My VCR has auto Rewind LOL, Iwhen you have 33 VCRS it is fun to pick out the best to use. I miss the ZENITH VCR I had thing was like a Cadillac, burned out after 4 years of use during a bad power outage during the winter. It was a true soldier!
@@59thSurvivor-of-VHS I have a few premium VCRs. The zenith it’s a tank, but needs to go in for service. Older electronics had all the bells and whistles. Fun fact remotes are called clickers because the old ones clicked and didn’t require batteries. The sound changed the channel, the volume, on and off.
@@themetapod I made channel member emojis. Right now I can only have once we get a few more members we can make more emojis. Just a fun thing for our community. Memberships start at a dollar if you are interested, but a thumbs up is always appreciated.
@themetapod 80's made channel memberships emoji! I would join but I am just a thrifty VHS Hunter, I hate spending more than $1 on anything lol 😆 gifted memberships always accepted.
Vhs tapes are still awesome in 2024.Even in 2025 more people will find comfort in playing vhs tapes.Why? They cost less and nothing like putting in a vhs movie and making fresh popcorn 🍿 on a Saturday night.🙂
A decade ago out of space necessity I ditched my very large VHS collection, pre-records and stuff I taped off TV with all the vintage ads from the '80s and '90s. I've been kicking myself ever since and am wracked with guilt and pain over this loss. I've since picked up a few VHS tapes to help allay some of this loss and the main enjoyment I get is from the opening material -- that's really the stuff that takes me back: the FBI warning, the old VHS label logos and music, the extras like trailers or bonus promo stuff and then into sometime older film print logos before the movie.
I understand I ditched my VHS as soon as I bought my 1st DVD player. I was 16 and have recently have been regretting it. For as much as I have I still haven’t replaced what I gave away. You are right that while opening bit from the warning to the trailer and sometimes the special features just brings me back every time.
@@80sMadeConsumer I have gone to some estate sales and last year scored a LARGE and free bunch of VHS boxes that were almost going to the dumpster and it was stuff this deceased guy taped off TV and it was a treasure trove of old ads and shows from the 80s thru the 2000s with one very rare ad I've been looking for for years. So that has really helped me restore some balance to the universe.
I had 100s of VHS Tapes back in the 90s and early 2000s. Upgraded almost all of them to DVD and Blu-Ray, now I have a lot digital Movies on Hard Drives. But the look and feel of VHS cant be replicated on digital in 4k.
I went down that same journey and you’re right it’s more than nostalgia it’s everything! Can’t replace browsing the shelf’s and holding a movie in your hand!
I come from the same school of thought probably because I too worked at a video store for about a year. There is nothing I don’t love but every time it gets mentioned in come the never again VHS crowd. It’s funny too because with the shift to DVD can’t remember anyone hating on vhs at all. 😂
@@80sMadeConsumer I agree with you about certain movies on VHS with a CRT TV having a special look. I think it really works with horror. The grittier the better in my opinion. All this VHS talk has me reminiscing about my time working in video stores. I worked in small local shops before the big guys moved in. Tons of stories to tell about those days. :)
@@briandurant19791997 awesome! Only vhs or other formats too? I’ve been buying movies for over 25 years and a big regret was getting rid of my when DVD came out.
The only reason I ever got rid of my VHS collection was because my VCR stopped working and by then new VCRs were really hard to find. My wife recently started buying them again. Which is funny because she's the one that really talked me into getting rid of my VHS tapes. But I'm on the lookout for a good VCR and TV. I love VHS.
That was a similar path I took but I ditched my VHS almost immediately when I bought my 1st dvd player. It was having my youngest in 2016 that I saw them and remembered how my older kids treated my Blu-ray’s when they were toddlers. Very quickly bought all the Disney tapes and that nostalgia just kicked in.
@@TonyThompson1981 I have my VCR and it still works, but I don’t have any problems with it. I checked to see if it’s running, I cleaned the audio and video heads and it does the rest.
I don’t get it. I’m a home video kid of the 80’s and 90’s who owned hundreds of movies on the format. But once I became more aware of aspect ratios and things like picture and sound quality actually mattered, I ditched the format in the mid-90’s for laserdisc and never looked back. In an age of 4K and Blu-ray, why anyone would want to watch a film in a substandard format, and most likely in pan & scan is something I’ll never understand.
Because for some people, vhs holds a certain nostalgic charm. Also, due to the lower quality image, vhs masked a lot of obvious stunt doubles and effects that would look way more apparent on dvd and blu ray. I gave you a couple reasons. Now what is there not to "get"?
@@TotalMeltdown2 None of that is really cogent. We're all suspectable to nostalgia. We all indulge in nostalgia, nothing wrong with that. But some nostalgia is just oddly puerile and arrested. Like VHS nostalgia. "Doing a better job at hiding" things like stunt doubles and wonky effects? Who cares, like for real? I'd rather actually see a film I like in its intend ratio with the best possible image and sound over kinda sorta obscuring stunt doubles with potato vision, lol. Seeing the seams of a film only makes me appreciate it more. And come on, stunt doubles are still pretty easily stopped on VHS as well. This is not the point for the format you think it is.
@nope5657 No need for a snarky reply. You assume this is an "either or" thing. I love blu ray but every once in a while I like to pop in a vhs for nostalgia, and like you said, there is nothing wrong with that. Period. And did I ever say the point of the format was to hide stunt doubles? Nope. Never said that. Go crawl back under your rock
Much like the vinyl revival, VHS offers that tactile quality of holding a VHS in one's hand, of marveling at the box art, of reading the liner notes or plot descriptions, and then popping the tape into a VCR to enjoy the sound of that motor-whirring goodness while sitting back and enjoying the tape contents. Staring at a smartphone will never offer that level of tactile satisfaction just as it doesn't for musical enjoyment compared to the tactile ritual of playing vinyl records ( or playing a reel-to-reel deck or popping a cassette tape into a cassette deck while watching the tape spools spinning) despite the many portable conveniences of smartphones.
Exactly love to physccally hold the movies in my hand and a tape just is a good size and weight not fragile bigger art! I don't like music unless its attached to a movie didn't even realize that until last year and just started buying movie soundtracks. The few vinyl I've added just better because its bigger.
People like myself got rid of Disney plus I was getting more lazy and not getting up and down and my vhs tapes keeps me moving more and more healthy than my Disney plus didn't do
You are me. I'm 46 and everything you said I agree with. I like you took a tube TV that was sitting in front of my apartment garbage so I could have it and use it just in case my old tube TV from 2000 dies. There is a special nostalgia and comfort that I get when I watch VHS movies on my VCR on my tube TV. It's grainy and that's why it's so great and pleasurable because it reminds me of watching horror movies on VHS tape when I was growing up. I will always have a yearning and longing to live how I lived when I was 12 and watching a horror movie on my VCR. Also movies like the Friday the 13th movies made in the '80s it is especially important having on VHS tape and watching on VHS tape because they need to be seen this way to fully appreciate and enjoy them. They were made to be seen in VHS tape quality video. The grain adds to the quality of these movies and to the experience of watching these movies.
That’s awesome, and anytime you can get a spare I would. You just never know. Completely agree some of those older films look ok on my 4k tv, but that old tube is perfection.
@@80sMadeConsumer a lot of people think we are weird that's for sure because 90% of people don't have VHS tapes or VCRs anymore. Do you watch them for nostalgia? 400 is a great collection. I have 250. Do you love the film V/H/S? I do because it's the best recreation movie about horror movies from the '80s ever made after 1991. They did such a great job making everything realistic as far as it looking and feeling like an '80s horror film.
@@lukejbarnett1 The movie V/H/S is a blind spot for me, still haven't seen it. I'll have to add it to my wish list. I purposefully watch films on vhs and nostalgia kicks in, but thats not the intention. Sure a great number of my all time favorites I own on VHS, but so many good ones are fine to add for a dollar vhs is ok. If I had to pay more for some of them they would be one and done. Also to take in to account the number of films that never got a DVD and are stuck on the oldd tapes. I have several formats in my collection, actively looking for a wworking laser disc and Betamax players.
@@80sMadeConsumer betamax really? That's incredible. Why would you want a betamax player? Do you have memories watching '80s movies in this format when you were a little kid? Did you move to 4k movies? I never did and never will because why spend all that money on buying the same movies you already have on Blu Ray? And why buy any movie in 4k? It's unnecessary to make movies even more clear looking than Blu Ray movies. I was very hard to get to buying Blu Ray movies and not DVD movies. It wasn't as hard though as the transition from buying VHS movies to buying DVD movies though. This is because I love VHS movies so much.
I love VHS. There is truly something magical about it. Some movies from that time benefit from the 4k upgrade but some belong on VHS and need to stay there you watch it for enjoyment more than graphics and judgement.
