I Love Videos

[Psycho Circus]

I love this video! I agree with everything this guy says, I do try to be a VHS kinda guy, but the quality sucks.
I like the fact that he points out the superior artwork on video tapes, where alot of DVD's change the artwork or it's really bland I find. It's definately a nostalgia thing... 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iB5jovkuF_o

What do you have more of, VHS or DVDs?

[Doc Daneeka]

I love DVDs, better quality, durability, don't have to be kind and rewind (Though it sucks like hell when they don't have chapters ), and plus those great little extras! I was initially very skeptical of the format, thought they could never get any title transferred to it, but now I'm pretty sure that with the smaller companies looking for more obscure titles and the bigger ones treating so many cult classics with respect, anything is possible! I only have around 100, but I keep looking for opportunity to increase my collection. Yeah, you've got a point about the cover artwork, name one DVD with a cool hologram cover! Still, I think the benefits greatly outweigh the drawbacks.

[Justy]

I still have 3 VCRs and a bunch of my old VHS stuff taped off cable. While both formats are delicate in their own ways I think that there is less chance of a DVD getting wrecked. You can be careful with a tape, but a VCR can chew that tape right up. With that being said I do hope that VHS remains economically viable for smaller companies to put their titles out on. There's a lot of nostalgia out on VHS.

[peter johnson]

Man, I am so much more VHS than DVD --

If you have a nice 4-track VHS player, then the chances of the tapes being chewed are lower than with a 2-track.

I agree that the extras features on DVDs are a plus, but if your DVD gets a nick or a scratch in it, the player either stops dead or skips all over the place.  This is such a sticking point with rentals that we usually go for tapes over DVDs if we can in the stores we frequent.  I've even brought DVDs back to places so they could run them through their magic cleaners, and they would STILL jump & skip.  And it's not the player:  I have a very good Phillips with all the bells & whistles.  Many DVDs play quite nicely all the way through, too, so it's not like it's hypersensitive to dirt or dust.

Whatever one may say about the lower quality of tape, etc., all the tapes I've acquired manage to play themselves all the way through -- the same cannot be said for the DVDs.  I have a big bin o' tapes that I'm keeping -- plus, there are still movies out there that are only available on VHS and may never go to DVD.

peter luddite/denny anachronism

[Nukie 2]

VHS ist TRVE KVLT!

Dvds have extras, and you don't have to rewind. But you can't record from the TV with them. Plus there are some really bad movies you can't get on DVD... Pyschomania, Nukie, Quest for the Mighty Sword.

[RCMerchant]

VHS! I own hundreds of vhs tapes...simply because I started collecting them long before dvd's came out....and I don't have the hassles with the skips and jumps. I like dvds,but I just have more vhs tapes. And yeah...some of the old vhs art is very cool expliotation bs. My 3 ON A MEATHOOK big box has 3 scantily clad,blood soaked,big haired,big boobied chicks on the front....of course the film itself is a dull, mostly bloodless yawnfest directed by the very bland Paul Leder...who had a knack for making lame films with cool titles (ie-I DISMEMBER MAMA ,and  MY FREINDS NEED KILLING).

[JaseSF]

Actually you can record to DVD. All you need is a DVD Recorder. You can even get them equipped with hard drives nowadays to store upwards of 80 hours of programming. However they haven't made the jump to HD DVD Recorders just yet. Suspect that's around the corner though. Also strongly suspect VCRs are on the verge of extinction, at least quality ones.

[dean]

Actually you can record to DVD. All you need is a DVD Recorder. You can even get them equipped with hard drives nowadays to store upwards of 80 hours of programming. However they haven't made the jump to HD DVD Recorders just yet. Suspect that's around the corner though. Also strongly suspect VCRs are on the verge of extinction, at least quality ones.

There's blu-ray recorders out here, but they're about $2000AUS.  No HD Dvd recorders are going to come out because its been pronounced dead by the industry.

[JaseSF]

I stand corrected. With regards to box art, one could make their own using photos of existing posters and/or scans of VHS box art, whathaveyou. Have to agree the VHS box art is superior.

[Dr_Malavaqua]

Back in the days VHS was the shizznit and I totally agree about the box art.
As a kid you could just walk around in the local rental store ogling the covers of all the cool videos you weren't allowed to see..until the store owner made you leave whilst questioning if you couldn't get those anatomy lessons from a big sister instead!
I have two brothers..  
Me, and my brothers, actually had one of the most extensive VHS collections among our peers.(a couple o' shelves, rough estimate 200)
And then the future happened..:
When I first heard about the DVD format I actually remember thinking: "This is the sh*t,  this is the ultimate format, top picture/sound quality, half the shelf space and you could(I guess?) store them forever, I gotta get me one of these!"
To cut a long story short, I saved up to get a dvd-player and when I moved to go to university that's what I brought with me. (Plus my "Akira"-two tapes spec. edition and "Ghappa the triphibian monster", both which I preserve but are unable to view here!)
I currently own about 350 DVDs(100 are Mill Creek) and counting! 

[The Burgomaster]

I got rid of all my VHS tapes a few years ago (sold many of them on Ebay, gave the rest to my mother and father).  The only one I still have is the uncut version of DERANGED (which my father transferred to DVD for me).  I think I had somewhere around 800 - 1,000 VHS tapes.  My DVD collection has blown that away.  I think I'm up around 3,500 titles on DVD.

[peter johnson]

The wife & I watched "Night of The Demon" last night on VHS -- No skips or stops & perfect picture quality.  Bought it used for 50 cents from a video store's dump bin.  Wonderful, classic British horror --
peter black/denny white

[Scottie]

The problem I have found with most VHS tapes is that back in those days the transfer from film to video was usually a 4x3 crop with pan and scan. I hate 4x3 crop and pan and scan. I didn't realize how much I hated it until a few years ago when I rewatched my VHS copy of The Good The Bad And The Ugly and began to understand how much frame composition means to a good movie. Most DVDs today show the movie in their original film aspect ratio, which is extremely important to me. TVs are getting bigger and most are already 16x9, so there is no more need for a 4x3 crop. That's my biggest reason for almost strictly watching DVDs at home, unless it's some rare out of print VHS of some completely unheard of kung fu film from the Philippines.

[Mr. DS]

For nostalgia reasons the VHS.  For shelf space reasons the DVD.