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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 5, 2017 1:39:36 GMT
For example: VHS, Betamax, Laserdisc, HD-DVD, GBA Video, Video 2000, etc.
What is your favourite obsolete home video format?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 5:48:46 GMT
How come you always start threads asking for opinions or details but you never answer your own? It's easy. Just say something like, "My favorite was Beta. What is yours?
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 6, 2017 6:23:38 GMT
OK then, my favourite is VHS.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 6:26:26 GMT
And my favorite was Beta. I still have some tapes kicking around in storage. The machine too.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 6, 2017 6:33:42 GMT
I've always had a desire to get some old blank Betamax tapes, a Betamax video camera, and make a short film in Betamax. I'd particularly like one of the video cameras for which a reflective object results in streaks across the picture, which is always a cool effect.
I also liked GBA Video, despite its faults. It was basically TV episodes on a Gameboy Advance cartridge, a really cool idea. Sure, the picture quality sucked and the GBA screen is small, but it was a cool idea nevertheless.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 15:45:29 GMT
I think DVD's are the greatest format ever, and will never be surpassed.
I have a soft spot in my heart for VHS, I grew up with them, but DVDs are superior.
The reason DVDs are superior to Blu-Ray and HD 4K is because of the format. You could take a regular Television from the 1990s with AUX or Cable and hook up a DVD player to it. That was so convenient. You didn't need a NEW TV, and a NEW DVI, or HDMI, or Component cable. Just use your regular TV with regular cables. It was better picture quality than VHS and made life easier. That is why DVDs thrived so fast and put VHS out of business QUICKLY.
However, notice Blu-Rays weren't selling nearly as well as DVDs when they were introduced, so much so that they sell Blu-Ray/DVD combo packs even today. They just can't get rid of DVDs.
One thing I preferred VHS over DVD was not having to sit through the Trailers at the beginning. Some DVDs force you to watch them. Also, I hate when DVDs skip.
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Post by Noddy Comet on Feb 7, 2017 13:27:15 GMT
VHS and DVD are probably my two favourites, simply because they were cheap, of decent quality (depending on what equipment you had), and it was easy and inexpensive to build up a big collection.
I still have around 300 original films on VHS (and indeed, I still have a VCR in my home cinema setup), and it's amazing how many of them still look pretty good on an HD-TV; not perfect, by any means, but more than watchable. I also have a similar number of DVDs, and still buy them now, even though I have a blu-ray player.
I did also have a CD-V player back in the day, which I won in a competition, along with a few films to watch on it. CD-V was widely pushed in the early 1990s as a successor to VHS, but it didn't take off (not least because the films came on two discs... too much hassle!), and DVD killed it stone dead.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 14:49:22 GMT
VHS and DVD are probably my two favourites, simply because they were cheap, of decent quality (depending on what equipment you had), and it was easy and inexpensive to build up a big collection. I still have around 300 original films on VHS (and indeed, I still have a VCR in my home cinema setup), and it's amazing how many of them still look pretty good on an HD-TV; not perfect, by any means, but more than watchable. I also have a similar number of DVDs, and still buy them now, even though I have a blu-ray player. I did also have a CD-V player back in the day, which I won in a competition, along with a few films to watch on it. CD-V was widely pushed in the early 1990s as a successor to VHS, but it didn't take off (not least because the films came on two discs... too much hassle!), and DVD killed it stone dead. CD-V intrigues me. Movies split into two discs is inconvenient, however, how is the film quality?
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 7, 2017 15:26:33 GMT
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think you may mean VCD, a format which I have a few examples of (I own a CD-i player which can play them). Picture quality is OK for the time. Wikipedia says the resolution is half of that of VHS, but that's not quite correct. Yet another reason to not trust Wikipedia.
There was a format called "CD Video", but that could only play up to 5 minutes and was LaserDisc-related.
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Post by Noddy Comet on Feb 7, 2017 17:09:06 GMT
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think you may mean VCD, a format which I have a few examples of (I own a CD-i player which can play them). Picture quality is OK for the time. Wikipedia says the resolution is half of that of VHS, but that's not quite correct. Yet another reason to not trust Wikipedia. There was a format called "CD Video", but that could only play up to 5 minutes and was LaserDisc-related. You're right. VCD is what I meant.
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Post by Reynard on Feb 8, 2017 0:51:44 GMT
VCD doesn't look too good since they tend to suffer from pixelation especially during action scenes. Good VHS>DVD transfer usually looks better. What's great with VCD is that they are movie only save for a short copyright text. The only format I've used that doesn't have dozen different menus, company logos and/or trailers before the main feature. Just insert disc to player and watch the goddamn movie.
