I'll Never Give Up My VCR

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The movies and TV shows I still have on VHS tape that never found their way to DVD remind me why I got interested in making movies.

The original Outer Limits in black and white, The Invaders, Frankenstein Vs. The Wolfman, The Mummy starring Boris Karloff, Carnival Of Souls, independent action, horror, and science fiction movies from the 1980s. Who can forget The American Ninja, Revenge Of The Ninja, Hands Of Steel, Cyber Trackers, Scanners, To Die For 1 & 2, Pumpkinhead, and Blood Sport?

I just bought a dual recorder last year with a digital tuner for my HD TV. Some of the old movies come out blurry on an HDTV. But, that's the way some old films will look on a high res TV. The same images look better on an old CRT TV.

Any others out there like me? :huh:
 
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I tend to look at it as "Collectors."

Besides, when I need reference material to write a new script, a movie and TV series collection as big as mine comes in mighty handy. So, my cup is half full. :)
 
I still have a few VCRs and a bunch of movies. I use it for cheap flicks I want to see maybe once or twice more if I come across them, or cheap flicks I have been meaning to see for a long time, and sometimes for inexpensive reference. Like I picked up a nice copy of I spit on your grave for a quarter just to watch it again, and I paid a buck each for a few little boxed sets like Indiana Jones and The Planet of The Apes that I might watch a few scenes of for reference if I am thinking on those styles or something.

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I guess the old DVD players may be going the way of VCRs considering they are selling the regular DVDs now. I bought a bunch of DVDs from a Blockbuster Video that was going out of business. I suppose everything is going over to Blue Ray now.

Great. Another apparatus I have to figure out :rolleyes:

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Yes, but if he is like me, a SUBSTANTIAL investment was made not only in films on VHS, but high quality hardware to play them... I'd have to respend thousands to replace my VHS copies of films with DVD... I'll stick with my VHS collection as it sits... and my DVD collection. An input switch is much more cost effective.
 
I still have a bunch of wrestling tapes, music compilations and a small handful of movies that haven't made it to DVD, so you can believe I'll probably never get rid of mine either.

I'm a horrible, horrible pack rat, although I don't own a single VHS tape of something I can get on DVD. I've at least got that going for me.
 
...I have a copy of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" on 3/4"...really, I do :D I couldn't just leave it there to be discarded...



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Someone has to say “I’m not buying all that 80’s porn again on DVD, that’s like half a million dollars!” so go ahead, someone else say it. :lol:

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Okay, guys. I think it's cute that you keep all the tapes. And, I can see how it could be quite costly to just toss them out, to be replaced with DVD. Let me say that I'm not at all suggesting that you change your VHS-saving ways.

However, it's worth mentioning that tapes don't last forever. Neither do DVD's, for that matter, but they last a heck of a lot longer, if properly cared for. So, those particular shows that you really love and couldn't bare being without -- you might want to consider digitizing. This is not copywrite infringment if it stays within your posession (right?).
 
Sometimes I do load things off VHS over to my PC. I have a deck in-line at command central (in the dark).

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VHS is a low quality dinosaur compared to what is out there today, but it isn’t a bad format for like shooting informal rehearsals. (You can let it go for an hour or two and just forget about it without beating down the heads on an XL or GL, or filling a card or recharging a battery.

I lost a 16mm project one time and was still able to make at least something from the VHS rehearsal footage. Small consolation, but it was the only consolation.

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Once one always one I guess, but yeah.

I don't really do anything musical anymore though. I still have some gear and instruments and a 1/4 finished home studio with various booths and a live room, but somehow which is beyond me, I'm just not into it anymore.

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