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Time has not been kind to VHS: As tech turns 50, preservationists race to save material stored on vanishing format. Methods include … baking?
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Time hasn’t been kind to VHS, because VHS sucked as a format. It had so many flaws, I’m not even gonna bother to list them because anyone who was ever reliant on that format is already having PTSD flashbacks while they’re reading this sentence. We only used it because it was the best thing available at the time (other than BetaMax, of course, but the licensing fees that Sony demanded for it killed that format before it really got anywhere, and LaserDisk was absurdly expensive, and very cumbersome to handle). The instant a better format came along, we moved along with it.
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So hyperbolic. VHS was great, for its time. You can record over it again and again, like floppies. Crucially, they were cheap. The biggest issue was your player. Shitty players liked to eat tapes. That rewind noise then that sudden stop meant it was movie time! 🍿 No PTSD here. Just good memories.
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