Who still uses VHS these days?

[KevinP]

Do you?

[OakBarrel]

I check out VHS tapes from the public library, and use it for when I want to record a T.V. show about once a year.

[Jamie Tate]

My S-VHS machine broke a few years ago. Never found the need to get it fixed.

[Yankee8156]

Never.

I never really had a big VHS collection to begin with, and anything I had on VHS I now have on DVD.

[nelamvr6]

I don't even own a VHS machine anymore.

[rod]

Save them! They'll be the next big thing for the vinyl gang.. (they are analogue)

[wysi]

I use it all the time. We don't have anything like TiVo down here, and DVD recorders are still in the "too expensive" category (at least $500 for anything with a hard drive).

[Larry Mc]

I still watch a lot of my old movies that I bought on VHS.:)

[bhazen]

Believe it or not, I still have tapes from ages ago, like when MTV was new & exciting, and I'd just put in a tape and record four hours of videos. So I've got all sorts of Asia, Duran Duran, ABC, Pretenders, Eddie Money, Flock of Seagulls, Van Halen, the Go Go's, and whoever else was big in 1982. Lots of hairspray and acid-washed jeans.

[John B Good]

We've been using a combo (DVD player witha VCR) for the past 2 years, but I was out window shopping for some kind of DVR today.

But we decided we should wait until we get a new TV to replace our 20" Cathode ray tube set :)

[nosticker]

I'm actually using one right now! I'm recording from my DVR, so I get the worst of both worlds, digital compression artifacts and chroma noise! :righton:

Seriously, I've lost things on both DVD-R as well as the DVR, so until further notice I throw TV shows on tape to save them.



Dan

[townsend]

I still use one . . . it is hooked up in my bedroom to my 25-year old Sony 25" TV (guestimating the size of the Sony TV). It doesn't even have RCA jack outlets!

No, I don't use it much, but I occasionally record a program. And I use it to play guitar instructional DVDs.

I don't have cable or satellite TV (just an antenna in the attic), and that is probably why I still find use for it. When it goes kaput, that's fine with me. About six months ago, I bought a Pioneer DVR for recording from the TV in the family room. It has a hard drive and DVD player/recorder. Works great.

By the way, this 25-year-old Sony TV has never been in the shop! OTOH, my 32" Sony color TV, which was purchased in 2000, has already been in the shop for $300.00 of repairs. It seems that most everything made today is crap, unless you pay out the wazoo for exclusive stuff. It used to not be that way. YMMV. I've got to go . . . the lights in the cave are flickering.:laugh:

[The Wanderer]

Have many tapes, some never released (yet, anyway) on DVD.

[Tim S]

I use it. On my set it looks as good as a DVD, what do I care? Besides, I can record on it.

[Dave D]

We watched Under Siege on VHS Saturday night!:D

[PMC7027]

In my house we have 2 VHS machines that are used almost every other day to tape television shows.

[Grant]

I just haven't gotten around to getting a DVD recorder, and I do a lot of TV show taping. Also, I have stuff on VHS that isn't on DVD.

I have a Tivo, but haven't bothered to even take it out of the box yet.

[rabinsurance]

I have a combo DVD recorder/VCR. I will tape shows that I want to watch once, and burn on DVD programs that I want to keep. For something that I will watch once max, why waste a DVD.

[Dave D]

I just haven't gotten around to getting a DVD recorder, and I do a lot of TV show taping. Also, I have stuff on VHS that isn't on DVD.

I have a Tivo, but haven't bothered to even take it out of the box yet.

I like the durability of recording onto DVD rather than tape, but having to erase the disc all the time is a pain. I record 1.5 hours of stuff every day for the wife. If I forget to erase it after 2 days, it gets filled and she misses out, and I get in trouble! She isn't technical enough to do it.

[SonicZone]

Still use mine on occasion, just not as frequently as in the pre-DVD days.

[leopoldstotch]

I don't use mine especially since I have two DVR's in the house.

[thxdave]

Keeping one or two around to transfer my old pre-MTV music videos to DVD.

[CODOR]

I still use them for timeshifting TV shows. As long as at least one of the VCRs in the house still works, I don't see any use for a PVR or DVD recorder...

I didn't have too many pre-recorded movies on VHS to begin with, and many have been replaced by DVDs.

I should get to work on copying all my family's home movies to digital, though (don't worry, I'll be keeping the VHS and 8mm camcorder tapes for archival purposes)...

[BeatleJWOL]

I've got Elvis On Tour, Greatest Sports Follies and only a handful of other VHS programs, so I'd go with rarely.

[axnyslie]

thew out my VHS deck in 2005 never used one sicne. I have no Tivo so I don't care what I'm missing. The Sony Betamax decks seem to have value though and sell well on eBay.