What if top panel guy is secretly into VHS?
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Why not both?
Funny timing for me.
Just the other day I was at a hangout / arcade kind of place and saw some folks playing a PS3 driving game on a CRT and ngl it looked really damn good. I was across the room so the low resolution wasn't as apparent, but the quality of motion and contrast works at any distance.
Because they weren't made as stylish. If you had that exact same tv, but with wood-style paneling and the occasional velvet lining, it would be exactly as charming. Nice style has been phased out over time, being reserved for extremely expensive versions of appliances instead of being the standard.
And like, that's not to say there's literally no nice style in anything these days, but the average product tends to look... bland and cheap.
I don't really think that is true, those big wood TVs mostly aren't especially stylish, and neither are recorded players.
Although style is obviously subjective so I suppose our miles vary
They have nice styling today. You just can't afford it. To be clear, I can't either
The real obsolete media player.
The year is 1987, Christmas has just pasaed. This baby gets plugged in down in the finished basement. You and your older brother are sitting down on the carpet for the first time to check out this game, Super Mario Bros. Your only gaming experience so far has been the Atari 2600 and C64...
Now this is classy.
My grandma (who lived about a 12 hr. way) had one of these growing up and I always loved it. I was disappointed one year to find that it had been replaced since it quit working.
I'm also reminded of my mother who, no joke, brought one of these home from the landfill. It didn't work, but she gutted it and turned it into a bed for our little dog we had at the time. In hindsight, she's probably very lucky she didn't hurt or poison herself in the process.
I would love to get one of these to use in like a multi-purpose gaming setup. Like use this as the TV stand for the newer TV so I can play newer and older games in the same place.
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man i shouldve kept my box tv
There's a weird debate about the audio quality on VHS. Under the right conditions (right tape, right player, right source) it could be shockingly good -- perhaps even better than CD audio, despite not being remembered terribly fondly.
If you really want to wow the ladies, be the one guy with a music collection on VHS.
A VHS physically can’t be better than CD audio. The tape would have to move faster than the VHS equipment is designed for. The Hi-Fi VHS audio system can come close to CD’s frequency range, but there is still about 70 dB signal-to-noise (compared to CD’s 98 dB), and there is always loss when writing to and reading from analog tape. CD is not destructively read, so any signal up to 22KHz will be reproducible the exact same way every time.
Hi-Fi VHS audio is nearly as good as CD audio (the best consumer analog audio format, in fact), but it’s not as good. The simple fact is that an appropriately comparably sampled digital PCM recording will always beat an analog recording. You can read about the Nyquist-Shannon theorem for an actual proof, but basically CD audio is near-perfect for almost every human’s hearing range (most people can’t hear above 20KHz).
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Well this is going to be an interesting rabbit hole...
In I go!
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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.
The first time I experienced a DVD menu and chapter selection without having to rewind was just "Woah."
Was, "Be kind, rewind" really that much of a hassle?
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.
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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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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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.
I had never heard of CED and researching it led me to the knowledge that laserdisc was originally called Discovision.
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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It's gotto be real analogue vintage
Nope. Too vintage! Those are old enough to be haunted now. O_O
(Well, dang, so are N64 cartridges so...)
VHS next to DVD on a CRT is why lol.
Good sound fidelity is easier to reach on a vinyl record than good video fidelity on magnetic tape. Hence why even old TV shows that were shot on film look great on modern TVs, but their tape counterparts look dated.
That all being said, VHS has inherently more sentimental value due to its widespread use for personal and home video. Anyone still using vinyl is either a hobbyist, collector, or moronic audiophile who can't cope with stuff like opus or even flac/wav.
Okay fair but do you know anyone who actually used D-VHS lol.
Well maybe I do! Or maybe I don't! I'll never tell!
Sony digi beta was the industry standard for quite a while
VHS or dvd? That things main use is video games lol
I was always taught to be a bit scared about potential burn-in if playing games on our projection TV...never seemed to actually have it happen though. 🤔
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Not old enough.
I mean I think CRTs are going back into vogue as a nifty thing in many indie circles, including on YouTube where you see a lot of smaller creators embracing the aesthetic nowadays.
I'm so torn. On one hand, cool! These things are still seeing use and stay out of landfills!
On the other hand, always a bit frustrating, this cycle of things no longer produced suddenly coming back into style with enthusiasts, and everyone trying to hustle it to get rich quick on eBay.
I have 5 computer CRTs, but even I find that a bit much. Commodore 1702, 1080, 1902, 1950, and the green screen in a PET.
Meanwhile the hardcore smash community never left crt because latency.
Although Melee was the first big 'hardcore' Smash community I was aware of, there are quite a few of its contemporaries in the Counter Strike community that also stuck with CRTs...
Don’t fret. In 20 years’ time future hipsters will romanticize bleeding colors, dogshit resolution and subpar color space and call it “so much nicer to watch”.
Video games have been doing that for over a decade at this point
Older video games do look better on CRT. They don't look better than new games, though.
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Wanna come by my place later and check out my... Sony Trinitron?
Yes. I really do.
Don’t expect anything sexy or nothin’, I’m genuinely in this for the Trinitron. Do you have retro consoles or should I bring mine?
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