So how did rewinding tapes work? Like you actually had to sit there and play the movie backwards after?

I don't know where this meme came from. Maybe from that scene in Superstar.
The reading head of a VCR is the most expensive part of it and it got worn out each time you play something. the motors in the VCR are the next most expensive expandable parts. So you don't waste them on rewinding something you are not watching closely. If you just want to rewind the tape to beginning you use another machine called rewinder which is cheaper, faster and more durable

This. The screen would be black and it'd make a little whirring noise.

We also listened to music on tapes, too, but those could be flipped if the album was short enough.

Most players I used auto-rewinded when you got to the end. Same as cassette players.

And for the record OP, VHS sucked. The quality was shit and like cassettes it was all too easy for a dumb kid to fuck something up and have to spend half an hour picking tape out of the mechanism with a fork. But it was all we had so we loved it.

You do remember to rewind your DVDs, right?

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Yeah. It played backwards very fast though. After like 1988 or so, anyway.

Standard practice was to turn the TV off so you didn't see the image - many VCRs also disabled playback during rewind, as well.

It was no big deal. Only whiners ever cared, it took 2 minutes or so.

Look on YouTube to see a vcr with the case open while taking a tape and playing - it's incredibly cool technology.

You had to take the vjs out and use a rewind crank to rewind all movies. If you had multiple cranks, you could have races.

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Whoa this just gave me a flashback to a dream I just had. I put a vhs tape in then hit rewind when it already was and fucked the tape up. I know in real life this would do nothing.

lol Someone was pulling your leg. VHS were a single use format. Once they reached the end the tape was junk and thrown away.

VHS took some time to rewind. Usually people just get the movie food during that time.
Yea Forums tapes were easier because you could practically rewind it yourself with a pen. Besides, cassette tapes had a side B anyway.

I remember using this the most after watching Winnie the Pooh where Christopher Robin goes to school.

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Just remembered - what actually sucked was fast forwarding to the start of the movie. Most tapes had like 15 minutes of advertisement before the movie would start. Some trailers, and often word commercials for home video companies and subscription services.

I would watch them all ritualistically, loved it - most people hated it.

My old, original south park tapes had like 40 minutes of complete bullshit, and only two episodes per tape lmao.

I always used my homemade one.

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This

>sad frog

Aww man this takes me back to the 2011 Yea Forums days. I used to make so many sadfrog OCs you wouldn't believe. Always had good discussions going, before faggot mods swarmed the site and turned the place into a fucking concentration camp.

RIP funposting. A cheer to OP before his thread gets deleted.

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>put Milo and Otis in the VCR
>fast forward to the birth scene
>IT'S OTIS JR
>hit rewind
>watch the baby puppies go back in
>hit play
>repeat

Those were the days.

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you and I
we are the same

more

If you didn't have one of these and you preferred to wear out the heads on your VCR by rewinding that way, KYS.

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You'd rewind it to the sex scene or climactic twist of the movie, then return it to the store.

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Oh shit, remember putting a tape in and getting spoiled because it wasn't rewound all the way?

God, I remember my mom pissed off at me because I never rewinded after a watched a movie.
I wanna go back.

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Fuck, I completely forgot they used to put shitloads of ads on something you PAID FOR. Imagine if Netflix put 10 minutes of ads at the beginning of every movie, there would be a fucking outrage.

>preferred to wear out the heads

Motor, actually. The VCR would return the tape to the cassette, away from the heads, before rewinding.

>nerdy shit no one cares about

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>tfw lots of family tapes on VHS
>all rotted
>tfw taping shit on other VHS and never got found out

>implying anyone ever had a player long enough to actually wear out the motor

>recording the mortal Kombat movie trailer over the Titanic vhs
>Rewatch multiple times
>Get grounded and have to wait for the movie to be released on vhs as punishment
Worse then report card day

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She would get mad at me for this, but I didn't see the problem. I wanted to watch one and put on another, if I didn't do it, I had to rewind it myself and deal. It's not like we watched the same shit.

>in a box full of tapes in my parents garage there's a vhs with hours of Cinemax sex scenes I recorded on it

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Whoa

Mortal Kombat came out before Titanic lol

Did no one here rewind it with their finger like a cassette tape?

I always used my grandma's finger.

>the ass slap
diamonds

>Like you actually had to sit there and play the movie backwards after?
Yeah it ruined Memento.

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You had a rewinder that you put finished tapes in. You then popped something else in the VCR without having to wait.

I remember watching a VHS in the late 2000s that was shilling for DVDs while the Bluray/HDdvd war was going on

>rewinding VHS with a finger

>he didn’t have one of these growing up
pathetic

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Did it all the time

You used your knife to rewind it manually. It was way faster that way.

What am I looking at boss?

Remember when the internet was brand new, shit posting on your BBS of choice without any of this zoomer shit.

Unless I wanted to rewatch a recent scene, that's the only rewinding I remember. Otherwise it was way too slow. Plus we had an extranal rewinder to save the wear on the VCR.

a motor hooked up to a battery
I assume the staples box is just a weight to hold it in place

das it

A homemade DVD rewinder. Easy to make.

>he doesn't know about the short lived disposable DVD rental format that made discs literally unusable after two days after opening

>all these memes responses
I'm actually going tell you the truth and if you don't believe there are probably countless videos of people doing this on YouTube that can confirm what I'm about to tell you.

NO, YOU DID NOT WATCH THE WHOLE MOVIE BACKWARDS

That would be retarded. If you've ever rewound a DVD or Bluray before, that is exactly what rewinding a VHS was like. Everything sped by superfast and was over in a matter of two or more minutes. Oh, and pushing a VHS tape into a VCR had a very wonderful feel to it that no current technology comes close to replicating.

You put the tape in a tiny car and it did the rewinding for you.

kek. Imagine not having a DVD rewinder to keep your TV free.

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Ah cheers

Ours lasted from 1982 to obsoletion. Only ever got more cheaper ones with 4 heads and s video

You must be a gigazoomer to have never put a VHS into a VCR. Even in the early 2000's we still had VHS.

>tfw microwaved vhs tape with my grandmas soup as a prank when I was a kid
>gave it to her
>she didn't notice
>think nothing of it
>over the course of the next week she gets ill
>goes to doctor
>she has cobalt poisining and no one knows why except for me
>dies

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Bless this innocent user

It was a red car I remember. I think it was a Lamborghini.

Unironically go to a priest and have confession, that's fucked you absolute freak.

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please be joking

What happened when it rewound all the way and the motor was still on? Did it spin the tape around?

t. 3rd worlder

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wtf
you were old enough to know how to use vhs but you were never taught about the dangers of microwaving shit?

>never did the V.ery H.ot S.oup prank

It's like you hated fun.

So many idiots in this thread. To rewind a tape, you put it in upside down and played it. Real pros would fast forward it and be done in like 10 minutes.

If you went to far then it went back to the ending.

>Yea Forums tapes were easier because you could practically rewind it yourself with a pen.
Nobody rewound a cassette with a pen you tard. Maybe they took slack out by spinning a reel a little. Certainly no one spun a pen to rewind a whole tape or even part of one.

I remember how porn VHS stucked in VCR and I opened it up using screwdriver to pull out a casette before my parents come home. That was some hardcore experience.

jej

I've only told this story in another thread in 2014 on Yea Forums...

No. I'm not.

How the fuck do you live with yourself?

youtube.com/watch?v=yk8v9Ijp1So

There was something. Almost sexual and satisfying about it. people would get annoyed having to rewind a tape from the last person who watched it, but I enjoyed it for some reason

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>there would be an outrage if you paid for ads
You obviously don’t stream amazon or Hulu...

Liar

I rewind my VHS in a racing car do you?

>the satisfaction of hearing the tape whirrrrrrrr then finally stop with a soft click
I know exactly what you mean.

Fookin liar

I'm a zoomer yet I remember rewinding VHS in childhood

1998

I remember renting films to jerk off to, and based solely on their outside covers.
I would fast forward through the movie to find the sex scenes.

If there was static or distortion during the scene, it would always indicate that it was rewound a lot at that point.

