Anyone still watch movies on VHS or dvd?

[53' Stude]

Besides myself, AutoMechanic and real father does anyone here have a VCR? I do. Plays excellent too. Real dad has a silver RCA one. I know, streaming and the internet are all the rage these days.

 

[Hall]

VHS ? Nope, long gone. All of our VHS tapes are gone too. We do have a BD player and a handful of BD discs, mostly box sets like Game of Thrones full set, Harry Potter full set, and still have a few DVDs. Otherwise, it's all streaming.

 

[Malo83]

Have an SVHS player hooked up to my TV in the garage, a bunch of old NASCAR races on tape and like to watch on occasion.

 

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

Besides myself, AutoMechanic and real father does anyone here have a VCR? I do. Plays excellent too. Real dad has a silver RCA one. I know, streaming and the internet are all the rage these days.

Have a closet FULL of DVDs and two players we still use. Got rid of VHS a few years ago because it seemed most of the tapes were deteriorating.
We would try them in different players and the machines would eat them. Wife had a box of Disney movies for grandkids YET they ended up donated to GoodWill stores or someplace. No one wanted even those. Yeah. We still going strong on DVD and CDs for music from the 60s & 70s.
I just bought JUSTIFIED series box set DVDs last week from WalMart.

 

[skyactiv]

VHS tapes look best watched on a tube TV in my opinion.
I no longer have a VHS player nor a tube TV.

 

[Jackson_Slugger]

VHS (transferred from Super 8 film) is one of the best audio sources IMHO. It's better than vinyl or regular CD, I have a couple tapes on VHS looking to transfer to a digital file...

 

[Gimpy1]

I have a ton of movies on BD mostly sets of movies. I had to buy an external optical drive for my laptop but its pretty cool because i can use it on my smart tv.

 

[FordMan59]

I haven't watch anything on VHS in years, but we still watch lots of DVD's.

 

[JC1]

I two VHS machines stored in the basement. It's amazing how often the technology changes. Just ran into these tapes. Need to figure out what needs to be kept and what can be tossed.

 

[AutoMechanic]

Looks like we are in the minority here as I expected. I’m looking at my Toshiba VCR right now the DVD player and Blu-Ray player are also sitting there with it the only difference is the VHS player is silver the others are black. Same with the cable box.

 

[ripcord]

The faux wood grain on the case of my Betamax player is starting to look pretty dingy. Might be time to think about upgrading...

 

[Tomioka]

Still have a circa '98 Philips Magnavox VCR hooked up to my LG OLED. Used it to hook up RCA A/V legacy consoles and cameras.

Lost the remote in a move somewhere. It was the only way to control advanced features on the VCR and it even had remote eject.

 

[Oillover]

I only download and watch movies/tv shows.
My dad still gets DVD's from the public library that he watches regularly.

When I lived at home, we got rid of our Betamax years ago.

 

[CharlesInCharge]

I have a VCR and probably 100 VHS tapes, unique stuff with a few home movies and a lot of stuff that probably pre-dated DVD and never put on DVD format. I admit I haven't watched a VCR tape in over a decade, except one rare Ozzy Ozborne era Black Sabbath tape I got a year or two ago. Some stuff you just can only get on VCR tapes so it's handy. Probably 90% of my VCR tapes were given to me at garage sales, etc. b/c they hold no economic value but retain good entertainment value.

50% of what I watch is on DVDs, and I might have 1000 DVD movies and TV shows. I have probably 10 "spare" DVD players set aside in boxes for a rainy day, which will rotate in as they deteriorate and fail over the next decades. I absolutely hoard DVDs from garage sales, thrift stores, etc. Gobble up anything interesting and multiples of my favorites because they do wear out and we know at some point they will no longer be made.

The other 50% I watch is streaming, mostly Youtube videos (ironically many of those are VCR tapes people upload), and current content not found elsewhere - documentaries, concerts, rock videos, current events, news clips, etc.

 

[Hall]

I do still have the first DVD player we bought, circa 1999. They were uncommon enough back then that they included a "free" DVD movie with the player. In our case, it was one of the Batman movies (want to say Batman and Robin).

 

[Dinoburner]

We recorded several hours of 9/11 on VHS so the player will be kept for that reason.

 

[JC1]

I have a Blu ray player and I couldn't tell you the last time I watched a DVD. I also have a WD live tv player which was good to play content of a hard drive or thumb drive. I just bought two OTG adapters for my fire sticks and bought two 512 GB thumbdrives for streaming. Makes it easier to watch content for me.

 

[Rmay635703]

There is a found footage movement to skirt copyright and get content orphaned on VHS to streaming

These guys entire job is watching old VHS.





I personally still occasionally fire up the vcr, even recorded HD content to it off the air since it’s free. And yes I retain an antique trinitron to replay vintage content including old video games

Up until recently if something required $$$ to stream I would get it on DVD from a rental joint or the library

Last year put a kink in both methods

 

[SubLGT]

Still have 2 VCRs, but haven't used them in the last 3 years. Have a few dozen VCR tapes, most of them being about railroads.
Also have a Sony Blu-Ray/DVD player. I use it every day. These days I am watching Gunsmoke and Star Trek DVDs on a 15 year old Sony 30" CRT TV. Yes, I am a geezer. The old Sony TV is giving me hints of impending failure, and I am planing on replacing it this year with a Sony 50" XR X90J LED TV.

 

[blupupher]

Wife watches a lot of DVD's. I know many are available streaming, but DVD is easier to use for her.
We got rid of our VCR and tapes a few years ago after the VCR broke.