VHS playes/cassettes

branie

anyone still have theirs? I have, but I use it extremely rarely

Faith+1

Still use for recording!:)

Ruu_Old

I have mine on the spare telly, to hell with fancy smancy DVRs and the like!

mike65

Still use mine.

byte

Still have one, but it hasn't played a tape in over two years. Probably doesn't work now.

kelle

I have one, but it doesn't work. And we have so many videotapes...

Amalgam

Early Mitsubishi, no remote, too poor for that model, nun chuck with thick cream coloured cable.

Then a Ferguson Videostar, then, a step back in my eyes, another Mitsubishi, a Mitsubishi HS-318..

http://www.oldvcr.tv/collection/index.html?Mode=View&Brand=Mitsubishi&Model=HS-318

Main site: http://www.oldvcr.tv/main/

Thomas828

I've got a Matsui TV/Video combined which was made about the time DVDs started to appear. I don't think it works now.

bonerm

Nah I'm fully digital at this point (music and video).

Pity. I guess it's cos I grew up with VHS but I don't get the same excitement off holding a DVD\BluRay as I did from holding those chunky black cassette tapes.

I remember my first VHS seemed almost like magic. "You mean I can watch Raiders of the Lost Ark / Star Wars / Ghostbusters whenever I want????" etc

Aglomerado

Yup, have mine still, very handy for recording stuff like late night films etc - but I'm gradually converting tapes to digital.

Run_to_da_hills

Have a virtually unused dual VHS recorder / DVD player, I still use it for copying old VHS tapes to AVI and DVD on a PC.

Old man has VHS combo TV, still works.

Have a Philips VHS/DVD player. Can't remember the last time I used the VHS end but do have a couple of tapes.

Bajingo

I bought oceans11 on tape...but I dont have a vcr:(

littleoulme

Still have our's - it decorates the bottom shelf under the TV

meolwan

still have 1 here but dont use it that much anymore. But god it was great going into the video shop to rent a tape & when they got to know you and trusted you got offered some of the under counter videos. We got some education that way lol.

Nolanger

There are loads of VHS movies that still haven't got a region 2 DVD release.

Dravokivich

Still got 1 and use it a few times a month alright.

minister poxbottle

yes have 2 of them they come in handy now&again

mikemac

Still have it.
Mitsubishi I believe

I remember Xtravision threatened a 25p fine if you didn't rewind the tape back to the beginning for the next user

L1011

Still have mine, cause it has a DVD-R/-RAM recorder built in too. Which was used to copy all my recorded tapes to DVD about 5 years ago!

JabbaTheHut

Still have the first video we got. A toploader. Haven't used it in ages. It takes a couple of hours to warm up, but it still works

bossa_nova

still have a loads of vhs' lying around my room but haven't used them in ages, i miss recording movies of the telly and pausing it at every add now that i think about

Brian CivilEng

The "rewind for next users" is so ingrained on my mind that recently when I was converting my last few VHS' to DVDs, I made sure to rewind the tape before chucking it in the bin.

StormWarrior

I still have loads, but they obviously aren't very good quality any more, so I'm gradually updating everything to DVD, but still keeping the VHS's as souvenirs.

storm2811

Still have a tv/video player,all the videos are up in the attic though,hundreds of them!

After we got a dvd player me and my brother used to use the tapes to make a maze for our hamster..:pac:

Dude111

I love my VCR

I actually prefer ANALOGUE over anything else! (I am a purist)

Max Power1

Karsini wrote: »

Have a Philips VHS/DVD player. Can't remember the last time I used the VHS end but do have a couple of tapes.

+1 same here.. it set me back over 250 quid a few years back.

mike65

Amalgam wrote: »

Then a Ferguson Videostar, then, a step back in my eyes, another Mitsubishi, a Mitsubishi HS-318..

http://www.oldvcr.tv/collection/index.html?Mode=View&Brand=Mitsubishi&Model=HS-318

The first in our house was a 1984 Mitsubishi with a cable fed remote. Looked similair.

Bore your friend with the complete history of the VCR

http://www.totalrewind.org/mainhall.htm

hillbilly999

Still have it:o

mikedublin

We still have ours ! An Akai one bought for recording Christmas telly back in 1997.

