Does anyone still have/use a VCR?

[Sir Harry]

Hey SBG's- Last New Year's Eve (12/31/11) I pulled out my old Sony VCR to check out some old home videos. When it asked me to set the date, the year wouldn't go past 1999. I told a buddy about this and he said that his VCR did the same thing and that he subtracted 28 years from the current year and the day, month and date would fall in line just like normal. I thought about this and realized that the 2000 calendar was the exact same calendar that was used in my birth year (1972)! So I set the year to 1984, and the calendar kept up just the same even on February 29th (Wednesday). So, the VCR is now reading MON 1/7/1985. So I guess (assuming the thing works that far) in 2028 I just have to go back to 1972. Anyone else still using VCR's or any other outdated electronics?

[tomcj2]

I still have a couple of them and my wife looks at old stuff from time to time.  She was just given a shopping bag of brand new tapes; what she will use them for I have no clue.

As to the date and time it still blinks12:00, just as it did from day one.

[MikeM]

Yep. We have two young kids in the house (4 and 6). The local public library still has some VCR tapes in circulation, although now the collections are mostly DVD (and digital download/subscription). But mostly we buy old tapes at the library sell offs for about 25 cents apiece. This way we have a nice supply of fresh things for the kids to watch (that we've selected), but at low cost. If a tape breaks or becomes unwatchable, oh well (so far this hasn't been a major problem).

[Ming the Merciless]

Sure.  Why not?

I still have all the vinyl LPS I collected over about thirty years.  And I still own a record player, too.

I also have a DVD player and a CD player (and hundreds of CDs; not so many DVDs)..

The VHS?  Well, when the libraries and yard sale folks were dumping their VHS tapes, I got a lot of nice trash for less than a dollar each; sometimes for only a quarter.  What's not to like? 

You say there are no "extended versions" on tapes?  No "extra features"?  Yawn.

Trash is trash, and whether off a DVD or a VHS tape, I don't much care.  With a tape you can't succumb to the twitchy urge to jump to the next "Chapter."  It slows you down, and not in a bad way.

[-Doug-]

We still have one. My kids still enjoy watching some of the movies that the watched when they were much younger.

[stasiu]

VCR, vinyl LPs ( I play on direct drive quartz turntable), cassettes but no 8-tracks.  Yes ... I even have letters typed on manual typewriter and autographed ... yes autographed by .... LAWRENCE WELK !  who   I need to have a garage sale and raise some money to buy razor blades .... LOL !

[Mr Jules]

VCR ?

Is that we called a video recorder ?

Have a I fallen through a window into the early 1990s ? 

[TheSlyBear]

We still have one. Haven't used it in years. Makes mw wonder why I'm letting it take up room in the closet.

[Crusher0209]

Oh used to use a VCR until last week and it broke. I also play with the playstation 1 and I love to play it especially frogger

[Petunia]

Yes.  We have a DVD/VHS player together.  Love to watch old home movies of when we were younger.

[imaginary]

I have one, but the last time I watched a video on it, I received a phone call right afterwards saying I was going to die in seven days. 

[Switchy]

Always will have one like some of the old VCR movies and have some also.  Many of them such as the God Father, Dirty Harry, etc.  I know the lines as well as the actors.  John Wayne,  can't remember my address but I know the movies !     .

[mrzed]

Yes! We do, and we watch older favorite movies on the VHS tapes.

Also family videos that we have not converted to DVD yet. Last Christmas bought a recorder that would do the dubbing, but we've not done the dubbing yet.  Need to get to that.

[BBCnorthants]

I haven't had one for about 13 or 14 years. I got rid of it (and all my video cassettes) when I converted to DVD's, and now I don't even have a DVD player. All my DVDs were copied into iTunes about 5 years ago, and now everything I have is on my computer.

[Frontier Guy]

Yup ... add another VCR to the inventory count.

I've never "moved up" to DVD or Netflix.

Not much of a video person.  For me, with "more and more to choose from" there seems to be "less and less quality" with well-crafted plots and dialog. When most of the office chatter is about "Honey Boo Boo" I'm comfortable with my decision.