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Mephisto_Helix
26-03-2008, 10:05 PM
Spent almost the whole of this afternoon cleaning out my video collection (from back in the day) and came across some pretty darn old stuff that I taped from telly. Had that dinosaur sitcom (name escapes me ...) and err, don't mock me for this, Body Beat *cringe*. So what old stuff do you guys still have lurking on tape somewhere?
dablakmark8
26-03-2008, 10:14 PM
body beat ,anda 1 2 3...sheet man thats lame gaylike
Mephisto_Helix
26-03-2008, 10:19 PM
Hey bru, it was a gift from my gran back in the day and I hate throwing gifts away. Never even took it out it's cover, lol. "Thanks gran, it's just what i was after" .... not. :D
dablakmark8
26-03-2008, 10:21 PM
Hey bru, it was a gift from my gran back in the day and I hate throwing gifts away. Never even took it out it's cover, lol. "Thanks gran, it's just what i was after" .... not. :D
i eat my words...:(
Mephisto_Helix
26-03-2008, 10:27 PM
:D:D ... could never actually work out to that dude, I'd be too busy p***ing myself.
Omw is that dinosaur sitcome "Disney's Dinosaures" if so, are you keeping it? Cause I would really want it (would pay)
Mephisto_Helix
26-03-2008, 10:44 PM
Might be that ... with the hungry baby dino? Is only one episode though.
Milano
26-03-2008, 10:44 PM
Wedding of Lady Di and Fawlty Towers episodes.
Mephisto_Helix
26-03-2008, 10:46 PM
Fawlty Towers .... unfortunately mine got chowed. Must still get the dvd collection. Ke?
Might be that ... with the hungry baby dino? Is only one episode though.
It is that show, but one episode ain't worth it bro... Thanks bro
Milano
26-03-2008, 10:49 PM
These old tapes have so much mould they are guaranteed to screw up the heads on any vcr :D
Mephisto_Helix
26-03-2008, 10:50 PM
Sealed all mine airtight, lol. Can still play every single one no prob.
Milano
26-03-2008, 10:52 PM
Sealed all mine airtight, lol. Can still play every single one no prob.
Now you tell me? :D
Mephisto_Helix
26-03-2008, 10:56 PM
Yeah I was very careful with my vids ... had about 250 tapes at one stage, about half were used just for tv shows, lol.
Milano
26-03-2008, 11:02 PM
Fortunately, there is nothing I would miss in VHS quality :D
boramk
27-03-2008, 07:50 AM
Man, I had over 300vids in which I threw away :D
Boy, I sure miss those days when you could tape your fav TV shows...
Now we have to pay :( (PVR)
Moederloos
27-03-2008, 07:52 AM
A few Gummi Bears from the 80s. :D
Killove
27-03-2008, 07:55 AM
I have superwoman on beta. fear.
Did anyone ever watch it?
The dinosaur sitcom was aptly named, wait for it.... Dinosaurs!
"I'm the baby, gotta love me!" was the catchphrase.
Ou grote
27-03-2008, 08:13 AM
I've got all the Bikini opens, Penthouse South Africa contests, and lots of music videos.
Ivork
27-03-2008, 09:04 AM
I still got my Pop Shop tapes.
Also some Fast Forward with Alex Jay - a hoot to watch.
Dude111
23-07-2009, 07:57 AM
So what old stuff do you guys still have lurking on tape somewhere?I prefer VHS over anything digital!!
Sound is better and picture looks better (Not flat (Because it is not compressed))
Analog is and always will be THE PUREST form of sound,etc :)
The dinosaur sitcom was aptly named, wait for it.... Dinosaurs!
"I'm the baby, gotta love me!" was the catchphrase.
lol my fav line was "knock the mama" bwahahahaha the funniest part was that the baby used to say that to the dad !
foozball3000
23-07-2009, 08:45 AM
Omw is that dinosaur sitcome "Disney's Dinosaures" if so, are you keeping it? Cause I would really want it (would pay)
A few Gummi Bears from the 80s. :D
Please Please Please Please Please Please Please digitize it... then share it?
