How could people watch VHS ???

Don't pretend to be a retard, we are talking about screen size.

What you are seeing on your probably 1080 screen is upscaling to the 360 video which smears the pixels between one another as it attempts to stretch it out. It's like someone doing detailed art on an uninflated balloon and then inflating it where it's bigger but looks like shit.

That's weird, they seemed a lot bigger in my memories

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Bruh how small is your TV now where those are big to you.

Because its all we had in the 90s you fucking retard.
Even with all our modern technology, the 90s was still much more comfy.

>holocaust was real in my mind

People watched VHS until the mid-2000s

I remember during the early 2000's when hd tvs were first being conceived, I looked forward to higher resolution and clearer video images to jerk off to.

What I have realized is that back then, the 4:3 screen allowed a great view of scenes where the female form was artfully displayed. So even with lower resolution, you could still see a lot.

With that said, I think of the old days of VHS as a form of edging, where you couldn't easily find the most optimum jerk off material quickly. Today however, EVERYTHING is at your finger tips and most are in 720p or 1080p, with a lot of material in 4k now.

I look back fondly at my catalog of recorded, jerk off material VHS tapes. But while before we lived as princes, today we live like kings.

i hooked up my ps2 to a crt a couple weeks ago to watch some dvds. that shit was jarring at first, but you get used to all the visual fuzz and shit after a while. i haven't watched a vhs in a long fucking time, and doubt i ever will again.

Went to the carabeeans in the late 2000s once and the kid's house I went to still watched Pokémon (season one) on VHS tapes

I miss the convenience of recording on VHS lads.

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i was a filthy peasant who's parents didn't get cable when i was growing up, so i'd tape wwf shit, the late night local shows that played music videos, snl sometimes, simpsons. it was the dark ages.

>mispress button
>vcr records half hour of static

It sucks you can't keep the movies you record on your digibox. It automatically gets binned after two months or so.

ppl in the future will prob look back at now and be like wtf is this lq 4k shit

I never bought into DVRs for that reason, though if you could save them you'd probably run out of space very quickly.

It is a matter of habit. If you get used to it you tolerate it.

The same way 8/16 bit games just look better on CRT tv's than lcd/led ones.

In middle 2000s when P2P software was on its way to becoming mainstream in my country, my well funded local library had already had a big DVD collection.

Being pretentious I forced myself to look at the VHS catalogue to see the titles that we didn't (and probably never will) have DVD version and only had VHS version

I failed. I never actually watched any of it.

the warmth of a vhs picture was comfy though

gone with wind (1939) has better quality than your pathetic zoomer tech

VHS has better audio.

I don't know. I still use my hard drive recorder and it was recording at LQ. When I watch YouTube I selected 360P to avoid lagging. My iphone got a foggy screen surface and I also tune it down. And I don't always look at screen I had to go to adjust the computer or get foods or snacks.
In short I am quite used to low quality viewing.

The joy of sifting through dusty movie covers and finding a gem that you wanted to rent

last time I used one was in 2008

Three-strip Technicolor has amazingly high quality, unmatched until at least the 1960s

240p looks good on a CRT, lil zoom.

Easy.
The annoying part was the tracking. Everything else was fine for the most part. Unless you rented a movie that had been chewed up before then a scene could be unwatchable even if you hit the tracking.

That and tapes wearing out from overuse.

That whole era, I miss it when I think about it.
All these conveniences.. I don't think it was worth it. Growing up during that time, those things were an event. Going to the video store and picking stuff out with your friends..
Obscure titles with cool covers.
Making fun of VHS, nah there was a whole culture behind that tech, one that brought people together, not in cyberspace.

Now there's "binge watching" what a shit replacement for all that used to be.

Never had that happen to me. They always said they wore out but I never noticed it.

>240p
Never used this. SD is 576i.

We didn't have a choice, muskrat

are you stupid

It was a timeline on hard mode and you will never know about it bc you're a damn zoomer
>1989
>Tv ads with Ghostbusters trailer
>Finally Ghostbusters for the first time on tv
>A week before the D-Day, buy an empty high quality (to ensure near infinite re-watches) vhs for the occasion
>Finally the day has come
>Set vhs recorder
>The movie start
>Every 10 minutes of movie there's a 10 minutes tv commercial break in
>You carefully stops recording when tv ads start to obtain a vhs with movie only
>Huge success
>Rewatch the kino the day after without all the tv ads in
The fucking effort in doing this. What do you do to watch a kino instead? Download a fucking torrent in 5 mins?
You will never know about it, keep playing on very easy you pathetic zoomer.

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Because it was a novelty to be able to watch films at your own home whenever you wanted.

In 40 years people are going to look at what we have for entertainment right now and wonder how we could stand it. That's just how it is. Like when the Nintendo 64/Playstation came out and people were shitting themselves over 3D graphics but now people go back and mock it for being blocky and janky. That's just how it goes.

Cringe and tryhard. You could just rewind the recording to when the commercial started and begin recording again.

It was definitely socially healthier despite being less convenient. Now it's boring.

Interesting fact: "a history of violence" was the last Hollywood movie to be released on VHS in the year 2006, well after dvd technology was considered widely available.

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No, this is very pleb tier, user. You want your VHS to be perfect, with the movie only in it. It was quite an effort to try to perfectly recording a movie cutting all the ads from it, especially for "first time on tv" movies. But what do you know? Download the torrent, zoomer.

>A History of Violence
Underrated kino.

We had little other choice, growing up in the 90s. The worst was the desecration of pan-and-scanning movies.

>things were inconvenient in my time there for better

of course it was grand pa, now go back to eatig bigmix cereal and punching the muslim nurse with your sockem boppers.

I was a retarded kid, happy with what I had because I didn't know any better.

>punching
You mean fucking, right?
>muslim
More like east European

>turn on an old monitor/tv
>it starts to magnetize
>immediately get a fucking shock everytime your finger touch it
>develop a pavlovian reflex everytime my hand comes near a screen

Fuck old monitors.

Literally everyone did it that way except your autistic ass lol.

press play

OLD THING GOOD
NEW THING BAD
ORANGE MAN BAD

And this happened during the last 2 years? You walking cum stain.
Because not knowing any better implies you had other choices but didn't take them.

>Every 10 minutes of movie there's a 10 minutes tv commercial break in
lol imagine being american

Watch some 3DS ads.
You'll see big ugly pixels because they're upscaled for monitors/tv screens, they actually look decent on minuscule 3DS screens.

>not recording the commercials for maximum nostalgia kino