Are you still using a vcr?

[thewiz]

I still have a VCR but it has a DVD built in...I also like to play my 8-track tapes while listening! Ha!

 

[nwdavis]

It is still sitting there in the bedroom and strangely enough gets used quite often, but not for what you think. The TV tuner on the VCR cleans up all the poor picture quality from the cable company so it gives us a much better picture. Also like everyone else I have some VHS movies (sadly not porn, I am really gay though) that I have not yet purchased the DVD's.

 

[douseiai]

i use it cause my ps2 won't directly connect to my tv...

 

[argomac]

I still use mine. It served me well for years, as i spent more money that could be considered sensible on movies. Then sodding DVDs came along and ruined everything. Thanks to eBay I have managed to replace most of the VHS with DVD, but still keep the VHS player in use for those elusive favourites that haven't yet arrived on DVD. I've backed them up onto DVD format so that they will last, but can't bring myself to get rid of them. I love them so.

 

[mrfish67]

I just bought a new VCR a few months back, but it's relegated to the bedroom. I also have Dish Network DVR in the living room and a DVD recorder....and I rarely dub anything from the DVR to the recorder.

 

[just_mills]

I still watch Videos (VHS) yes... I dont see the point in replacing a title with a DVD if the video still works fine!
But I do use DVD players a LOT more!

 

[buzzj]

I remember buying my first VCR March 9th 1982.

It was a Panasonic NV something.

List price £655 reduced to £616. (A friend worked in an electrical store and got me a discount)

I still remember my first one, too. It had a remote control--- but it was at the end of a 6-8 foot wire! It could only be set up to record eight or so channels, and it was a bitch to program. My recollection is that I paid about $400 for it. Ah, the bad old days!!

 

[ross_1986]

Yeah, b/c I record TV shows all the time.

 

[gmoney]

Mine also is a VCR/DVD combo. I use the VCR for taping tv shows and the DVD for everything else.

 

[dolphwasser]

Mine also is a VCR/DVD combo. I use the VCR for taping tv shows and the DVD for everything else.

Me, too. VCR / DVD(player) combo. Still haven't gotten into the digital recorder age yet.

 

[Michael Luc]

Funny you ask. I just bought a new combo tv. It has a built-in VCR and DVD. I love it.

 

[cozmik]

I have a VCR somwhere, it's a very nice unit in fact. It's just that it sits in a closet somewhere.

I use DVD for everything, including for porn.

I need a new DVD recorder though, as the one I did buy turned out to be junk, even after an exchange. Now I can't recored my favorite History Channel programs.

 

[me12121]

I've barely used one since 2001, when I got my first TV Tuner Card for my computer. I only use that to record shows now so no need for a VCR.

 

[Joshua_me]

Well,

We bought the VCR/DVD recorder combo, which was really cool at
first. (Just 'burning' a TV show and being able watch it on your laptop
seemed just, well, 'cool' at the time)

But, no one told me about the 'shelf life' thing of the discs.

I bought a 'ginormous' spindle of Sony dvd-r's from Sam's Club, about,
I dunno, 18 months ago or so, only to find out that even the un-used ones
are 'eating themselves'. Even stored in a 'cool, dry place' the 'metal' or whatever it is pressed between the plastic coatings starts to chip away,
making them un-usable. Plus, all the shows I burned in HQ and made coversheets for and everything, ('Lost', 'Six Feet Under', 'QAF') have started to decay as well....

I find myself going back to tapes. (They're 99 cents at Walgreens, for goodness sake...)

We're less than thrilled.

Joshy

 

[RationalLunacy]

I have some rare 1930s movies on VHS that will probably never be released on DVD.

Between that and the foreign porn stash, the VCR stays.

 

[miztab13]

I use mine everyday to tape my shows.

 

[justsimon]

Yes. I didn't even own a DVD player until last year.

 

[ozguy]

I remember buying my first VCR March 9th 1982.

It was a Panasonic NV something.

List price £655 reduced to £616. (A friend worked in an electrical store and got me a discount)

That's about the same time as we bought our first ... and it was a Panasonic something-or-other as well! I remember that it was a top-of-the-range model at the time (but terribly basic by later standards) and big and clumpy. Cost us about Aus$1,200, too .... bloody ridiculous amount compared to how cheap they became in later years. Still, we thought we were hot shit at the time 'cos we were the first in our group of friends to own one!

 

[Tony the Tiger]

Yep! I still use my VCR,

Old habits are hard to break, I'm still mourning the loss of the 8 track, hee hee!

 

[skinIsIn]

My VCR is still throughly interfaced within the overall Home Entertaiment Center, in fact, the DVD player is still treated as a "when-needed" umbilical peripheral!

As noted above, it is mainly for recording TV shows which are shown at inconvenient times (a.k.a "prime time; their jargon, not mine) and reviewing old favorites when the mood arises.

Unfortunately, the greedy networks (here in the hog-eat-dog-eat-cat country of "CapitAline" cum "Jezusland") are trying to to get the Federal government to "regulate" TiVo & Co. ABC (AKA Disney) especially is pushing the effort to desable the ability to skip commercials on recorded programs.

Sadly, I have a feeling that this, with time, will eventually come to pass. I mean with all the other pushes by the moralists, the rabid Evangelists, and the über-kapitalists, to errode the pillar that is the Bill of Rights; a pearl, carelessly dropped in vinegar. Therefore, if you still have your VCR's, stock up on blank tapes before they become scarce!!