Posted on 07/21/2016 8:28:29 AM PDT by Coronal
It’s been almost two decades since the DVD arrived, sparking the long, slow decline of video cassette tapes. But the tape era is about to come to a final close.
The last maker of VHS-compatible video cassette recorders, Japanese manufacturer Funai Electric, says its going to stop producing the devices at the end of the month due to declining sales. Sony said it would cease production of video tapes in its Betamax format last year, 13 years after it stopped making compatible recorders.
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There's always the microwave.
I had hundreds of VHS tapes. I had hundreds of music cassettes. I was moving and looked at boxes upon boxes of the tape media. I tossed them all out. Haven’t regretted it a bit.
Live by the network, die by the network. If it's not on your hardware, in your facility, under your control, YOU DON'T HAVE IT.
In my work I ran into an old HP Computer with a cassette drive.
I use a Netgear Wi-Fi router and it comes out of the box with password protection on the Wi-Fi. Was yours wide open and unprotected when you got it?
That’ one business I don’t miss at all, lol.
But I DO still have some VHS in storage.
D'oh, I made an assembly edit in the middle of my tape!
Thanks, Roadcat, for that advice. There is a program I once downloaded that tells how many users are connected to your router. Another program measures whether your internet co. is actually providing the speed you pay for.
[I am gonna miss that flashing “12:00”.]
Me too. I always knew what time it was back then.
But that would be like 1984. Oh, wait......
A sad day. I worked in a mall selling VCR’s during college. I personally sold more than 350 of them during the ‘85 Christmas season.
Was the TC generator on internal or regen?
Low quality VHS picture and 1 or possibly 2 channel audio is something I don’t miss.
I always cared enough to rewind my DVDs.
I have very little trust with “the cloud”.
Betamax #1 was the best machine I’ve owned! Great visual fidelity, simple programming ability, great sound, Far superior to VCRs, which I’m still unable to program due to complexity. That said, I suspect I’ll keep my vcr until the last repairman dies. Not planning to purchase a transfer machine! And if connectivity to the future cloud home of my movies goes out due to whatever, I’m gonna have a backup generator to run my old dvd and vcr players! Of course, to my kids, I sound like my grandfather who told stories about Model ‘A’s arriving in pieces on flatcars from the factory!
“None of the DVD players have a rewind button. It’s a pain in the ass to do it by hand.”
I just flip them over.
My wife has many VHS tapes but no player.
I have a few quads in a storage unit.
Sort of.
Unregulated digital equivalents are available on the internet. The powers that be have been trying to get rid of them since the first bulletin board.
Internal, and drop frame was off.
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