Foo - What do you do with your VCR's?

I'm sure some are still in use, but all of my VCR's have been retired. I think I have 6 or 7 of them around here. Some of them are still attached to TV's even though they don't get used. So where have all your VCR's gone?

I think i will just keep them for nostalgia purposes.

I'm sure some are still in use, but all of my VCR's have been retired. I think I have 6 or 7 of them around here. Some of them are still attached to TV's even though they don't get used. So where have all your VCR's gone?

I think i will just keep them for nostalgia purposes.
I use them for analog audio mixdown from an analog 4 track. Great mixdown recorders!:D

The pawn shop gave me 5 bucks...

I use them for analog audio mixdown from an analog 4 track. Great mixdown recorders!:D

could you explain that in more detail? What is an analog 4 track?

4 track recorder, based on cassette technology. I use it when I do anything that requires portability. In essence, you can lay down a track on each of the 4 tracks on a cassette, using it in one direction only. It has an output mixer and can place the signal balance either right or left to make an ersatz stereo signal.

Now, the VCR, if of decent quality, can record audio at the same quality level as a decent reel to reel and is a lot cheaper. It also offers the ability to mono both tracks or use the l track and right track individually if you want to lay down some narrative over music, by playing one track back while recording on the other. This function only applies to very high end vcr's, by the way. You can then feed the final mixdown into an audio/digital converter to create an MP3 of what you analog recorded with your computer.

Certain instruments don't initially record well with a straight digital recording unless you use massive oversample rates. Instruments like Saxophone and flute are warmed significantly by the analog process vs. a digital recording from the get go is a bit reedy sounding. The distortion introduced by analog recording is preserved in the digital remaster process and results in a fuller recording of the sax with more of a "live" presence.

I hear they invented these great new things called garbage cans. Anyone else heard of this???

They were sent to keep the flowers company

I hear they invented these great new things called garbage cans. Anyone else heard of this???
Ya know what, Vic, there are also movies that are not available on DVD because they are out of production. I happen to like some of those movies. That's the other reason I keep a VCR or two around!

Mines somewhere behind me in the wire pile. I think its going to stay there:D

Mine went to the surplus electronics guy.

I use them to show the rock outside whos boss

I actually kept one to make videotapes for people who don't have DVDs yet. The rest I've blown up, thrown off the 10th floor of the FT dorms, launched from trebuchets. A local skydiving outfit just got licensed to go up to 18,000ft, I'm gonna see if they'll let me toss one from the plane. It'd be interesting to find what the terminal-velocity of a VCR would be... :)

I put them in the middle of the street and wait for idiots on bikes w/o head lights at night to hit them.

The coax inputs on two TVs I had broke, so I have the one VCR as a tuner through s-video. The other TV is something of a paper weight I occasionally use to watch stuff via my comp.

I miss the blinking 12:00 on my old VCR.

If you've got an s-video vcr, i'd keep it.

As you can see from the empty VCR box in the background, I shoot my old VCR's.

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Do they even make those anymore?

line them all up and use them for big dominos

I actually use mine to record BSG-75 because I am at work when it's on. Then I take the tape to work, and watch it in my office Sat morns' when no one's around.

I'm waiting for mini-HD-DVR's that use tiny 32GB flash memory cards. :D

Mine's in the garage, gathering dust. The laser disc player, however, gets kept inside. That thing could be valuable someday.

Michigander, what rifle is that? My first thought was an FN Fal, but something doesn't look quite right (perhaps the non-Brady bill butt stock...). A H&K GS-3? Either way, looks like it's well-suited to the job.

Ya know what, Vic, there are also movies that are not available on DVD because they are out of production. I happen to like some of those movies. That's the other reason I keep a VCR or two around!
I also heard that someone has invented these great new machines that will transfer VCR tapes to DVD disks.

Donate them to the VCR-less.

Take them out into a field and dispose of them "office-space" style.

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Do they even make those anymore?

Sure they are still being made, I bought one this year. I bought a DVD recorder, with a VHS deck, I can dub from VHS to DVD and DVD to VHS. I'm converting everything that I want from VHS to DVD, so it's a pretty handy device.

If any of you are interested take your unwanted VHS apart and see what a slick mechanical device it is. See if you can figure out how the recording and playback heads layed down the tracks on the tape from the spinning drum. Japanese factories made thousands of these machines a day, and they are so small, complex and reliable. Just amazing when you concider the engineering, manufacturing processes and the physics of magnetic recording of video and audio, video recording was invented in the 1950's, what an impact it's had on society.

My dad's got 4.... hooked up to ONE TV! (and another 2 in another room, and two others on two other TVs...)

Me, I have one that's integrated in with my DVD player. Wife has a few movies on VHS that we don't have on DVD yet.

Michigander, what rifle is that? My first thought was an FN Fal, but something doesn't look quite right (perhaps the non-Brady bill butt stock...). A H&K GS-3? Either way, looks like it's well-suited to the job.

Thats my pride and joy gun. Its a varient of the FAL. Its made by David Salvaggio Arms, or DSA of Illinois. Its based on the STG58 of Austrailia. Its full name is the DSA SA58. Its the highest quality FAL varient ever made.

I'm still using my VCR.