Did anyone else find this a bit odd that many people were still using VHS, when the man comes in and says his player was brand new that surprised me the most, i'd thought it would of been phased out by now.
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VHS is cheap and players are still being sold in places even if videotapes are not. There is still a market for the players and many people don't want to change from VHS to DVD and have to update their collection.
I am feeling the same way with Blu Ray and DVD. Thankfully DVD still plays on a Blu Ray, which is the difference.
And the people are poor. They work hard and live their life most people like that could care less about the technology.
dvd players are cheap now too.
the only vhs i have seen available at a store were kids and workout tapes. i was forced out of vhs when i realized that most of my movie collection did not survive the heat of the moving truck.
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last year one of my friends finally convinced her parents to get a dvd player. they have a vhs/dvd combo
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I have a lot of movies on VHS, and when my old VCR broke a couple of years ago, I had a hard time finding a new one, but I did finally find one. I'm going through the same thing with finding a new stereo now. I need a stereo that plays CDs and cassettes, and it seems like every stereo I see has an iPod dock instead of a cassette deck.
A list of every movie I've seen:
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=20984254
Same here, it's hard finding one with a cassette deck!
How hard it would be to find a VHS player!! Of the top of my head I have no idea if I have seen a new one lately, (a good one, and not a combo with dvd)..
"Surrender to the void."
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I don't think it was quite 20 years ago.
Nonetheless, many people (especially those older, and I'm sure I'll be one of them) have made the expensive media switch so many times that they are reluctant to do so again. For many, catching up with the times seems impossible. From vinyl to A-track to cassette to CD in less than a few decades, is expensive and seems never-ending. By the time one has upgraded (affordably) to the lastest media player, the newest has surpassed the previous.
Then there's always the loyal "they don't make them like they used to" crowd; they've witnessed the standard grade household products matriculate from hand-made solid wood into mass-produced laminated particle board.
Although I thoroughly enjoy my iPod, I don't blame any person for deviating from the media norm in defeat against the endless innovation of technology or the preservation of their pasttimes.
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I definably like dvd's better.
But when you do see vhs tapes at flea markets or thrift shops, they are usually dirt cheap (a buck or less)
Also I just ordered a VHS tape off ebay, WWF Wrestlemania 14.
It is on dvd, as part of a box set and the wwf logos are blurred out. so the VHS version is clearly better imo
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It's obvious the movie is set in 2002, as Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings was depicted as "coming soon" to video. Also, notice that there is absolutely no mention of any movies or events post-dating 2001. (No mention of Blu Ray, either.)
While DVDs were already dominating the market by 2002, commercial VHS tapes were still commonly sold and rented. I actually own a VHS copy of LOTR: FOTR.
To see the only real monster, one must look no further than the mirror.
when danny glover's character was walking around in west coast video, i saw the movie 'inside man' (2006) on the shelves.
that's the only thing that confused me.
so i guess the film was set today, but if not, that was an anachronism (the inside man dvd showing up)
Then maybe it is my bad. I don't recall seeing the "Inside Man" video. Of course, this could still simply be an error the filmmakers missed or didn't care about (Gondry certainly isn't a stickler for details - e.g. how Mos Def starts recording on the PERMINENT Ghostbusters tape). However, if it was indeed intended to be set in the present or near preset day, there should be mention of more recent movies.
To see the only real monster, one must only look in the mirror.
All it takes to record on a permanent VHS is a small piece of tape over the hole on the side of the VHS cassette. It's something they didn't spell out in the movie, but it's easily accomplished, and something they felt they didn't need to explain. I'm not sure to what extent it's common knowledge, but I knew about it, so I'm sure others do as well.
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Correct, as with audio tapes, I remeber braking the tabs on audio tapes
shareEven still my daughter's TV has a VCR attached to it - and she will watch a lot of her movies not available yet on DVD there. I prefer for my kids to have vhs - because most of their DVDs are scratched and ruined.
shareThat's the one major disadvantage of DVDs. One little scratch and the whole disc is ruined. Meanwhile, rip or crumple a few inches of VHS tape, and you've only damaged a few seconds worth.
To see the only real monster, one must only look in the mirror.
When the titles of movies that they were making were shown on the bottom of the screen, they showed "Alone in the Dark." That movie was released in 2005.
shareScratches or marks on an optical disk can be removed or patched with appliances or simply cleaning it and applying then pulling off scotch tape to fill in the gaps.
The tape format can destroy the entire storage if wound enough, destroy the machine and once I even witnessed a fire start from a VCR. (You'd think that would only happen with film.)