>Oh, and pushing a VHS tape into a VCR had a very wonderful feel to it that no current technology comes close to replicating.
Especially after you worked up the nerve to mail order a porno and successfuly intercepted its delivery before anyone else in the home. Longest wait of my life.

When you're excited to play some newly bought/rented tape but the VHS machine was making strange noises and skipping shit.

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My backups are all CD cartridges.

This. It took practice to bust at the point in scene you wanted to. If you went past it and were on the edge you we’re screwed and were going to cum to the close up of the guys asshole and balls.

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I can't remember if it was these or DVD cleaners that played elevator type music.

Remember when you would have to pay a fine to Blockbuster if you did not rewind the tape?

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>Same as cassette players.
You sure about that m80? Audio tapes, being double sided, generally are not things you'd want to rewind. That's when you flip it to listen to side B. When you're done with side B, you'd want to fast forward it so that it was ready to play side A from the beginning next time.

Just saying, auto rewinding in a cassette tape player would be annoying as arse.

They will, you'll be gone though.

>Standard practice was to turn the TV off so you didn't see the image
Huh? No m8, when you rewind at full speed no image is even output. You press stop, THEN you rewind. If you press rewind while playing, you'll get output but it will rewind at like 1/8th of the speed.

Most of us had a separate dedicated rewinder that was much faster than doing it in the vcr and saved wear and tear on the vcr

Both of you are right, but it depended on the VCR.
>t. someone who went through billions of tapes and second-hand VCRs as a kid

Didn't it fuck up the tape if you rewound/fast fowarded without stopping? Maybe I always just superstitious since I kept fucking up my videos.

Oh? Even if you pressed stop first some would still output a picture during rewind/FF? Pretty strange design decision.

Dunno about that, but I believed and perhaps still do that pausing the tape could damage it. Can't say if it's true. Probably constantly rewinding to see a part again over and over would be bad for the tape, so there'd be some little truth to the theory for sure.

Not what I said at all. He said that standard practice was to turn off the TV so you didn't see the image and that some VCRs disabled playback when rewinding. In my experience, this is true. You said that you had to stop THEN rewind to reach full rewind speed. This is also true in my experience of *some* VCRs, not all. I owned several VCRs growing up that did allow you to rewind at full speed without pressing stop.

>fuck something up and have to spend half an hour picking tape out of the mechanism with a fork.
I'm an old fart who was a child in the early 80's, and grew up with VCRs and that literally never ever happened to me, my brother or anyone else I know. I guess it was just you.

This made me laugh more than it should have.

Different user here, but how the hell did that not happen to you even once? Old VCR heads were notoriously unstable and could easily fuck a tape up.

Kek im watching a tape rn

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You're an actual murderer, you piece of shit. Turn yourself in.

Am I a boomer if I'm 23. We had VHS till I was like 7

But, I do...

We call that poor.

My dad had a giant duffle back of VHS porn. I had to sneek down in the basement and stuff my hand in to pull it out and it hurt like fuck. But I made copies of it and jerked to it all the time. I think he figured it out years later abut never said anything.

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It wasn’t just him. It wasn’t extremely common but it absolutely happened.

Back when pussies were hairy like Yahweh intended.

True. Was a poorfag at mommy's but richkid at dads.

Are americans really this prude? No wonder you guys turn into incels.

My parents were southern Baptist. My Dad had been in the army. They just didn't think I should be watching it and they were right. I think i'd have been happier if I hadn't found porn so early. I think the big failure was he had it at all though.

It's not really murder, user was a kid and had no idea what the outcome of these actions would be.
Poor guy

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No, you could rewind while the movie was off. Additionally, a lot of people had a video rewinder, which was a machine that just rewound tapes, because it was believed rewinding tapes on a VCR would damage the tape and VCR over time. Video rewinders were faster, too.

How do we escape the cynicism user? I want off the ride.

>all these people saying they had video rewinders
Jesus, were your families made of money? Why on earth would you waste money on something like that when it's a built-in feature of the VCR? And no, rewinding in a tape rewinder was not better for the tape.

fuck the rest of the thread i want to hear more about this

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I wind down your mother in my car

Vroom vroom motherfuckers

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had my own rewinder. was pretty based never having to use the vcr to do it.

