VHS’s suck. The kids are right. There just wasn’t anything better at the time.
I don’t really disagree with her either, but her fury at the whole thing really amused me.
Not sure if it’s because I don’t have a login or possibly something else, but I couldn’t see it
Huh. Weird. All that should happen is you get a login popup you can X out of. I just checked on Firefox on my notebook, but I can’t tell you about Safari.
Tried again and it worked (Safari was as surprised as I was)
Here’s some VHS bits I ripped using composite. Not too bad for VHS quality without any retouching.
https://coolhelp.com.au/files/vhs/VHS Converted Sample as MP4.mp4
Looks good enough to watch for me, although there are already high quality versions of Red Dwarf available. I am just glad people are ripping rarer things that are only available on VHS and putting them up. You can see all of MTV’s Liquid Television and a lot of episodes of VH1’s Pop-Up Video on the Internet Archive. Those will almost certainly never be made available any other way for rights reasons.
Yeah. I made this as a demo for customers wanting their home videos converted, but you’re right about things that are disappearing. The chomps movie in this sample for example might not exist online, or the seeders may have since vanished. Not sure if it’d get taken down if I posted it on YouTube.
Maybe no better. Used a screen recorder on my phone to watch the Facebook video.
Honestly, I think it’s really a toss-up between Facebook and Google when it comes to linking to a video from an evil company, but the vitriol for Facebook is greater than the vitriol for Google on Lemmy in my experience, so I felt like it was worth saying something at the beginning.
Yeah. Doesn’t really worry me as a I use Facebook a fair bit for local groups. I know they’re evil so on PC they’re in their own browser.
I only tried this as someone else in this post couldn’t see the Facebook video, and in the Fediverse world where posts become old quick, thought I’d jump in with a quick disposable alternative.
Well this made me feel old 😩 I completely forgot about the trailers before the movie haha. I really do like the way it is now better 😬
The parent asking if they wanted to do a 90s movie night and the little girl looking super serious and basically going “fuck no…” haha.
That’s a high end vcr!
I’ve never seen one like that. Pretty fancy!
I feel certain that I saw similar in stores, but yeah, fancy!
You may have shopped at nicer stores than we did. Probably carpeted and everything.
Oh dear. My ex was a narcissist and loved to salivate over stuff he believed he deserved. I definitely never had something so fancy.
He wanted his kids to have a genuine VHS experience, but that was needlessly cruel.
- If you stop the movie instead of pausing it, the player will take the tape off the read head and you can rewind faster.
- You always fast forward through the previews (and only switch to regular speed if there is a trailer that everyone really wants to see).
- The film likely had closed captioning, you just have to turn it on in the settings.
- The fact that the movie started from the middle shows that the parents are the type of inconsiderate asshole who does not rewind movies after watching.
