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bestcee

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The last VCR was made last week. The only company still making them, has stopped. My son heard it and asked "What's a VCR?" :confused:

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So, did you have a VCR growing up? Do you still have one? Even better, did you have one of those tape rewinders?

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And remember, Be Kind, Rewind.
 
Growing up? No. TVs were black and white when I was a kid..... My husband and I still own a Beta Max and a VCR, however they are sitting in the basement with the tapes that no one will ever look at again... Shame because we have some of the kids which would be nice to recover... My kids do know what both are though. I guess even my kids are old.. Has anyone else heard of the 8 track?
 
My daughter is sad about this. She still uses a VCR to watch all her old videos.

I haven't used one in years.
 
I didn't have one growing up because they hadn't been invented! My husband and I bought one our first year of marriage. For awhile I volunteered at the check in desk at a local library and we frequently had to rewind the tapes. There was a sticker that said "be kind, rewind" on it!
 
Actually, we still have a VCR/DVD combo that we bought in the not-to-distant-past. We've digitized some of our old home movies. I really need to get on it and get the rest done because we're not buying another machine after this one.

I remember getting our first VCR. I was in high school. And yes, we had the separate rewinder, because if you used the rewinder on your actual VCR, it was supposed to wear it out sooner! LOL
 
Didn't have one while growing up, we used to rent one in such a videorenting-place.
I always asked for Xanadu with Olivia Newton-John.
My parents got tired of it, lol!
 
We don't actually have a VCR set up anymore. And we have a cupboard full of Disney movies on VCR tape, such a shame to just chuck them, but no one wants them anymore.
 
We had a VCR beginning when I was in high school and my husband and I got rid of our last one around 2005. The only videotape I cared about by then was our wedding video. We tried burning it to DVD, but had some difficulty. I don't even remember if we succeeded. This makes me want to go search for it.
 
We still have a VCR/DVD combo which I wanted to use to transfer all the movies of the kids but discovered that it was a proprietary format so any other player didn't recognize them. I still need to transfer all of our movies!

I remember when 8 tracks and betamax first came out.
 
Darn! I need one simply to be able to potentially digitize old videos. We did have a VCR, and my grandmother had the rewinder machine. Lots of home videos on VCR! And how my mom got us so many movies, was recording them from TV. So annoying to fast forward through some movie(s) to get to the next one on the tape.... lol!
 
Yes, we still have at least one player that works. And a big stack of Disney tapes. The kids were watching the very first Pokemon TV show today. My husband reminded them we have the promotional VCR tape that Nintendo sent out for Pokemon. We should hook up the VCR and watch it.
 
Oh Christine, we only got a tv when I was about 6!!! Huge console with about a 8 inch screen. It was a Dumont like the blond model in the bottom part of the add. 7.5" by 10" screen...kind of iPad size!

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Well we still have a var now though it may have died. I have to check it again. It's a vcr/dvd combo and I do have a box of vcr tapes that I thought I might keep but this convinces me. Off they go to a charity shop. I suspect I will be buying a dvd player in the future as I do like to rent from Redbox now and then.
 
We got our first one towards the end of my high school years and I remember my parents buying me one for my college dorm that had a remote...with a cord lol. We wore out The Breakfast Club on that thing! I've had many since, and even the tvs with vcr built in, but not a single one now. I have soooo many of the Disney movies on VHS just sitting in boxes, and several home videos of my oldest when he was little. I also had a VHS-C camcorder (that took the smaller tapes but had to be put in an adapter to play) about the time my daughter came along. I really need to find a way to do something with those tapes.
 
I totally grew up with a VCR. In fact, multiple of them so that we could record programs from multiple channels at the same time (oh, TiVo, how I love thee!). I still have several stashed away that my husband teases me about occasionally, but we still have home movies to digitize, and I'm one to those people who thinks we need to archive ways to access older media, anyway. I still have floppy drives (the BIG ones, not just those little 3.5" disks) and some of the more esoteric formats like Jaz and Zip disks stashed away in my archive o' tech, too!

Oh, and we had a rewinder, too! It looked like a car!

Funny story about rewinding...we gave Darren's parents a DVD player for Christmas back when they were the new thing (obviously this was many years ago). A few days later his mom called me and asked how to rewind the disc! :giggle
 
I am with @kimingvtx , they had not been invented when I grew up. We had a tv. And a tape 'reorder ,still with the big spools.LoL.
 
We just dropped off 3 Disney VHS at our local thrift shop. The area we live in still takes VHS, although I don't know for how much longer! I'll probably pay someone to digitize the family videos on VHS. I did 2, including my wedding video, and it was a pain! Sadly, most of the home videos of me and my siblings were recorded over, so we don't have many anymore. I do like that about DVD's! It's hard to record over.
 
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