Do you still have a VCR?

[CharlotteGirl]

This was an SAS thread, not my idea. I still have a few VHS/SVHS (enhanced picture but needs
special tapes) machines that I got cheap or free, use them occasionally with my bedroom TV.
I'd like to see a Betamax in action, but surely never will.
I have a lot of VHS tapes, most were taken from peoples' rubbish sacks when such things were
often thrown out!

[Scotty]

Nah, we had to get rid of ours when we moved to the states. I think we have a couple of vhs tapes still though, from when they filmed some school plays that my brother and I were in.

[Sexy Spork #37]

No. I have a record player. But I have no records. But I do have videos. There may have been a mix-up...

I remember when we got rid of our VCR. I was really sad because they have so much character. I said that we'd rue the decision one day, and now, looking back, all I can say is thus...

God I was wrong,

Good-riddence.

[Outcast]

We have a VCR but have never used it for years. So i doubt it could still be working. We have a collection of VHS tapes as well that are just gathering dust.

[Slinky]

I did up till around a year or so ago. It was only kept in case I ever wanted to watch a few things I still only had on video tape. Programmes I had recorded on tv years ago that I can't find now, family videos, etc. Since I bought a dvd recorder a few years back and converted everything to dvd, the VCR was stuck in the loft till I eventually retired it after many years of service.

[Karen]

I have a VCR/DVD combo machine. It still works, so I'm not replacing it anytime soon. I don't own any VHS tapes though. I'm not sure I ever did, so why I bought that machine is a mystery. Maybe it was on sale at the time.

[Audio the obscure]

No. The last one I had was in 2008. I had gotten Digital Cable, which the phone company hooked up via a computer modem (so they informed me). I was recording some shows, and the thing went all awry. Newest and shortest lived VCR I'd ever owned lol. Usually I worked such things into the ground til they no longer worked at all. I had a total of 3 VCRS from 1992 when my dad got me the first one for a present; that one quit 5 years later; I bought another one, and I can't remember when "it" quit lol.

My tapes? Well a few years ago, I donated most of them to the public library (the bulk of them being the old Star Trek series (with Capt Kirk) and they had a sale on them *it figures* (rolls eyes). Oh well "dem's the breaks".

Oh here's something I could add here since it's about VCRs and their tapes: You know how I'm sure you know how the VHS tapes are supposedly not to be taken apart, well I took my copy apart of "My Fair Lady" (Eliza Doolittle,lol) when it wasn't playing right (the tape would get wound around inside the VCR), and I managed to fix it (using the scotch tape, as for the audio cassettes), and got it playing in the VCR again:). I was so proud of myself lol. (I know this is off topic, but another thing that's depressing me is my eyes have gotten worse, I don't mean blindness or anything serious like that, just the usual eye problems that come with not being as young as I used to be lol)