However, D-VHS is actually one of the highest quality home recording formats and the quality recorded on one looks just as good as something I would set on my ATI All in Wonder TV Tuner on 1080 p (That's 1080 lines of pixels for all those uninitiated.) The D-VHS is cheaper.
The sad part is that in developed countries the VHS format is dying. It is a liable, dangerous and poor quality format that needs to be rewound. Even Be Kind Rewind that talked of the nostalgic times of the VCR was never released on VHS.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/22/entertainment/et-vhs-tapes22
It's the natural but sad order of things, as technology evolves the appliances of the past become obsolete to make room for the better.
PS: Don't invest in Blu-Ray it is already dying out and losing manufacturers. Downloading movies from the internet from services such as Netflix, Jaman, VuDu or Apple TV is not only more popular and convenient but their picture and audio quality is far better!
"PS: Don't invest in Blu-Ray it is already dying out and losing manufacturers. Downloading movies from the internet from services such as Netflix, Jaman, VuDu or Apple TV is not only more popular and convenient but their picture and audio quality is far better!"
I download movies from itunes and PSN and neither match the quality of Blu-ray. HD movies are compressed down to 5gb and most times they aren't even 1080p; some don't even have the correct aspect ratio. No special features either. A new BR disc holds around 50 gb and includes lossless audio. Blu-ray is superior and getting better as time goes by. As for 'dying out', I don't know. Would suck if it did. I would rather have something stored on a high quality disc. I can also play my discs on as many players as I want. I only use itunes and PSN to rent. I only buy when it's free or exclusive to that service.
"It's obvious the movie is set in 2002, as Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings was depicted as "coming soon" to video. Also, notice that there is absolutely no mention of any movies or events post-dating 2001. (No mention of Blu Ray, either.)
While DVDs were already dominating the market by 2002, commercial VHS tapes were still commonly sold and rented. I actually own a VHS copy of LOTR: FOTR."
It's not set in 2002, for example they swede Soul Plane (2004).
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It's obvious the movie is set in 2002, as Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings was depicted as "coming soon" to video. Also, notice that there is absolutely no mention of any movies or events post-dating 2001. (No mention of Blu Ray, either.)
In one of the scenes I saw copies of Hitch on one of the shelfs, which was released in 2005.
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Yeah,
the last movie released on VHS (here in Belgium) was Ocean's 12.
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This thread cracks me up because I watched this movie in 1080p. What do you bet that this movie wasn't even released on VHS?
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I love VHS!!! I hate how 'they' assume everyone's switched to DVD.
shareI love VHS too :) I just watched the Lethal Weapon Series, Rush Hour, Zorro, Coming to America, Speed and Forrest Gump on my VCR just this month. In fact I still have my laser disc player (you know the really big discs of the 90s), my BetaMax machine passed down from past generations (it just needs cleaning cause of the molds and cockroach sh*t) Heh heh. Sure DVD's are great, but I just like hearing the clicking sound of VHS cassettes entering and lurching out at you like an ATM drawer. It's a special Kodak moment man, full of childhood memories, of Mom yelling at you for spilling beer inside the tape.. and then you gotta dry it with a blowdryer for an hour, just to figure out that the tape don't work anymore. Blockbuster and ACA Video were the sh*t back in the day. Now the rental video stores are folding up one by one. Guess I'm heading over to E-Bay and browse through some Rare VHS tapes. One guy's trash really is another guy's treasure.
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I love my VCR! If it breaks down, I'll get another; I've seen them in various catalogs, so I know there still are many people out there wanting/using them.
My film library is comprised of videotaped material~thousands of tapes dating back to the Seventies. I do have some DVDs, but the only player I have is my computer, which I rarely use. I wonder if I'll ever buy a player to hook up since I don't want to give up my VCR. I still tape movies nearly every day; I use SLP so that three or four movies fit on each tape.
I've purchased blank tape at Walmart and through eBay. I also tape over what I no longer want; the tapes hold up!
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Without the video tapes (VHS) the whole plotline doesn't work.
Plot: A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store
Can you erase a DVD with a magnet?
It's supposed to be part of the charm of the movie. Come on, at least attempt to think outside the box a little. This is a movie where two clerks remake movies in the backyard, for god's sake.
shareI didn't find it odd at all, obsolescence is a running theme throughout the movie, surely it would have been more odd if Danny Glover owned a struggling DVD and Bluray store?
He's an old relic of a bygone era and so is his store.
I seriously don't understand the confusion!?