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

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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.

Sam Vimes

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

Sky+ doesn't cost any extra per month, just the installation fee

Why would you want to remove your sky card?

Snakeblood

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

I remember Aliens was 79.95 in Videozone in Dundrum. 87, I think.

PogMoThoin

Sam Vimes wrote: »

Sky+ doesn't cost any extra per month, just the installation fee

Why would you want to remove your sky card?

You buy the box, its yours to keep, but it will not record without a Sky subscription. If you drop the Movies or Sports packages you will no longer be able view content already recorded. Many people cancel Sky or let their subscription run out and use the box as a FTA box.

Big Nasty

When I made my confirmation in '86 I asked for a VCR. My Dad paid IR£320 for a second hand one in an electrical shop in Bray. Saw brand new DVD players for sale for €49.95 in Lidl today! :eek::eek::eek:

tallaghtfornia

God video tapes! Anyone remember Crossroads Video in walkinstown? I remember going in there on a Saturday night (I used to look forward to it all week) and the que would be out the door (All there films were a pound) also remember the 'dice man' been in there for a short peroid. They also had a 50p section rite at the door when you went in and a Betamax section in the early 80s.

And they also had a naughty section! Up the front of the shop, remember I caught my Dad looking it before! Also remember they had a lot of Pirate copys of the latest movies.

That place was a gold mine

The storys we will tell our Grandchildren!!!!

Sam Vimes

PogMoThoin wrote: »

You buy the box, its yours to keep, but it will not record without a Sky subscription. If you drop the Movies or Sports packages you will no longer be able view content already recorded. Many people cancel Sky or let their subscription run out and use the box as a FTA box.

I really don't see the problem tbh. It's called a sky+ box, it's meant to provide a very good service from sky called sky+. If you want to watch, record, pause and rewind FTA tv then get a FTA box that provides those features. You're basically saying that sky+ is sh!te because it requires you to have sky

westendgirlie

http://www.80sactual.com/2008/09/compact-discs.html

I knew I was right!!!!!

Stinicker

nlgbbbblth wrote: »

DVD recorder with HDD rules.

This tbh, I have one of these and it is a great machine, I use it to archive the odd programme from the Sky Box and you can edit out the ad breaks and then burn to DVD in no time. I used to have a normal DVD recorder before but you are too constrained and the Hard drive allows for greater flexibility and for easy playback if you recorded live tv from a non Sky+ Box. I bought mine in Currys up in Belfast last year for around UK£250 when they were €380 here! They have fallen in price alot since though.

up for anything wrote: »

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

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.

My old Panasonic VCR is still working well despite being 14 years old (Bought it in 1997 costing £250) and I just took the Scart lead which normally goes to the TV and input it into the DVD-HDD Recorder and playback the tape and it will then record it onto the Harddrive and DVD, very quick and simple and your footage is then preserved digitally forever.

VHS tape degrades with time and when I got my DVD-HDD Recorder my first task for it was to set about digitising all my important old VHS tapes, like weddings, school concerts, that time I appeared on TV as a kid etc. plus a few other things that never made it to DVD.

There is absolutely no point in digitising your old VHS film collection as the quality will never be the same and it is easier to buy it again on DVD or download it. Just the sentimental stuff as I said above. I have them all digitised.

What prices have you seen asked for VHS-DVD conversion?

Guy:Incognito

jimmynokia wrote: »

dont know what its worth

Very little

PogMoThoin

Sam Vimes wrote: »

I really don't see the problem tbh. It's called a sky+ box, it's meant to provide a very good service from sky called sky+. If you want to watch, record, pause and rewind FTA tv then get a FTA box that provides those features. You're basically saying that sky+ is sh!te because it requires you to have sky

Its called vendor lock-in. Most people who sign up for Sky+ have no idea they loose the movies/sports they recorded if they drop the packages. The box becomes useless if you want to drop Sky and opt for FTA (which is happening very regularly in this recession as people cut household costs). There are many recording products available that aren't tied to a Sky subscription like this one. You buy a box that records, then you rent the ability to record from them