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Karen said:
Oh my gosh! I love this thread. :giggle I remember having VCRs as a kid and especially in college before DVR was a thing. My roommates and I would record our favorite shows so we could watch them together. I think I still have a couple of VHS tapes and I know I have some from an old camcorder, but I don't think we have a VCR to even play them anymore. Can you believe how different it is now to record videos? We can all do it so easily on our phones now and share them online with anyone! I'm SOOOO glad for this advance in technology!
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We used to record our soaps in college so that we didn't miss them when we had class. That's also the time that we rented The Breakfast Club 1000 times and my roommate and I had the whole movie memorized from start to finish. It amazing how far technology has come!! I remember when they made the VCRs with 2 slots so that you could copy from one to another...that was the only way to share lol.
 
cookingmylife said:
Well, I never had a VCR as a child...lord, we barely had a tv in those days! Then in my adult life we finally had some vhs tapes including 'day of movie release' bootlegged videos from the UK available in the rental store in Bahrain. Oh the making sure to get them back on time and not pay a fine!

I still have one VCR player/recorder but it's not hooked up, and yes, why wait to trash it! I do have dh's old cd/dvd portable player and old iMac which still has a cd/dvd slot. I rarely use the former and have yet to use the old iMac as with streaming on the TV there's really no need. I don't think I have any VHS tapes as I never took movies but hated to take some foreign films I'd recorded from the tv on VHS to the little charity shop which still sells them. The quality sucked but I enjoyed them.
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I just recently bought a DVD player again. I love to get movies from Redbox and we had been using DS's Playstation to watch them. He took it to his room, so I had to have a new way to watch. Amazing how cheap they are now compared to when they came out! None of our PCs have CD/DVD slots.
 
meganmecrazy said:
My in-laws and an aunt of mine still have a VCR and VHS tapes so my kids have seen them and know what they are! I sure do not miss having to watch VHS tapes!
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And having to rewind them hahaha. That was a pain!
 
Sokee said:
We do have a few left in our home, the ones that have home recording in them. But no vhs player to play them on. Really should gave them transferred to another media like dvd
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I really need to do that, and I also say that all the time and still not done lol.
 
We had one growing up but no, my children have never seen one or know what it is. They barely even know what CD or DVD players are & get annoyed on the very rare occasion when we watch live TV and have to sit through commercials. #spoiledmuch

I remember that my college roommate got a TiVo when we were juniors AND IT WAS THE BIGGEST COOLEST DEAL EVER.
 
haha! we had BETA instead of a VCR when I was younger (early 80s). I think I was maybe 3rd or 4th grade when we got it. And it too was tethered to the remote. We kids weren't allowed to use the remote! I remember going to the video store and renting movies all the time! We also recorded Disney's Sunday night movies on television. My brother has the BETA machine right now and all the BEAT movies. when the movie store stopped renting BETA we bought a whole bunch. LOL

We actually do still have a VCR in the house because we will occasionally record one to DVD with a burner or something (my husband does it). My kids do know what VCR is but they have no clue what I'm talking about when I refer to the BETA machine. LOL
 
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As a child and young married couple I remember having a VHS player. I remember going to Movie Gallery and renting movies on Friday night. I distinctly remember a conversation that my hubby and a friend had (probably late 90's) about DVD players. My hubby arguing that DVD players would replace VHS and our friend vehemently disagreeing. Haha!
 
IntenseMagic said:
I remember when they made the VCRs with 2 slots so that you could copy from one to another...that was the only way to share lol.
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I moved back in with my parents in 1984 and we then had 2 VCR's. Guess who figured out how to hook them together to copy from one tape to another. That's how I put together my tape of all the soap opera moments I wanted to keep. At one time I think we had 3 VCR's in the house. One in my room, one in the living room and one in the basement after Dad had made it into a family room. So each of us could watch different tapes if we wanted to!
 
HavaDrPepper said:
I moved back in with my parents in 1984 and we then had 2 VCR's. Guess who figured out how to hook them together to copy from one tape to another. That's how I put together my tape of all the soap opera moments I wanted to keep. At one time I think we had 3 VCR's in the house. One in my room, one in the living room and one in the basement after Dad had made it into a family room. So each of us could watch different tapes if we wanted to!
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I think we did as well. I was always the one to figure out anything to do with electronics in my house. Every time my dad would get something new, he would just hand it to me and say "figure this out and get back to me" :giggle
 
tinkerbell1112 said:
In High School I worked at a grocery store that had a video rental area that I helped out in and secretly loved to charge that extra $1 for people not rewinding. LOL
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My husband's family had a little store at one time with a video rental area, and he said the same thing :giggle
 
Scrapping with Liz said:
As a child and young married couple I remember having a VHS player. I remember going to Movie Gallery and renting movies on Friday night. I distinctly remember a conversation that my hubby and a friend had (probably late 90's) about DVD players. My hubby arguing that DVD players would replace VHS and our friend vehemently disagreeing. Haha!
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Haha! I remember the controversy! So funny, of course I'm old enough to remember the controversy when cassettes came to replace albums and CD's came to replace cassettes. It makes me really wonder sometimes what can possibly be next.
 
LeeAndra said:
We had one growing up but no, my children have never seen one or know what it is. They barely even know what CD or DVD players are & get annoyed on the very rare occasion when we watch live TV and have to sit through commercials. #spoiledmuch

I remember that my college roommate got a TiVo when we were juniors AND IT WAS THE BIGGEST COOLEST DEAL EVER.
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My son gets annoyed with commercials as well #sospoiled. Oh, I had forgotten about TiVo! We did have a cable box at one time that had DVR built in. There was one show that I recorded all the time and I cannot remember what it was for the life of me, but I distinctly remember checking that DVR all the time so I didn't miss it.
 
tinkerbell1112 said:
haha! we had BETA instead of a VCR when I was younger (early 80s). I think I was maybe 3rd or 4th grade when we got it. And it too was tethered to the remote. We kids weren't allowed to use the remote! I remember going to the video store and renting movies all the time! We also recorded Disney's Sunday night movies on television. My brother has the BETA machine right now and all the BEAT movies. when the movie store stopped renting BETA we bought a whole bunch. LOL

We actually do still have a VCR in the house because we will occasionally record one to DVD with a burner or something (my husband does it). My kids do know what VCR is but they have no clue what I'm talking about when I refer to the BETA machine. LOL
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I can remember the argument back in the day about which was better, and was BETA going to replace VHS. I told my dad he needed a BETA machine and him telling me that he was going to stick to VHS. I loved browsing the video stores! Such great memories this thread is bringing back!
 
IntenseMagic said:
I can remember the argument back in the day about which was better, and was BETA going to replace VHS. I told my dad he needed a BETA machine and him telling me that he was going to stick to VHS. I loved browsing the video stores! Such great memories this thread is bringing back!
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and sticking with VHS was the right move. :-)
 
I'll date myself a lil' bit more. My mom found my favorite 8-track a few months ago! She wanted to know if I wanted it. LOL!!!!
 
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