I still regret that mine broke and we got just a plain looking one.

I did it with pen/index finger

Hella f*cking based. You set her free

I used to remove a tiny piece of plastic on cassettes that I didn't want others to watch

Joker's trick

What are you talking about?

>had no idea what the outcome of these actions would be.
That's what we call second degree murder.

you had to manually wind it back with a butterknife. took hours

I hate it when the tape get stuck inside the player and having to dissect the machine to get it out safely.

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no morons, people don't die from eating soup that was in a microwave with a cassette

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Lolzapalooza get rekt toothless grannie

Nah, it's manslaughter at best

BBS isn't internet you rube. It's just someone's home computer that you connect to using deeDONGdeeDONGdeeeee.

Boomers are fucking retarded.

That’s manslaughter or some other negligence charge you sperg

>Like you actually had to sit there and play the movie backwards after?
Well you usually didn't sit there just go do something else
well when i was little i would sit there and watch the movie play backward sit was cool

It’s not supposed to be better for the tape. It’s supposed to be better for the vcr.

>not letting your children watch hardcore fucking is prudish
Stunning and brave

Because you were poor you smelly little twat.

cheeky

This is the first fucking time I ever heard of a video rewinder, I thought you guys were just trolling until i just looked it up and it's a real thing.
wtf who fell for this snakeoil junk, normal people just rewinded their shit in their vcr

This. Never had problems with the VCR, it was always the tapes unwinding.

No, you have to open the cassette case an manually swap the spools other way around. Playing it backwards would have damaged the tape.

No you cunt, some people just had older siblings.

The ball in the mouse came out once (i guess that's another outdated thing), and my little sister overheard me talking about how we need tape to stick the cover back on
so my little sister went and got the Monsters Inc tape and cut up the tape inside to stick back on the mouse

Did you barely watch tapes or something? It happened to everyone at least once, and you'd remember it if it did, because it was an absolute fucking hassle to fix. Maybe if you were rich and had a fancy VCR from the very early days it didn't eat anything, but the later stuff that was cheap enough for most consumers were notorious for it.

Buy one off ebay

If you put the cassette IN the soup like a dumb kid would do, I could absolutely see it leeching into the soup and killing someone.

>tfw I seriously can't tell what's trolling and what isn't in this thread
People weren't actually so stupid as to rewind the tape without stopping playback right?

That's the fun of Yea Forums, the thin line between cheeky jokes and legit retardation

*punches you* heh get on my level

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>press eject
>VHS ejects
>mfw the tape of the VHS is stuck inside or probably caught in something

>Getting anime sleeve tattoo.
What a fucking failure of a human being. The only one willing to settle down with someone like that would be a chink or an obese neet.

Trying a little too hard isn't she?

Check out Hulu some time

GRANDMOTHER GONNA FREAK

Stupid millennial, just flip the DVD and keep watching. The only problem was that subtitles don't work on 16:9 but that's OK because you get Dolby surround on the b side

Ok, this is depressing, this is deep.

It sucked. It really really fucking sucked. I’m sure you can go get the equipment if you want that authentic 90s feel though, you dumb zoomer faggot.

You could buy separate machines to rewind your videos back then. Separate from your VCR which generally could do it on their own. Some smaller vid stores had them in the stores themselves. You'd get a charge if you didn't rewind the vid sometimes. Some cunt wouldn't do it before I checked out my vid and I would start at the credits sometimes.

how many casettes did you fuck up as a child, lads

I went to a video store some years ago and took pic related with me to watch. I played the tape and noticed some occasional issues with the picture, but everyone who's rented a tape has experienced that to some degree, so I didn't think much of it. At one point the picture got very bad and was unwatchable, so I took the tape out. Tried playing other movies but my VHS was fucked beyond repair at that point.
So fuck this tape and fuck this movie. Never did see it the whole way through.

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Less than I did PS1 games. RIP Crash Bash.

Not many, I actually took care of that stuff.

I rewinded so many times a True Lies tape to watch the Jamie Lee Curtis scene that I fucked up that part. After I gave it back to the video store I spent several days being paranoiac as hell. But what a wank fest.

