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Daily Discussion Thread:🧁Sun 25 Feb 2024 (aussie.zone)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Omg we have a VHS player! I actually have a bag of VHS tapes I got from an op shop last year. I've never played a VHS before and I'm kinda excited ngl

I don't even know what I bought honestly. There's a handwritten one about wildflowers, and some Disney movie, but I don't know about the rest. I just saw 10c each and was like "ooh! Old people media! I will buy!" Love ya, Vinnie's

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Hey. Those "old people" tapes may contain some risque stuff. Be careful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Ha, I've read enough horror stories on Reddit to know to watch out, or rather not watch out!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

With the tracking transition 🤣

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ha. I have a VCR. I don't think it has been plugged into power at any point in the kids' lives. It's just been there at the bottom of the entertainment cabinet, dark and mysterious and ignored.

The only tapes I still have are Star Wars remastered (Han still shoots first) and 1997 editions. Widescreen versions.

I should put them on one day. In this day and age of streaming and Bly Rays, VHS will be an experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

If they taped shows or movies off the telly there will be old ads

( first show I saw on tape was Blake 7 , I borrowed a player from the library at school, it was 1978. )

You might also need to use a tape head cleaner first .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Clean the heads, but please don’t use a head clean tape ( in the bizzare offchance you find one) those things were sandpaper, you want a light solvent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought taping over movies was the sort of things parents yelled at you for

So far the most annoying thing people have done is not rewinding their tapes

I don't know what a tape head cleaner is, or for that matter what a tape head is, but I'm just going to put the tape in the box and hope for the best

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Copying movies from the telly. You could buy blank tapes and record from a camcorder or copy from a telly, either by cable or just pointing the camera at the screen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_head_cleaner