VCR / DVR / HDR ?
 

I think there are a couple of other people out there with a VCR player that they are not using too. :roll: Ever heard of DVD or HDD?

HDD is the way forward. My V+ box with Virgin Media is great. When it works. :roll:

When I moved into my house in May 2006 I had a box packed with VHS tapes and some Meat recorded tapes amongst there and the Brixton show, London 1982 and Bat 2 picture. It's still all packed up in the garage. That's how often I use VCR. I'd rather just wait and see what else gets released (or indeed watch off YouTube) rather than see if that old stuff still works. Indeed - bringing this back to topic - I don't think there is much wrong with watching stuff that was on TV somewhere that someone has put up on YouTube. I don't really consider that illegal in the same sense of filesharing albums. If content on YouTube was really only filtered down to copyright owned material I reckon probably about 90% YT content would have to go and it would be an extremely boring amateur video site.

Sounds like a plan tink, hopefully if you drop some hints she may give it to you. I'm the same and have heaps of VHS tapes filled with things I've taped off the TV. I even have an old beta video recorder which doesn't work any more and old beta tapes lying around somewhere.

Carole

Why would you wait for any specific person to give someone a VHS player. I'm sure you can find one on ebay anywhere in the world, or craig's list. Failing that, maybe try the local dumpster. :razz:

I still use my VHS player daily to watch videos because I like to watch something interesting during ad breaks and DVD players take too long to load and they don't remember the exact point that you finished watching. I still record onto VHS becaus I bought a DVD recorder once but the damn thing never works properly.

On the subject of illegal downloads and the music industry. I would never download something that was available from legal sources but I've seen a couple of bootlegs and some of them are absolute treasures that I'd have loved to have seen live but was too young. These recordings did add to my admiration of Meat's talent for putting on a fantastic show and I remember after seeing the first one I said to myself that I had to see this man live. I was lucky enough to have been able to do that this year. If these recordings do get released from an official source then I will gladly purchase them because I enjoy them so much.

I've made my decision to watch these recordings, just as some others have decided not to. That's fair enough in my mind.

Me too :) Far more flexible to use imo. I have a DVD/VCR .. and as far as asking others have they heard of DVD? .. I never expend other's resources on their behalf ;)

Absolutely .. each of us has the right to make their own decision without needing to justify or defend it.

Caryl

Yes, but as of yet, I haven't managed to figure out how to play my vcr tapes on my dvd player. Anyone ? ... :twisted: ... lol ...

My household is on tight budget due to economy. Necessaties come first THEN fun ! ... lol ... And don't "razz" about "recycling one man's trash into treasure". Would you believe this morning someone was throwing BOOKS out? SACRILEGE ! I rescued them, of course ... lol ...

And back to topic, thanks to all who explained bootlegs and legality vs illegality on the subject to me !

thats a tricky one to be fair... i could tell you how to play dvd's in the dvd player, or video tapes in a vcr, but i dunno how you play a vcr tape in a dvd player... it just wont fit

best to get it recorded onto a dvd, then play the dvd in your dvd player :D

With VCRs originally costing £1000s and now DVD recorders costing a fraction of that (in fact disks are much cheaper if you are in fact interested in "recording") I personally think staying with the old VCR technology because of financial reasons nonsense to be honest unless you can never afford to replace anything which with any technology is almost an impossible scenario regardless. I'm sure you can get a second hand DVD recorder in your country for $10-$25, like you can here in the UK. A VCR would probably cost you the same. In my opinion at this stage sticking with VCR has to be regarded as doing so purely by choice or ignorance.

I would actually bypass the DVD recorder all together and go straight to HDD. I seem to recall my DVD recorder being more of a faff than the VCR it replaced.

Well that's what I mean, I can understand the justification in using a VCR for a convenience thing. I just think the financial side of it is completely unjust. VCRs were never cheaper than DVD recorders are now and as I said you can buy a stack of disks for a fraction of how much tapes used to cost. HDD is indeed the way to go.

Tapes, arguably though, have better quality

Argue that fact then.

hopefully you'll get a tivo one next :-)

No you can't do that. ha ha But if you have both a video recorder and a DVD recorder you can copy whats on your tape onto a disc. I'm lucky, I still have one remaining video recorder which works so I have it set up next to my DVD recorder so I can copy stuff from video to DVD.

Carole

That's what I've done too. All the VHS tapes got copied to DVD and then, aside from a few "keepers", got dumped.

Please clarify and give examples.

lol

Do not knock the good ol' VCR !!!

I have some very rare Elvis stuff on VCR that you currently cannot get on DVD so for me having a VCR is essential, I also have some rare Meat stuff on VCR that is also not currently available on DVD !!

VHS is old but was never actually good. Even when it came out it was eclipsed technically by Betamax and that Phillips system.

If you have a DVD recorder it's very easy to copy VHS to DVD. Or a video capture device on a PC will do the job. Then the bulky old tapes can get dumped in a landfill somewhere. We sold a load at car boot sales but these days they're almost unsellable.

I guess that Masculine on VHS would be his holy grail ... :roll:

As long as it's not a VHS tape with the original 27 minute Surf's Up music video on it and when you play it backwards you get an unheard live version of Meat performing Renegade Angel with Jim Steinman playing Tuba with his toes.

You have that tape too? And there I was thinking my collection was superior! :twisted: