jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

More details about the VCR and its decline.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/07/22/rip-to-the-vcr/?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

wj cody Loc: springfield illinois

while most folks are using cd players, there are many movies and concert footage unavailable on disc. and so... we sell every used vcr player and cartridges which come into our shop. surprisingly, there is still a pretty strong call for them.

tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

I remember spending $600 plus for my first VCR.

balticvid Loc: Queens now NJ

I had a video store for 22 years. Three years before Blockbuster went into business.
It was a fun business.

memcdm

I purchased a number of VCRs and tapes mostly of Disney movies for the kids. All died, save one I still own, the victim of a broken belt or a terminal electronic illness. May they rest in peace.

ebbote Loc: Hockley, Texas

RIP VCR, you had a great life.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yes, they used to be pricey. We bought an early model RCA, and when we used it to record a movie, the playback would be interrupted occasionally. After this happened a couple of times, I called the company. I spoke to an operator who said, "Let me get you an engineer." When the engineer came on the phone, he was glad to speak to an owner. "So you bought one of our machines. How do you like it? We put a lot of effort into that." I told him about the cutting out problem, and he knew just what I meant. "Yeah, we had a problem with that. When you're recording on low speed, if there is any atmospheric noise, the machine can interpret that as a signal to change speed..."

Imagine that happening today? Actually speaking to someone, especially someone who knows what he's talking about. They didn't have a cure for the problem, so I learned to record at high speed if the weather were stormy or unsettled. Eventually, they found a solution.

I loved having VCRs, often using several at once to record multiple shows if I wasn't going to be home. Now, with TiVo, I can record four at once, and they record every week.

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

jerry, many years ago my VHS recorder stopped working, it would just reject a cassette. I called out a local repair man..who on opening the chassis found two inserted Lollipop sticks and a sweet wrapper, which upon removal the recorder worked as new..If I had an inkling of what the cause was, I could have opened up the machine myself and saved myself a few £s !!.

lateron Loc: Yorkshire, England

Hard Luck, Doddy - I've just forked out for an engineer to "fix" my dishwasher. It cost a small fortune!!!!!!

rustfarmer

Still use my VCR and love the many features I don't get with discs, such as ability to mark exact footage of a scene, slow mo, skip to a marker, ease of recording, timer, analog in/out, analog sound to my old school stereo, etc.

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

I wish somebody would come and "fix" my dishwasher Ron...she does whinge on sometimes...Lol.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Time for a new one.

rocket111

Back before VHS the trend was to go slides. What a pain that was. You had to get everybody togeather then set everything up. And without fail something would go wrong. Then came camrecorders. They were a a little better but not by mutch. Very expensive dirty heads tapes would get eaten. I have a room filled with slides,tapes, thinking this stuff was hear to stay. You still can't beat hard coppies in a photo album

Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

Refurbished would do jerry!!

Pepsiman Loc: New York City

My two are still working fine. Just can't buy any more tapes.