I have Trompie on my PC..
Amida
23-07-2009, 09:01 AM
I used to have the entire X-men and Spiderman Series. Tapes are still at my Parents should go check it out.
mOOey
23-07-2009, 11:29 AM
Man, I had over 300vids in which I threw away :D
Boy, I sure miss those days when you could tape your fav TV shows...
Now we have to pay :( (PVR)
TV card FTW:)
OhGats
23-07-2009, 04:48 PM
Snippets of Pop shop.... 1983 or 4. Also some Bop TV stuff. They once showed Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut" video and I recorded it, unfortunately on that particular day their sound was lousy. I also have a lot of material recorded from when the Oceanos sank.
Flanders
23-07-2009, 06:08 PM
I have Airport 1975 recorded off TV1 Saturday feature night from back in the day, some mighty mouse and Disney cartoons and a whole whack of other early 80's stuff.
Can't tell what's what though because the VCR was affirmatively shopped some years back. Hope it burned their shack down.
EchoZA
23-07-2009, 06:14 PM
3 hours of SABC 1 test signal froma Sunday morning :) Don't ask me why :)
Keeper
23-07-2009, 07:25 PM
Also some Fast Forward with Alex Jay - a hoot to watch.
Please record a bit and upload? My GF has asked me if I remember it and I don't - wanna see some and maybe even show her for lolz....plz?
I had 1 tape with all the SA Sports Illustrated and Cosmopolitan Lingerie Shows...
LancelotSA
23-07-2009, 07:26 PM
The dinosaur sitcom was aptly named, wait for it.... Dinosaurs!
"I'm the baby, gotta love me!" was the catchphrase.
Nah, the catch phrase was "Not the Mamma!"
lol my fav line was "knock the mama" bwahahahaha the funniest part was that the baby used to say that to the dad !
Um, pervert, you will find it was what I said above... as in you are not the mother ie you are the father! :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5oT1wqTEOw
waynegohl
23-07-2009, 07:27 PM
i just have movies on mine.
The_Librarian
23-07-2009, 07:44 PM
Which was better?
VHS or Betamax? :D
(attempts to derail thread) :D
waynegohl
23-07-2009, 07:51 PM
VHS
tco21
23-07-2009, 09:26 PM
I have old family vids that are somewhat sentimental and need to get them digitized. Any idea whereabout in PTA I can do that and a ballpark figure? Shot
BLIXEMPIE
26-07-2009, 11:21 PM
I've got tapes with The Simpsons and Futurama on. And a cartoon called Dog Tracer from 1996. Thats the oldest I've got. The rest of y'all are so old.
BLIXEMPIE
26-07-2009, 11:25 PM
@tco21. I can convert those tapes 4 u to digital. And I'm dirt cheap. I'll pm you.
PS. I also found tapes where my mother recorded... wait for it... Bold and the Beautiful!
Peder
26-07-2009, 11:27 PM
I once saw a tape that was older than me, it was the news aswell as something called streetwise(which i had to digitize for the lady, she was a presenter)
I also digitize Tapes :)
Dude111
27-07-2009, 05:27 PM
VHS or Betamax? :DI hadnt ever seen Betamax,what did it look like??
gregmcc
27-07-2009, 06:03 PM
A few Gummi Bears from the 80s. :D
I've got all the episodes on DVD! :D
ponder
27-07-2009, 06:30 PM
I hadnt ever seen Betamax,what did it look like??
Top: Betamax
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Betavhs2.jpg
Bottom: VHS
DJ...
27-07-2009, 06:38 PM
I prefer VHS over anything digital!!
Sound is better and picture looks better (Not flat (Because it is not compressed))
Analog is and always will be THE PUREST form of sound,etc :)
You've got to be kidding me? That's a whole heap of drivel...
lol my fav line was "knock the mama" bwahahahaha the funniest part was that the baby used to say that to the dad !
