VCR

Iomib

Is it still possible to buy an new stand alone vcr ?

RacoonQueen

Yes.

jimmynokia

i have one its a good one dont know what its worth in great nick mind ya

starbelgrade

Only if you own a time machine.

Kojak

I thought this was going to be another spam thread...

starbelgrade

Kojak wrote: »

I thought this was going to be another spam thread...

Spam is had to get these days too!

deathrider

Check in here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056384216

punk77

starbelgrade wrote: »

Only if you own a time machine.

What year is this?

Yakult

What's a VCR?

Hank_Jones

Yakult wrote: »

What's a VCR?

Well, prior to the invention of Sky+ boxes, long, long ago people had these magic boxes on which they recorded programmes, films and other such television related items.

A "video cassette" was placed into the magic box and then there was 45 of trying to get the magic box to work properly, by which time the programme you wished to record had finished.

OPENROAD

starbelgrade wrote: »

Only if you own a time machine.

Luckily for me, I do

raveni

Iomib wrote: »

Is it still possible to buy an new stand alone vcr ?

Try an antiques shop:pac:

Really though, for a stand alone one try ebay, argos have combis: http://www.argos.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Search?storeId=10152&catalogId=13352&langId=111&searchTerms=vcr&authToken=

krudler

we had a top loading VCR, I remember my dad bought us Raiders Of The Lost Ark on vhs in 1982, it had the trailer for Temple Of Doom on it, I think it cost £40 at the time, videos were crazy expensive back in the 80's

LighterGuy

Last time I checked (Around a year ago or something) Argos was selling VCR's. Probably your best bet to look in the catalog, OP.

Ruu_Old

*looks up Videoplus number beside programme*

LighterGuy

krudler wrote: »

we had a top loading VCR, I remember my dad bought us Raiders Of The Lost Ark on vhs in 1982, it had the trailer for Temple Of Doom on it, I think it cost £40 at the time, videos were crazy expensive back in the 80's

Very similiar to what me and my bro were talking about the other day
we were going on about prices back in the day compared to now. Random stuff such as a SNES game costing £45-50 pounds! :eek: ... A game thats only a few KB's in data. Even games today cost the same (but at least todays games have a million dollar budget tho) ... its kinda crazy. But I guess the forefront of tech always costs the same.

krudler

LighterGuy wrote: »

Very similiar to what me and my bro were talking about the other day
we were going on about prices back in the day compared to now. Random stuff such as a SNES game costing £45-50 pounds! :eek: ... A game thats only a few KB's in data. Even games today cost the same (but at least todays games have a million dollar budget tho) ... its kinda crazy. But I guess the forefront of tech always costs the same.

Street Fighter 2 cost 70 pounds on release, and people complain about 40-45 euro for an new game these days

Radharc na Sleibhte

Hahaha, tapes.





Jesus, i havent said that word in 15 years

LighterGuy

krudler wrote: »

Street Fighter 2 cost 70 pounds on release, and people complain about 40-45 euro for an new game these days

Its mental isnt it.
By todays standards SNES/Mega Drive games are a piece of crap (in comparison) Just makes you think what it going to be like in 10-15 years time.

Alot of people like Call of Duty for a great example. Next game comes out in November. Will sell millions all at 50 euro a pop. Despite its popularity it'll soon be nothing but an old game that could be downloaded in seconds as current Snes/Mega Drive games can be done today. Personally I dont think it'll take 10-15 years thinking about it. Nothing stopping me from downloading a ps2 game from 2000-2005 era in about 15 mins and thats only 5 years ago. Gotta love it tho :pac:

up for anything

What is crazy is the price to convert VHS tapes to DVD! :eek:

Also that even if you think you have kept your tapes in good condition that they can still develop a mould which makes them impossible to convert and therefore next to useless.

mikemac

Xtravision used to threaten to fine you if you didn't rewind the tape for the next customer :eek:

Yes OP, it's still possible to buy a VCR, Argos has them

4leto

Ahh VCRs them was the days, when they first came out they truly were life enhancing,

I think all we had was 5 channels and the odd decent film on Saturday or Sunday, then all of a sudden we had a world of choice and you could actually record a programme as well, incredible.

Now that is all routine and everyday,

But lets not forget the pirate Porno whose quality was always bogus, I think I learned how to speak German while reading Dutch subtitles. EErrrrrr not that I watched a lot of it.

Forest Master

Hank_Jones wrote: »

there was 45 of trying to get the magic box to work properly

WTF are you trying to say? "45" is a noun now?

Immaculate Pasta

I have one. Do you want me to fax that over to you? I have a spare boombox, rubix cube and keytar as well if you're interested?

Mike 1972

New Video recorders are very hard to find in Ireland/UK but they do exist.

On the continent they have decent chain stores like Saturn and Media Markt which still stock them although their tuners (for recording off the TV) may not work in Ireland (with digita switchover its probably a moot point at this stage)

Whats really pi$sing me off at the moment is the difficulty finding a DVD recorder that will work with Saorview. (I know one can get external boxes but who the fup wants all that faffing around with extra plugs/leads/remotes/complicated timeshifting) Damn RTE and their policy of lets-pick-a-different-system-to-whatever-the-Brits-use.

nlgbbbblth

Yes.

It's funny how people think they automatically vanished when superseded by DVD players.

As if crack commando SWAT teams were breaking into people's houses at night and robbing their VCRs.

I'd recommend you buy a decent second hand machine though. The majority of new VCRs manufactured post-2000 are rubbish.

JVC HR-S9600 S-VHS is a great machine.

x_Ellie_x

I don't think so. I remember reading something about the last factory making them shut down about 2 years ago.

