Do you still have all your anime tapes from 20 years ago?

Why should I?
I moved from
- having four episodes per VHS tape
to
- VCDs having four episodes per disk
to
- Burned DVDs having twenty-five episodes per disk
to
- As much as my ___ TB external disks can handle
without looking back even once.

Why so many of you have this weird fetish for old, archaic technology?

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I genuinely regret trashing my old CTR TVs.
Not due to attachment, but due to retards paying a lot of money for them.

my mother throw all the old vhs when i left

Nice fakes. VHS is the biggest trick ever played on newfags

Probably around 200 tapes, sealed off in a few boxes in a corner of my garage.
It's a little hard to toss them while remembering how much anticipation there was in waiting for them to show up in my mailbox in a very different age.

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>Why so many of you have this weird fetish for old, archaic technology?
It's not quite the same thing as hoarding a closet-full of VHS tapes, but if you work in any kind of STEM field, archaic technologies can be tangentially or heavily related to your field, and you can argue that it's adding to your experience to learn about them. I got into electronics a few years before going to uni. When we got to the, "an electron is accelerated by a voltage between two plates and [...]" problems, I remember students saying stuff like, "what the fuck is this and why are we learning it?" at the same time I recognized that solving those problems were exactly how CRTs were designed. So I was a bit more motivated than those students simply because I had cannibalized parts from CRTs people were throwing out and read about them.

There's also a lot of different ways you can look into an old technology: how they worked, how they influenced other technologies/mediums, their advantages and disadvantages, why they were successful and why they died, which sub-components are still used and which are outdated, how expensive were they at the time, what types of applications they were used in and are there any niche applications they are still used in, and so on.

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>Buying anime
Nope

Nope, but all I had were some Sailor Moon, DBZ and Pokémon tapes, so not missing anything.

I work at a pretty big tech company that makes plane and boat hardware and if you walk around the campus there are hallways filled with giant machines that look like they are from the 80s that do who knows what. They probably haven't been turned on in 20 years.

I wish I had permission to just mess around with all the stuff.

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A couple. I lost one because my VHS got hungry enough to bite one in two.

what was the average cost of one fansubbed tape? did you simply pay for shipping and materials or was there a gratuity cost to the subber/sender?

I used to record episodes of YuYu Hakusho, Sonic X, Kirby and others religiously.

Lost all the VHSes when my family moved overseas.

Around $5 seemed to be about standard for VHS (maybe a few more for SVHS, a little more for custom labels, etc.), although many distributors and traders (including me) operated S.A.S.E. (self-addressed, stamped envelope).
This meant you simply sent new, blank tapes to the distributor along with a prepaid, preaddressed return package, and they would tape and send back to you sometime later.
If it was perceived that the distributor was obviously trying to make a profit (say >$10 tape), they would generally be shunned. You could generally tell by how they treated licensed titles. A little more leeway was given to the actual fansubbers with the LDs providing master tapes than the 3rd-generation copiers.

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>all
No, but I taped a lot off TV, and a few dozen haven't ended up digitalized, yet.

>DVDs having twenty-five episodes per disk
Oh, so you were the reason all good subgroups aimed for ~170MB/episode back then?

That dates back to CD-R times when you could fit 4 episodes per disk at 175MB apiece.

I have anime that I used to record on VHS off Adult Swim. Should have most of Trigun, Bebop, Big O, FLCL, and I think I might still have Metropolis.

>You could generally tell by how they treated licensed titles.

Is that the mindset that lead to how AnimeSuki handled licensed shit about 15 years back?
>licensed state in the US decides
Fuck the US.
It's ridiculous that in this day and age it's still impossible to watch most shows legally overseas, if you are not from the US.
Without Horrible, anime would be in an even sadder state.

It's always nice to see when a production committee decides to put its show on YouTube without regional restrictions.

I had so god damn many anime vhs tapes, I collected most of the mainstream anime shows and my collection only grew when dvds started to become a thing and vendors were in a panic to liquidate their stock pile of them for 1$-2$ a tape. 2001 and 2002 was a time to be alive to have the pick of the litter of titles.

unfortunately everything was destroyed along with my video game collection in a flash flood, I really miss my Slayers collection the most.

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I think i still have my love hina vhs that i payed my friend to convert from limewire since our broke ass could not afford a dvd or cd player

Yeah, morons who can never afford betamax or vhs during its hey day are now compensating for their poor decade. Some dude, bought my 27 inch CRT TV, and beta max for 10000 usd. I had on ebay for 500usd but the buyer just pick it up. I even included old JAV, hentai and porn with the tapes on it even though the guy is a rich born again christian with kids and a black wife.

I'm sure I'd talk shit about current computer setup in 2 decades though.