VHS Tapes
- Thread starter Rockslinger
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Tv studios still use tape as back up, although it's pro quality. The old live to tape is alive and well.Anybody still use VHS tapes? Or, has it gone the way of the film camera?
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I don't know what they use since the introduction of HD, but prior to that they used Betamax, not VHS.
It was a much better format resolution-wise. However, VHS won out for teh masses on account of a successful marketing plan.
About 30 % of the photofinishing work at one professional lab in downtown TO is with film.Anybody still use VHS tapes
Correct.
Betamax looked slightly better quality wise but VHS ran longer for two hours.
Tape was expensive back then with a blank 2 hr VHS tape running ~$30. I was happy when they went on sale for $20. Got my first VHS portable deck when they prices dropped to a Grand. All it did was 2-4 hr mode and came with a 20 foot corded remote. No remote wireless capabilities yet.....lol. A RCA TV camera cost a Grand also but took great movies. Even recording in 4 hr mode it looked as good as Live TV. And over 30 yrs later those home VHS movies still play and look great with very little loss of picture quality!..
OTOH home DVDs are corrupting or failing to open/play <5 yrs....
My home VHS movies made with a TV camera held up great over the years.
Movies recorded off TV show some loss.
Movie copies made off another movie by hooking 2 VHS machines together, show the most loss. Every time you make a copy of a VHS movie there is ~10% loss of picture quality. A lot depended on the quality of the original. If it was high quality to begin with, it made a good copy. Poor quality original tapes went grainy quicker.
Movies recorded off TV show some loss.
Movie copies made off another movie by hooking 2 VHS machines together, show the most loss. Every time you make a copy of a VHS movie there is ~10% loss of picture quality. A lot depended on the quality of the original. If it was high quality to begin with, it made a good copy. Poor quality original tapes went grainy quicker.
Still use my VHS to this day. I rarely watch movies but when I want to get any they are like $20 for a box of about 150 off Kijjiji or CL. For approx 15 cents per classic movie I cant complain. Since I dont watch many, my $20 outlay will last at least a year.
It also depended on the tape and how it wa stored. Binder technology suffered soemwhat with the wrong urethane additives for a number of years, this side of the Atlantic.
I pretty much stuck with TDK SA VHS tapes.
They held up well.
Picked TDK because of their great ratings plus I used TDK SA audio-cassettes back in the 70s that still sound great today.
They held up well.
Picked TDK because of their great ratings plus I used TDK SA audio-cassettes back in the 70s that still sound great today.
While DVD recording has superior quality I found it much harder to work with than with the old VHS tape. I hate that lag waiting for the recording to finish before you can start recording again. Also, harder to find the location of the DVD as it seems to always go back to the beginning of the disc and not where you left off.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Compactcassette.jpg
TDK and BASF tape were among the best. I have numerous Ampex as well as 3M/Scotch open reel tapes that became gummy with time. The only cure was to bake the tapes for about eight hours at 60 degrees C (140 degrees F), let them cool to room temperature and dub the contents to another tape or medium for restoration. There was also one Maxell open reel tape that puckered on me, and the distributor made good on the lifetime warrantee and replaced it.
As for VHS tapes, I am almost certain that some tapes would last longer that others; your TDK are a stellar example of good ones. But, what to do with all the VHS tapes that I have! My SO wants me to get rid of my home made tapes, but there are so many of them and the conetnts are difficult to replace; Saturday Night at the Movies with Elwy Yost on TV Ontario!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elwy_Yost
No... VHS became the de facto standard for consumer use because it was the format picked by adult film studios to release titles on for home viewing. No other reason than that.
I remember that war well.
Longer recording times was the main reason I chose VHS over Betamax....
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