Wasn't quite sure where to put this one, but thought the teccie section would be most appreciative............

Taken today in our local post office:

.......sitting, alone, on a shelf, possibly for a few years yet to come, a relic of a bygone era

We've still got a VCR but only use it occasionally. And never for recording as it doesn't have a digital tuner. And we have sky+.

I saw someone using a discman the other day.

Only ditched my VCR this year when our Area went digital , glad I waited as a mate works at pace so got the latest freeview plus box for much cheaper, so good to record and start watching before it has finished

We have an Irish Recorder, It records all the programs you don't want to watch and then puts them on when your out :yes:

We still have 3 Hitachi VCRs in our house, although I'm not sure if 2 of them works. I have one in my room which does, I have a large draw full of tapes. It's probably a few months since I've played anything on it and probably a few years since recorded anything.

We don't have a PVR, but rely on virgin catch-up and player type websites.

I still have plenty of audio cassettes, but nothing in my room to play them.

Edited 13 October, 201213 yr by Jim H

I've stil got a VCR. It sits there for nostalgic reasons. It was my late dad's( choice of taking it ,or giving it to some charity ,to possibly end up on tip,with stacke of tapes0 . It is also connected to my free sat box, and back to my TV,so I have two ways of looking at stuff. Two recordings on freeview - a lot of channels get locked out. The progam presenters have woken up to the choices we have. Once it was a ratings battle on two channels, now it's three. (IF we ever get any more chouces).

Another Edit . Spotted in the Post Office "We' offer a Telephone Service". Years ago GPO offered a Mail service ( with early morning deliveries) and a Telephone service where the( "subscriber "= customer ,who was shafted) got service if,and when GPO could be bothered to attend.

Edited 13 October, 201213 yr by VWD

I've still got a couple of VCRs hooked up and use them every now and then as. Have a lot of films etc on VHS (and I'm slightly ashamed to admit I've got loads of Star Trek vids which I tried selling however no one wanted them.) I also have 6 brand new still in plastic blank VHS tapes I bought from pound stretcher about 4 years ago.

I transferred all my VHS tapes onto blank DVD discs.

Used VHS player coupled to DVD Recorder to achieve transfer.

Copyright blocks on some ie: Star Trek, but not all, (hardware can by-pass) tapes sometimes state a copyright block, and I found none was present.

I did not sell any I copied, and in the end bought the whole (used) set of Star Trek DVD's from Amazon, at a great price, and finally gave copied discs away to a freecycle group.

I gave the Star Trek VHS tapes to my local Freecycle Group.

As used DVD's are now ssoooo cheap now, ie: boot-sales charge a £1.00 a disc, it's just not worth me to copy any.

New DVD's pre-order are usually about £8/ £9.00 new and within a couple of months E-Bay or Amazon ('zoverstocks) seller are dirt cheap.

They still have a large stack of tapes for sale at my local discount warehouse; Malvern is a very conservative place, they only Ok'ed the wheel last year, having argued for decades over what colours it would be allowed in.

can still get blank Videos in Poundland. A pound each, if memory serves :think:

Bought a new sealed in cellophane VHS 3 hour tape from a boot-sale marked 'Woolworth' cost ...20p. (bargain)

My uncle got his VHS recorder coupled-up to his 'SKY' for any recordings, and I put them over onto a DVD blank disc, any he wishes to keep.

Whilst archiving VHS tapes onto DVD may seem like a good idea, they degrade faster than the VHS tapes used as source material.

I already have a number of DVD-R discs created in a panasonic DVD recorder that cannot be ready by any drive I have tried. A disc analysis using PC software reveals that the chemical structure has failed resulting in a total loss of the recordings. The DVD-R's were recorded about 5 years ago, so as long as you don't keep precious memories like wedding video etc. on them then I guess its fine. If you keep wedding videos and the like and only have them on DVDR media, then copy the disc to a fresh one every year or so to avoid losing it forever.

The same is true of computer data, I recently had the task of trying to recover 1.2GB of data across a number of disks which had become almost unreadable. These discs were recorded in 2007 on branded media, and were working fine just 8 months ago.