@@ThornTheaterReviews exactly there is a place for both formats not sure why it gets hate if it’s not for you cool. You’re right some movies look better on a different format for sure!
WE have 80's Made for a video on this LOL, I stick to my shorts and will blast DIsney for giving us a Digital only availabity, I would buy that VHS right now if it were out but they want you to buy the same thing 5 different ways so LOL
I love vhs. I had a collection of about 500 vhs tapes until a few years ago when my house flooded and destroyed 99% of them. I decided to rebuy them on DVD and Blu-ray instead. The only VHS in my collection that survived the flooding was Halloween (‘78) through Halloween: H20, my copy of Slayer - Live Intrusion, and thankfully my copy of Nine Inch Nails - Closure. The Slayer and Nine Inch Nails VHS are long out of print and aren’t on any other format
Having to replace stuff really sucks. I have a holy grail in my collection only 600 copies ever and I couldn’t imagine if I had to replace it! Cool that you were able to salvage some great stuff though. Only have Halloween ‘78 on vhs it was one that was a blockbuster exclusive. Would love to add more horror VHS, but you know how that goes.
@@80sMadeConsumer oh yeah. I actually have 2 copies of Halloween on VHS. One is the standard version by Goodtimes Video (I believe that’s the distributor) and the other is a 2 tape special edition in a hard plastic case. It’s awesome because the VHS tapes are Orange and it came with a bunch of cool stuff. I’m really glad that one in particular survived the flooding because it was given to me as a gift by a friend that unfortunately passed away last October. It means a lot more to me than any other movie in my collection
@@brianchapman1980 for real sometimes it’s more than the movie but the whole experience or memory or who gave it to you! Makes all the difference in the world. Sucks he’s gone cool you have that gift! I just found that same one this year, I posted the orange tape on one of the social medias. Mine came with a little booklet and a keychain. (Not sure if anything was missing) As far as slashers go I love the trinity Jason, Freddy, & Michael. Halloween is my all time favorite, actively trying to add more versions of the 1st one in any format.
@@80sMadeConsumer Halloween is my absolute favorite of the franchises. Yes it came with a keychain, a little booklet, and the VHS artwork has a bunch of different art on the reverse side too. I didn’t notice the extra art for years
Im 21 and Im a LaserDisc collector, nice picture quality and incredible sound! I prefer it over VHS. Ive been collecting LaserDisc since 2016. I love watching the classics on laserdiscs more than streaming. I also prefer Blu Ray and DVD over streaming.
I haven’t found any laser discs yet but something I’d love to get into. I do have most other formats and enjoy each of them for all of their benefits and flaws. Streaming has never been for me a die hard home video enthusiast! Do you have an old crt tv? If not I highly recommend getting one whole new experience on that old tech.
It is suprisingly watchable! I do use my S-VHS VCR on my 4k TV but I run it through a DVD recorder with a built in time base corrector and that helps with the fuzziness. I also have a CRT and it works way better but it definately can look pretty decent on a newer TV with the right setup. You have to manually set the aspect ratio to 4:3 on the remote and this can usually be done in the filmaker mode settings on modern TVs. If you do this it won't be stretched.
Oh it was better than I thought honestly reminiscent of watching to through an antenna. I had to use the old cable connection because when I ran it through my stereo it didn’t look right.
If your upscale is decent it won't have any problem with VHS or DVD. If you are lucky enough to have a panel that can support the low-resolution native then it looks just fine.
It will be and I suspect most of those will never get opened. I was surprised by this announcement. I wonder if VHS is going to be a cash grab for studios now like steelbooks used to be. We just got a VHS for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, although that bundle was a bit over priced.
It's ridiculous to me when people say they don't like VCRs and CRTs because they're big and heavy. People have become so lazy with modern tech, that even the idea of pulling out cash from the wallet to pay is making them install chips in their hands for touch pay. I'm 33 and I'm old enough to have seen movies on VHS, DVDs and Blurays and I hate streaming. I'd rather pirate a movie than ever pay to stream. I remember I was 9-10 years old when just the novelty of having movie I can freely watch at home on my VCR was an event that it didn't matter if it was heavy, clumsy, blurry or "inconvenient".
Man I hear it all the time, I don’t get it, and like I said they look good on the crt yeah pretty fuzzy on the 4k, but still watchable. Currently if I watch any dvd on the 4k it just looks like cable did back in the 90s. Movies always looked better than cable. Streaming is the worst, I’m a die hard home video guy!
The picture quality is a joke compared to HD today BUT what many people forget is the fact, that vhs' have uncompressed audio ! (DVD's have compressed mp3 audio on them mostly...) So I still love my music VHS's.^
Believe me I’m not saying it’s a better a really good 4k disc blows it out of the water. Just something I enjoy too. Most people probably never noticed the audio. A surprising number of people only ever hooked them up to a tv with the coax and that’s it. Same as today people getting excited over Dolby Atmos and not having a surround sound, always have to do a double take haha
I buy VHS for the historic value, the color grading on early releases tends to be the most accurate towards the director or cinematographer's vision. Where as unless you have a blu ray sold by second sight or some other boutique label you will just get a thoughtless transfer. DVD and VHS look best in 4:3 picture ratio.
Yeah I had had to go back to my VHS for comparison. The Snatch 4k looked great but the color was way too dark. I mostly watch VHS and DVD on the CRT in 4:3, but if I watch on the 4k I always keep the 4:3 ratio. No point in distorting the image.
I starting collecting vhs like 7 years ago, mostly because I already collected retro games and had a crt TV already so it was the like next step especially whenever I would go thrifting I would see tapes and vcrs all the time, so one day I picked up some tapes and vcr in the same day and slowing started collecting.
Entertainment is largely about escapism. For some people who grew up in the 80s, watching certain movies on vhs makes for a more authentic form of escapism partly because that's how we watched these movies growing up, and also because vhs is suited for some movies. I love watching horror movies like Evil Dead, the Friday the 13th films or The Terminator on vhs because the format lends itself to the dirty, grainy aesthetic and atmosphere of those films. For some people, sound and picture quality aren't the only priority. People can enjoy movies on both vhs and higher quality formats for different reasons, just as they can enjoy different genres of music for different reasons. I love that there are other people who love vhs as much as I do!
Well said! I love movies no matter what the format is there are pros and cons. I own a few movies that aren’t streaming anywhere and have never been put on any other format. Horror looks great on an old tape.what would be your absolute favorite in your collection or a holy grail you’d love to own?
The other big factor is you own it. Sure streaming is nice but when your move gets delisted over some rights agreement or yet another streaming platform opens up. You start to understand how important it is to own it in your hands.
VHS I have always loved from the beginning. I have hundreds for sale on my site. They definitely aren't for the $$ as many are only listed for $2 each. I have them playing when listing, so I know they work. I still have my own personal collection as well. Long live the VHS.
@@Southwest-Michigan-Sales-LLC that’s awesome and cool you’re keeping the prices low. Having such a large collection of I can’t find it locally it’s ok I have almost all my favorites on VHS but have them all on something else at least.
Fair enough, I know a lot of people were excited about them as novelty collector pieces. The VHS only makes up a small fraction of my whole collection.
I think it's more people love the size of the tapes. Just like the record format the nice large case that displays either the art work or in VHS case the original movie posters on a larger case
i started collecting movies on betamax, then switched to VHS because betamax was dying, and even though VHS is pure nostalgia i would never go back to it, its not only the low resolution, but also the storage place you need for them even DVD's (Blue Ray's) begin taking up a lot of space when you have a lot of them, so now i digitise every one of them and put them on hard drives (or SSD's) hundreds of movies in 1080p or 4K wich you can put away in a small space there is also less to no deterioration because of the digital storage, i love the movies and TV shows, not the media they come in my movie collection spans over the 50s to now, but the good movies and TV shows they make today are very few they make more crap than good ones, anyway, i wish you good VHS hunting mate, cheers
Thanks, I get it it’s not for everyone. Maybe a little bit more nostalgia than I’d like to admit on the VHS, but recently found some Betamax tapes Batman, Yellowbeard, and Masters of The Universe. No player just the tapes never had them growing up same with CED I have quite a few now. For me it’s about the movies over the format. Now if I didn’t have several old CRTs I would’t bother except for a few display pieces. Next I’d love to get into would be laser disc less to watch but having that huge space for art and they make those vinyl wall frames I assume it’s an easy fit.
