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Topic: Do you still have a VCR?

Poll Question: Do you still own and use a VCR?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Yes	7	[15.56%]
No	7	[15.56%]
I have and use both	31	[68.89%]
I have neither	0	[0.00%]
other	0	[0.00%]
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Posted: July 23 2011 at 2:54pm \| IP Logged

I have a combination dvd/VCR player that does a so-so job playing both.

I still have quite a few VCR tapes of things like Little Bear, Richard Scarry, etc.
I am at the point of passing those on, as my dc rarely watch them these days.

I bought most of them used and plan to donate them to a local thrift store where someone like me

will hopefully pick them up for a song and enjoy them with their dc.

But-- is the VCR becoming a dinosaur? Am I the only one who still uses one?

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Posted: July 23 2011 at 2:58pm \| IP Logged

I have both. Actually, I'm sure I'm the only one who thinks this way, but I prefer the VCR for the kid's movies. I have to guard the DVD's because they get scratched so easily. I think VCR tapes can take a lot more abuse and still be usable!

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Posted: July 23 2011 at 3:40pm \| IP Logged

We have both. Our VCR is not the most reliable, but with the right touch... and perseverance it does work. It is almost 16 years old, so what can I expect?
We also have some Little Bear videos that my 2 youngest still watch! I also have some videos of old movies that I was not able to find as dvd.

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Posted: July 23 2011 at 4:31pm \| IP Logged

We have both. We find that many older obscure classic movies haven't yet been converted to DVD, so we're holding onto our VCR. We also tend to find many older movies on video at Goodwill for a song, since so many people are getting rid of theirs. I do prefer DVDs for slimmer storage, special features and subtitles, but feel the same way about scratches...arghhh, we thought that problem would go away when records were no longer produced.

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Posted: July 23 2011 at 5:42pm \| IP Logged

Most of my VHS tapes have been from the Goodwill or garage sales.... I love the easiness of just popping in a tape and not having to stand there waiting for the disc to load and then navigating through the menu options.

It's so easy just to fast forward through the parts of a VHS tape you want to skip.

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Posted: July 23 2011 at 6:25pm \| IP Logged

No TV (VHS) or dvd player here, just two laptops.

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 12:29am \| IP Logged

We still use the video player occasionally but it is on its last legs. The top is off as the videos keep getting jammed. We have been able to replace some videos with DVDs but some are real treasures.

We have a DVD player but also use the playstation as a DVD player.

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 7:24am \| IP Logged

We still have 2 video players. one in the cupboard. our favourite kids movies are on video.
We just watched the Lion King on video.
We are going to watch the human body- video, very soon.
We should really put them on the dvd.

I must add we do have dvd player too.
We do try to limit there use.

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 7:28am \| IP Logged

Yes. Our DVDs tend to fall out of the holder and get scratched by little hands. I can buy VCR tapes for a song at our library book store, and they last so muh longer. I hate their size, but they do last so much longer and do not skip... It's a tradeoff

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 8:09am \| IP Logged

I want to get the Roxio software and convert to DVD while our VHS still works. As well as our Super 8 home movies. I always do an extra back up that gets stored in a separate box. That way we always have one.

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 8:27am \| IP Logged

We keep our VHS player since, as mentioned before, some of the good older movies can only be found in VHS. Sometimes when you find a rare gem through the library, they only have it in VHS.

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 9:44am \| IP Logged

We have a combo dvd/vhs set that we just recently got from an aunt because our dvd/tv combo unit stopped working. But honestly have not used a vhs in years. We had a garage sale several years ago and sold all of our vhs tapes (at the time we no longer had a vhs machine).

We now have an extensive dvd collection. The image is just so much more nicer to watch, but will we do the same for blue ray? I don't think so, not any time soon anyway. It just seems like technology advances exponentially and our budget can't keep up.

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 9:48am \| IP Logged

When we moved, we sold our VCR and all of our tapes with the exception of dance performances and ultrasounds. I wish that I had saved them now, but my thinking was that VCRs are outdated.

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 9:52am \| IP Logged

Carole N. wrote:

When we moved, we sold our VCR and all of our tapes with the exception of dance performances and ultrasounds. I wish that I had saved them now, but my thinking was that VCRs are outdated.

We did the exact same thing!

To cut down on the scratching of the DVD's we bought a case for all of them.

We have a case for kids stuff, a case for adult stuff and a separate case for all the educational CD's and DVD"S that only Mom and Dad are allowed to touch:)

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 11:20am \| IP Logged

So I'm assuming the "yes or no" part applies to VCR only but the "both or neither" part applies to DVD and VCR, so I answered both. We don't use the VCR much but kept for home videos, CCC videos (which were the only VHS tapes we had that my kids haven't outgrown) and tapes we borrow from the library. The library has really started getting rid of VHS tapes, though, so don't know how much longer that will last. They got rid of almost all of their filmstrips too.

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 11:41am \| IP Logged

I use both. My sister passed on her VHS collection of children tapes to me, plus I'm old enough to have grown up when Beta was first available (we had Star Wars on Beta)! I also have lots of VHS movies that I enjoyed as a teenager/young adult.

I also have records and tapes that I have not converted to CD's yet. I suppose I'm really behind now that everything is converting to digital recordings!

I just buy new things in the new formats instead of trying to convert everything. Plus, my kids think the record player is really cool. Now, if only I'd kept my Walkman!

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 11:41am \| IP Logged

We have a few of the combo DVD/VCRs. We are trying to upgrade all our VHS tapes, but still have a few and play them. Right now dh and I are borrowing "All Creatures Great and Small" from my sister and watching on VHS.

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 4:31pm \| IP Logged

We still have a VCR

But, truth be told ... we don't use it. And, in fact, it's not even hooked up and plugged in ... YET it still sits in the *entertainment console* because it hides the ugly wires from our cable box, DVD player, and TV, soooo we leave it there.

And, it becomes a topic of conversation when we have guests over ... because they all think we're living in the dark ages having an old VHS VCR sitting there next to the TV.

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 5:18pm \| IP Logged

Mimip wrote:

To cut down on the scratching of the DVD's we bought a case for all of them.

We have a case for kids stuff, a case for adult stuff and a separate case for all the educational CD's and DVD"S that only Mom and Dad are allowed to touch:)

Mimi

We have this too! One of my dh's great ideas, saves so much space. (I collect books, dh collects DVDs

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Posted: July 25 2011 at 5:53pm \| IP Logged

This is a good thread ...
I have to add here Lara mentioned a "walkman"..

UMMM I still have mine...I can't get rid of it.

Leanne

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