Its had the same tape stuck in it for the past 5 or 6 years - but luckily we can just record over and over it and its still working

Max_Damage

Still have ours (we got it in 1999 as our old one before that packed in), but it's now connected to the dining room TV. Haven't played video on it in I'd say 4 years or so now.

Funky G

Have a black Sony ni-cam one that i bought from my bro around 2000 coz he got a newer silver one...

it's still in my mams - must remember to get it out of there. i've loads of vhs tapes in storage boxes with some classic cartoons, random stuff, stuff from sky movies circa 1989 ish when it was free for a year before the whole subscription thing started.......

ah the memories......

CrispMan

Have 2 at home

Den_M

Used to have a Mitsubishi VCR, was pretty decent. Except when it went into super fast forward or rewind mode, when rewinding a tape from the end to the start for example. It was like a steam locomotive slowly gathering speed, until it was vibrating so much and making so much noise that it was unnerving.

We used to have a noisy kettle too. Remember one time when both were on maximum noise mode at the same time. I thought the house was gonna go back in time or something.

Funky G

Den_M wrote: »

Used to have a Mitsubishi VCR, was pretty decent. Except when it went into super fast forward or rewind mode, when rewinding a tape from the end to the start for example. It was like a steam locomotive slowly gathering speed, until it was vibrating so much and making so much noise that it was unnerving.

We used to have a noisy kettle too. Remember one time when both were on maximum noise mode at the same time. I thought the house was gonna go back in time or something.

ha ha i had one of those mitsubishi's also before i eventually upgraded to the sony. yeah the rewind and fast forward were super fast. i bought mine around 1990 / 1991 ish from my sisters' boyfriend at the time who worked in harry moores.....anyone remember them? i think they were on henry st

Max_Damage

Funky G wrote: »

ha ha i had one of those mitsubishi's also before i eventually upgraded to the sony. yeah the rewind and fast forward were super fast. i bought mine around 1990 / 1991 ish from my sisters' boyfriend at the time who worked in harry moores.....anyone remember them? i think they were on henry st

Bought my Sega Mega Drive in Harry Moore's in the Square in Tallaght around 1995/1996!

Victoria.

I'm a 90s kid and I still have my video player in my room on top of the tv. I still have all of my favourite movies from when I was a kid to about 13 when they switched over. I'm 19 now. I have about 100 videos downstairs I'd say and I'm not throwing them out because why would I buy them all again and there's something I like about them. I remember where I got them and they have memories attached. Not going anywhere.

I have an old car with a tape player too and I always pick up old tapes at markets for about 20c. Love it! And I can listen to my ipod with this tape thing that I got at the 2 euro shop I love some of the tapes I got and I even have some of my mums from when she was a teenager and stuff she recorded off the radio. I love it and I keep mine in her old tape box that she had

Dr Bob

Max_Damage wrote: »

Bought my Sega Mega Drive in Harry Moore's in the Square in Tallaght around 1995/1996!

I know this is thread necromancy but considering the fact that I worked there at the time , and sold a lot of gaming and computer stuff ,more than likely it was myself that sold it to you

Mike 1972

New VHS recorders are still on sale on the continent. (Saw some in the "Saturn" chain in Poland, Germany and the Netherlands) The tuners and modulators are probably not compatible with an Irish TV (unless there is an option to change standards somewhere in the menus) but the SCART connections would still work here.

Unfortunately neither Saturn or Mediamarkt have made it to these (UK/Irish) shores yet

johnny_ultimate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w31fyUFX498

bonerm

Remember this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnroj8doL3s

mike65

Yep. Home taping is killing music er movies. If they only knew what was coming (and Hollywood is still churning out ****e costing 100 million bucks a throw).

Ditch

bonerm wrote: »

Remember this guy?

Never to be forgotten! " Our Tune " ? I thank god that I lived to hear it!

Now? Looking round me? I thank fcuk we have DVD's. My own, 'Modest' selection is taking up enough space and holding quite enough dust ..... How many DVD's to a single VHS tape - space wise? Horror!

L1011

Ditch wrote: »

Never to be forgotten! " Our Tune " ? I thank god that I lived to hear it!

Now? Looking round me? I thank fcuk we have DVD's. My own, 'Modest' selection is taking up enough space and holding quite enough dust ..... How many DVD's to a single VHS tape - space wise? Horror!

Only 2:1.

The DVD case design was picked so they'd fit in to both CD and VHS racks in shops - CD ones on width, VHS on height.