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How long until VCRs disappear and we can no longer watch old VHS home recordings
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Date: April 20th, 2024 3:30 PM Author: bull headed crusty piazza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47597908) |
Date: April 20th, 2024 3:31 PM Author: Laughsome new version codepig We had customers who would buy VHS tapes up until just a few years ago, not flame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47597911) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 3:43 PM Author: Indigo Insecure Incel Stage They will be available as long as you are alive. Whether any of the tapes are watchable is another story. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47597944) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 4:33 PM Author: bull headed crusty piazza A used VCR in good working condition costs $300 right now. Imagine if you had one sitting in a box unopened. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598020) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 4:37 PM Author: mind-boggling point holy shit. not flame. i assumed there would still be some chink factory pumping them out for $30.
going to have to go check if mine still works. still have some home porn videos ive never digitized.
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Date: April 20th, 2024 4:53 PM Author: Wine Coffee Pot they stopped making them not too long ago
the flipside is in another 15 years or so you'll be able to 3d print one probably (that, or you'll be dead and your skull will be festooning a diverse warlord's 'trophy cape') |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:12 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle Lavender Box Office Tp (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598669) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 4:38 PM Author: purple spot philosopher-king will become as rare as 8-Track machines and reel-to-reel tape players.
some specialists will need them for transfers, but who the fuck would seek them out otherwise. there is not a boutique for VCRs the way there is for 'vinyl' record players and 'film' and other anachronistic tech. they suck. |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 4:39 PM Author: Chartreuse deranged keepsake machete gay wizard The VCR blueprints are still there and so are the factories, they're just dormant. Probably every decade or so, we'll just manufacture 500,000 more VCR's to meet demand. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598032) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:36 PM Author: bull headed crusty piazza Who makes microelectrics anymore? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598726) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 4:46 PM Author: marvelous white jewess never. we will olways have them. also, get them put on disk or something, they have technology that can do this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598043) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 5:00 PM Author: Exhilarant aqua station the vcr tapes have already mostly degraded to the point of being unusable, within a few years there will be none left (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598071) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 5:29 PM Author: Chartreuse deranged keepsake machete gay wizard A Certified VCR Expert can remagnetize them for you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598138) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 6:48 PM Author: Exhilarant aqua station ahhh, the growing industry of vhs repair will surely save us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598331) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 7:09 PM Author: Chartreuse deranged keepsake machete gay wizard Yeah, it's a really hot field in most trade schools right now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598390) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:06 PM Author: shaky chapel kitty cat You really do need to be digitizing anything important sooner rather than later
Working VCRs are becoming increasingly rare. They all have belts that dry rot. This can be fixed but it's a chore. And it's not a permanent solution either, something electronic will eventually fail (likely the capacitors) and then it's basically game over.
You can find working ones for far less than the $300 NSAM was claiming above, but they're not practically free like they used to be.
A while ago I started to go down the rabbit hole of digitizing my own stuff but got stymied by a VCR that was suddenly broken.
Honestly it's probably easiest to just find a service to do it for you |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:07 PM Author: Exhilarant aqua station the digitized media will also fail, either write shit down or just admit it is going to disappear (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598651) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:13 PM Author: Chartreuse deranged keepsake machete gay wizard lol, because written materials are well known for standing the test of time! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598670) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:15 PM Author: Exhilarant aqua station yes, the library of Ashurbanipal lasted two thousand years in ruin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598677) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:29 PM Author: Chartreuse deranged keepsake machete gay wizard There are examples of written things surviving. But the overwhelming majority of everything ever written, including books that had many copies, are all gone. We only have like a quarter of Livy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598717) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:30 PM Author: Exhilarant aqua station and that's remarkable, we will have nothing from our time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598720) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:33 PM Author: Chartreuse deranged keepsake machete gay wizard No, we'll be fine, it's all on computers. You're really not getting this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598723) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:35 PM Author: Exhilarant aqua station we've already lost an enormous amount of information, mostly unimportant but still, and the possibility of almost 100% loss exists, that was not always the case (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598724) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:47 PM Author: bull headed crusty piazza We don't have 1% of what ancient Romans wrote. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598746) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:48 PM Author: Exhilarant aqua station but they did curate the best stuff, are we really doing that in any meaningful way? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598748) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 10:28 PM Author: bull headed crusty piazza Yeah, I think so. We have a million books that say "read those old Roman and Greek authors." The only other name you would see added to the list might be Marx, but do we want that preserved? No one today is doing better than Plato, so why not just keep reading Plato for the next thousand years? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598820) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:49 PM Author: Chartreuse deranged keepsake machete gay wizard Yeah, sure, in the sense that we don't have some "Hello world" text document some guy made in the 1970's. We have nearly everything preserved that was designed to be preserved. Look at how much was lost from, e.g., the 1973 National Archives Fire. That can't happen now and any military record digitized at the time we still have. You'll find shit like this constantly; "write it down bro" is what invites disaster. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598752) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:51 PM Author: Exhilarant aqua station you are only thinking over a very short and retarded timespan, you cannot count on centuries bro, history teaches us literally one thing (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598755) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:37 PM Author: Floppy cocky center gunner tcr is a strong oral tradition of bards, even better when preserved in a cant language. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598728) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:39 PM Author: bull headed crusty piazza Error checking (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598733) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:38 PM Author: bull headed crusty piazza Yes because people could read them and copy them. What could archaeologists do with a SCSI hard drive from the 1990s? Even right now it would be a pain in the ass to mount one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598730) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:18 PM Author: shaky chapel kitty cat With a robust enough storage setup (i.e. a NAS w/ redundant disks + cloud backup), your odds of losing stuff is practically zero (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598682) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:20 PM Author: Exhilarant aqua station your personal odds, but they are all vulnerable to large scale catastrophes in a way other mediums are not (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598686) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:28 PM Author: shaky chapel kitty cat If there's an event that knocks out both my NAS and my cloud backup simultaneously, I'm pretty sure civilization has greater problems than future generations being able to watch 6yo me unwrap my NES (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598713) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:29 PM Author: Exhilarant aqua station but that will include literally ALL information, it actually is a big deal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598718) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:32 PM Author: chocolate jew there are plenty of books about the important stuff (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598722) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:36 PM Author: Exhilarant aqua station shitty paperbacks maybe, we are just objectively using substandard materials (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598725) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:45 PM Author: bull headed crusty piazza How much of today's information is actually worth preserving that isn't etched into stone or made into some kind of plaque or statue? No one really NEEDS to learn about everything that was happening in 2024. There are like two dozen books that will get you 99% of what you need to function. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598744) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:43 PM Author: bull headed crusty piazza How does an archaeologist excavating an Amazon data center do with all those hard disks? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598739) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:10 PM Author: Chartreuse deranged keepsake machete gay wizard Yeah, there's tons of Certified VCR Experts who do this all day every day. It makes sense to buy rather than develop expertise. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598662) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 11:01 PM Author: shaky chapel kitty cat This seems to be a facetious comment given your "trade school" comment above.
I don't know what to tell you, I am a pretty techy guy and I might throw in the towel on it. And there are services in every town that do this work.
If you do get a working setup you may as well roll it into a side gig. Advertise on Craigslist, collect $15 a tape for easy work |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 9:19 PM Author: claret talented hairy legs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598684) |
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Date: April 20th, 2024 11:22 PM Author: Plum Electric Theatre Ratface Had a girlfriend early 90s who's parents had a library of over 1000 vhs movies. We would just go through the booket her dad made where he categorized and numbered them. Was 180. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5519756&forum_id=2#47598904) |