The VCR is officially dead

[mynd]

Last manufacturer stops making the players....

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/82434566/the-vcr-is-officially-dead

RIP

 

[Nerevar]

I remember VCR. It was awful.

 

[mynd]

It was all we had for a very long time, 20+ years.

 

[F34R]

It was awesome! I didn't get DVD until the late 90's lol. My first DVD was on computer. Creative DVD drive with the DXR2 decoding card.

 

[mynd]

[QUOTE="F34R, post: 6517678]It was awesome! I didn't get DVD until the late 90's lol. My first DVD was on computer. Creative DVD drive with the DXR2 decoding card.[/QUOTE]

Yeah DVD only really started in 98 and you still needed a VCR to actually record anything from TV.

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

I thought it was dead a long time ago tbh

 

[Duffman]

[QUOTE="ArnoldRimmer, post: 6517681]I thought it was dead a long time ago tbh[/QUOTE]

Also, I'm surprised they laster this long to be honest!!

 

[Chewbacca]

Yeah I grew up on VHS tapes until around 1996 and 1997 when we started buying DVDs. We could only watch them on our computer at first and then eventually DVD players and PS2. I even remember some of the first DVDs we bought...the movies Broken Arrow and Face Off. This was when there were absolutely no special features, just the movie itself. As time went on, my brother and I would only buy DVDs that had special features, directors cuts, etc... I still have about 30-50 VHS tapes, about 175-275 DVDs, and 300-400 blu-rays.

 

[MjW]

I'm just amazed that someone managed to make profit from VCR in 2016.

 

[WaxWeazle]

Recent kids and kids today will never know the struggle to wait before the tape was wound backwards when you wanted to watch it. And making sure you don't watch so you don't see bits of it while it's going backwards.

 

[Vyse]

The last movie that I remember watching on VHS was The Animatrix.

 

[MacP]

Everytime I think of VHS I think of all the Disney video's I had as a child. I remember when my Mum and Dad got our first DVD player from a budget supermarket. I think it was the first digital picture I had seen on a television.

 

[keefy]

There was such a thing as HD VHS.

[video=youtube;jiu0LPeLQPE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiu0LPeLQPE[/video]

 

[Floridagamer26]

Remember: Be kind Please Rewind...

 

[PBM]

Much like this forum!

 

[$Greatness$]

Much like this forum!

But PSU will forever be in the hearts of many.

Forever da real

 

[PBM]

But PSU will forever be in the hearts of many.

Forever da real

Yeah ... it will ... still sucks though.

 

[TidalPhoenix]

It's completely died. I mean it's sad leaving it languishing like this. To be honest they should close it down and remove the link from the main page.