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Fuck America and their dumb terms for things. Murder is murder and this was not murder. You can't murder someone harder than someone else can murder someone.

Shit, I remember my dad giving me pic related as a gift back in the day. Used to play it all the time until a friend borrowed it and the disk broke in his backpack. Rip the game and rip dad.

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wtf, that's why you don't put people in backpacks, retard

Fuck you

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broke the original blood omen cd, i'm still fucking pissed

It's negligent homicide at worst. If he was just a child it probably goes without charge. Has to live with killing his grandma for the rest of his life.

I grew up with tapes and CDs and stuff, but I never remember rewinding anything. Can anyone genuinely give me a quick rundown? Like, I had Tarzan, Monsters Inc, whatever, a lot of stuff, on tapes, but they never required rewinding. Is this an older thing?

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VCR tapes you were supposed to rewind before returning it to the store. Be kind rewind.

Did you ever watch them a second time, user?

I dunno what kind of tapes are you talking about. Analog tapes always required to be rewinded. Maybe your player did it automatically after playing it till the end of the tape? CDs didn't need to be rewinded. That's a meme.

You need to rewind a VHS after you watch it to get the tape back to the other side to play it again.

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???

Playing the tape backwards instead of just rewinding it puts a massive strain on the tape as it's playing at a high speed. Just rewinding doesn't wear out the tape nearly as much and is faster usually.

I rarely rented tapes; we just bought them.
Sure; all the time.
Maybe the player did it automatically, because I've never rewinded a tape.
Makes sense, yeah. But dunno, I've never done this.

eh if you say so
sure as fuck doesn't matter now

>by the late nineties
found the millenial

Used one of these

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>album
>not your own mixtape
pleb

>tfw never grew old enough to experience giving a girl your mixtape

>Standard practice was to turn the TV off so
No, you switched a TV channel instead. Jesus Christ, is this thread full of LARPers?

never trust kids.

>rent VHS
>never rewind it when returning it
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! SOMEBODY STOP ME!

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Pushing it slowly through out this springy resistance until something clicks and you feel void under your fingers as cassette is pulled inside and plastic door on the hinges close as the type disappears into the slot.
The smell of vinyl and plastic coming from inside the VCR as cassette slot is being opened.
Rewinding movies while you see everything in fast forward with those lines and dots of static and some slight chromatic aberration.

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This was my favorite rewinder

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>all too easy for a dumb kid to fuck something up and have to spend half an hour picking tape out of the mechanism with a fork
How special were you as a kid..? I watched some movies 50-100 times and never had this issue

Based

I don't play video games but I've been told VCRs and video tapes are still used in video game development in Japan. Is this true?

Well they still use them for anime production so yeah probably

Mega kek

I still listen to cassettes in my car

Boomer here, You aren't missing anything special.

I have a rewinding machine that plays Beethoven when it's done rewinding.

They're are smaller than us... we could kill them.

Isn't VHS able to hold more than VCDs?
I remember not ever needing to change VHS but with VCDs you have discs 1 and 2 usually going to 4 for more lengthier films.

Well VHS can hold about 2 gigs of data and CDs held like 700MB

>tfw your VCR won't play linear audio so you can't watch anything on it now
At least I still got my betamax

Well VCD had a fixed amount you could fit but VHS was only dependent on the tape length (and thickness since it still had to fit inside the casing). I think for really long movies they decided to just split it into multiple tapes rather than using more fragile tape stock.

Titanic was on two tapes. I don't remember any single movie that was on more than one tape. Maybe LOTR.

Oh, also Scarface came on two tapes. The first tape ended with "INTERMISSION" too.

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>Cardboard VHS cases

BLASPHEMY.

>born 1990 - 1999 you'll have still experienced this but yeah there'll be posters on here that have never herd of the medium unironically

unironically kino.

Based and cobaltpilled

I recall some TV miniseries like the Stephen King ones got multi-tape releases.

I remember my old casette player only had FF, no FR, I was so confused my dad told me just flip it and FF and flip it again.

