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Why doesn't it feel as classy? (media.piefed.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 43 points 9 months ago (18 children)

Because VHS/CRT was such a fucking hassle even when it was the best possible format option for home media. The dawn of LCDs and DVD was a glorious thing.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Was, "Be kind, rewind" really that much of a hassle?

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    VHS cassettes were also relatively fragile and decay on use (technically so do vinyl records but they are more forgiving). Humans are also really good at ignoring minor flaws in audio, while visual noise and low graphic resolution is much harder to ignore (though CRT messed up the image in one of the best ways possible for the human brain to fill the gaps).

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  • [–] 28 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    Yes. So much so they made completely seperate machines to rewind vhs tapes so your one vcr could continue to do other things at the same time.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago

    Binging movies wasn't much of a thing back then; I can't remember a single time when I wanted to immediately put another video in after just finishing one. Plus it took like 5 minutes to rewind one - I'd usually run to the bathroom and grab a snack and it'd be done by the time I got back. It wasn't any longer than a commercial break, and we were all used to that back then. I remember I once mowed the lawn 5 minutes at a time during commercial breaks because I didn't want to miss the show I was watching, haha!

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    And how many people actually bought one? Not us, I can tell you that much.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    VHS wasn’t the best format even when it came out. VHS was specifically designed to be a middle ground between quality and affordability. That’s partly why it succeeded in the consumer market, both the tape and the player were cheaper than the other formats of the day. Beta and LaserDisc both had better picture and sound quality but both had their own drawbacks as well as cost. CEDs were cheaper than LaserDisc and predated VHS by several years but didn’t have the industry acceptance of the other formats and had similar drawbacks.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The dawn of LCD's sucked. They were inferior to CRT in most ways, they were bigger and lighter. They eventually got better and cheaper and that is when they took off.

    DVD was a day 1 upgrade over vhs for watching movies.

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