Do you still use a VCR?

[suzimar57]

yes - still use VCR daily, and DVD player to watch movies.

 

[C.Ann]

Yup - I have several - one is a VCR/DVD combo..

 

[crazelion]

I have 2 VCRs in the house. Both of them work. I trying to figure out hook up the VCR to the Computer so I can copy our old family videos on DVD.

 

[Tine731]

The British Museum of Natural History will be contacting you very shortly.

It is my understanding that we own them all! Every last one of them. On an up note...we get offers from businesses to purchase them but we have found we can rent/loan them out for a few hunderd dollars at a time so we have kept them.

 

[C.Ann]

I have 2 VCRs in the house. Both of them work. I trying to figure out hook up the VCR to the Computer so I can copy our old family videos on DVD.

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Don't know if you would be interested, but Bed, Bath, and Beyond had a machine in their flyer that transfers VHS tapes to DVD's.. I think it was $199, but a search on-line might net a better price..

 

[OceanAnnie]

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Don't know if you would be interested, but Bed, Bath, and Beyond had a machine in their flyer that transfers VHS tapes to DVD's.. I think it was $199, but a search on-line might net a better price..

Now that is neat! Thanks for passing that along!

 

[CathrynRose]

We use both.

My mom had a thing she did with the boys every single time she went out with them - she bought them a movie (and herself one too)

When she passed away, we had a zillion VHS movies, and the boys still watch them.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I stopped using it a couple of years ago. I bought a new TV and never bothered to hook my VCR up to it.

 

[HugsForEeyore]

We still have so many VHS tapes that we have to own a DVD/VHS combo. I didn't want to replace all the Disney tapes we have invested in, so I'll keep one around as long as it works (or they keep making VHS machines). Besides, DVDs haven't proven to be as indestructible as they were originally claimed to be. Then again, what is?

I am a librarian, and DVDs are so fragile that they simply don't last and get discarded quite quickly. Terrible technology - one scratch or smudge and the DVD will skip/break and we have to discard it. VCR tapes were 100 times more durable and would last for years. Some of our DVDs are broken within a couple of months. They simply don't circulate well. I can't wait for the next technology to come along so we can get rid of the fragile, expensive DVDs!! They are a money pit at the library.

On a personal note, I don't even own at DVD player on my TV yet! I have a VCR but it's not set up right now. I simply don't want to invest money in the whole DVD format since I see it as too fragile and almost designed to fail and be worthless very quickly.

I would love a movie technology like the flash drive - an electronic plugin device that is tough, incased, and durable for lots of use!

 

[Shelley Chiarats]

We still have quite a few VCRs. My stepfather loves to tape everything. He's just started putting stuff on DVDs. But still does alot on VCR tapes.

My grandfather likes VCRs. He lives alone and just got a Direct TV 4 room system because he likes to tape 4 channels of prime time stuff and watch them the next day and then he loans them to my stepfather. He is very computer savvy and spends most of the day surfing the internet but did not like the idea of the DVR. He's more comfortable with the VCR.

But the bad part is they are very difficult to find these days and he needs replacements.