>I don't remember any single movie that was on more than one tape.
Lonesome Dove

Fuck VHS I'm glad that shit is dead and gone.

on the VCRs I had, you could:
a) rewind while playing, kinda works like searching through a DVD, BR or a file
b) rewind while not playing, will go faster but you won't see a thing
same shit applied to fast forward

I think it was really only the really old decks that couldn't do picture search.

This is how mine was too. I dunno what people are talking about having to change the channel or turn off the tv in the thread

A-are you a ghost?

>ywn ever rewind your dads cable porn vhs again to the exact same moment you found it, hoping he'd not notice
Besides, my dad is in the heavens anyway now...

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i wish to know the backstory of this webm

1998 is Gen X.
Nothing memorable except maybe Avatar

They charged you fees if you didn’t you lying zoomer

You seem like a swell guy user. :)

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I unironically kek´d.

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I need to pick one of these up. VHS has gotten really appealing to me recently.
>pic rel. paid at most 75 cents for each of these
it's just too good of a value. Even used blu-rays cost 5 bucks where I get them.

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Braveheart was.

Stop, my nostalgia boner can only get so hard.

Godfather. IIRC all 3 parts had 2 tapes.

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How do you even maintain these?
Tapes rot, recorders fail.

>watching Dead Alive
>no need to rewind
Based Peter Jackson

I haven't had a tape fail on me. I live in a fairly dry place and I keep my house pretty cool. As for VCRs I have a spare and if one of them goes out I plan on going to a thrift store to pick another one up. I'm specifically looking for an SVHS player but haven't had any luck. I should figure out what goes into repairing these and CRTs.
sorry for the cringey pic I just wanted to show what I watch these on.

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Generally 3 buttons, play, fast forward and rewind. Play is normal speed, fast forward just plays it faster, and rewind plays it backwards faster. You just rewind to the start to rewatch

comfy setup

oh shit

>>remember when you taped over your favorite KINO?
>>remember when VCR ate your favorite VHS

Imagine being Arnold in that scene and having to be all like "damn, Jamie Curtis, you fuckin' fine, all sexy with your tight body and horrific androgynous monster face. I would totally have sex with you, both my character and the real me." when all he really wants to do is fuck another 16 year old in his dressing room. Like seriously imagine having to be Arnold and not only sit in that chair while Jamie Lee Curtis flaunts her disgusting body in front of you, the favorable lighting barely concealing her stretchmarks and leathery skin, and just sit there, take after take, hour after hour, while she perfected that dance. Not only having to tolerate her monstrous fucking visage but her haughty attitude as everyone on set tells her she's STILL GOT IT and DAMN, JAMIE LEE CURTIS LOOKS LIKE *THAT*?? because they're not the ones who have to sit there and watch her mannish fucking gremlin face contort into types of grimaces you didn't even know existed before that day. You've been fucking nothing but a healthy diet of blondes and supermodels and later alleged rape victims for your ENTIRE CAREER coming straight out of the boonies in Austria. You've never even seen anything this fucking disgusting before, and now you swear you can taste the sweat that's breaking out on her dimpled stomach as she sucks it in to writhe it suggestively at you, smugly assured that you are enjoying the opportunity to get paid to sit there and revel in her "statuesque (for that is what she calls herself)" beauty, the beauty she worked so hard for with personal trainers in the previous months. And then the director calls for another take, and you know you could kill every single person in this room before the studio security could put you down, but you sit there and endure, because you're fucking Arnold. You're not going to lose your future political career over this. Just bear it. Hide your face and bear it.

You are a child of Baptist parents with a porn stash, this gives you a discount.

thanks.

>granddad had my favorite episode of ducktales on tape recorded off the TV
>the one where the Beagle Boys take over the Money Bin and use all its defences to fight off the army
>granddad recorded over it with fucking sound of music
I was so disappointed, but I know he had no idea.

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Wasn't my favorite VHS, but my Leave it to Beaver tape got stuck in there for like a month. Tried everything and then it just randomly came out one day.

Well it might have only been a week, time is weird when you're a kid

Weird, I had the first movie on VHS and it was only one tape.

>remember when you taped over your favorite KINO?
I agreed to let my mom tape over my Star Wars trilogy taped off the TV so she'd buy me the Special Edition box set.

