No.3652
I really don't understand the obsession with VHS and CRTs. I don't really miss either. They were a pain in the ass to use and eat up space. The only advantage of VHS is that tape is probably a better medium for preservation. Now I have a bunch of VHS tapes and no way to watch them, mostly bootleg Hong Kong action movies.
No.3653
Nah, VHS tapes did not age well, they never looked particularly good even on a high-end deck, but a CRT was great to make it look higher resolution than it really was.
CRTs are great, though, just a massive bitch to repair. I need to open up my family Trinitron and resolder the front ports, but also, I will likely die if I open that bastard up and I don't think anyone actually repairs them nowadays here.
No.3654
>>3652The audio on them is typically better than these later releases, atleast from my experience.
What pain in the ass are they? You insert tape and press play like anything else you watch.
>>3653Tapes look fine to watch if you had them growing up.
No.3656
>>3654VHS was just inconvenient. Who misses constant tape jams? Pulling a VHS out of a jammed VCR was a recurring nightmare. The things are huge and bulky too, the picture quality was never great, and you had to rewind the damn tape to play it from the beginning again. The box art was nice, but those thick paper sleeves wear very easily. Let's not get into how fragile the tape could be too, reels coming loose, tape getting damaged or worn etc. VHS is just inconvenient. The only artsy value you can find in one of those things is if your watching some grind house slasher movie, where the grain and fuzz actually adds to the feel. No, I really don't miss VHS at all.
No.3657
>>3656That’s exactly what happened with a dunstin check’s in (Funny 90s orangutan/pongo movie) vhs tape I once had ages ago, it didn’t matter in the end because we managed to find another tape at a store
No.3658
>>3656I never had "constant" tape jams, i took care of my stuff and when they had issues i tried to fix them so my tapes didnt get ate. It happend, yes, but not at any real frequency that is worth complaining about. Some people had more issues but its mostly an exaggeration.
Only the most worn out tapes truely had issues, some players(usually those cheap late 90s chinese ones) had problems.
No.3659
>>3658Guess it depends on your resources. Most people could not afford high quality VCRs and generally rented VHS or bought them second hand. That is why so many of us had problems with tapes getting eaten or worn. If you could afford a decent set up then those issues were probably less common for you.