re: Why are VCR’s making a come back?

God y’all are old. And I’m probably the same age

I have a bunch of home recordings of my kids as babies and growing up recorded on VHS taped. I don’t have the time to transfer them to digital media, and don’t look at them often enough to warrant spending the money for someone else to do it. When I come across a decent VHS deck cheap, I buy it. Going to leave it all to the kids to do whatever they want with them. Know a bunch of people my age in the same boat.

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Must be for content only available on VHS. Otherwise it is very obsolete, both technologically and also content wise -- motion pictures were presented in full screen ratio. You were missing like 30% of the picture.

When I got my first widescreen TV with a blu ray player back in 2008, I was seeing things in my favorite films I hadn't seen since seeing them in the theater years sometimes decades prior.

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Actually, there were quite a few VHS releases done in OAR. I have a couple of dozen. I think the first movie released in OAR on VHS was The Color Purple which was 1:85 to 1 (slightly wider than 16:9). I have some in 2.35 and 2.39 as well. Keep in mind the negative is if you didn't have a large front projector (those old CRT units with the guns out in front of the screen) most TVs still make out around 26" 4:3 so the picture was pretty tiny in today's terms. Bet Buy et al actually had separate OAR or Widescreen sections but most people still bought the 4:3 Pan and Scan versions. A lot of those OAR tapes were also available in S-VHS at the time. S-VHS could support about 400 horizontal lines of resolution compared to the 230 of standard VHS. This required a TV with a S-Video input. At the time I bought my JVC S-VHS VCR I bought a NEC 26" 480i TV. Odd to think that was basically SOTA at the time, there were better Sony's at the time but at about 3 times the price. Of note, you didn't really record anything on S-VHS because broadcast and cable were only 240i at the time.

In 93 I bought a 40" Mitsubishi CRT TV 480i and then in 2002 I bought my first HDTV a Mitsubishi 65" CRT rear projection 1080p. That TV was right at $5k. That was prior to HDMI and 720P and 1080p came in via component video (not to be confused with composite). The rate of quality increases in video over the last 30 years is unreal after being stagnant for decades.

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I call bs, you can find vcrs all day for $20.

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Well like most anything in life there was junk and there was quality. You aren't getting a fully functional 4 head S-VHS stereo VCR for $20 if someone knows what they have or it is sold in an auction.

Most snuff films are still analog.

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Millennials who don’t really remember VCRs like to pretend they were a major part of their lives.

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Oh look, another boomer that doesn't realize how old some "millennials" are.

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LINK . 799.00 Walmart

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Someone was not a friend, and didn’t rewind at the end.

In the early 80s we’d rent these strange video players and discs or tapes that were about the size and shape of a record in the sleeve. Some guy that lived in Wedgewood rented them out of his house.

I’ve never seen or heard about these since. No idea what they were called