ALthough we have a dvd player, we STILL have a VHS machine and use it once in a while. It's not bulky and funky but it's my mom's, and Arthur is still on VHS, so... so are our Christmas specials: Peanuts, Rudolph, etc. It's fun to listen to those wheels go squeak squeak whilst rewinding. We still have to remind her how to use the dvd player. We've stopped buying VHS, but a lot of old films she recalls are not yet on DVD, can you believe it?
and one more thing... I'd KILL to have had one of those audio dub buttons when I was a kid. Oh my gosh. Fun times. I think it would be a hoot to hear what 8-year-old Mark thought was funny as hell! I have some OLD OLD tapes of me and my friends goofing off on cassette. We were basically acting out all our Steve and Garry dreams of being funny-as-hell radio jocks. Then we'd read and reenact the dramas and comical farces of Archie comics - wait, I did that in my 20's.
Like I said above, some things are best left to memory. I'm sure our humor was quite juvenile, (as were we) but at the time we thought it was the height of comedic brilliance. I'd probably cringe through the whole thing. I did recently find an old cassette tape of my friend Paul and I jamming. It was obviously early 80s, and we were playing stuff like Adam and the Ants and Generation X tunes. Man did we suck.. LOL
I still have mine, though it has problems. It won't rewind. I have hundreds of movies on VHS that I never upgraded to DVD. Plus I use the VCR all the time to record. I'll probably finally upgrade to TIVO sometime right before TIVO goes extinct. I'm slow to the game. :)
Thanks for sharing that! We got our first VCR when I was 17. Mom actually got a job just to save for it. (back then most mom's still stayed at home and didn't work.) We bought it at Kroger's. (there wasn't a wal-mart back then). What's funny was, back in the 80's, Kroger grocery store had an electronics department.
We had that same giant VCR! Is that yours in the photo above, or is that just a random photo from the web? Man, that brings back memories! My dad was a gadget-hound like me, so of course we got one early on.
I was just thinking that I have a bunch of stuff on VHS that I'd like to transfer to DVDs at some point. Mostly rock videos that I taped from MTV and whatnot.
I get the DVR from Comcast, and it's great. Extremely convenient to have the series recording feature; you set your favorite series to record once and then it gets all episodes each week, so if you are out or forget it's on, you don't miss a show. It's only about $12 bucks more a month.
It's just a random photo that looks closest to our original VCR. That beast is long gone. God knows how many VCRs we went through over the years.
With the Comcast DVR, can you record a show on another channel while you are watching something else? Their earliest models couldn't do that. I thought that was silly.
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I was just thinking that I have a bunch of stuff on VHS that I'd like to transfer to DVDs at some point. Mostly rock videos that I taped from MTV and whatnot.
I get the DVR from Comcast, and it's great. Extremely convenient to have the series recording feature; you set your favorite series to record once and then it gets all episodes each week, so if you are out or forget it's on, you don't miss a show. It's only about $12 bucks more a month.
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With the Comcast DVR, can you record a show on another channel while you are watching something else? Their earliest models couldn't do that. I thought that was silly.
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