I still buy and collect used VHS movies from thrift stores for between $1.29 and $1.99 each (from Goodwill, Value Village, and the Salvation Army Thrift Stores) and there are ones I have that are good enough that I only watch once a year or a few times in any given year and I cannot justify buying a DVD, Blu-ray, and especially not a 4K to replace them if certain VHS movies in my collection are just okay story-wise, but are not so incredible that I need them on the newest or latest format. I can't constantly upgrade every movie I have either. I have to pick and choose and in many cases, the VHS is perfectly fine (or I have a DVD or Blu-ray already and I'm not interested in upgrading everything to costly 4K despite having a 4K player and maybe a fifteen or twenty 4K movies in my collection).
Again I can't argue with that! I do the same any where from .49-1.99 every week, we live in a military town so lee people have lived here a long time its always slim pickings but once in a while I find something I never saw, its like being at the video rental store all over again. I too have several VHS in my collection that are fine for a once in a blue moon watch but not worth paying 25-30 dollars for an upgrade. There are some day one upgrades for sure but won't part with those. Easier for me to donate or sell a DVD or Blu-ray after upgrading VHS just goes into storage for now.
@@Mavericks90 that would be great, but just like the new turntables they don’t have as many features as the old counterparts. New would allow more people to get in to it though. I have a couple of high end Sonys I will get repaired if I ever need too.
I own 33 of them so I have to pay attention to this, If they get mass produced again I need to let go what I have before those things flood the market LOL
The only thing I miss about VHS are the mom and pop videos stores! Such a great feeling to walk in and start browsing. The format sucks though. Iv never had a disc player eat a disc...
One reason I have no interest in VHS is pan-n-scan. I know there were some VHS in widescreen but not enough for me to get into VHS again. Getting back into Laserdisc? Maybe, but those things go to hell faster then just about any other format.
Depends on the era. Late laserdisc started using cheaper glue and it's well known to fail. The older disk tends to be fine. Also it relly matters how they are stored.
Total #RetroTech Praise! I even has a RAdioShack Realistic Equalizer to help with the audio LOL #RETROTECH I want a Sony VISITRON Security monitor, heard good things. I actually need some older TVs, I have some old school 2000 era flat screens so they get by. I am the Sucker the needs that ALIEN Romulus VHS LOL, I was thinking about it I have all of the others lol, but now they need to do PROMETHEUS and all that JAZZ on VHS as well, EVIL Disney Man I love Mickey mouse from South Park it is dead on. Man you are like the cool older Brother I didn't get to have as a kid growing up! Rock on Broski I'm 42 though, LOL One more year and I have Elvis Licked Keep on Huntin'
I think new movies on vhs is the new steelbook so here’s to the future 🍻I don’t think anything can beat old Sonys when it came to video. Haha were the same age but I’ll take it!
@80sMadeConsumer Born July so I still think your the older Broski every way. Yes I do not want new old things, I want old VHS not New lol, they have me hook and lure on this Alien 45 though, I want 1 to watch and 1 to add to my sealed VHS collection, a non vintage sealed vhs collection, thar sounds bad lol
Kind of a reach man. I get the nostalgia aspect, but even in the 80s we hated rewinding the tape! Also, I have had countless experiences watching movies I loved as a kid (80s/90s) on 4K, and it absolutely felt like watching it for the first time! I have over 1000 4K disks, so I’m all in on the format. Maybe I’ll make a room a “retro” room and get the equipment, VHS, retro game consoles, etc. but as for now, I’m enjoying the hell out of building a massive 4K collection. It really is the last frontier of physical media.
@@ColoradoKid303 I collect movies in all formats 4k is great, but we had a rewinder as a kid so that part never bothered me. We didn’t own that many and we almost always rented tapes. Out of close to 3k movies only about 400 video tapes with having many of my favorites on 4k as well. Everyone collects differently, recently noticed there has been a younger generation discovering VHS just like the vinyl kids did a decade ago. If you ever do build a retro room there are tons of vhs that never made it to Blu-ray and some are worth a watch.
@@ColoradoKid303 I did that for a year in high school absolute favorite job ever! Free rentals and we’d get the Tuesday releases on Fridays and get to have them for the weekend way before anyone else. I did have to rewind they always made me put the returns back on the shelf and it was a mom and pop owned by a dentist. The guy refused to buy a cart on busy days I felt that’s all I did 😂
@@ColoradoKid303 I wish I had the foresight to take them but had no room. I had my walls covered in movies posters. There was this hanging Adventures In Babysitting mobile I still want. Probably never find one that stuff always went in the trash back then.
VHS doesn't suck and the picture quality can be great depending on the quality of the recording and the source material. For example, I watched Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' as well as 'The Empire Strikes Back' on VHS projected on my 120 inch pull-down screen and even at that size, the resolution was crisp and sharp and the sound was great using my surround sound system, so VHS offers plenty of entertainment and fun. Yes, DVD is a higher resolution and Blu-ray more so and 4K even more so, but VHS is not garbage by any means and at no point when I bought movies or when my parents rented them for movie nights in the 1980s and 1990s were we ever disappointed by the picture quality on a 20 inch CRT television at that time or later on a 55 inch LCD TV in the 2000s.
I agree with everything you said, I only went that route in my video because of all the hate it gets. for all of its flaws I love it. more people are collecting today and quite a few that never grew up with the format. It was great back then and I still enjoy it today. For my daughter's birthday this year I found an old 480p projector and picking up on of those pull down Screens just to watch Christmas movies on VHS. She grew up with all formats and can't comprehend new movies don't come on VCR tapes, bc we buy them weekly.
Well said! I don’t but had to beat them to it haha. Yeah I’ve seen quite a few locally digging through the thrift store bins. Between those kids and the resellers it’s getting harder to find anything good. I collect movies in all formats VHS not only isn’t going anywhere Alien Romulus a Fox/Disney title is getting a limited VHS release!
@80sMadeConsumer It's OK if they're hard to find. That means the VHS world is thriving. Everyone should have a piece of the VHS life. A fellow collector texted me yesterday about Aliens. That's so dope.
@@Maxxroad agreed! I wonder if they are using VHS like they used to with steelbooks. Boost the profits by selling fans multiple versions of their favorite films.
I got a go 82. Panasonic vcr player. that needs a new belt ands its good to go. paid 50$ for it. and the most I paid for a VHS tape was 200$ for a 12 set plus the bonus specials for South Park. and a screener for a Christmas episode and part one of there doc. with part 2 on a second tape.
@@Jacob20250 that’s an awesome collection. Can’t beat those older VCRs either built like tanks and worth getting repaired. I’ve spent some serious coin on some movies, but I’ve been on the fence about getting the nightmare on elm street box set because you never know could be moldy or damaged.
Am sorry people need to start telling people start playing with there TV settings I don't understand people y they tell you vhs tapes have bad picture quality yet that's all I which in my house now days yet I know they don't have bad picture quality
Horror is so much better on vhs. I wish they would do this with all horror films. 4k,even blu-ray, makes it way too clean. Do I enjoy horror in 4k,yes, but again its better on vhs
I agree absolutely love my A Nightmare on Elm Street 4k probably easily in my top 4ks of the year. Watching the VHS is just a fun way to watch anytime.
People keep there mode switch clean out like they should people will never have playing problem's at all with their VCR players people like myself are cleaning out mode switches everything proven online how clean out a mode switch in a VCR player
Vhs was good for its time, when it was really the only way to watch films at home. But nowadays watching or collecting vhs makes absolutely no sense to me. Aside from it being a seriously flawed format, they degrade overtime. Everytime you watch it and rewind it your losing a lil bit of quality. Just a waste of $ if you ask me, collecting dvds makes more sense to me
It’s not my main way to watch nor would I replace any of my 4ks with VHS. It’s an enjoyable thing to collect. I’ve heard of people wearing out tapes but never experienced it myself, even have a few rental tapes all play fine.
From a collectors perspective I can see collecting vhs for the big box cover art, but even that must be an expensive endeavor, not to mention the space they take up. I still have all of mine and they fill an entire closet lol, they’ve been sealed up in plastic containers for years. But I stopped collecting vhs in early 2ks. I then moved to dvds, and when blurays came out I said meh I’m fine with dvds. But then I saw the quality of blus n 4ks and kind of fell out of dvds. So was kind of the same situation for me with vhs. The quality wasn’t there and I end up with a ton of stuff that just kind of it’s there. My DVDs are in the thousands and rarely do I ever go to them anymore, unless it’s to watch something that hasn’t come on blu ray. Granted there are some things stuck on vhs not even on dvd so those vhs I can see worth collecting to be fair. Honestly if I was hardcore vhs collecting I wouldn’t be watching any of them. I would just cap them all and put them digitally on an hd and watch them off them that. I’d be to afraid of the tape getting eaten at some point or degrading the quality with rewinding and or numerous watching. Memories of buying vhs head cleaner tapes are coming back now lol. But I do respect vhs collecting even though I don’t quite get it entirely. Everybody has their own thing.
