Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for March 07, 2025

Well, it was the better system; it lost out due to the slightly increased cost and the powerful VHS marketing.

I think mine still works, although I have not tried to watch anything on it for a couple of decades…

Nice shirt.

PAL – Provocation Allemande

SECAM – Sans Experience Contre l’Amerique

NTSC – Never The Same Color

Anyone catch The Powerpuff Girls live action trailer? CW made it go away before I could.

Any one remember Laser-disc ?

B-b-but… Friday.

We were stationed overseas in the late 80’s and family used to send us VCT tapes of off the air TV taped back home. Soldiers would trade these tapes back and forth. We still have a large library of these homemade tapes with no idea really what exactly is on all of them.

Who sold Betamax movies?

VHS may have won the marketing battle, but it’s gone now, too.

In going through my “stuff”, I came across quite a few old VHS tapes. I got an analog to digital converter and converted them all to MP4s. If I had a Betamax player and some of those tapes, I imagine that the same converter would work with it. Don’t know if I ever even saw a Betamax system, though, although I did hear of them.

Unfortunately, it didn’t last.

Of course, I had to check. That is indeed a 1980 Queen concert T-shirt. Also, of course, I had no doubt it would be.

VHS had longer playing time, so you didn’t have to change tapes or they didn’t have to edit out scenes from the original to make it fit. Major studios released everything on VHS. VHS porn availability was a major deciding force between system’s popularity.

I still miss the wax recording rolls and spring loaded wind up phonograph my granny had in her house.

My family had old home movies recorded on 8 mm tape (I think that’s what it was called.) Sadly, we did not have one that could record sound. We had a lot of home movies of local parades, 4th of July fireworks and other things. The tapes have pretty well degraded and I don’t think the movie projector would even still work.

Immediately I wondered if he may be speaking the the monster that had his hair done by Bugs Bunny.

Over the years I have had several VHS recorder/players. About 20 years ago I found on eBay a VHS/Beta Combo made by Toshiba. One thing it lacked was the ability to play on one and copy that playback on the other. Then I found a Go Combo with DVD and VHS. You could play the DVD and copy on the VHS if the DVD was not protected. And finally a Toshiba DVD/VHS combo which does not allow copying the DVD on the VHS. Best thing I ever did was buy a basic repair manual and specific manuals for the machines I did have. Most of the problems with VCRs are dirty playback and record heads and stretched drive belts. And now it’s the difficulty in finding drive belts that have not aged and become brittle and cracked and useless.

my LaserDisc was way better than any tape format… and his parents were rich, those were $2500 in late 70’s / early 80’s money.

Goes to show how micromanagement and greed can kill decent technology

Don’t know when it was the future, but it’s definitely now part of the past.

I still have that Queen concert T from 1980. Not a chance in hell I can still wear it, but I still have it, and every other concert T I ever owned.