The catchphrase was "Not the mamma"...
OhGats
27-07-2009, 09:44 PM
If I remember correctly, Beta had better quality, while VHS had less drum wear because the tape was retracted when rewinding whereas in Beta it rewound while suspended around the drum. Beta was technically the better of the 2 but did not survive much to Sony's disgust.
I still remember the Phillips P2000 format that predated both systems. It was like 8 track tapes for video.
Oh, Dinosaurs is available on DVD. I even have a baby Sinclair plushie.
"not da Mama!"
Flanders
27-07-2009, 10:21 PM
You've got to be kidding me?
Was thinking the same thing.
You can really hear the stretched sound on VHS. When you put in an old VHS tape from the video shop, check out the coloured test pattern with the BOOOOOOOOOOOO soundtest. 99% of the time it's more like BEEEEEYOOOOOOOEEEOOOOO...
Same as the old audio tapes. The more you play the tape, the crappier the quality becomes.
Pitbull
28-07-2009, 07:53 AM
lol, I have no idea what is on the types from my childhood. Doubt I'll ever be able to watch them again unless someone has a working BETAMAX :o
supersunbird
28-07-2009, 08:30 AM
Somewhere in a box in the garage, A tape with a episode of bionic 6 where they find food (k-rations?) in a crashed plane and a tape with the last 4 episode of Robotech where they attack the invid hive (TV1 era)...
supersunbird
28-07-2009, 08:38 AM
The catchphrase was "Not the mamma"...
I taught my friends two-year old to say "not the mama"... :erm:
The other day there was a badguy on a TV show when we were all watching TV while he was playing with his truck and a bad guy came onto TV and the two year old said "not the mama!" :D
DJ...
28-07-2009, 08:52 AM
I taught my friends two-year old to say "not the mama"... :erm:
The other day there was a badguy on a TV show when we were all watching TV while he was playing with his truck and a bad guy came onto TV and the two year old said "not the mama!" :D
Awesome...:D
Next you have to teach him "Eat my shorts" and "Doh"...
Byakuya
04-08-2009, 01:07 AM
one of the oldest vids in our collection at home is Beauty and the Beast recorde off Mnet. Not the animated one, the real one. Good show... also have a few tapes of KTV from like 1992 still with the KTV Power edition "O eight hundred, one, two, two, three, four, five! Kay-Tee-Vee"
Candice Hillebrand...mmm...:p
Byakuya
04-08-2009, 01:10 AM
It is possible to hook up a VCR to one's PC and then play the video throug the PC and record it onto the PC via some TV card program, right? Then it should be easy to write the digital copy to DVD hey?
Peder
04-08-2009, 04:05 PM
It is possible to hook up a VCR to one's PC and then play the video throug the PC and record it onto the PC via some TV card program, right? Then it should be easy to write the digital copy to DVD hey?
yeah you can.
Voicy
04-08-2009, 04:37 PM
Which was better?
VHS or Betamax? :D
(attempts to derail thread) :D
VHS
I hadnt ever seen Betamax,what did it look like??
I'm sorry, what?
Top: Betamax
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Betavhs2.jpg
Bottom: VHS
What he said.
PeterCH
05-08-2009, 12:32 AM
Spent almost the whole of this afternoon cleaning out my video collection (from back in the day) and came across some pretty darn old stuff that I taped from telly. Had that dinosaur sitcom (name escapes me ...) and err, don't mock me for this, Body Beat *cringe*. So what old stuff do you guys still have lurking on tape somewhere?
Oldest tape has Vila Rides (movie with Yul Brynner about Pancho Vila) recorded on it from 1986.
AcidRaZor
05-08-2009, 12:41 AM
I taught my friends two-year old to say "not the mama"... :erm:
The other day there was a badguy on a TV show when we were all watching TV while he was playing with his truck and a bad guy came onto TV and the two year old said "not the mama!" :D
OMG I have so much to teach my kids in future ^^