Dvd has disc rot. Vhs tapes get moldy. At least the quality on dvd doesn't change with playbacks. Vhs tapes degrade the more you play them. Nothing lasts forever, but to collect I prefer bluray first unless it's not available, then I'll buy dvd. Vhs format has a lot less quality than dvd, not throwing blu ray or 4k on the mix. Even laserdisc had better quality than vhs and it was analog. I get the nostalgia of certain things, but for me vhs ain't one. Same with music cassettes, or anything tape honestly (8 track). Vinyl is better than tapes, same as music cd's. Honestly any magnetic tape format, it's a pass for me. I'm an 80's kid and grew up with vhs format. Once Dvd came out, I never looked back to have that format.
@@mitchel-e9h I love movies on all formats vhs has a special place in my life, I think a bit more than nostalgia. I vaguely remember vhs games. Never found one since I was a kid not even those trivia games.
@@Musicradio77Network I love VHS and just started collecting Betamax this year just need a player. I I have Yellow Beard, Masters of The Universe, & Batman. On Beta.
Far be it from to gatekeep how people collect media and film, but I simply don't get the VHS comeback . I find it highly goofy and driven purely by highly emotional nostalgia. I grew up on VHS, too. And it's awful. Don't care about "vibes." I care about seeing a film as it's meant to be seen.
Closing in on 3000 movies and tv shows the 400 VHS makes up a small portion of the collection. With a good 100 or so my all time favorites. There are times when I want to watch The Goonies in 4k and there are times on a rainy day popping the tape just works and it’s fun. I’am fully aware of all the VHS short comings and am not trying to say it’s a better format. The real Nostalgia for me stems from missing the video rental store getting these for a buck and if I don’t like it just re donate it.
4k sucks not much better than 1080p and 8k is a joke too. For the same reason you need to view them on big sizes. But for normal view 1080p is fine. VHS was fine on CRT at a small size like portable tv because of 250lines but on a 27” or 32inch it’s soft looking. But at the end of the day vhs, 1080p,4k and 8k are all crap because are eyes see at 500 megapixels, so still a long way to go lol.
TV's causes problem's on people's thinking now i have some TV's putting more greater quality in my vhs tapes and there's TV's taking quality out your vhs tapes people like myself are fixing broken vhs tapes i know more than you do
I agree with you. VHS tapes look great on the old crt tv. I love VHS. Every time I say that people tell me it’s trash. I was saying it sucks because that’s what they say.
Vhs tapes never left at all eBay and Amazon has everything what you talking about coming back yet there still out there on eBay and Amazon just not at Walmart
@@joshuapowell1868 I was talking about new ones Alien Romulus is a new movie that came out in 2024 and is getting a brand new VHS. I bought Terrifier 2 on VHS in a retail store this year. Texas Chainsaw massacre just got an anniversary edition with a VHS tape. And lots of people are complaining saying it’s bad. Before this resurgence the last new VHS was in 2016. I buy old ones even never opened all the time from goodwill.
There are new ones on eBay am buying them for 10 dollars y do they have to be updated vhs is vhs tape I never had problems with the picture quality it's the people who i have the problem with nothing else at all
That’s cool I know it’s not for every one but like vinyl there is a resurgence. I would never make it my go to format, anything new that I don’t own I always pick the 4k. But out of all my movies anytime I upgrade it’s the DVDs that I have no problem donating to charity.
@@gallynuts I collect all of it just haven’t found any laser disc yet. The largest part of my collection is Blu-ray and I stand by a nice 4k restoration on a standard blu-ray is an incredible picture.
My Laser Disc doubles as weapons against zombies in Shaun of the dead, with LPs but LDisc weighs more LOL I sharpen the edges and create a Cross bow for them like those crazy weapons in John Carpenter's Ghost of Mars with Ice Cube LOL , oh yeaaaaaaaa Survivor has this all planned out. It's not just a physical media format, it's survival LOL
@Dexter649 An original Star Wars on LD is a wide-screen print format that film nerds go crazy for. $ure Doe$ not $uck lol, I have a 60 laser disc and a Pioneer player
Hard to take you seriously with the things you are saying. I rarely saw trailers on VHS. Sometimes at the end like Full Moon but most movies start right away. Compare that to discs, especially Disney, with unskippable ads. VHS was what could be made affordable to the most people at the time. There is nothing inherently better about it. It needs to die.
Weird that you didn’t know you can fast forward those Disney trailers or just press the menu button. Works all the time for me. I think they called it fast play. “Disney's Fast Play was a feature on select DVDs and Blu-rays that allowed viewers to watch a movie without navigating through menus. It automatically played the movie, often followed by trailers and previews.” Cool you don’t like it, people see value in things that others don’t doesn’t mean it has to die. I find watching the trailers on my VHS tapes better than watching the trailer for the movie I’m watching on a Blu-ray because that counts as a special feature. But maybe you could be correct maybe you only watched indie films with no trailers since there were over 300k vhs put out I didn’t watch them all. My VHS mostly consists of major studio releases. “While most VHS tapes typically included movie trailers, some did not. Exact numbers are hard to determine, but many older or lower-budget releases, as well as some direct-to-video titles, often lacked trailers. It was more common for major studio releases to feature trailers. Overall, the percentage of tapes without trailers would likely be relatively small compared to those that included them.”
@@80sMadeConsumer I don't know what magic discs you have but FF and MENU just bring up the little circle with the cross in it. That's what unskippable means.
Way too way moving parts in any VCR ever, anyone whose dealt with a tape getting ate a few times understands exactly why the format was always doomed from the start. I grew up with them too from the 80's and even used to edit with them dabbling in some home film making. I personally wouldn't want to deal with the problems that come with all forms of media of that kind. I have never had to deal with a DVD player destroying one of my disks. I get there's some nostalgia there, but I could never go back to that way of watching films. To each their own, I guess.
I love my 4ks and Blu-ray’s but have from for tape nostalgia as well. Only once when I was a kid I had one eat a tape and unfortunately my mother hated that tape and she purposely broke it putting her foot on the VCR and wrestling it out until the tape snapped. Needless to say it sucks but only that one time. There are flaws with all formats and have had more discs ruined by kids than any tape. As long as I can own a physical copy it’s all good for me.
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My VCR has auto Rewind LOL, Iwhen you have 33 VCRS it is fun to pick out the best to use. I miss the ZENITH VCR I had thing was like a Cadillac, burned out after 4 years of use during a bad power outage during the winter. It was a true soldier!
How did u coment that
@@59thSurvivor-of-VHS I have a few premium VCRs. The zenith it’s a tank, but needs to go in for service. Older electronics had all the bells and whistles. Fun fact remotes are called clickers because the old ones clicked and didn’t require batteries. The sound changed the channel, the volume, on and off.
@@themetapod I made channel member emojis. Right now I can only have once we get a few more members we can make more emojis. Just a fun thing for our community. Memberships start at a dollar if you are interested, but a thumbs up is always appreciated.
@themetapod 80's made channel memberships emoji! I would join but I am just a thrifty VHS Hunter, I hate spending more than $1 on anything lol 😆 gifted memberships always accepted.
Vhs tapes are still awesome in 2024.Even in 2025 more people will find comfort in playing vhs tapes.Why? They cost less and nothing like putting in a vhs movie and making fresh popcorn 🍿 on a Saturday night.🙂
@@PlayitagainVHS I completely agree is more than nostalgia it’s just a better experience!
A decade ago out of space necessity I ditched my very large VHS collection, pre-records and stuff I taped off TV with all the vintage ads from the '80s and '90s. I've been kicking myself ever since and am wracked with guilt and pain over this loss. I've since picked up a few VHS tapes to help allay some of this loss and the main enjoyment I get is from the opening material -- that's really the stuff that takes me back: the FBI warning, the old VHS label logos and music, the extras like trailers or bonus promo stuff and then into sometime older film print logos before the movie.
I understand I ditched my VHS as soon as I bought my 1st DVD player. I was 16 and have recently have been regretting it. For as much as I have I still haven’t replaced what I gave away. You are right that while opening bit from the warning to the trailer and sometimes the special features just brings me back every time.
@@80sMadeConsumer I have gone to some estate sales and last year scored a LARGE and free bunch of VHS boxes that were almost going to the dumpster and it was stuff this deceased guy taped off TV and it was a treasure trove of old ads and shows from the 80s thru the 2000s with one very rare ad I've been looking for for years. So that has really helped me restore some balance to the universe.
Each to their own. VHS is where it all began for me and for that I will always respect that.
@@singin8324 I would never say ditch 4k or Blu-ray’s, but Alien Romulus is getting VHS release from FOX/Disney is an interesting marketing tactic.
