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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I bought one of those at Best Buy at least 15 years ago. They had a big pile of them in the middle of the store, and I think they were only something like $75. The sales guy told me they weren't going to be making them anymore, but it actually wasn't until 2016 that the last company stopped production on them. Once in a blue moon I'll have need of mine, like if there's a movie that either was never released on DVD or was only released briefly and the DVDs of it are very scarce and expensive, but you can get a VHS tape for a couple of dollars.
    Go Video. They were cheap.

    I remember when VCR's were first introduced. They were around $1,000.00. A few years later I bought my first one in the PX in Berlin for something like $500.00.

    I occassionally go to a local Goodwill to dig through their CD's. They sell VHS movies for 10 cents each.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    Go Video. They were cheap.

    I remember when VCR's were first introduced. They were around $1,000.00. A few years later I bought my first one in the PX in Berlin for something like $500.00.

    I occassionally go to a local Goodwill to dig through their CD's. They sell VHS movies for 10 cents each.
    I bought my first VCR in the late '70s with a reenlistment check. It was a top-of-the-line RCA Selectavision 650, and I bought it on sale for over a thousand bucks. It was one of those models that you pushed a button and a little tape compartment would pop up from the top of the machine; you put the tape in and pushed it back down. The thing actually worked for about ten years, then it crapped out and a repair shop told me that it needed a certain part replaced that would cost $800. By that time new VHS players could be had for $200-300. I remember putting it in a box and holding on to it for sentimental reasons for many years, and eventually it got tossed out. (Ditto my portable 8-track player.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    I bought my first VCR in the late '70s with a reenlistment check. It was a top-of-the-line RCA Selectavision 650, and I bought it on sale for over a thousand bucks. It was one of those models that you pushed a button and a little tape compartment would pop up from the top of the machine; you put the tape in and pushed it back down. The thing actually worked for about ten years, then it crapped out and a repair shop told me that it needed a certain part replaced that would cost $800. By that time new VHS players could be had for $200-300. I remember putting it in a box and holding on to it for sentimental reasons for many years, and eventually it got tossed out. (Ditto my portable 8-track player.)
    The old top loader. It was a big deal when they progressed to front loading.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    The old top loader. It was a big deal when they progressed to front loading.
    Our first VCR was a Sansui top loader, I don't remember what it cost, it was bought in 1983, at the Bitburg AFB BX in Germany.

    We got together with other people and, hooked two VCR's together and made recorded movies for each other........AFN TV, kinda sucked.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abby08 View Post
    Our first VCR was a Sansui top loader, I don't remember what it cost, it was bought in 1983, at the Bitburg AFB BX in Germany.

    We got together with other people and, hooked two VCR's together and made recorded movies for each other........AFN TV, kinda sucked.
    No. The best was a Panasonic.
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    Speaking of sexy and involving, thought I'd pop in!

    I still have a working VCR. And it use it and everything. Okay not often, but I do happen to have some tapes that never made it to video discs or apparently streaming either. Just as importantly though, I have home movies and stuff I recorded off TV when I was a kid, in some cases complete with the ancient commercials and all for maximum nostalgia! And also, tbh, sometimes I just find it intrinsically charming to go backward in time and use older, outdated hardware that has more flaws and inconveniences; something that's not perfect, y'know? Aw maybe that's just me though. I can be a sentimentalist.

    I also have a membership card to the world's only remaining Blockbuster store, incidentally, just for fun in case I'm ever able to visit Oregon. (I want to do my part to keep that last one going as long as possible!)

    I'll have to ask about Burnt by the Sun next time I stop by the Johnson County Library.
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    Interesting how the VHS went out of style before anyone figured out how to program the time and stop the 12:00 from flashing





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