VHS has nostalgic value for me since I grew up taping movies off TV. Still got a handful of those and maybe few hundred official VHS releases. Never had Betamax or Laserdisc.
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Post by filmfan95 on Feb 10, 2017 2:19:42 GMT
VHS, definately. I still think it's the best home video format. I know that everytime you watch a VHS tape it gets a little bit more worn out, but it can take years for that to happen. With a DVD, sure you can play it as many times as you want, but everytime you take it out, you have to be careful not to drop or scratch it. And when you have little kids in the family, it's near impossible to avoid scratches on a DVD. If a DVD gets scratched, there's no guarantee that it will play (and different DVD players have different results). With a VHS, if part of the tape gets damaged, all you have to do is cut out the small damaged portion, reattach the two ends back together with scotch tape, and voila, it works as good as new, albeit with like two seconds missing that you're not going to care about.
Believe it or not, I have had a DVD player eat up a DVD before. The disk literally shattered inside the player. The difference between an eaten-up DVD and an eaten-up VHS? Two big differences:
1. Cleaning up the player. With a VHS stuck in the VCR, all you have to do is unplug it (to prevent electrocution), and stick a butter knife into the VCR to lift the tape over the rollers, so you can slide it out. With a DVD that was eaten up by a DVD player, you actually have to take the dang thing apart and physically remove all the pieces. It would probably be easier to buy a whole new DVD player at that point.
2. Fixing the movie. Like I said, eaten-up VHS? Easily fixed. Eaten-up DVD? That thing is never gonna play again.
Plus, all VHS tapes work in all VCRs. But there are different kinds of DVD's. You can't imagine how many times I've tried to play a DVD. In my player, only to realize that the disk is a DVD+R, while my player will only play DVD-R. And I can't always figure out what kind of DVD player I'm getting. Whether it's a DVD+R player, a DVD-R player, or a player that plays both formats, and it's frustrating. I know most DVDs use the DVD-R format, but I have come across a few DVD+Rs before, believe me.
And about quality? Well, quite frankly, in most cases, I don't care about the quality. I can't even tell the difference unless I watch the two different qualities side-by-side. Yes, there's the occasional static, but I don't care. I grew up with that stuff. I like the humming noise the VHS makes. I like occasional static. Without it, it feels like something is missing. And, I hate to say it, but I think VHS has better sound quality, but that's a story for another day.
No, I think VHS is, and always will be, the best way to watch a movie at home.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2017 2:21:38 GMT
DVD best of both worlds simple and good quality picture and easy to use.
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Post by man_in_a_suitcase on Feb 18, 2017 6:25:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 10:37:27 GMT
I have a soft spot for laserdisc, even though it has been handily beaten by DVD and Blu Ray/4K. I think the reason for the soft spot is my fond memories of driving to the other end of town to visit the single outlet that rented out those gargantuan 12' platters. So exciting! Since the only technical competition was VHS, they really stood out at the time for both superior picture and sound, and - perhaps even more importantly - the ability to see movies in their original widescreen ratio. Laserdisc was the first format that made widescreen common practice, for which I cannot be grateful enough.
Of course, once DVD came out with component video, multi-channel sound as standard and the entire movie on one side of the disc, it was all over very quickly for laserdisc.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 16:09:05 GMT
VCD doesn't look too good since they tend to suffer from pixelation especially during action scenes True, but SVCD could render picture quality almost equal to DVD. However, they could only hold about 45 minutes of video....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 16:11:43 GMT
One thing I preferred VHS over DVD was not having to sit through the Trailers at the beginning. Some DVDs force you to watch them. Also, I hate when DVDs skip. That's why I used to love my old APEX DVD players. They'd let you skip all the trailers, menus, etc other players wouldn't. Plus, they all played VCD/SVCD and PAL discs. Some models were even region free (not advertised, but they were). They were the perfect player for collectors back in the day....
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Post by artcurus on Mar 5, 2017 22:34:51 GMT
Betamax MUCH better pic quality than VHS
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Post by deembastille on Mar 8, 2017 3:24:29 GMT
vhs and taping off of tv.
I know you can do that with dvr's but with a vhs tape you can organize your shows on to tapes and keep them/not have to erase them because you need room.
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Post by darkpast on Apr 22, 2017 5:36:04 GMT
floppy disc vhs cassette tape 8-track
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