They don't remember how shit it actually was. It's just "aesthetic" to them. >have a movie you like, and now the tape is destroyed because the player just decided to eat it
Yeah, great. "peak soul" right there.
We all just threw those things away when DVD came out for no reason at all.
I remember a few of my families recorded tapes getting eaten but we never had a movie tape getting eaten for some reason. Probably because recording tapes saw more use.
No, that is very rare, I had tons of VHS with recorded cartoons as kid, playing them many times and I think only once the VRC destroyed one of them and maybe because the tape was bad
Uncommon for a tape to get eaten from the VCR malfunctioning. It's not super rare in very late cheap models like those 10" VCR/TV combos but most cases I would bet were done from someone, probably a kid, trying to pull the tape out without ejecting it.
>tfw addicted to found footage horror movies >instead of vhs glitch effects, it's digital glitch effects whenever something spooky happens
also don't even get me started on nondiegetic music in found footage
I watched a movie on VHS two nights ago for the first time in 10 years, it sucked ass and the signal degradation does not add "sovl" to the experience.
It was a perfect media device that was forgotten about faster than the media it displayed.
KYS NAMEgay GO EAT SHIT
No, waiting for a rewind fricking sucked among other things. It was okay and quickly vastly outclassed.
There were self-rewinding VHS players.
>He didn't have a separate VHS rewinder to rewind tapes are you're watching something else.
Analog horror through analog media trope works. Easy as π
Many zoomers grew up in the 2000's when VHS tapes were sold alongside DVDs so they're technically the last generation that grew up with them
They're jealous that they didn't live in the greatest generation ever: the 1990s.
>paying more for a phonecall to the guy across the street because he technically crosses an arbitrary line the phone company follows
ISHIGGY
They don't remember how shit it actually was. It's just "aesthetic" to them.
>have a movie you like, and now the tape is destroyed because the player just decided to eat it
Yeah, great. "peak soul" right there.
We all just threw those things away when DVD came out for no reason at all.
my family kept a VCR until ~2010 and I don't recall it ever eating tapes
was it really that common?
I remember a few of my families recorded tapes getting eaten but we never had a movie tape getting eaten for some reason. Probably because recording tapes saw more use.
No, that is very rare, I had tons of VHS with recorded cartoons as kid, playing them many times and I think only once the VRC destroyed one of them and maybe because the tape was bad
Not really. The only time it would was if the VCR or the tape was on its last legs.
They only eat tapes if your kids have already given them some knives and forks to eat them with.
Never happened to me and i used tons of vhs recorders and players. I lost a lot of audio tapes to all sorts of players though.
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Only if the tracking was off.
Never happened. Our player was cheap shit and most of our tapes were second hand. Maybe specific models had a problem but it wasn't common.
I've only had it happen once and it was because the tv itself was faulty.
Uncommon for a tape to get eaten from the VCR malfunctioning. It's not super rare in very late cheap models like those 10" VCR/TV combos but most cases I would bet were done from someone, probably a kid, trying to pull the tape out without ejecting it.
The iBook Guy said it wasn’t shit tho
Take care of your fricking VCR, moron.
A lot of them remember what video tape looks like but never using it themselves. So it's a curious thing to them.
Blame found footage movies for establishing SHITTY VIDEO QUALITY = SCAWY
>tfw addicted to found footage horror movies
>instead of vhs glitch effects, it's digital glitch effects whenever something spooky happens
also don't even get me started on nondiegetic music in found footage
Same reason Millenials like vinyl....gaaaaaayyyyyyyy!
I have Yuji Ohno on vinyl thank you very much, yes I'm very cultured and possess infinite more class than you
That movie is actually good
nostalgia. older zoomers tended to have grown up with a vhs player
>zoomer
i'm a thirty five year old boomer who grew up collecting tapes in THPS and never got over it
older zoomers grew up with them. What's there to understand?
because it's visible and audible soulifier
you mean millenials
Because they aren't zoomer game devs. The oldest zoomers are only 25-26 right now. What makes you think they run the whole industry already?
I watched a movie on VHS two nights ago for the first time in 10 years, it sucked ass and the signal degradation does not add "sovl" to the experience.
Reminder: SOVL=thing I grew up with. Gankerirgins will even try to convince you that shit like memory cards and cartridges were "sovl"