Who remembers what a VHS is?

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We still have some. Some are movies, some are home videos of birthday parties or family gatherings. I have a DVD/VHS player, but I'm not too sure if it works anymore.

It became much easier to program a VCR in the 90s. You had to go through many steps in the 80s.

I’m 17 and I know what they are. I grew up on vhs until around 2008. Ah nostalgia...

I do. I used them a lot during the late 1990s-late 2000s decade.

I seem to have been one of the early adopters of DVD-R/RAM which was the Oughts replacement for VHS video tape. I saw my first home video recorder, an original sony Betamax I, in 1975, at a Seattle Uwajimayas store, it was playing a video recording of a Japanese cooking class. I was hooked when I saw it, didn't get to have one for meself until 1984.

it was the main way i watched movies at home until we adopted dvds in the mid 2000s.

more recently i've bought vhs tapes just to have a cheap and easy way to see a particular movie i couldn't otherwise find. i have more tapes now then i did five years ago. places like alpha thrift are bursting at the seams with 'em, they practically paid me to take them off their hands.

wonder if anybody here remembers wire [audio] recorders? or sound recorders that recorded sound on 16mm movie film? or Kodak high-fi 8mm instant movie film?

never seen a wire recorder in person. only know about them from techmoan videos.

^^^ever see a phillips DIGITAL compact cassette?

are you making this up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Compact_Cassette
it competed with the sony minidisc and failed due to poor reliability.

(Appears) Yes, I seem to remember something about them. Big things you had to rewind. We used them back in the old days waaaay back when I was a living boy.

I remember! I used to have a VCR when I was younger. I used to watch Tom & Jerry, as well as the first episodes of Scooby Doo on it. Ahhh... Good times...

-LegoMaster2149 (Written on February 15, 2018)

Panasonic made a professional digital audio tape recorder which used a vhs cassette to record on. I remember I wanted one of those things in the worst way. it eventually was superceded by the sony digital audio tape format which worked like a video recorder but was tiny, matchbox-sized cassettes.

Do you still use turntables, AuntBlabby----known to those of us who lived during pre-VHS-times as "record players?"

I have one set up for 78 rpm records, one for LPs and 45s, and one set up for lumpy records that need a high tracking force and wider stylus for worn grooves, my older brother donated that to me. also have one working cassette deck my sister donated to me, and a heavy bulky old Akai open reel deck for the reel tapes, and a quad 8-track deck that plays both 2 and 4 channel tapes. it needs new belts, though. I have a collection of a few thousand LPs, 45s, and 78 rpm records. they take up a spare bedroom.
do you still have your record player?