VHS memories

[DarkFell]

I remembered recording lots of shows on VHS. Of course, most of it were animated shows.

I still have a lot of VHS tapes because my step-mother gave me their recorded stuff. Once my parents got the DVD copies of their favorite shows, I got their tapes.

One thing that I don't miss from the VHS era? Hitting the Record button when I wanted to press the Play button.. I screwed up a few recorded shows because of that.

[Storm Eagle]

Originally Posted by triplexxx

One thing probably remembered a lot about the VHS era is all the promos, logos, and trailers that came on the tapes before the show/movie, and maybe post-credits scenes or behind-the-scenes programs at the end, maybe not all of which available on the DVD formats. Also, in terms of VHS recording, a lot of classic commercials people love and remember, and probably see on YouTube, may have been preserved that way.

I'd cut the commercials out if I was home to record shows. Once I got two VCRs, I'd record something on one tape if I wasn't going to be home, and then copy it to the main tape so I can omit the commercials.

After I got a DVD player, there were still a couple of movies that I bought on VHS since they weren't on DVD. Both have since gotten DVD releases, and one of them got a Blu-ray release. I only kept the tape of one of those movies since even though it made it to DVD, it was actually DVD-R, and it didn't work on the main DVD player I had at the time. It's the only means of playing DVDs that I had that couldn't seem to play it though. Now the tape doesn't seem to play so well anymore. I might as well just get rid of it.

[TheCanadiandrome]

I still have a rather substantial physical media collection of VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray and 4K Blu-Ray

[Antoniocafe]

I've got a TMNT specific VHS/VCR memory. So this was before you had to have a cable box. I taped an episode of the original TMNT cartoon. But I was watching something different on the television while it was taping. The VCR was on the channel that TMNT aired on. But I had the TV on a different channel. For some reason the recorded episode ended up taping in black and white. It didn't really bother me. But whenever I would watch the episode on tape, it was in black and white. If I remember correctly it was the season 2 episode Teengers From Dimension X.

[TheCanadiandrome]

what about Beta-Max? Lol, We had a VHS Player as well as a Beta-Max player. thems were the days

[ranger_scout]

I would constantly replay my VHS copies of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga Shredhead and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Lord Zedd's Monstead Heads until they finally wore out.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Storm Eagle

I'd cut the commercials out if I was home to record shows.

We would do that too.....
I remember we'd record movies - I remember telling my Dad I wanted to record "Ewoks: Battle For Endor" and sitting there watching it and he'd scramble to hit pause at the fade in anticipation of a commercial.

Dad life.

[Coola Yagami]

Man.... my dad was right. "You might want to skip the commercials now, but down the line you're gonna wanna look back and remember what commercials were around back then'.

Of course that before our VCR died and whatnot. Man, I used to have tapes recording all of Dragonball Z and Saint Seiya back then....

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Man.... my dad was right. "You might want to skip the commercials now, but down the line you're gonna wanna look back and remember what commercials were around back then'.

Of course that before our VCR died and whatnot. Man, I used to have tapes recording all of Dragonball Z and Saint Seiya back then....

Once in a blue moon I check some older commercials on youtube. And not just of Portuguese TV, but of all over the world for some reason. There's something charming about 80s and 90s TV commercials.

Nowadays, we have those unskippable ads on YouTube's mobile app which are just annoying as hell. In browser you can at least get some sort of adblocking extension in order not to see them.