You niggas seriously didn't have a dedicated VHS rewinder? Those thing rewinds tape faster than a vhs player.

I was born in 1998 so I'm definitely a zoomer, but we had a VCR up until like 2010. Just how young are you faggots?

Oh but i can at any time. I still have my old VCR stored in the attic along with VHS like Aladin, Peter and the wolf, the SW original trilogy before they switched the original Anakin, The pagemaster, Pete´s dragon and some stuff i taped myself because back in that time it was believed that once something stopped airing it would be lost for good... like tears in the rain.

It costs money. People usually just think: "why buy that single-purpose machine, when you can just have the tape rewound on the VCR itself"
Videorental stores should've been the ones that had those and not bother their customers to rewind the tapes.

okay it's not like rewinding a tape took a year

Based mindreader

I just made the wage cuck at my local rental place do it

drunk college girls acting stupid, what other story is there?

was that a massive dick at the end?

I dont get it.

There were actually some DVDs where you did flip them over to continue the movie. The original DVD release of Goodfellas was one.

Your dad watched porn, so he's in hell

When you hit rewind, you see the reverse of the birth. The pups go back inside.

I have tapes 3 decades old that work fine. I have 2 VCRs that both work fine. What's the problem? Nothing lasts forever

No you’re an early zoomer

Very nice

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>Look after my older cousin's daughter for a couple of hours (second cousins? I don't know)
>She points to my film collection
>What's that?
>It's my VCR.
>Huh?
>It's what folks used to watch movies with, using these things called "tapes", before the DVD.
>What's a DVD?
>You know those circular shaped discs that you and your mom watches on Blu Ray for movies? DVDs are the older version of that.
>Blu Ray for movies? Why not Netflix?
She then told me how its pointless for me to collect all my favorite movies on tapes or discs when I'm just going have to collect a new version of it all over again when something replaces it.

I'm 27 and I feel old for going through various storage formats. She also doesn't see why I respect Mario 64 so much for changing the gaming industry, or why I list the 80s Ghostbusters as my favorite film. Kids these days.

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You probably had a VCR that rewinded automatically and you're so stupid and lazy you never noticed.

kinyo

best girl fucking lost!

visited goodwill I see?

But why would anyone do that? Autism?

some players automatically rewound the tapes at the end.

That's just how the way things are. Technology is quick to update, and kids don't stop to see what's past.
There will probably be some minor 'panics' when they discover that the content they like can't be viewed anymore once the services are shut down or the content is taken down, but that's probably it. They'll just move on to the next company.

>finding anything but dragonball at a goodwill
where the fuck do you live?

cap me pls

You should have protected your identity better, Bryan. The authorities have been notified.

Your dad knew the very first time you grabbed a tape, user.
He just left you to your own devices because he was so proud you weren't a homo.

>You will never know what it feels like to push a VHS tape into a VCR.
I never knew this was a feeling to be sentimental for. The technology isn't really expensive, I don't think. You could probably find it if you wanted to.
>Nor will you ever get the chance to tell a girl "I have to return some videotapes." Just a pretense for talking to a girl. So much of society has been fucked by advancing technology. Tinder, smartphones, etc.

I remember watching Toy Story 2, alot and sometimes being really pissed off that it was all the way at the end, and I would have to wait SUCH A LONG TIME for it to rewind. I didn't time it, but it felt like 30-60 minutes to rewind a 90 minute movie.

Fortunately DVD's were able to rewind a triple speed so it was easier to be disciplined about rewinding you DVD's when you finished watching them, than with VCR's.

We had a machine on the lamp table, that was specifically designed for rewinding tapes, if you didn't want to bother with the VHS, while you were watching broadcast television.

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My dad would get furious if we didn't use the rewinder.

>you will never again receive another $2 fine for failing to rewind your tapes

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I was born two years after that and I remember them too. I had it for like a year I think.

>Back when pussies were hairy like Yahweh intended.

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God I fucking remember this movie holy shit. Seeing this picture is like a spiritual awakening.

Its kinda different m8 you could just fast forward, also the adds were usuallly pretty great. It was usually trailers for new movies and shit, didnt have internet either

They killed hundreds of animals filming that shit.