Name: Anonymous 2010-10-17 4:32
The best VCRs were back in the days when they had the cassette slots on the left, huge vacuum fluorescent displays on the right, and flip down faces hiding zillions of buttons. Back then VCRs had personality: animated icons, transparent cassette doors, VU meters and all kinds of crazy shit. I've had an early 80's JVC with mic inputs for dubbing, a huge slide-out drawer for programming controls and a remote control made out of fucking metal. Later, I had a Mitsubishi that had a sweeeet fast play mode where it would play at 2x with crystal clear picture, making it awesome for porn. That same VCR also had a tuner that would make the scrambled porn channels on cable much more watchable. not perfect, but often pretty clear with negative color as the only side effect.
Then then all became gray boxes with the cassette slots in the middle and the same blue screen OSD, they all felt hollow and cheap and the rewind clutches all failed within a year.
Then DVD came and took it to the back yard and shot it, because those last days of VHS were a tragedy.
Then then all became gray boxes with the cassette slots in the middle and the same blue screen OSD, they all felt hollow and cheap and the rewind clutches all failed within a year.
Then DVD came and took it to the back yard and shot it, because those last days of VHS were a tragedy.