Is it normal that i miss vhs tapes to dvd and streaming media

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Is it normal to miss VHS.

Weird, right?

I stream most media I see, but there's just a nostalgia feeling attached to VHS. Sometimes I like the vhs tape better than dvd's because if I watch a dvd before falling asleep, the stupid dvd plays all night long because nobody has smartly created a DVD player that has a sleep timer. I have looked for one!!!
Besides that, there's a lot of old movies on VHS that I've never seen. There's little CGI infestation on these old movies. I like that. I love CGI when it's done well, but sometimes CGI is overkill. So far, I have accumulated quite a few Monty Python tapes. Hilarious!!!

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  • Holzman_67
    6 years ago

    I think that anything that has a physical culture and requires human interaction will always be richer and more fondly remembered than a service that an individual can operate. We're social beings after all.

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  • dirtybirdy
    6 years ago

    Be kind.
    Rewind.

    <3

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    • Cuntsiclestick
      6 years ago

      Lol I remember back in the 90's there were signs at Blockbuster Video that said that. I miss that place.

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      • dirtybirdy
        6 years ago

        Haha yes, blockbuster and a local video store that was right up the street from my house. I was there several times a week to rent all the horror flicks they had. I always rewound! It was so annoying when someone didn't have 10 seconds to do so before returning it. But how I miss those days. Sigh... and cassettes and a pencil. Kids these days will never truly know how the two correlate.

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        • wigz
          6 years ago

          There's a video store by me that still rents tapes, lol.

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          • dirtybirdy
            6 years ago

            I still have a few vhs tapes that I just can't throw away. Like the Last Unicorn and one that my pop-pop recorded from tv of Jason and the Argonauts. Total classics! Relics at this point. I'd buy a vcr just to watch the shit quality of them and reminisce.

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            • wigz
              6 years ago

              Oh man, I watched the Last Unicorn like 5000 times as a kid. I bought it on DVD for my kids but they didn't like it too much :( I don't think I have a single VHS anymore. I never did own very many, I mostly just rented.

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        • Cuntsiclestick
          6 years ago

          I used to have a bunch of cassettes when I was a little kid. I'd like wait for hours for certain songs on the radio to record them. XD I feel old now. Lol

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          • dirtybirdy
            6 years ago

            I had cases full of them. I would record off the radio too. Just waiting around for a good tune to come on and run over to hit record. Good shit, man, good shit.

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        6 years ago

        I remember late fees. At least we were less lazy back then. We had to physically go to a store to rent movies. I guess the RedBox kiosks that rent dvd's is similar. I never use RedBox. I just stream movies. I still buy VHS if something's rare.

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        • Cuntsiclestick
          6 years ago

          I agree about being less lazy. I remember going to Blockbuster or Pine Hollow Video after school and getting videos. I liked browsing the store and seeing what they had. The fact that these places don't exist anymore and that DVD's/videotapes are outdated technology is kind of sad but amazing. I'm happy to have grown up when these places still existed. I do feel about old though

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  • Angelandme
    6 years ago

    Bunch of grandpa's in this post lol.

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  • BarakaBrat
    6 years ago

    DVD and streaming is much more convenient. If you fall asleep watching your show, it takes two seconds to get to where you you left off on a DVD or streaming service. A VHS you have to spend so much time searching for it. even if you have a sleep timer set, it's not like it's gonna stop at the exact moment you fall asleep.

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  • JakePlaid
    6 years ago

    I still have a VHS.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    6 years ago

    one could call me a repo mana sorts

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  • wigz
    6 years ago

    Hmm. My DVD players go in sleep mode after a few minutes of being idle and so will my TV's. TV's usually have a sleep timer too. I had one DVD player that never slept but it was a really old model.

    Anyway...no, I don't miss tapes one bit.

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  • youwillgotohell
    6 years ago

    Yes, that is perfectly normal.

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