The official "I prefer VHS" thread

Dude111

I love the audio and video quality of VHS movies expecially in SP mode,nothing can beat it!!

DVDs are flat and look like crap (@ least to me) Analogue is 1000% better..

An interesting page on this: www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.8.24.112921.289.html


Im so grateful to have alot of my favourite movies on VHS in pure analogue! (Store bought SP mode tapes)


VHS is much better,no surprise.. ANALOGUE is much better! (Always has been )

andy1249

Your link is an "onion" type page , you know that right ? It was a joke !

rednik

I love rewinding tapes.:(

cnocbui

The OP obviously likes winding up - give them to her/him.

Judgement Day

I don't prefer VHS but I still buy a lot of them as a cheap source of entertainment for the kids (and myself). I have a multi-region VHS player which I stored in the attic when we switched over to DVDs and got shut of our video collection some years ago - it was one of the wisest moves I ever made. The kids went through my local Extravision childrens' DVD section in a matter of months and I resurrected the VHS player and began trawling charity shops for suitable tapes. The range out there is enormous and very cheap - .50 cents to €1 for a tape - and when you get bored with them just drop them back. Also, quite a lot of movies never made it onto DVD and can be either found in charity shops or bought online in the VHS format.

Winding tapes back is a disadvantage, as is the possibility of buying a dirty tape which then messes up the heads on your machine, but I have a cleaning tape and have generally been pretty lucky so far. The ability to restart the tape where you left off is also handy rather than having to shuttle through a DVD looking for the right scene. On balance DVDs are handier - take up less space etc. but I fancy I will continue to build my VHS collection in the coming years.

Dude111

andy1249 wrote:

Your link is an "onion" type page , you know that right ? It was a joke !

I dont believe anything on that page is a joke..