely expensive and so a bunch of people i knew just had ps2s. too bad the drive mechanism on fat ps2s is probably one of the worst things ever designed and everyone had replaced theirs by like 2005 because it wouldn't open or read disks anymore Even funnier is they'd only read blue bottomed discs
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Somewhere in my basement's a giant box of VHS, mostly old episodes of professional wrestling. Some porn.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Even funnier is they'd only read blue bottomed discs those are cds rather than dvds the ps2 had a single lovely intake fan in the back and narrow slats on the front but they get covered in dust and stop working. there was basically no airflow management on the ps2, just a single chamber with giant fuckoff heat sink sitting next to the drive. you ended up with a lot of dust buildup which hella coats the drive mechanism and laser in dust. dvds require way more accurate laser placement so no surprise that if it gets hosed up it stops reading dvds its easily solvable but if you google the problem you will get a whole bunch of 5 step magic spells that look like they wouldn't fix poo poo but people claim it works. turn it upside down and shake it, lmao.
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Jul 24, 2016 19:14
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i have put my video card in the oven a couple times to re-melt the solder
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numberoneposter posted:i have put my video card in the oven a couple times to re-melt the solder yeah but that makes sense even if putting something in the oven seems questionable what doesnt make sense is PUT TAPE ON A DISK. NOW OKAY PUT THE DISK IN. UNPLUG YOUR PS2 AND SHAKE IT. TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN AND SHAKE IT. YOU HAVE REPAIRED THE DRIVE ON YOUR PS2
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nigga crab pollock posted:i remember for a while dvd players were vaguely expensive and so a bunch of people i knew just had ps2s. too bad the drive mechanism on fat ps2s is probably one of the worst things ever designed and everyone had replaced theirs by like 2005 because it wouldn't open or read disks anymore Mine still works fine. Sorry about your luck.
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i mean mine does too but thats because i had to open it up and rip the drive mechanism out because it stripped its gears
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numberoneposter posted:i have put my video card in the oven a couple times to re-melt the solder This fixed the broken Xbox 360s too
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the one thing i miss about vhs was finding unmarked tapes that had been recorded over a bunch of times and had all kinds of weird poo poo on them. i still have one that has part of a golf lesson, game 2 of the 1997 stanely cup finals, and the middle of Spawn on it
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Remember how they used SEATBELTS to hold the VCR and TV to the media cart in school? Someone probably got crushed by a VCR before that was mandated. RIP VCR fatalities
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The only reliable storage medium is the internet. Oh and some like archival sapphire dvds and dumb poo poo like that ill never buy, id rather depend on server farms with redundant replication and constant hardware replacement. They also have hard drives that store data by altering single atoms now that may prove to be hardy, but most neat are the superman data crystals that exist that can literally last as long as the age of the universe. Once those get down to like $19.95 I'm going to shoot one into space with Mods Knew -TDH or something to fufill my mortality fueled desire to leave some sort of lasting impact on the universe, however small.
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Jul 24, 2016 20:04
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an early memory of mine is my dad going door to door selling bootleg lion king vhs's
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Boinks posted:Now I have this thing. I wish it had a remote but I'm not spending 3x what I paid for it to get one. Get a Logitech Harmony. They are amazing and will work with all your electronics (that use IR).
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BIG DICK BUTT gently caress, i feel sad in general and i long for death
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Macrowave Oven posted:I used to pause the caddy shack cassette on the boobies parts. The trick was to fumble the vsync until the little bars of static weren't covering the boobies. i did this but for beverly hills cop
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