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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:45:41 PM EST
I never thought about it at the time, but were these things just bullshit products sold to a credulous public that couldn't yet look things up on the internet, and realize they were pointless? |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:46:52 PM EST
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Yes.
Saved wear and tear on your VCR, and was highly convenient if you rented a lot of tapes. |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:47:56 PM EST
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Yes. Saved wear and tear on your VCR, and was highly convenient if you rented a lot of tapes. And they were faster |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:47:58 PM EST
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You had to return the tapes rewound and it was a known fact that rewinding in the VCR was bad ju ju.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:47:59 PM EST
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Our rewinder was faster than the VCR. Also it saved wear and tear on the CAR. Lastly there was a surcharge if you didn't rewind the tape rental.
"Be kind, please rewind." |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:48:25 PM EST
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Yes. Saved wear and tear on your VCR, and was highly convenient if you rented a lot of tapes. |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:48:40 PM EST
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This. And they were faster Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yes. Saved wear and tear on your VCR, and was highly convenient if you rented a lot of tapes. And they were faster |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:49:02 PM EST
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Yes. Saved wear and tear on your VCR, and was highly convenient if you rented a lot of tapes. |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:50:03 PM EST
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Not BS.
Risk jaming the tape in your VCR or putting undue wear and tear on your VCR? Nope. |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:51:07 PM EST
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Somewhere, somehow, someone was able to sell a DVD rewinder.
VHS tapes are a technology I'm damn pleased to see the end of. |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:51:54 PM EST
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In the early days VCRs were a mint to get repaired. My parents had a video store and we had a guy downtown that we took customers machines to. The dedicated rewinder was worth it.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:52:11 PM EST
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Wow- almost forgot about those-- now I am feeling old.
Remember when a sales manager for a company I represented bought one of the first VCR's--thought he was rich.  Attached File |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:52:35 PM EST
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This is the oldest school go be poor somewhere else thread I’ve ever seen.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:52:38 PM EST
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I had one that rewound too quickly, tearing a hole in the space/time continuum.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:53:30 PM EST
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I remember a few VCRs that had a very slow rewind.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:54:03 PM EST
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:54:35 PM EST
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If only there was a way to figure out what the point of a VHS tape reminder was...
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:55:03 PM EST
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You wouldn't want a porno to get jammed in the vcr and have to explain it to the old lady.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:56:18 PM EST
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Video stores usually had them behind the counter, to deal with the unkind.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:56:55 PM EST
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This. And they were faster Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yes. Saved wear and tear on your VCR, and was highly convenient if you rented a lot of tapes. And they were faster |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:57:08 PM EST
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Yes they were useful, especially in the days of time lapse VCRS for security cameras before we had DVRs. Some stores had lots of VCRS in use so it was easier to pop a new tape in to start recording and rewind the old tape separately.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:57:56 PM EST
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This is the oldest school go be poor somewhere else thread I’ve ever seen. 
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:58:00 PM EST
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Now this on the other hand ...
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:58:59 PM EST
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What about the "head cleaner" tapes?
What about "dual heads"? WTF was a VCR head anyway? God I hated VCRs. |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:59:01 PM EST
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OP must be thinking of the DVD rewinder.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 7:59:17 PM EST
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This. And they were faster Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yes. Saved wear and tear on your VCR, and was highly convenient if you rented a lot of tapes. And they were faster |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:00:41 PM EST
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I worked at a video store and loved handing out fines to you lazy motherfuckers that weren't kind!!
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:03:32 PM EST
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:03:56 PM EST
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Oh sure, they were way faster, and it when you would binge movies or tv shows back in the day, you could rewind one while you started the next.
It sounds almost like a turn-of-the-19th-century old timer talking about his gramophone... |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:04:04 PM EST
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So you could put in a new movie while you rewind the one you just watched.
Fucking binge that shit. Watch Willow. Eject Willow. Put Willow in rewinder. Insert Army of Darkness. Watch Army of Darkness. Eject Army of Darkness. Put Army of Darkness in rewinder. Insert Predator. Watch Predator. Eject Predator. Put Predator in rewinder. Insert Princess Bride. Watch Princess Bride. Eject Princess Bride. Put Princess Bride in rewinder. Insert Spaceballs. Watch Spaceballs. |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:04:09 PM EST
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VCR rewind = less fapping time.