I had 100s of VHS Tapes back in the 90s and early 2000s. Upgraded almost all of them to DVD and Blu-Ray, now I have a lot digital Movies on Hard Drives. But the look and feel of VHS cant be replicated on digital in 4k.
I went down that same journey and you’re right it’s more than nostalgia it’s everything! Can’t replace browsing the shelf’s and holding a movie in your hand!
Video store clerk nerd here. I love that VHS enjoying a little comeback. It's how I grew up collecting movies and recording TV shows.
I come from the same school of thought probably because I too worked at a video store for about a year. There is nothing I don’t love but every time it gets mentioned in come the never again VHS crowd. It’s funny too because with the shift to DVD can’t remember anyone hating on vhs at all. 😂
@@80sMadeConsumer I agree with you about certain movies on VHS with a CRT TV having a special look. I think it really works with horror. The grittier the better in my opinion. All this VHS talk has me reminiscing about my time working in video stores. I worked in small local shops before the big guys moved in. Tons of stories to tell about those days. :)
@@videoproboston2450 man those were the days.
I still watch VHS
@@briandurant19791997 awesome! Only vhs or other formats too?
I’ve been buying movies for over 25 years and a big regret was getting rid of my when DVD came out.
The only reason I ever got rid of my VHS collection was because my VCR stopped working and by then new VCRs were really hard to find.
My wife recently started buying them again. Which is funny because she's the one that really talked me into getting rid of my VHS tapes.
But I'm on the lookout for a good VCR and TV.
I love VHS.
That was a similar path I took but I ditched my VHS almost immediately when I bought my 1st dvd player. It was having my youngest in 2016 that I saw them and remembered how my older kids treated my Blu-ray’s when they were toddlers. Very quickly bought all the Disney tapes and that nostalgia just kicked in.
@@TonyThompson1981 I have my VCR and it still works, but I don’t have any problems with it. I checked to see if it’s running, I cleaned the audio and video heads and it does the rest.
I don’t get it. I’m a home video kid of the 80’s and 90’s who owned hundreds of movies on the format. But once I became more aware of aspect ratios and things like picture and sound quality actually mattered, I ditched the format in the mid-90’s for laserdisc and never looked back. In an age of 4K and Blu-ray, why anyone would want to watch a film in a substandard format, and most likely in pan & scan is something I’ll never understand.
Preach. VHS nostalgia is just so silly.
Because for some people, vhs holds a certain nostalgic charm. Also, due to the lower quality image, vhs masked a lot of obvious stunt doubles and effects that would look way more apparent on dvd and blu ray. I gave you a couple reasons. Now what is there not to "get"?
@@TotalMeltdown2 None of that is really cogent. We're all suspectable to nostalgia. We all indulge in nostalgia, nothing wrong with that. But some nostalgia is just oddly puerile and arrested. Like VHS nostalgia.
"Doing a better job at hiding" things like stunt doubles and wonky effects? Who cares, like for real? I'd rather actually see a film I like in its intend ratio with the best possible image and sound over kinda sorta obscuring stunt doubles with potato vision, lol.
Seeing the seams of a film only makes me appreciate it more. And come on, stunt doubles are still pretty easily stopped on VHS as well.
This is not the point for the format you think it is.
Because they don't realize the power of CED, totally not a clunky mess of a video format that totally don't look worse than VHS
@nope5657 No need for a snarky reply. You assume this is an "either or" thing. I love blu ray but every once in a while I like to pop in a vhs for nostalgia, and like you said, there is nothing wrong with that. Period. And did I ever say the point of the format was to hide stunt doubles? Nope. Never said that. Go crawl back under your rock
Much like the vinyl revival, VHS offers that tactile quality of holding a VHS in one's hand, of marveling at the box art, of reading the liner notes or plot descriptions, and then popping the tape into a VCR to enjoy the sound of that motor-whirring goodness while sitting back and enjoying the tape contents.
Staring at a smartphone will never offer that level of tactile satisfaction just as it doesn't for musical enjoyment compared to the tactile ritual of playing vinyl records ( or playing a reel-to-reel deck or popping a cassette tape into a cassette deck while watching the tape spools spinning) despite the many portable conveniences of smartphones.
Exactly love to physccally hold the movies in my hand and a tape just is a good size and weight not fragile bigger art! I don't like music unless its attached to a movie didn't even realize that until last year and just started buying movie soundtracks. The few vinyl I've added just better because its bigger.
People like myself got rid of Disney plus I was getting more lazy and not getting up and down and my vhs tapes keeps me moving more and more healthy than my Disney plus didn't do
You are me. I'm 46 and everything you said I agree with. I like you took a tube TV that was sitting in front of my apartment garbage so I could have it and use it just in case my old tube TV from 2000 dies.
There is a special nostalgia and comfort that I get when I watch VHS movies on my VCR on my tube TV. It's grainy and that's why it's so great and pleasurable because it reminds me of watching horror movies on VHS tape when I was growing up. I will always have a yearning and longing to live how I lived when I was 12 and watching a horror movie on my VCR.
Also movies like the Friday the 13th movies made in the '80s it is especially important having on VHS tape and watching on VHS tape because they need to be seen this way to fully appreciate and enjoy them.
They were made to be seen in VHS tape quality video. The grain adds to the quality of these movies and to the experience of watching these movies.
That’s awesome, and anytime you can get a spare I would. You just never know. Completely agree some of those older films look ok on my 4k tv, but that old tube is perfection.
@@80sMadeConsumer a lot of people think we are weird that's for sure because 90% of people don't have VHS tapes or VCRs anymore.
Do you watch them for nostalgia?
400 is a great collection. I have 250. Do you love the film V/H/S? I do because it's the best recreation movie about horror movies from the '80s ever made after 1991.
They did such a great job making everything realistic as far as it looking and feeling like an '80s horror film.
@@lukejbarnett1 The movie V/H/S is a blind spot for me, still haven't seen it. I'll have to add it to my wish list.
I purposefully watch films on vhs and nostalgia kicks in, but thats not the intention. Sure a great number of my all time favorites I own on VHS, but so many good ones are fine to add for a dollar vhs is ok. If I had to pay more for some of them they would be one and done. Also to take in to account the number of films that never got a DVD and are stuck on the oldd tapes.
I have several formats in my collection, actively looking for a wworking laser disc and Betamax players.
@@80sMadeConsumer betamax really? That's incredible. Why would you want a betamax player? Do you have memories watching '80s movies in this format when you were a little kid?
Did you move to 4k movies? I never did and never will because why spend all that money on buying the same movies you already have on Blu Ray? And why buy any movie in 4k? It's unnecessary to make movies even more clear looking than Blu Ray movies.
I was very hard to get to buying Blu Ray movies and not DVD movies. It wasn't as hard though as the transition from buying VHS movies to buying DVD movies though. This is because I love VHS movies so much.
I just got the movie deadstream on VHS. It’s fun, I get to watch it on my little TV.
That’s awesome, and yeah I think that’s what I forgot to say it’s just fun.
I love VHS. There is truly something magical about it. Some movies from that time benefit from the 4k upgrade but some belong on VHS and need to stay there you watch it for enjoyment more than graphics and judgement.
@@ThornTheaterReviews exactly there is a place for both formats not sure why it gets hate if it’s not for you cool. You’re right some movies look better on a different format for sure!
I was thinking about doing a video on this, beat me to it this time. Also I agree with your points. Long live VHS 📼
@@FanZceneVids haha finally beat you 4ever
WE have 80's Made for a video on this LOL, I stick to my shorts and will blast DIsney for giving us a Digital only availabity, I would buy that VHS right now if it were out but they want you to buy the same thing 5 different ways so LOL
I love vhs. I had a collection of about 500 vhs tapes until a few years ago when my house flooded and destroyed 99% of them. I decided to rebuy them on DVD and Blu-ray instead. The only VHS in my collection that survived the flooding was Halloween (‘78) through Halloween: H20, my copy of Slayer - Live Intrusion, and thankfully my copy of Nine Inch Nails - Closure. The Slayer and Nine Inch Nails VHS are long out of print and aren’t on any other format
Having to replace stuff really sucks. I have a holy grail in my collection only 600 copies ever and I couldn’t imagine if I had to replace it! Cool that you were able to salvage some great stuff though. Only have Halloween ‘78 on vhs it was one that was a blockbuster exclusive. Would love to add more horror VHS, but you know how that goes.
