The latest Comeback Kid

[simonali]

After vinyl and cassette comes VHS. Can't see this one catching on. I don't think you can even buy anything to play the tapes with these days, can you?

https://store.hmv.com/film-tv/vhs-range

 

[irw]

I have a small shelf of videos that havn't made it onto any sort of new media- school shows, home videos, films taped in the dim and distant past etc etc, and last time I had to replace my video recorder, the only place I could find one at a reasonable price (a tenner, or thereabouts IIRC), was the British Heart Foundation electricals shop. The only things the big shops had were VHS/DVD combi things at X hundred pounds a piece!

 

[cosmicbike]

I have a brand new Sony VHS player in the loft. I keep it as many of my childhood home videos are on VHS. And my wedding.

 

[AndyRM]

*playable VHS tape not included

 

[Lonestar]

Damn I rushed here thinking it was @Drago

 

[Paulus]

I am not sure where you can get VHS videos these days. Even charity shops stopped taking them a couple of years back.

 

[simonali]

I remember being looked at in awe/shock some years ago as I tipped boxes of audio and video cassettes into the skip at the local tip.

 

[lane]

Still seem to one here - no idea why really

 

[MarkF]

I have a Sanyo VTC5000 that cost me £299 (I think) in 1982, a lot of money then, it still functions 100%. When the kids were little, other kids on sleepovers had no idea what videos were, it provided 20+ years of use and was a bargain.

 

[simonali]

I have a Sanyo VTC5000 that cost me £299 (I think) in 1982, a lot of money then, it still functions 100%. When the kids were little, other kids on sleepovers had no idea what videos were, it provided 20+ years of use and was a bargain.

Is that you mentioned at the bottom of this page?

http://www.palsite.com/5000ovi.html

 

[Julia9054]

Since my youngest left home with the x box, I have nothing in my house to play DVDs or CDs on let alone videos.

 

[simonali]

*playable VHS tape not included

I never noticed that, as I didn't bother reading words, I just looked at the pretty pictures!

 

[Dave7]

I still have my Betamax as I am confident it will become as popular as it once was.
I am open to sensible offers.

 

[StuAff]

Still got a deck and tapes- the only way, apart from LaserDisc, to have an official copy of the 'proper' original Star Wars trilogy before George Lucas started mucking about with them (I have no problem with improving the special effects, cleaning the images up, but Jabba the Hutt should have stayed on the cutting room floor for Episode IV...and as for Han Solo not shooting first....!).