Do you still watch the occasional video (model railroading or otherwise)?
Yes. both at home and on our old TV set combo at Boothbay Railway Vilage. There are still some videos that have not been reformatted from VHS to DVD, and as long as the old VHS still works, why go out and buy a duplicate in DVD???
Yes. I still have VHS video tapes I occasionally watch - some train video’s.
Yes I still watch VHS, but am recoring to DVD. Interesting thing is it is hard to find DVD recorders (computers aside) in the USA.
I have scores of railroad VHS tapes, plus a couple hundred tapes of general entertainment films. It’s not practical to replace them all with more modern technology, and some aren’t available today in any format anyway. VHS players in excellent condition can sometimes be found inexpensively at second-hand shops because the owners “upgraded” to DVD long before the machine wore out.
Tom
I occasionally watch Shane or Grumpy Old Men on VHS.
I can’t remember the last time I used my VCR. I have a lot of tapes, both RR and non-RR but never watch them anymore. I have the Time-Life series on WWII but there is so much similar material on AHC and other history oriental channels that I see no need to look at these tapes. I wonder how many of them are still good. I’ve had experiences with VHS tapes in which the tape went bad and wouldn’t play. It seemed as if the tape had fused together. One of the tapes that went bad was one of my favorite RR videos. It was the first volume of The Glory Machines. Luckily it came out on DVD and I got it as well as two of the later volumes. All the old movies I had on VHS I now have on DVD or DVR.
PS. I still haven’t upgraded to Blue Ray. Is it really that much better than old fashioned DVD?
Blu-ray has a higher picture quality, but, unless you have a large HDTV hooked in with the HD cabling to said Blu-ray, the difference is hard to see. (Downright impossible on your standard definition TV sets.)
And, original question: Yes, I still have a VHS player, but it is rarely (if ever) used. Most of what it was used for is now on DVD.
I have a VHS that I picked up use for $10.00 2-3 years ago but,I seldom use it. My plan was to watch some of my old railroad videos and I did for the first few weeks but,that faded as time past since I have more DVD railroad videos then for my VHS.
Sure do. Play back RR videos, including some used ones I bought for cheap on eBay past coupla years. And play some That 70s Show, Married wth Children, and Malcolm in the Middle episodes I taped off the air.
I have one in the closet. Still have some video I recorded with a VHS camcorder. No idea when or if I will ever use it again.
In 20 years, the question will be “Does anyone here still have any media in any physical format at all?”
I have two VHS and one Beta deck in the closet. The tapes have all gone into the recycle bin. VHS and Beta tapes begin to deterioate at about eight years of age. The tapes I bought in the eighties were in terrible shape and they were stored well. Ones from the nineties were not much better and have been recycled as well.
My Grandfather bought one of those wind up 8mm movie cameras back in the early fifties and did a lot of home movies. Not only did he get footage of the most beautifull baby ever born,[swg] he also shot a lot of RR steam action in and around Winnipeg. My sister had it all put on Beta in the early nineties and I have since transfered it to DVD a few years back.
That, along with all our current home video and the most important photo’s that are on DVD or CD have had three copies of each made. One set at the inlaws, one set at my sisters and a set for home. It only takes seconds to whip off a copy on the computer and you never know when your house could burn down.
I think the three decks will be off to the recycling depot soon as I just can’t see a reason to keep them. They served me well.
I owe a VHS/DVD player, but the dvd player needs a new motor. I still watch movies and tv shows that recorded years ago that didn’t came out on video. I have two railroad videos on dvd that I can watch in the living room that has a working dvd player when nobody’s home.
Still have two VCRs that are used more as a channel tuner/receiver (than for VHS). Example: An older TV that only tunes in channels 1-13, or 1-45, can see higher TV channels thru the VCR as a tuner on the garage workbench, and in the trainroom.
Yes, we have four VHS/DVD players. You can still buy them at Walmart. Most of my Pentrex and Green Frog tapes are VHS and I still pick up more for $2 - $4 at swap meets.
I did buy Honestech VHS to DVD 8.0 Deluxe to convert tapes, but haven’t done anything with it yet.
Ken Vandevoort
Yes.
Rich
I do, I have lots of tapes, some never played so when I got a new 49" HDTV reciently I made sure I could hook up my VCR player. It works great and you defiatly see things a LOT better on 49" than on my old 27".
Probably, in some sort of follow-on to micro-sd cards. If you want to count a datacard as a physical format in the first place.
I was really into video back in the late 70’s, 80s, and 90s then it finally wore off to a dribble. In the late 90s I started converting my home made Bata tapes to DVD format. With the end of Beta I switched to S-VHS for home movies and I have converted those to DVD too.
I guess I lucked out with my tapes, I occasionally slip a tape in a machine and they still look pretty good. I still have two Sony Super Bata SL-360 and two Mitsubishi Super VHS U770 machines that work very good, even my regular Beta tapes from the late 70s and early 80s still look pretty good. Some have a lot of dropouts but I haven’t found one that won’t play, I run a cleaning tape through them before and after every tape to keep the heads clean.
A couple of years ago I charged the battery in my Mitsubishi S-VHS-C HS-CX7 camera and it still worked. I took a lot of model railroad video with my Sony Batamax SL-2000 and the Mitsubishi Compact over the years.
Now days my video is down to my two wireless locomotive cameras and saving it on my computer.
Hello All,
Yes!
In fact our old VCR just died and we replaced it.
I use it to record Formula 1 races because they are on in the wee hours of the morning. Cheaper than a DVR or Hopper service from Dish Network.
Hope this helps.