@@80sMadeConsumer oh yeah. I actually have 2 copies of Halloween on VHS. One is the standard version by Goodtimes Video (I believe that’s the distributor) and the other is a 2 tape special edition in a hard plastic case. It’s awesome because the VHS tapes are Orange and it came with a bunch of cool stuff. I’m really glad that one in particular survived the flooding because it was given to me as a gift by a friend that unfortunately passed away last October. It means a lot more to me than any other movie in my collection
@@brianchapman1980 for real sometimes it’s more than the movie but the whole experience or memory or who gave it to you! Makes all the difference in the world. Sucks he’s gone cool you have that gift! I just found that same one this year, I posted the orange tape on one of the social medias. Mine came with a little booklet and a keychain. (Not sure if anything was missing)
As far as slashers go I love the trinity Jason, Freddy, & Michael. Halloween is my all time favorite, actively trying to add more versions of the 1st one in any format.
@@80sMadeConsumer Halloween is my absolute favorite of the franchises. Yes it came with a keychain, a little booklet, and the VHS artwork has a bunch of different art on the reverse side too. I didn’t notice the extra art for years
Im 21 and Im a LaserDisc collector, nice picture quality and incredible sound! I prefer it over VHS. Ive been collecting LaserDisc since 2016. I love watching the classics on laserdiscs more than streaming. I also prefer Blu Ray and DVD over streaming.
I haven’t found any laser discs yet but something I’d love to get into. I do have most other formats and enjoy each of them for all of their benefits and flaws. Streaming has never been for me a die hard home video enthusiast! Do you have an old crt tv? If not I highly recommend getting one whole new experience on that old tech.
same started collecting dvd again.
It is suprisingly watchable! I do use my S-VHS VCR on my 4k TV but I run it through a DVD recorder with a built in time base corrector and that helps with the fuzziness. I also have a CRT and it works way better but it definately can look pretty decent on a newer TV with the right setup. You have to manually set the aspect ratio to 4:3 on the remote and this can usually be done in the filmaker mode settings on modern TVs. If you do this it won't be stretched.
Oh it was better than I thought honestly reminiscent of watching to through an antenna. I had to use the old cable connection because when I ran it through my stereo it didn’t look right.
Yesss s-video is the way to go
If your upscale is decent it won't have any problem with VHS or DVD. If you are lucky enough to have a panel that can support the low-resolution native then it looks just fine.
Alien Romulus will be the final VHS I ever get, honestly. It's a great tribute to the format.
It will be and I suspect most of those will never get opened. I was surprised by this announcement. I wonder if VHS is going to be a cash grab for studios now like steelbooks used to be. We just got a VHS for Texas Chainsaw Massacre, although that bundle was a bit over priced.
It's ridiculous to me when people say they don't like VCRs and CRTs because they're big and heavy.
People have become so lazy with modern tech, that even the idea of pulling out cash from the wallet to pay is making them install chips in their hands for touch pay.
I'm 33 and I'm old enough to have seen movies on VHS, DVDs and Blurays and I hate streaming. I'd rather pirate a movie than ever pay to stream.
I remember I was 9-10 years old when just the novelty of having movie I can freely watch at home on my VCR was an event that it didn't matter if it was heavy, clumsy, blurry or "inconvenient".
Man I hear it all the time, I don’t get it, and like I said they look good on the crt yeah pretty fuzzy on the 4k, but still watchable. Currently if I watch any dvd on the 4k it just looks like cable did back in the 90s. Movies always looked better than cable. Streaming is the worst, I’m a die hard home video guy!
@@80sMadeConsumer the problem with hd conversions of old film is many films acully took advantage of the limits of crt at the time.
The picture quality is a joke compared to HD today BUT what many people forget is the fact, that vhs' have uncompressed audio ! (DVD's have compressed mp3 audio on them mostly...)
So I still love my music VHS's.^
Believe me I’m not saying it’s a better a really good 4k disc blows it out of the water. Just something I enjoy too. Most people probably never noticed the audio. A surprising number of people only ever hooked them up to a tv with the coax and that’s it. Same as today people getting excited over Dolby Atmos and not having a surround sound, always have to do a double take haha
I buy VHS for the historic value, the color grading on early releases tends to be the most accurate towards the director or cinematographer's vision. Where as unless you have a blu ray sold by second sight or some other boutique label you will just get a thoughtless transfer. DVD and VHS look best in 4:3 picture ratio.
Yeah I had had to go back to my VHS for comparison. The Snatch 4k looked great but the color was way too dark. I mostly watch VHS and DVD on the CRT in 4:3, but if I watch on the 4k I always keep the 4:3 ratio. No point in distorting the image.
I starting collecting vhs like 7 years ago, mostly because I already collected retro games and had a crt TV already so it was the like next step especially whenever I would go thrifting I would see tapes and vcrs all the time, so one day I picked up some tapes and vcr in the same day and slowing started collecting.
@@thestokes813 that’s awesome gotta love the journey! What is your prized or favorite VHS find one that you were excited to find?
VHS is extremely fun to collect, especially when you find a rare title out in the wild!!
@@f150ninthgenyeah it is, it’s like hitting the jack pot!
Please tell me there a uk release of this on vhs 📼👈🏻👍🏻???
I can’t tell but you could always import it! That’s what I do.
@@80sMadeConsumer how many is it ltd to in number do you know mate ?
Entertainment is largely about escapism. For some people who grew up in the 80s, watching certain movies on vhs makes for a more authentic form of escapism partly because that's how we watched these movies growing up, and also because vhs is suited for some movies. I love watching horror movies like Evil Dead, the Friday the 13th films or The Terminator on vhs because the format lends itself to the dirty, grainy aesthetic and atmosphere of those films.
For some people, sound and picture quality aren't the only priority. People can enjoy movies on both vhs and higher quality formats for different reasons, just as they can enjoy different genres of music for different reasons. I love that there are other people who love vhs as much as I do!
Well said! I love movies no matter what the format is there are pros and cons. I own a few movies that aren’t streaming anywhere and have never been put on any other format.
Horror looks great on an old tape.what would be your absolute favorite in your collection or a holy grail you’d love to own?
The other big factor is you own it. Sure streaming is nice but when your move gets delisted over some rights agreement or yet another streaming platform opens up. You start to understand how important it is to own it in your hands.
VHS I have always loved from the beginning. I have hundreds for sale on my site. They definitely aren't for the $$ as many are only listed for $2 each. I have them playing when listing, so I know they work. I still have my own personal collection as well. Long live the VHS.
@@Southwest-Michigan-Sales-LLC that’s awesome and cool you’re keeping the prices low. Having such a large collection of I can’t find it locally it’s ok I have almost all my favorites on VHS but have them all on something else at least.
@80sMadeConsumer awesome!
2 each their own but no thinks for me..
Fair enough, I know a lot of people were excited about them as novelty collector pieces. The VHS only makes up a small fraction of my whole collection.
I think it's more people love the size of the tapes. Just like the record format the nice large case that displays either the art work or in VHS case the original movie posters on a larger case
@@lordbaethan that’s a major reason for me, oh how I miss the painted movie posters and more vhs have them than the same film on another format.
i started collecting movies on betamax, then switched to VHS because betamax was dying, and even though VHS is pure nostalgia
i would never go back to it, its not only the low resolution, but also the storage place you need for them
even DVD's (Blue Ray's) begin taking up a lot of space when you have a lot of them, so now i digitise every one of them
and put them on hard drives (or SSD's) hundreds of movies in 1080p or 4K wich you can put away in a small space
there is also less to no deterioration because of the digital storage, i love the movies and TV shows, not the media they come in
my movie collection spans over the 50s to now, but the good movies and TV shows they make today are very few
they make more crap than good ones, anyway, i wish you good VHS hunting mate, cheers
Thanks, I get it it’s not for everyone. Maybe a little bit more nostalgia than I’d like to admit on the VHS, but recently found some Betamax tapes Batman, Yellowbeard, and Masters of The Universe. No player just the tapes never had them growing up same with CED I have quite a few now. For me it’s about the movies over the format. Now if I didn’t have several old CRTs I would’t bother except for a few display pieces. Next I’d love to get into would be laser disc less to watch but having that huge space for art and they make those vinyl wall frames I assume it’s an easy fit.
I still buy and collect used VHS movies from thrift stores for between $1.29 and $1.99 each (from Goodwill, Value Village, and the Salvation Army Thrift Stores) and there are ones I have that are good enough that I only watch once a year or a few times in any given year and I cannot justify buying a DVD, Blu-ray, and especially not a 4K to replace them if certain VHS movies in my collection are just okay story-wise, but are not so incredible that I need them on the newest or latest format.
I can't constantly upgrade every movie I have either. I have to pick and choose and in many cases, the VHS is perfectly fine (or I have a DVD or Blu-ray already and I'm not interested in upgrading everything to costly 4K despite having a 4K player and maybe a fifteen or twenty 4K movies in my collection).
