Got an old VCR here. Any cool things to do here?
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Do you have old movies on VCR?
Maybe old home-made movies?
Because besides some old obscure crappy movies there isn't going to be much you can do with it that you can't do in the Internet.
Or you could disassemble it and try to make something weird with the parts, I'm not sure, I mostly use mine to watch the original Star Wars trilogy without those weird edits it has on the DVD.
Maybe old home-made movies?
Because besides some old obscure crappy movies there isn't going to be much you can do with it that you can't do in the Internet.
Or you could disassemble it and try to make something weird with the parts, I'm not sure, I mostly use mine to watch the original Star Wars trilogy without those weird edits it has on the DVD.
Keep it. I bet in ten years time they will be like antiques or something. If you have kids when they grow up itll definately be a collectors item
Also nothing beats the good ol' rewinding of a tape before watching it because the last person didnt have the courtesy to do so and fast forwarding adverts. Fuck DVDs and their non-skipping adverts. Im sorry but i dont want to see an advert for a 5 year old movie saying "coming soon"
Also nothing beats the good ol' rewinding of a tape before watching it because the last person didnt have the courtesy to do so and fast forwarding adverts. Fuck DVDs and their non-skipping adverts. Im sorry but i dont want to see an advert for a 5 year old movie saying "coming soon"
i always liked those as a kid... they were like little time capsules, like watching old TV commericals on yotube...shootthebandit said:
God I'd give anything if someone in the hey day recorded the ENTIRE BLOCK of Fox Kids around 1999, with all the commericals and shit just so that I could pretend to time travel
I'll never get rid of my VCR. I still have Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam on VHS. Good times.
There's nothing quite as interesting/scary as finding old, unlabeled VHS tapes and checking them out. Like at a flea market or something. Ten for a dollar. Imagine some guy recording the short film from The Ring onto a random VHS tape and you finding it.Poppy JR. said:
Better yet, YOU could record the short film from The Ring and leave it on a table at a flea market. Damn, why didn't I think of this before I tossed my old VCR?
If you take the precision laser that reads the disk out of it, you can make it into a laser gun that pops balloons and burns - oh wait, vcr's are those things that read magnets or some shit. I got nothing
It's worth $50 now
Doubt it. I work at my college's tech department and we did some spring cleaning last year and found many old treasures, all of them cool but sadly junk. I found an old Mac that was the size of a typewriter with a sweet track ball for navigating and a lead-acid (read: car) battery. Some research later and I found it cost an un-fucking-believable $7,000 when it came out and was the first portable computer used in space.shootthebandit said:
It's worth $50 now
I have a friend who as part of walking his dog stops in to the local humane society and says 'hi' to the staff. At the humane society they have a thrift store (people donate items to the store, the store sells them cheap and the money goes to help fund the animal shelter). In there he spotted a VHS player (not even a full VCR, just a player) for $10, and piles of tapes for $1 each. He bought the player, buys the tapes for $1, watches them and then donates them back to the store.Poppy JR. said:
He considers it better than renting DVD's or streaming rentals because the money goes to a good cause.
Your local library also likely has tons of VHS tapes available to borrow for free.
Use it to play Xbox One games.
Bad joke aside, if you don't have any movies you don't have on DVD that you want to watch badly enough to endure how bad it will probably look and the rewinding then keep it. If not you could open it up and see if you can manage to put it back together. That's a fun exercise in memory and if it gets ruined you know that you should just throw it out. (By throw it out I mean pass it over to an authorized electronics dealer who can make sure it is done so environmentally safe, we do not endorse throwing out electronics resulting in any danger to the environment.)
Bad joke aside, if you don't have any movies you don't have on DVD that you want to watch badly enough to endure how bad it will probably look and the rewinding then keep it. If not you could open it up and see if you can manage to put it back together. That's a fun exercise in memory and if it gets ruined you know that you should just throw it out. (By throw it out I mean pass it over to an authorized electronics dealer who can make sure it is done so environmentally safe, we do not endorse throwing out electronics resulting in any danger to the environment.)
You can always hack your VCR:
But seriously, as someone pointed out you could take clip some from The Ring or V/H/S and leave it somewhere or you could keep it as antique. I still got my old console even if i havent turned it on in 5 years. because that things going to cost a lot eventually.
But seriously, as someone pointed out you could take clip some from The Ring or V/H/S and leave it somewhere or you could keep it as antique. I still got my old console even if i havent turned it on in 5 years. because that things going to cost a lot eventually.
I have those too! Great movies.TerrancePryor said:
That video was actually one of the suprisingly unhelpful search results I found. Fancy that!Strazdas said:
Actually, the reason I have a spare VCR now is because over time I replaced my tapes with DVDs. Practically none of my movies are tapes anymore. I don't know. Maybe I'll keep it.Yopaz said:
lol. Oh don't forget the accessory to a VCR. A tape rewinder. We bought one and that's all it was built for. To rewind video tapes faster or while you were watching another movie. We don't have it anymore but we do still have a DVD VCR combo which because I'm me will not let my parents get rid of if and when the time comes. Hell I don't trust them to keep the Star Wars triology so when I leave I'm taking that with me.shootthebandit said:
Its funny. We like to hold onto that stuff and it seems in a lot of cases the parents have moved on. I can watch TV without HD. They can't. My mom could barely sit through the first three HP movies when we marathoned them because we only have those on VHS. I didn't mind. Its incredibly bizzare. Its supposed to be the opposite. Ok nostalgia ramblings over.