I still have a tape deck and some tapes, but I haven't used them in ages. The only reasons they are still in my entertainment center is I have no idea where else to put them.
I still have about 25 VHS tapes still on display in the house which I have just or havent yet replaced with DVDs as they are quite rare, all my Star Wars tapes are packed away in a bag, and the rest of the VHS I had I gave away to friends or to charity shops...
I still have quite a large number of older movies on VHS, though most of the time I watch movies on DVD, espeically now that Back to the Future and Star Wars are available in said format.
I still have a VCR, in fact I have two, but I don't watch tapes very much. Only time I do is when I watch old Disney films, but the ever growing Platinum Edition lineup I'm faithfully collecting should remedy that. I also watch old tapes of TV shows, but VHS is no DVD, after all. I'm just glad that with the new video formats we won't have to upgrade our whole DVD library like we did with VHS.
I still have 115 movie titles and 30 TV titles on VHS on my shelves. I aim to replace them as and when I get DVD replacements (or whatever comes next!). I still enjoy things on VHS format, though. As long as it still plays, I can enjoy the content.
I've had non-anamorphic, 4:3 letterboxed, stereo sound versions of the OOT for years, which is why I didn't buy yet another one last month.
I'll always have a certain fondness for VHS, too. I grew up with it, after all. Audio tapes, too.
I still have a VHS, but don't use it that often anymore. I still have many things on VHS that I don't have on DVD as of yet, and probably will never get on DVD, but don't want to lose.
Originally posted by: auraloffalwaffle I aim to replace them as and when I get DVD replacements (or whatever comes next!).
Replace with DVD. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD may be the future of hi-def, but not the future for major video. DVD will, in 10 years, still be the major market. It will be like with Laserdiscs. They took off for a little while, but really only had a relatively small (2 million US players) following. VHS was still the major format. Compare this to today's situation. DVD has been around for 10 years, and now 2 new formats are here. Neither one can ever be as big as DVD, because it will be at least another 10, maybe 15 years before Hi-Def is the standard kind of telivision. DVD has all the bugs worked out (it did a long time ago) and will rule supreme for a long time. Hell, downloading will be bigger than hi-def formats, because for some strange reason, this new generation loves downloading films onto thier computers so they watch them on little screens and get sore eyes. (Why would you watch a film on your computer? It's stupid.) Music downloads are huge, and film downloads will be too, in another 5 years or so. Music downloads are so big because they're just that---music. This new generation prefers they're stupid, angry rap to movies any day.
Sorry for my rambling, just wanted to clarify that the next medium that's as big as DVD or VHS will not be HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. Next time a major, worldwide video format arrives, it will be 20 years from now by the time everyone adopts it, and who knows what it will be?
Yeah, I've still got a whole mess of VHS tapes, some of them dating way way back to the dawn of the VHS boom. They must be preserved for future generations, so that they do not forget where their personal viewing technology came from.
I will keep my vcr indefinitely. There are still some things that were put out on vhs that haven't been released to a superior format yet. Until that happens for all titles I will keep my vcr.
I have tons of vhs even the Star Wars 1997 Special Editions and the Original vhs Star Wars Trilogy but sadley all my vhs tapes have turned green and the quality is really bad to the point were its green. I also hate full screen and thats why i had to get the Unalatered Star Wars DVDs. But im going to convert all my vhs tapes to dvd for home video and then just trash them its as simple as that.