Duh |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:07:08 PM EST
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/VHS_tape_rewinder.jpg/1200px-VHS_tape_rewinder.jpg I never thought about it at the time, but were these things just bullshit products sold to a credulous public that couldn't yet look things up on the internet, and realize they were pointless? LOL!! How old are you again? 
Wait!! Am I in a fucking troll thread? Damn-it! I am aren't I??? 
In the case this isn't a troll thread and OP is a "special needs adult". Less wear and tear on you VHS (drive motor, belts, heads), faster and the video store charged you a FEE if you brought back tapes unrewound. |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:10:57 PM EST
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This. And they were faster Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Yes. Saved wear and tear on your VCR, and was highly convenient if you rented a lot of tapes. And they were faster |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:13:28 PM EST
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The strongest benefit to DVD is the fact that when you watch the topless/boobie scenes in Caddyshack, youre dad won't know you've been wearing that spot thin in the movie because you forgot to rewind it
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:16:30 PM EST
[#34]
 Hank Williams Jr - Video Blues |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:19:39 PM EST
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Yes. Saved wear and tear on your VCR, and was highly convenient if you rented a lot of tapes. We had two rewinders |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:20:00 PM EST
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We had a few of them
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:22:20 PM EST
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I think the wear and tear scenario was bullshit, but the rewindsr was about 5 times faster.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:23:34 PM EST
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At the start of the home movie craze in the early 80’s, vcr’s were pretty expensive. These saved the vcr’s.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:24:26 PM EST
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Oh sure, they were way faster, and it when you would binge movies or tv shows back in the day, you could rewind one while you started the next. It sounds almost like a turn-of-the-19th-century old timer talking about his gramophone... |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:25:33 PM EST
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I think the wear and tear scenario was bullshit, but the rewindsr was about 5 times faster.
But seriously, they were more mechanical than electronic. At the time, the common wisdom was, the less mileage on the clock, the better. 
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:25:45 PM EST
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My grandparents had one and it was considerably faster than a VCR
VCRs took a little while to rewind a movie length VHS tape |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:26:01 PM EST
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Video on the internet was a rare thing in those days. VCR rewinder was mandatory!
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:26:29 PM EST
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What about the "head cleaner" tapes? What about "dual heads"? WTF was a VCR head anyway? God I hated VCRs. VCR heads were the reading/writing/erase sensors for the magnetic tape media. Dual head allowed for a syncing of the video and audio playback. 4 Head allowed for higher quality video and audio to be recorded at the expense of less recording time for the same amount of media. |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:28:20 PM EST
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This is the oldest school go be poor somewhere else thread I’ve ever seen.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:30:44 PM EST
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Video on the internet was a rare thing in those days. VCR rewinder was mandatory! |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:34:06 PM EST
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Man, rewinding a tape in the VCR took FOREVER!
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:37:23 PM EST
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I still have an operational VCR and a lot of movies. We use it occasionally to watch the original Star Wars trilogy.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:40:07 PM EST
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We had one that was so powerful that it would break the tape when it bottomed out after rewinding. Had to pull quite a few apart and tape it back before returning the video.
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:40:08 PM EST
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"Hey look, those dummies in old movies using pay phones. Why didn't they just order an Iphone X off Amazon? Boy old people were stupid." <--- OP probably LOL!! How old are you again?
Wait!! Am I in a fucking troll thread? Damn-it! I am aren't I???
In the case this isn't a troll thread and OP is a "special needs adult". Less wear and tear on you VHS (drive motor, belts, heads), faster and the video store charged you a FEE if you brought back tapes unrewound. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/VHS_tape_rewinder.jpg/1200px-VHS_tape_rewinder.jpg I never thought about it at the time, but were these things just bullshit products sold to a credulous public that couldn't yet look things up on the internet, and realize they were pointless? LOL!! How old are you again?
Wait!! Am I in a fucking troll thread? Damn-it! I am aren't I???
In the case this isn't a troll thread and OP is a "special needs adult". Less wear and tear on you VHS (drive motor, belts, heads), faster and the video store charged you a FEE if you brought back tapes unrewound. The bigger problem today is people that can't figure out anything without the internet. |
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Posted: 6/9/2018 8:42:58 PM EST
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VHS tapes are a technology I'm damn pleased to see the end of. They were cool in the '80s because they were the only way to watch movies at home...but by the '90s they were getting very tiresome. |
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