Was VHS inherently more soulful for movies?
>>221808800no
yes new movies look too "clean"
>>221808800Laserdisc is the way to go
>>221808800It's a fucking garbage medium, but it could occasionally make shitty looking movies a bit more palatable.
OP inherently more retarded and gay than everyone else in the human race.
I remember getting Return of The Living Dead on Blu-ray and being a little disappointed because you could clearly tell the background zombies were extras just wearing face masks
no. VHS looked like shit
Beta was. Porn industry shut it down cause VHS was cheaper to make.
>>221808884Based Why did it get discontinued so early? We laser chads missed out on releases 1999/2000 onwards. VHS isn't even a good format for longevity, they'll degrade on each play. Laserdiscs might rot but that's mostly a manufacturing flaw
>>221808800https://youtu.be/xbZMqS-fW-8
>>221808800having the VCR randomly choose a tape to destroy was not soulful
he was right
>>221808800No.Rewinding was a pain in the ass, VHS tape looked like shit and got worse the more times you watched it.
>>221808800Yep yep yep
>>221810184>CD distortionWhat now?
>>221810184makes sense desu
>>221808800No. The only people who think so didn't grow up watching cropped, blurry as shit tapes that wore out if you watched them too many times. Laserdisc and DVD weren't even HD and they were a massive improvement. It's easy to treat VHS as something special when you can always go back to your 4K MKV files when you actually want to watch something.
>>221810017They were expensive and inconvenient. You'd have to flip them halfway through the movie if you didn't have an even-more-expensive double-sided player. Then DVD came out and put the final nail in the coffin.
>>221808800Yes.t. VHS collector
>>221810017Laserdiscs being enormous and expensive didn't make them commercially viable. It was clearly the superior product, though.VHS was the cheapest option and consumers couldn't be bothered to care about video quality or aspect ratios so they just bought whatever was the lowest price.
>>221810089Should've used a rewinder. Also, wipe your hands off when you switch tapes.
You know what was actually soulful? Those years when everyone was a pirate, before Netflix and Spotify showed up. VHS was fun when you had a library or video rental card.
>>221810017A lot of it actually had to do with the release, around the same time that laserdiscs came out so did something called CED, Capacitance Electronic Disc. Both were marked as “videodiscs” which led to a lot of customer confusion, especially because CEDs were cheaper and worse quality than VHS. They tried rebranding laser but general public had kind of given up by that point and m stuck to the VHS solution.
>>221808800
>>221810702The later models had something like super rewind, would rewind the tape in like 10 seconds. Not bad at all.
>>221810702>got worse the more times you watchUnless it was a children's show/movie you play on loop for kids, how often, realistically, did you rewatch a movie? Maybe once a year? In 10 years the next big thing was in and you had to replace it anyway. Don't why people lambaste VHS as if you weren't going to replace it with DVD, then Blu-Ray, then 4k, then purple ray, then streaming, ad nauseum.
>>221810184I like this explanationBut you don't have to get too esotheric with ithaving SOME amount of distortion/noise in the picture makes it inherently more interesting to look at
Renting films from the store was fun.I don’t think anyone thought much about the vhs tape itself. Then dvds came and everyone moved on with a second thought.
>>221813788This guy is right. While technology and automation can indeed improve a thing by making that thing more effective or efficient, the old way of doing/experiencing it was always more fun. What's the point of any activity in life if it's not fun? If everything must always be optimized then sooner or later you find yourself optimized out of a reason to be kept alive.
>>221813788>I don’t think anyone thought much about the vhs tape itselfIt depends on the genre. Horror, which I know upsets /tv/, is way better on VHS because it gives it an almost realistic quality. It doesn't really work for anything else though I do agree.
>>221814569This is kind of like 3d fps PC games. Since Quake, they kept making them darker and darker to aid in fps. It looked more realistic by hiding most detail in darkness.
>I MUST EXPERIENCE PURE PIXELS!Everything is so boring to watch nowadays, boring flat screens with no depth, no real glass or projection, just a flat pixel with no depth. We don’t even have glossy screens anymore. Honestly I can’t even stand looking at screens anymore. This kind of fatigue doesn’t exist when you’re watching VHS tapes on a small CRT. Watching digital media on a 50” 4k television is the hallmark of the ultimate NPC.
>>221815171>We don’t even have glossy screens anymoreAren't all Macs and Apple monitors glossy?
>>221815237Gorilla Glass?
>>221808800No, but better more soulful movies came out during VHS era when America was muchWWhiter and happier (along with a bunch of VHS slop)
>>221816424>(along with a bunch of VHS slop)Based and Robot Jox pilled.
>>221808800No, VHS would completely rape aspect ratios.
>>221810017Did you see the size of Laserdiscs? DVD was inevitably going to push it out of the market. CDs had already taking vinyl records by storm once they became affordable.
>>221813788Pretty much. Though not everything had a DVD release at the time, especially a lot of horror movies or really old movies. Some of those took years before getting releases (if at all).
