Why “VHS” is being discussed
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> To your earlier points about VHS and Streaming, both of those formats allow the user to pause and resume at a later time. DVD players don't provide this. ...that was one of th…
by thaumasiotes · Oct 8, 2026
VHS has annoyances too. No scene selection and no chapters meant you were almost always forced to FF through trailers and ads to get the show to start and you could overshoot an…
by autoexec · Oct 8, 2026
VHS to me was the best in usability, put the tape into the VCR and it turned the VCR on and start playing, also (this is true for European TVs connected with the SCART connector…
by alerighi · Oct 8, 2026
Where a menu might help is a list of the titles and chapters, although such things can also be printed on the box and selected directly by numeric entry (in which case the menu…
by zzo38computer · Oct 8, 2026
> this really means that it often plays trailers before the feature presentation This is totally normal, compared to VHS that often had trailers before the feature.
by tantalor · Oct 8, 2026
I foolishly purchased the Blu-Ray remaster of Battlestar Galactica and every damn episode begins with the same introduction from Ronald Moore talking about sound quality. To you…
by bevr1337 · Oct 8, 2026
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Video Home System (VHS) is a discontinued standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced on September 9, 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan. It was the dominant home video format throughout the tape media period of the 1980s and 1990s. Read more on Wikipedia