Having to press the STOP button to rewind the tapes faster was peak childhood
Having to press the STOP button to rewind the tapes faster was peak childhood
Bump because zoomers will never understand the soothing mechanical noises of analog video.
it only feels comfy because it's linked to our childhood and brings back good memories, I'll be fucked if I ever want to go back to it
>he didn't have a dedicated rewinder to prevent mechanical wear on his vcr.
My parents had one vcr from 1986 to 200whatever.
Do zoomers still say rewind when they go back to rewatch part of a video? There's no actual winding involved in that act anymore.
>put in VHS
>press play
>see credit roll
Untrue, the comfy remains unperturbed. It is the picture quality that will kill you.
and the fact that I wouldn't be able to torrent them, that's what worries me the most
>put in movie
>press play
>starts right after the sex scene
>making the picture scroll up with the V-Hold
Man, I'm old.
reminder that cool kids had a tv with a vcr embedded in it
>tv breaks
>vcr is also now broken
theres no actual footage involved in filming either but boomers zoomers and jewmoors still continue to say it
wrong, cool kids had shit at home and went to friends' to watch stuff
Why was it like that anyway?
>sex scene comes up
>picture quality takes a nose dive
Had a fuckin dvd playing one, famalam
you ever take the lid off a VCR and look at the inner mechanism? that is peak 20th century mechanical tech right there, before everything became circuit boards and micro components, it's all cams and gears and belts and levers and mini-motors and whatnot, really pretty impressive tbqhf
>put on a taping of an old superbowl game
>its porn
Rewinding while it was still playing meant the picture still had to be visible
Stopping it meant the reels could spin more freely
this, last year I took a nice old 25" CRT TV I still have and hooked my (one remaining working) old VCR up to it and popped in an 80s vintage Raiders of the Lost Ark tape and it loaded the tape and started to play the previews after the obligatory tracking self-adjustment... boy did I feel like I stepped into a time machine and went back about 30 years
>watching MTV all day just to record your favorite music videos
>they NEVER replayed that one really cool music video you once saw
friend of mine used to create "fun tapes". they were a collection of music videos, mad tv sketches and some random stupid shit he managed to record. we used to watch them when we were getting shitfaced around 98, 99. good times.
Not betamex was top .. oh wait you used the shilled jew lesser rubbish
You're a betamax
>mfw doing stupid shit like this in the 90s was so much more fun and carefree than now
Use a rewinder or you'll fuck up the tape, user! Then dad proceeds to beat shit out of you. I miss the 90s.
Never knew that trick