POLL:Various fun questions about VCR (recorders) & VHS tapes?

Question

Remember before the DVD& Blue Ray war we had the VHS & BETAMAX war?
We all know that VHS was the champ in its day.
Here are a few fun questions about VCR &VHS.

VCR=Video Cassette Recorder
VHS=Most common brand of tapes/format

1)Do you still own a VCR & VHS tapes?
2)Do you still use your VCR to watch your tapes?
3)Is your VCR & VHS tapes in a box collecting dust in the garage/attic/storage area?
4)Did you throw away your VCR & VHS tapes/sold them in a garage sale/give them to charity when you switched to DVD format?
5)What brand VCR do/did you have?Sony,Panasonic,RCA etc...
6)How many years have you owned your VCR/what year did you buy it?
7)How many times in a month do you use it?
8)Does everything still work on your VCR? :FFoward,Rewind,pause,record etc..
9)Did you ever get a VHS tape stuck in your VCR?
10)Were you able to save the VHS movie that was stuck or did it snap/break ?
11)Do you own your VCR original remote?
12)How many VHS movie tapes you own?
13)Did you convert any of your VHS tapes to DVD ?
14)Did you pay someone to convert your movies from VHS to DVD or did you do it yourself using computer software?
15)Do you own some rare VHS movie(s) that as far as you know is not out on DVD format?
16)What are the name(s) of this rare movie(s)?
17)Do you still use your VCR to record TV movies/shows?
18)Name a feature your VCR offered that you never understood or used?
19)Was the day you bought your DVD player the last day you used your VCR ?
20)Do you still watch movies on VHS,DVD/blue ray format or do you stream online only?

thanks for answering
i hope you had fun

Answer 1

1.Yes

2.What else would I use?

Answer 2

It was never a DVD vs Blu-Ray war. Blu-Ray fought against HD-DVD and won.



DVD generation of media really never had a format war, mostly because someone had the sense to not let one start and tell the industry to come up with one format at all costs.



In the video cassette space, VCR is the machine, regardless of format. The war was between Sony's Beta format, and JVC's VHS format. VHS won that because it was cheaper to license and manufacture, and a tape could record 6 hours, compared to Beta, which was more costly, and recorded up to 4 hours.



As for your list:

1: yes.

2: rarely.

3: kind of.

4:no.

5: I have all sorts of brands, RCA, Hitachi, Magnasonic, Mitsibishi, JVC. Anything early 1990s or later is made by Funai. And yes, I have VHS and Beta. I got into Beta as a curiosity mostly.

6. Some time the middle 1980s we got our own VCR. Before that, we rented them when we rented movies (a big thing at the time).



8: The last new VCR, yes. The others I have, I will have to see.

9/10 yes tapes got stuck, but I have the skill to take care of it, and repair the tapes.

11: only for the latest one. The family ones from the 80s/90s had their buttons worn off,as their remotes were perpetually lost (kids).

12: Can't say.

13: No. It if is important, I would try to find it commercially published on DVD.

14: That is something I would do myself.

15: not that I know or care about.



17: No. I have a DVR to record TV to watch later, and watch movies from my PC connected to my TV, Blu-Ray, or DVD. I watch quite a bit live, because I haven't an HD-DVR.

18. Nothing. I understand them inside and out.

19. No, but within a year or so of getting DVD I changed to DVR.

20. Mostly disc or from TV. I don't stream movies yet, but some lesser faire from Youtube.

Answer 3

Sure, all but the 8 tracks and the eight track participant~ I sent it to the donate pile, 15 years or extra in the past. I have a traveling typewriter~ the style that includes a manage~for handy carrying. One VCR/DVD participant~ for all the VCR tapes ie.Walt Disney movies and different movies on VCR, before DVDs took place. The tape recorders~ yep! These have been my two daughters after they have been growing up. I take into account them sitting their recorders nose to nose in order that they would file the songs off the radio- from their radio/recorders~ OMG!! Copy right legal guidelines simply went out the window~ LOL i've a Philco television that used to be my mum and dad once I used to be little ~ rather! The sort that had the rotating/movable tv tube. Continuously, Ladyitch