Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[hector13]

There are quite a few options actually.

But they can all be arbitrarily taken from you, too.

[Yoink]

The Man will never find my buried, 30-terabyte stash of classic sitcoms and Hanna Barbera cartoons.




...Oh right, almost forgot what I came in here to mention.
South Dakota's new anti-drug campaign.

[King Zultan]

All this talk of Zim  reminds me that I really should watch the movie.

Also if you want a format no one will take from you, you got to get Betamax because nobodies got a machine that'll play those things.

Or you could use VHS sense nobody cares about those anymore.

[wierd]

Betamax?  Phhht. Too mainstream.

Go for selectavisionor digital vhs.

[Imic]

The real solution is to record them while they’re on and burn them to a dvd. One day, all internet services will go the way of businesses, but there’ll always be a business of smuggling those good old dvds.

[Yoink]

Or you could use VHS sense nobody cares about those anymore.

Bruh, what?!
My friends and I have a pretty awesome, ever-growing VHS collection between us. Well, most of it's theirs - but I keep my eyes peeled whenever I'm in an op-shop or such.

[King Zultan]

selectavision

I keep seeing the discs for those around, but I've never seen the thing that plays them, I've never bothered getting them because I don't think they'd work in my Laserdisc player.

Or you could use VHS sense nobody cares about those anymore.

Bruh, what?!
My friends and I have a pretty awesome, ever-growing VHS collection between us. Well, most of it's theirs - but I keep my eyes peeled whenever I'm in an op-shop or such.

I meant that in the way that people wouldn't steal them because they aren't worth much money, I mean I still have my VCR and a bunch of tapes and I couldn't use my crappy old TV without it.

[Reelya]

selectavision

I keep seeing the discs for those around, but I've never seen the thing that plays them, I've never bothered getting them because I don't think they'd work in my Laserdisc player.

Man, the story behind Selectavision is even more amazing than just that.

They're not optical discs. They're actually vinyl records on which RCA somehow worked out how to encode color video, and played with a stylus. The point was that stamping them like they did with records would be cheaper and faster than copying tapes. The limiting factor in the price of VHS tapes was the time needed to copy the movie (hence why you can get movies on DVD for $2, which is much cheaper than the cheapest VHS movie ever was - DVDs are stamped not recorded).

Selectavision just turned out to take WAY longer to develop than expected. RCA started work on it 1964 but didn't have them on the market until 1981. And by then "sunk cost fallacy" thinking kicked in and they launched it: RCA closed down a year or two after Selectavision was cancelled. Selectavision was pretty awesome, however it missed the window of opportunity. It would have been a killer product if launched 5 years earlier.

[wierd]

Even crazier than Reelya points out!

The stylus does not touch the disk!!  It's a capacitative recording medium; The stylus picks up subtle electrostatic potentials from the differing capacitances of the groove markings!


and for about 100$ (including shipping), you can have a player for those discs if you really want them!
https://www.ebay.com/itm/RCA-SelectaVision-Video-Disc-CED-Player-SGT-075-Tested/303365740998?hash=item46a201d9c6:g:~9MAAOSwJfFd0APQ

(Though I dont know why you would...)

Digital VHS at least lets you record the shows, and does quasi-HD. 

[King Zultan]

I never knew that, that makes them sound way cooler to bad I've never seen one for sale anywhere so it'll be a long time before I get a hold of one.

[Iduno]

The Man will never find my buried, 30-terabyte stash of classic sitcoms and Hanna Barbera cartoons.

*Snaps on gloves.*

...Oh right, almost forgot what I came in here to mention.
South Dakota's new anti-drug campaign.

You know how 13-year-olds have a lot of stress and also money to spend to relieve that stress? 4.8% of South Dakota 9th graders admit to having used meth. I don't know why that's the stat they gave, other than adults won't admit to shit, but there it is. Having been to South Dakota, I would be surprised if less than 10% of adults are addicted. It's a combination of being a poor state, and absolutely boring. It's worst on the reservations (not-quite prisons for natives), because last I knew the 3 poorest counties in the country where all reservations in South Dakota, which is intentional.

Edit: but back to the funny parts - they are on meth, most of them.

[Naturegirl1999]

https://youtu.be/x1WQL3o5ua8

[Iduno]

Oh, can you tell us what the person was being ann idiot about?

Not really. It's a long thread, and doesn't add anything to the story.

[hector13]

The Man will never find my buried, 30-terabyte stash of classic sitcoms and Hanna Barbera cartoons.

*Snaps on gloves.*

...Oh right, almost forgot what I came in here to mention.
South Dakota's new anti-drug campaign.

You know how 13-year-olds have a lot of stress and also money to spend to relieve that stress? 4.8% of South Dakota 9th graders admit to having used meth. I don't know why that's the stat they gave, other than adults won't admit to shit, but there it is. Having been to South Dakota, I would be surprised if less than 10% of adults are addicted. It's a combination of being a poor state, and absolutely boring. It's worst on the reservations (not-quite prisons for natives), because last I knew the 3 poorest counties in the country where all reservations in South Dakota, which is intentional.

Edit: but back to the funny parts - they are on meth, most of them.

Iduno, man, if I was 13 and was asked to admit something I’d probably have said I’ve used meth, too, or slept with everyone, or anything edgy like that.

Well, probably not. I was a good little boy.

[Iduno]

Iduno, man, if I was 13 and was asked to admit something I’d probably have said I’ve used meth, too, or slept with everyone, or anything edgy like that.

Well, probably not. I was a good little boy.

I think we were afraid they'd know who said yes, and you'd get in trouble.


Also, I just remember the methhead who got arrested/rescued (arescued?) while he was naked in ~25 F river water. It was partially frozen over, but moving water doesn't freeze so well. I've had heat stroke while drunk, and decided to sleep on a sidewalk because it felt cold, but I can't imagine why you'd get bare-assed naked and get in partially-frozen water. He was trying not to get arrested, but the river isn't going to treat you much better. I imagine Benny Hill playing during the incident.