Again I can't argue with that! I do the same any where from .49-1.99 every week, we live in a military town so lee people have lived here a long time its always slim pickings but once in a while I find something I never saw, its like being at the video rental store all over again. I too have several VHS in my collection that are fine for a once in a blue moon watch but not worth paying 25-30 dollars for an upgrade. There are some day one upgrades for sure but won't part with those. Easier for me to donate or sell a DVD or Blu-ray after upgrading VHS just goes into storage for now.
I keep waiting for someone to start putting out new VCRs lol
@@Mavericks90 that would be great, but just like the new turntables they don’t have as many features as the old counterparts. New would allow more people to get in to it though. I have a couple of high end Sonys I will get repaired if I ever need too.
I own 33 of them so I have to pay attention to this, If they get mass produced again I need to let go what I have before those things flood the market LOL
I finished true lies on vhs then saw this pop up on my sub list, such crazy timing
@@jjthekollector haha the universe. True Lies is a good one love revisiting it on 4k or VHS
The only thing I miss about VHS are the mom and pop videos stores! Such a great feeling to walk in and start browsing. The format sucks though. Iv never had a disc player eat a disc...
I miss renting tapes too it’s why the whole thing is appealing to me.
One reason I have no interest in VHS is pan-n-scan. I know there were some VHS in widescreen but not enough for me to get into VHS again. Getting back into Laserdisc? Maybe, but those things go to hell faster then just about any other format.
I see your point, i would never make it the main go to for movies I do love 4K & Blu-ray. I just like VHS for what it is.
Depends on the era. Late laserdisc started using cheaper glue and it's well known to fail. The older disk tends to be fine. Also it relly matters how they are stored.
Total #RetroTech Praise! I even has a RAdioShack Realistic Equalizer to help with the audio LOL #RETROTECH I want a Sony VISITRON Security monitor, heard good things. I actually need some older TVs, I have some old school 2000 era flat screens so they get by. I am the Sucker the needs that ALIEN Romulus VHS LOL, I was thinking about it I have all of the others lol, but now they need to do PROMETHEUS and all that JAZZ on VHS as well, EVIL Disney Man I love Mickey mouse from South Park it is dead on. Man you are like the cool older Brother I didn't get to have as a kid growing up! Rock on Broski I'm 42 though, LOL One more year and I have Elvis Licked Keep on Huntin'
I think new movies on vhs is the new steelbook so here’s to the future 🍻I don’t think anything can beat old Sonys when it came to video. Haha were the same age but I’ll take it!
@80sMadeConsumer Born July so I still think your the older Broski every way. Yes I do not want new old things, I want old VHS not New lol, they have me hook and lure on this Alien 45 though, I want 1 to watch and 1 to add to my sealed VHS collection, a non vintage sealed vhs collection, thar sounds bad lol
Kind of a reach man. I get the nostalgia aspect, but even in the 80s we hated rewinding the tape! Also, I have had countless experiences watching movies I loved as a kid (80s/90s) on 4K, and it absolutely felt like watching it for the first time! I have over 1000 4K disks, so I’m all in on the format. Maybe I’ll make a room a “retro” room and get the equipment, VHS, retro game consoles, etc. but as for now, I’m enjoying the hell out of building a massive 4K collection. It really is the last frontier of physical media.
@@ColoradoKid303 I collect movies in all formats 4k is great, but we had a rewinder as a kid so that part never bothered me. We didn’t own that many and we almost always rented tapes. Out of close to 3k movies only about 400 video tapes with having many of my favorites on 4k as well.
Everyone collects differently, recently noticed there has been a younger generation discovering VHS just like the vinyl kids did a decade ago. If you ever do build a retro room there are tons of vhs that never made it to Blu-ray and some are worth a watch.
@@80sMadeConsumer Iworked at a video store. LOTS of rewinding lol
@@ColoradoKid303 I did that for a year in high school absolute favorite job ever! Free rentals and we’d get the Tuesday releases on Fridays and get to have them for the weekend way before anyone else. I did have to rewind they always made me put the returns back on the shelf and it was a mom and pop owned by a dentist. The guy refused to buy a cart on busy days I felt that’s all I did 😂
@@80sMadeConsumer I always found those huge cardboard upcoming movie cutouts difficult…🤣 awesome perks though
@@ColoradoKid303 I wish I had the foresight to take them but had no room. I had my walls covered in movies posters. There was this hanging Adventures In Babysitting mobile I still want. Probably never find one that stuff always went in the trash back then.
VHS doesn't suck and the picture quality can be great depending on the quality of the recording and the source material. For example, I watched Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' as well as 'The Empire Strikes Back' on VHS projected on my 120 inch pull-down screen and even at that size, the resolution was crisp and sharp and the sound was great using my surround sound system, so VHS offers plenty of entertainment and fun.
Yes, DVD is a higher resolution and Blu-ray more so and 4K even more so, but VHS is not garbage by any means and at no point when I bought movies or when my parents rented them for movie nights in the 1980s and 1990s were we ever disappointed by the picture quality on a 20 inch CRT television at that time or later on a 55 inch LCD TV in the 2000s.
I agree with everything you said, I only went that route in my video because of all the hate it gets. for all of its flaws I love it. more people are collecting today and quite a few that never grew up with the format. It was great back then and I still enjoy it today. For my daughter's birthday this year I found an old 480p projector and picking up on of those pull down Screens just to watch Christmas movies on VHS. She grew up with all formats and can't comprehend new movies don't come on VCR tapes, bc we buy them weekly.
I agree, but maybe to some it is therapeutic to slow things with this good old stuff...Huhuh
It really is therapeutic. Everything else in my life is go go go and this forces me to slow down and enjoy!
Life is too short to give a F what someone thinks of your hobby. VHS will never die. There's teenagers who are buying VHS.
Well said! I don’t but had to beat them to it haha. Yeah I’ve seen quite a few locally digging through the thrift store bins. Between those kids and the resellers it’s getting harder to find anything good. I collect movies in all formats VHS not only isn’t going anywhere Alien Romulus a Fox/Disney title is getting a limited VHS release!
@80sMadeConsumer It's OK if they're hard to find. That means the VHS world is thriving. Everyone should have a piece of the VHS life. A fellow collector texted me yesterday about Aliens. That's so dope.
@@Maxxroad agreed! I wonder if they are using VHS like they used to with steelbooks. Boost the profits by selling fans multiple versions of their favorite films.
I upscale mine to a 1080p tv , looks great 👍
@@jjthekollector that’s the way to go not a bad watch and so many films never made it to dvd or better.
I use them to record music on. And anime and cartoons. Got lots of Scooby Doo on vhs tape.
Hey what ever works there’s millions of those Scooby doo tape too.
I expected vhs tapes return at all Walmart not just on eBay and Amazon now days people are making more of things 😊
@@joshuapowell1868 more is better!
I got a go 82. Panasonic vcr player. that needs a new belt ands its good to go. paid 50$ for it. and the most I paid for a VHS tape was 200$ for a 12 set plus the bonus specials for South Park. and a screener for a Christmas episode and part one of there doc. with part 2 on a second tape.
@@Jacob20250 that’s an awesome collection. Can’t beat those older VCRs either built like tanks and worth getting repaired.
I’ve spent some serious coin on some movies, but I’ve been on the fence about getting the nightmare on elm street box set because you never know could be moldy or damaged.
Am sorry people need to start telling people start playing with there TV settings I don't understand people y they tell you vhs tapes have bad picture quality yet that's all I which in my house now days yet I know they don't have bad picture quality
Horror is so much better on vhs. I wish they would do this with all horror films. 4k,even blu-ray, makes it way too clean. Do I enjoy horror in 4k,yes, but again its better on vhs
I agree absolutely love my A Nightmare on Elm Street 4k probably easily in my top 4ks of the year. Watching the VHS is just a fun way to watch anytime.
@80sMadeConsumer planning on getting that one in 4k. Heard good things about it n it was done right.
@@slimbroco572 it’s a very high recommend.
People keep there mode switch clean out like they should people will never have playing problem's at all with their VCR players people like myself are cleaning out mode switches everything proven online how clean out a mode switch in a VCR player
VHS sucks so good
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No it isn’t! VHS lives!
@@Musicradio77Network don’t let his trickery get you! I know for a fact he was making a joke having seen some of his VHS and CRT.
Vhs was good for its time, when it was really the only way to watch films at home. But nowadays watching or collecting vhs makes absolutely no sense to me. Aside from it being a seriously flawed format, they degrade overtime. Everytime you watch it and rewind it your losing a lil bit of quality. Just a waste of $ if you ask me, collecting dvds makes more sense to me
It’s not my main way to watch nor would I replace any of my 4ks with VHS. It’s an enjoyable thing to collect. I’ve heard of people wearing out tapes but never experienced it myself, even have a few rental tapes all play fine.
