Electronic catastrophe!!

I do miss the days of renting a video tape. Really made you appreciate what you were watching. Films are so throwaway these days.



Classic advert :D

"Tracking's touchy!"
 
Brilliant. Remember that 'trailer' well. Had a mate who had a twin deck vcr, used to copy every tape he rented then rented the copy to the rest of us for half price!
 
BoatyMcBoatface said:
I do miss the days of renting a video tape. Really made you appreciate what you were watching. Films are so throwaway these days.
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Yeah I feel the same. Media had more "value" to me back when I was young and the VCR was my favourite "toy" as a kid. As a kid I loved the preparation and excitement that used to go into recording a movie or programme I'd been waiting to record for over a week. I hate to toot my own horn here but I was a master at pausing between adverts, the trick was that the final advert would have a slight pause at the end. ;)

Nowadays it's just iPlayer this and download that. Yeah it's more convenient nowadays, but lets just say I'm glad to have grown up with VHS.
 
asim18 said:
Yeah I feel the same. Media had more "value" to me back when I was young and the VCR was my favourite "toy" as a kid. As a kid I loved the preparation and excitement that used to go into recording a movie or programme I'd been waiting to record for over a week. I hate to toot my own horn here but I was a master at pausing between adverts, the trick was that the final advert would have a slight pause at the end. ;)

Nowadays it's just iPlayer this and download that. Yeah it's more convenient nowadays, but lets just say I'm glad to have grown up with VHS.
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Used to be a flashing symbol in the top right corner which started 30 seconds before the adverts

Oh and Betamax was far superior. Was gutted when that dies and I had to buy a poor quality vhs recorder :(
 
Philips V2000 made both Betamax and VHS look completely broken by comparison. It's been interesting to see all three formats fail in reverse order of picture quality.
 
Whatever happened to the Cylinder Phonograph?
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Still have my old VCR (and a few tapes) round at my parents' house. Did not even realise that VHS recorders were still in production to be honest until I saw a similar article to the one in the OP this morning. :o

Link.
 
[FnG]magnolia;29812599 said:
Betamax was the best format.
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Pah - I had a V2000 when I was a kid - that rocked - could flip the tape over and record on the other side - 8 hrs of recording!

Ah, I miss the days of having a little book with numbers down the left and the programme you had recorded on the tape down the right.

JanxSpirit said:
Philips V2000 made both Betamax and VHS look completely broken by comparison. It's been interesting to see all three formats fail in reverse order of picture quality.
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It was co-developed by Phillips and Grundig - mine was a Grundig.
 
bainbridge said:
VCRs are going out of production!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36857370

How will we manage?

Also the article says that last year Sony announced they'd stop making betamax tapes.

How will we cope?
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The issue probably isn't big for consumers in most of the world, but there are still a lot of legacy systems that use them, and people are still transferring materials from home video to dvd etc now.

IIRC the "betamax" format that they stopped making was a digibeta one as used by TV production and broadcasting for much of the 90's and 00's until digital storage on non tape systems became cheap enough to be used throughout filming and production.

Some of the older formats were officially killed off 10-20 years ago, but for example the sort of tapes used by broadcasters are still being transferred to digital formats so there are now small companies that specialise in refurbishing them.
 
Why not the US nuclear force still use floppy disks :o

The report said that the Department of Defence systems that co-ordinated intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear bombers and tanker support aircraft "runs on an IBM Series-1 Computer - a 1970s computing system - and uses eight-inch floppy disks".
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genan said:
Why not the US nuclear force still use floppy disks :o
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If you are running a system that could, quite literally, destroy the world if it went wrong then you want something whose operation is "Fully" understood and can be effectively guaranteed to be bug free.

Typically such systems are going to be rather old and relatively basic.

You do not want your nuclear missile launch systems under the control of the latest Win10 service release do you! :p

(Space systems, especially deep space missions, will also tend to use old tech and then under-clock it!)

The latest tech is for playing games on, not for "important" stuff! :D
 
Orionaut said:
If you are running a system that could, quite literally, destroy the world if it went wrong then you want something whose operation is "Fully" understood and can be effectively guaranteed to be bug free.

Typically such systems are going to be rather old and relatively basic.

You do not want your nuclear missile launch systems under the control of the latest Win10 service release do you! :p

(Space systems, especially deep space missions, will also tend to use old tech and then under-clock it!)

The latest tech is for playing games on, not for "important" stuff! :D
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So this is why they want to milk the taxpayer into paying for a trident upgrade. So they can keep using their perfectly fine old technology and pocket our cash.
 
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