It was the best thing since sliced bread. Go back and see how it started.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/642374/vcr-history
https://original.newsbreak.com/@jam...-how-did-top-gun-create-the-era-of-home-video
I have lots of tapes and a non working vcr. Time for me to move on and dump the vcr. But I still have good memories when vcr was king.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/642374/vcr-history
https://original.newsbreak.com/@jam...-how-did-top-gun-create-the-era-of-home-video
I have lots of tapes and a non working vcr. Time for me to move on and dump the vcr. But I still have good memories when vcr was king.
Can't you get VCRs at second-hand stores, or find someone on a vintage electronics forum with lots of experience repairing them?
I've got hundreds of movies, and VHS tapes of home made stuff.... and yes, 3 functioning VCRs to play them on.
It pays to be an old retired tv/audio service tech!.... with a nice workbench in the basement!
It pays to be an old retired tv/audio service tech!.... with a nice workbench in the basement!
I was always impressed with the Panasonic S-VHS decks we had in the AV rooms at school in the 90s. Just had to buy them when I got the chance. Got an NV FS 200 and an AG 7150 playback deck. Ironically I got them for a price that 13 year old me would have been able to afford.
Lately I've been fascinated by the vhs-decode project on GitHub. Some clever people figured out how to digitally capture the signal straight from the tape head. Then they wrote the software to decode the tape content purely in software, making all sorts of digital noise reduction available. Although I have little use for it aside from a few old tapes, I really want to try it out because of the sheer ingenuity of it all.
The project can be found here:
https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode
It's based on another project that software decodes the laserdisc:
https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode
Lately I've been fascinated by the vhs-decode project on GitHub. Some clever people figured out how to digitally capture the signal straight from the tape head. Then they wrote the software to decode the tape content purely in software, making all sorts of digital noise reduction available. Although I have little use for it aside from a few old tapes, I really want to try it out because of the sheer ingenuity of it all.
The project can be found here:
https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode
It's based on another project that software decodes the laserdisc:
https://github.com/happycube/ld-decode