Blank VHS covers are always artistically fantastic.
Absolutely
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For me it would be a new external hard drive for all my data hoarding
at their peak, a 5 pack of vhs would cost like 6 bucks, so the equivalent today would be more like a 32gb sd card.
Adjusted for inflation?
A samsung sd card instead of a sandisk one 👍
5x6hrs of shitty quality vs 32gb of digital? yea. it’s already accounted for.
Nice
Youre right buynI dont have to like it
Got some 18TB WD’s over Black Friday weekend for $260 or so a pop 🥰
Slightly more expensive than VHS then
Probably cheaper per recording. That HDD can hold a lot more shows than many, many tapes.
Sets VCR to EP
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Hahaha that was so terrible. Our equivalent today is ‘needs more jpeg’
Depends what’s on the VHS
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I remember getting a stack of blank CDs for christmas. Loved it. Burned so many CDs, made my own mix tracks, gave them out to people I liked and they returned in kind. Shit was cash.
It’s so difficult to share music with people now
A spool of plastic filament.
Ahh, G28 sweet G28
Anyone is free to gift me HDDs or SSDs.
In fact, if anyone wants to contribute to my holidays present with random computer parts, be my guest.
Don’t even have to be new parts. Just whatever you have laying around from the last few years.
I’ve built one working computer from the remains of three.
I’ll take my chances.
Same, my media server has been ship of thesused out of my past few desktops.
If it works, it works!
How many leftover working parts were there, or was it a perfect fit with no surplus?
It was pretty much a junkyard special.
One computer donated the tower and optical drives, another provided RAM, CPU and one HDD and the final one provided motherboard and another HDD.
PSU I had already laying around from yet another junker.
No, and I was around when VHS was popular.
the equivelent now is a 2TB ~ 8TB External Solid State Drive.
1 tape using SLP could hold 360 minutes.
LP it could hold 240 minutes.
So if you were poor there’d be tapes with 4.5 movies worth of terrible quality movies in order with one tape holding the first half of Hellraiser 2 and another holding the second half lol.
A five pack of blank tapes would be $20. So $20 essentially 700mb shitty cd sized video files for a movie. 4.5x5 = 30 movies at 700mb. 30x.700 = 21gb of storage.
A platter drive currently gets about $7/tb if you’re going budget. $20 = ~3tb of storage.
142x the storage for the same price. And you can splurge on nice 1.4gb 1080p x265 rips instead. 3000/1.4= ~2143 movies for the same price lol.
E: Let’s not even get into the cost of renting first, and owning two vcrs lol.
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so Scotch, the tape company, also sold tapes? 🤨
It seems weird, but makes sense. They already had the equipment to make long, thin ribbons of plastic, after all.
You need anything taped? Scotch had your back.
But I don’t need my back taped.
Scotch is more of a brand name. 3M is the parent company, and they make nearly everything
It’s been so long since I have seen one of these that I forgot that Scotch was more than just an adhesive company.
They are a tape company
They’re a 3M brand. They make basically everything.
I’m only just now realizing they’re the same company.
Why get new tapes when one battered and war-torn tape is all you need? Especially the part where you guess (incorrectly) what’s safe to copy over, angering your family. Make sure you set the record speed properly!
Copying over our wedding was a mistake anybody could’ve made
A 20 TB hard drive
More storage for the media server NAS, which I then share with family and friends.
I’m buying you the cheapest used hard drives from ebay coupled with the SSDs from wish.com.
… I’ll make sure to have enough redundancies 😬
That graphic design awakens some memories
The equivalent now is a package of socks that don’t suck.
The equivalent would probably either be something like external hard drives or thumb drives. That, or going online and finding blank VCR tapes, CDs, or DVDs for sale. I assume it’s harder for VCR tapes, but I know you can still find CDs and DVDs at some stores.
I got lucky because towards the beginning of fall quarter at the college I attend, they were getting rid of an unopened stack of blank DVDs for free. Such a great gift, despite me getting them for free.
I’d still love to get an LTO drive and some tapes for christmas.
