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VHS finally taken off life support.

For some reason i thought this was about VH-1.

But I never really used my VCR's much to record stuff, it just seemed like a hassle with the rewinding and all that. But now that I have a replay-tv and cable dvr, i seldom watch a show when it is on.
 
I've found that high-quality HD displays excel at making lesser-quality video formats look REALLY REALLY bad! :lol:
 
S. Gomez said:
Scrooge4747 said:
S. Gomez said:
Can you hook up a VCR to an HDTV?
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Sure you can, why would you not be able to?

It's polishing a turd, but it can be done.
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I have almost no clue about what can and cannot be done with an HDTV. :) It doesn't matter too much, I can find other ways to watch DS9 when I want to, but I wanted to know.
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You can connect anything to anything with wires.

If I really wanted to I could hook up my DVD player to a 30-year old TV set in my parent's garage. I'd need some specialized wires, and probably need to make them myself but it "can be done."

The RCA/composite cables (the red, yellow and white ones) are on the back of every VCR and every TV or even a co-auxial cable. Connect A to B. Boom. VCR plugged into a HDTV.

It'll look like ass, but it can be done.
 
I still have a lot of vhs, prerecorded that's not available on DVD and things I've taped off tv. My mom is anti DVD and I can still find vhs movies she likes at thrift shops-sometimes buy one get one free.

I have a combo hooked up to my hd tv, and my dvr gives me the option to record to VHS. I might do so with my Ab Fab and Dead Man's Gun recordings.

If I ever get Dark Shadows on DVD, that would really leave me a lot of tapes!
 
TV converter coupon program's out of cash; wait list started

By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY
The government's $1.34 billion coupon program for digital converter boxes ran out of money on Sunday.
Anybody requesting a $40 coupon to offset the cost of buying a converter box for digital TV will now be placed on a waiting list, says Meredith Baker, acting head of the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
How long will people have to wait? "I don't know," Baker told reporters on a conference call Monday. Already, 103,000 people are on the list. Baker attributed the cash shortfall, in part, to a late surge in coupon requests.
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Trekker4747 said:
ToddPence said:
People are still using videotapes as the primary method to record programs. Although commercial VHS releases have been dead for quite some time, blank videotapes and VCR machines will still be around for awhile.
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Not so sure about that, I suspect that -especially when being offered by cable/satellite companies at such a cheap price- DVRs are more popular than people give them credit for and will only continue to grow in popularity.

I think what would help them "take off" is if one doesn't have to buy one AND use that company's proprietary guide/software and can just use it with their exsisting cable company they'd become even more popular.
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Well, you don't have to buy one at all if you have cable. It costs me a big fat $7 per month extra on my cable bill to have a DVR as opposed to a regular cable box which I have to have for HD.

FordSVT said:
I'd also point out that a lot of people don't "record" anything on TV, save maybe sports games. Too easy to download the shows you've missed after the fact these days. Millions of people do it.
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You're assuming a whole lot with that. Although it is becoming more popular to watch shows online, it barely has any market penetration and you can't simply go online for all shows the next day. As for DVR recording of shows... incorrect. There is enough of it going on that Nielsen has had to change how it opreates to accomodate for time shifting. I DVR everything and time shift and that is exactly what everyone who has a DVR does.

FordSVT said:
Sheep said:
Too bad, as VHS is better than DVD any day of the week.

:D
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That guys sure did put a lot of effort into that post, it's too bad that most of his points are totally wrong. Not just in hindsight, they're just wrong. He's seriously arguing that VHS sound is superior and Dolby 5.1 and DTS are "junk" because the human brain can only analyze four channels of sound at once? If that's even accurate, which I doubt, that's not the point! VHS tapes at their best had "Dolby Surround", a much inferior audio format that attempted to do what 5.1 eventually did but rather poorly.

That's not even taking into account that most VHS tapes started to lose their audio integrity long before visual integrity, my Gold Edition of Independence Day (the last VHS title I bought) crackles like crazy, especially the rear channels. The picture is still OK, but not as good as the picture I get on my DVD copy.

And he is delusional about wear and tear. As a little kid he might not have noticed, but I'm willing to bet all of his tapes had scan lines, slow spots, color issues, etc. after dozens of viewings.

I also don't miss tape jams and head tracking issues. Jesus.
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You're absoutely ocrrect, this is a propoganda piece by some dope stuck in the past. I remember 10 years ago when I was selling electronics in a department store and this regional manager was trying to convince us that HD was pointless because your eyes could only see x number of lines of resolution. Bullshit, plain and simple.

I defy anyone to show me an SD tv next to an HD TV with HD programming on it and tell me that the SD looks better. The same goes for DVD and VHS.

-Shawn :borg:
 
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