Firetrap

You can still get them on amazon uk. I'd imagine that if you went into an independent electronics store you might have a better chance of getting one there? You'd be surprised who still uses them. What I found mad was how popular audio cassettes continued to be amongst older people

Cicero

I have one - it sits neatly beside my cassette deck and record player & wireless

Trevor451

LighterGuy wrote: »

Its mental isnt it.
By todays standards SNES/Mega Drive games are a piece of crap (in comparison) Just makes you think what it going to be like in 10-15 years time.

Alot of people like Call of Duty for a great example. Next game comes out in November. Will sell millions all at 50 euro a pop. Despite its popularity it'll soon be nothing but an old game that could be downloaded in seconds as current Snes/Mega Drive games can be done today. Personally I dont think it'll take 10-15 years thinking about it. Nothing stopping me from downloading a ps2 game from 2000-2005 era in about 15 mins and thats only 5 years ago. Gotta love it tho :pac:

I find snes games to be better than the junk they pump out now tbh

Dangerous Man

krudler wrote: »

Street Fighter 2 cost 70 pounds on release, and people complain about 40-45 euro for an new game these days

MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) Get the actual original arcade game for... nothing.

4leto

I remember my Brother collecting all the big VHS Disney releases for his daughters and I remember saying to him you get a pirate of ***** for a fiver and he said no the originals will last. LOL

Disney really have found a way to print money, by releasing their content on different formats.

westendgirlie

mikemac wrote: »

Xtravision used to threaten to fine you if you didn't rewind the tape for the next customer :eek:

That used to p1ss me right off! Renting a video, getting home then having to rewind the blinking thing!

westendgirlie

Rememeber when cd's came out. Their selling point was that (unlike vinyl) CDs wouldn't scratch or jump song !

Jimoslimos

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Well, prior to the invention of Sky+ boxes, long, long ago people had these magic boxes on which they recorded programmes, films and other such television related items.

A "video cassette" was placed into the magic box and then there was 45 of trying to get the magic box to work properly, by which time the programme you wished to record had finished.

Well you know whenever the programme did record I could take that cassette out of the magic box and give it to a friend to watch on their own magic box.

Try doing that with your fancy sky+

Forest Master

westendgirlie wrote: »

Rememeber when cd's came out. Their selling point was that (unlike vinyl) CDs wouldn't scratch or jump song !

Did you just decide to make that up? Nobody ever said that.

Forest Master

Jimoslimos wrote: »

Well you know whenever the programme did record I could take that cassette out of the magic box and give it to a friend to watch on their own magic box.

Try doing that with your fancy sky+

No need to - just download the torrent.

nlgbbbblth

DVD recorder with HDD rules.

westendgirlie

Forest Master wrote: »

Did you just decide to make that up? Nobody ever said that.

Nope didn't make it up. Back in the late 80s I remember the hype was they wouldn't scratch or jump

Forest Master

It wasn't though. The hype was that they were compact, you could fit up to 80mins on it, & the sound was crisp.

Nobody ever said "they don't scratch".

nlgbbbblth

Forest Master wrote: »

It wasn't though. The hype was that they were compact, you could fit up to 80misn on it, & the sound was crisp.

Nobody ever said "they don't scratch".

74 minutes was the maximum when initially launched.

Forest Master

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

74 minutes was the maximum when initially launched.

Yeah, 74/80 - whatever. But nobody said "ooh these don't scratch".

westendgirlie

Well I'll do a bit of research and get back to you on that one. Haven't just imagined it for the sake of summat to post!

Forest Master

westendgirlie wrote: »

Well I'll do a bit of research and get back to you on that one. Haven't just imagined it for the sake of summat to post!

Do it - back it up yo!!

westendgirlie

Yo? For sure dawg

looky loo

Still have the tv/video combi....hanging on to it, Im going to be famous on antiques roadshow one day...:)

westendgirlie

westendgirlie wrote: »

Yo? For sure dawg

http://mobile.wikipedia.org/transcode.php?go=Compact+Disc&seg=3&PHPSESSID=hl9q5rp5qh1adkdje357718ql0

Now if you look down that page Sony mention compact disc ability to withstand fingermarks and scratching. I know on that webpage they don't give a definitive "they won't scratch" but ithe advertisers at the time made a point of saying they wouldn't! I know cos my mum gave out stink about the money she had wasted when my cds wouldn't work.

I'm on my phone and my researching a bit tedious but gimme time and I'll find more

PogMoThoin

Hank_Jones wrote: »

Well, prior to the invention of Sky+ boxes, long, long ago people had these magic boxes on which they recorded programmes, films and other such television related items.

Ah, Sky+, where you buy a box with recording functions, then you rent the ability to record from them. Remove your Sky card from a Sky+ box and it doesn't record (or even play back the stuff you recorded). Pretty shíte if you ask me

4leto

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Ah, Sky+, where you buy a box with recording functions, then you rent the ability to record from them. Remove your Sky card from a Sky+ box and it doesn't record (or even play back the stuff you recorded). Pretty shíte if you ask me

No way

Sky+ is the greatest invention since the wheel,,no I exaggerate Sky+ is much better.

HalloweenJack

I walked past a sex shop earlier and saw they were selling porn... on VHS!

First, who still buys porn these days?

Second, who still buys VHS???

Sam Vimes

Forest Master wrote: »

Do it - back it up yo!!

On that gadget show with Stephen Fry a few weeks ago it showed a guy promoting CDs by doing all kinds of stuff to it like putting honey on it and showing that it would still play.