Could VHS make a comeback?
 

I always felt that VHS was a good format. It worked well. However, the DVD and the PC has seen VHS all-but disappear and I believe that VHS machines are not longer being produced.

Other analogue formats have made a comeback so could VHS return?

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No

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You’re on your own with that one, Rillington. Why on Earth would anyone want to go back to VHS tapes?

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Not quite, almost certainly another fan stateside ;)

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Landfillled VHS tapes are the only thing keeping London above sea level - fact.

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Considering betamax was better than VHS why would anyone want it to return?

Bit like your rediculous cassette return thread. Neither will happen.

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It wasnt, it just happened to become the most popular.

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Shame as I have loads of VHS tape

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Indeed. The Philips LP VCR format had a much superior picture and sound but the concentric cassette design was unfriendly for high speed duplication so lost out.

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Why is my cassette tape thread ridiculous?

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as have many others.

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As you say, Betamax was seen as the superior format but VHS won the battle of the format wars.

I love my VHS tapes!!!!

I love analogue so when there is a movie I want and I want it in unmolested analogue,I look for the earliest copy I can get of it.... These are a few I have

1) Wizard of OZ (1939) - 1980 release
2) Casablanca (1942) - 1981 release
3) African Queen (1951) - 1979 release (FIRST RELEASE)
4) 48 Hrs (1982) - 1983 release (First release - Newer ones look horrible)
5) BUS STOP (1955 I think) - 1978 release
6) Assault on precinct 13 (1976) - 1978 release


Alot of this depends on if the person took care of the tape. People are 1/2 responsible!

You dont find a VHS tape from that early in good condition very often.. (Especially if it was a rental)

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Why on earth would people want VHS back?


- Everytime the tape goes over the heads it is destroying the tape. Quality gets worse.


- Who wants to wait for the tapes to rewind, fast forward.


- They werent designed for HD TV, more lines than pixels.


- They took up way too much space to store. I'd rather have files on my PC.

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Well, exactly. Why would you prefer an inferior system like analogue to the much better quality digital system?

Ah, well, each to their own!

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TBH I feel the VHS is better quality than some VM SD channels

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Output is only as good as the input though.

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Next up - horse & buggies; could they make a comeback? ;)

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If the fuel crisis had continued much longer, most definitely :)

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I’ll set them up, you put them away…:D

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I spent ages transferring VHS tape recordings to DVD. I'm glad I did, as the next generation of TVs had no scart sockets, required by the VHS players.

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I did the same with video recordings of the children when they were young, but converted them to .mp4.

(The recordings, not the children…)

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and with VHS recorders/players seemingly no longer being manufactured the time is to do this before there is no equipment on which to play the cassettes.

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Nope, will never happen. That said there is something that is lost due to the sheer amount of easily accessible films etc at a touch of a button, it is something that is hard to appreciate. Compared to getting the film you wanted from 'Blockbusters'...

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I don't watch them either, just HD and UHD.

However, there is no risk of corrupting your content over an SD channel!

Well we like the quality better mate :)