From a collectors perspective I can see collecting vhs for the big box cover art, but even that must be an expensive endeavor, not to mention the space they take up. I still have all of mine and they fill an entire closet lol, they’ve been sealed up in plastic containers for years. But I stopped collecting vhs in early 2ks. I then moved to dvds, and when blurays came out I said meh I’m fine with dvds. But then I saw the quality of blus n 4ks and kind of fell out of dvds. So was kind of the same situation for me with vhs. The quality wasn’t there and I end up with a ton of stuff that just kind of it’s there. My DVDs are in the thousands and rarely do I ever go to them anymore, unless it’s to watch something that hasn’t come on blu ray. Granted there are some things stuck on vhs not even on dvd so those vhs I can see worth collecting to be fair. Honestly if I was hardcore vhs collecting I wouldn’t be watching any of them. I would just cap them all and put them digitally on an hd and watch them off them that. I’d be to afraid of the tape getting eaten at some point or degrading the quality with rewinding and or numerous watching. Memories of buying vhs head cleaner tapes are coming back now lol. But I do respect vhs collecting even though I don’t quite get it entirely. Everybody has their own thing.
Dvd has disc rot. Vhs tapes get moldy. At least the quality on dvd doesn't change with playbacks. Vhs tapes degrade the more you play them. Nothing lasts forever, but to collect I prefer bluray first unless it's not available, then I'll buy dvd. Vhs format has a lot less quality than dvd, not throwing blu ray or 4k on the mix. Even laserdisc had better quality than vhs and it was analog. I get the nostalgia of certain things, but for me vhs ain't one. Same with music cassettes, or anything tape honestly (8 track). Vinyl is better than tapes, same as music cd's. Honestly any magnetic tape format, it's a pass for me. I'm an 80's kid and grew up with vhs format. Once Dvd came out, I never looked back to have that format.
I love movies on all formats. 4k is great when it’s done right. A rainy day and The Goonies on VHS is something I look forward too.
i love vhs and i got my profile from a vhs game
@@mitchel-e9h I love movies on all formats vhs has a special place in my life, I think a bit more than nostalgia. I vaguely remember vhs games. Never found one since I was a kid not even those trivia games.
@@80sMadeConsumer ok
Ugh! VHS 🤮😂 long live analog! 📼
Exactly 😂
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VHS doesn’t suck, and so does Betamax.
@@Musicradio77Network I love VHS and just started collecting Betamax this year just need a player. I I have Yellow Beard, Masters of The Universe, & Batman. On Beta.
Far be it from to gatekeep how people collect media and film, but I simply don't get the VHS comeback . I find it highly goofy and driven purely by highly emotional nostalgia.
I grew up on VHS, too. And it's awful. Don't care about "vibes." I care about seeing a film as it's meant to be seen.
Closing in on 3000 movies and tv shows the 400 VHS makes up a small portion of the collection. With a good 100 or so my all time favorites. There are times when I want to watch The Goonies in 4k and there are times on a rainy day popping the tape just works and it’s fun. I’am fully aware of all the VHS short comings and am not trying to say it’s a better format.
The real Nostalgia for me stems from missing the video rental store getting these for a buck and if I don’t like it just re donate it.
4k sucks not much better than 1080p and 8k is a joke too. For the same reason you need to view them on big sizes. But for normal view 1080p is fine. VHS was fine on CRT at a small size like portable tv because of 250lines but on a 27” or 32inch it’s soft looking. But at the end of the day vhs, 1080p,4k and 8k are all crap because are eyes see at 500 megapixels, so still a long way to go lol.
The bigger you go the farther away you have to sit and might as well kept the smaller tv.
TV's causes problem's on people's thinking now i have some TV's putting more greater quality in my vhs tapes and there's TV's taking quality out your vhs tapes people like myself are fixing broken vhs tapes i know more than you do
I agree with you. VHS tapes look great on the old crt tv. I love VHS. Every time I say that people tell me it’s trash. I was saying it sucks because that’s what they say.
Am making a comeback in my house on vhs tapes vhs movies more healthy than your thinking is now days keeps you moving more than internet does
Thats what I said it's coming back thats good
Vhs tapes never left at all eBay and Amazon has everything what you talking about coming back yet there still out there on eBay and Amazon just not at Walmart
@@joshuapowell1868 I was talking about new ones Alien Romulus is a new movie that came out in 2024 and is getting a brand new VHS. I bought Terrifier 2 on VHS in a retail store this year. Texas Chainsaw massacre just got an anniversary edition with a VHS tape. And lots of people are complaining saying it’s bad.
Before this resurgence the last new VHS was in 2016. I buy old ones even never opened all the time from goodwill.
There are new ones on eBay am buying them for 10 dollars y do they have to be updated vhs is vhs tape I never had problems with the picture quality it's the people who i have the problem with nothing else at all
I do know this people got more bad thinking now days
@@joshuapowell1868 they do!
I’ll never return to VHS. Too many problems with them.
That’s cool I know it’s not for every one but like vinyl there is a resurgence. I would never make it my go to format, anything new that I don’t own I always pick the 4k. But out of all my movies anytime I upgrade it’s the DVDs that I have no problem donating to charity.
VHS heck yeah!
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VHS sucks! Laser disc sucks too. Blu ray or bust.
@@gallynuts I collect all of it just haven’t found any laser disc yet. The largest part of my collection is Blu-ray and I stand by a nice 4k restoration on a standard blu-ray is an incredible picture.
@@gallynuts VHS doesn’t suck, Betamax doesn’t suck too.
My Laser Disc doubles as weapons against zombies in Shaun of the dead, with LPs but LDisc weighs more LOL I sharpen the edges and create a Cross bow for them like those crazy weapons in John Carpenter's Ghost of Mars with Ice Cube LOL , oh yeaaaaaaaa Survivor has this all planned out. It's not just a physical media format, it's survival LOL
LASERDISC DOES NOT SUCK!!
@Dexter649 An original Star Wars on LD is a wide-screen print format that film nerds go crazy for. $ure Doe$ not $uck lol, I have a 60 laser disc and a Pioneer player
Am making a comeback in my house but not your video
I never know what you are talking about. I like VHS
To bad I do know vhs tapes don't suck like your thinking does
@@joshuapowell1868 I like VHS. The thumbnail is because that’s what most people say.
I record movies on VHS tapes from Disney plus everything looks the same what is the problem with it nothing at all i do about vhs tapes nothing else
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Hard to take you seriously with the things you are saying. I rarely saw trailers on VHS. Sometimes at the end like Full Moon but most movies start right away. Compare that to discs, especially Disney, with unskippable ads.
VHS was what could be made affordable to the most people at the time. There is nothing inherently better about it. It needs to die.
Weird that you didn’t know you can fast forward those Disney trailers or just press the menu button. Works all the time for me. I think they called it fast play.
“Disney's Fast Play was a feature on select DVDs and Blu-rays that allowed viewers to watch a movie without navigating through menus. It automatically played the movie, often followed by trailers and previews.”
Cool you don’t like it, people see value in things that others don’t doesn’t mean it has to die. I find watching the trailers on my VHS tapes better than watching the trailer for the movie I’m watching on a Blu-ray because that counts as a special feature. But maybe you could be correct maybe you only watched indie films with no trailers since there were over 300k vhs put out I didn’t watch them all. My VHS mostly consists of major studio releases.
“While most VHS tapes typically included movie trailers, some did not. Exact numbers are hard to determine, but many older or lower-budget releases, as well as some direct-to-video titles, often lacked trailers. It was more common for major studio releases to feature trailers. Overall, the percentage of tapes without trailers would likely be relatively small compared to those that included them.”
@@80sMadeConsumer I don't know what magic discs you have but FF and MENU just bring up the little circle with the cross in it. That's what unskippable means.
More vhs tapes for me but not for you
I have 426 VHS tapes and 8 VCRS. How many tapes in your collection.
😊 I have 600 vhs in my house
VHS sucks ass
That’s what people say
VHS are Crap
What isn’t crap? Problems with every format, I collect them all.
Way too way moving parts in any VCR ever, anyone whose dealt with a tape getting ate a few times understands exactly why the format was always doomed from the start. I grew up with them too from the 80's and even used to edit with them dabbling in some home film making. I personally wouldn't want to deal with the problems that come with all forms of media of that kind. I have never had to deal with a DVD player destroying one of my disks. I get there's some nostalgia there, but I could never go back to that way of watching films. To each their own, I guess.
I love my 4ks and Blu-ray’s but have from for tape nostalgia as well. Only once when I was a kid I had one eat a tape and unfortunately my mother hated that tape and she purposely broke it putting her foot on the VCR and wrestling it out until the tape snapped. Needless to say it sucks but only that one time. There are flaws with all formats and have had more discs ruined by kids than any tape. As long as I can own a physical copy it’s all good for me.