The end of an era!! (No VHS for Herbie: Fully Loaded)

[Isidour]

that´s true

I have a "home theater in a box" from RCA for just 150 dlls last year, is not very powerfull but the area where I have the DVD is little, so is perfect for me

[Siren]

I got a surround sound with DVD player for $80. Granted, it was used, but only for a year and it works beautifully

[dvdjunkie]

Would like to comment on what Luke said, about the inexpensive DVD Home Theater in a box systems.

If you go to Sam's Club, Costco, Price Club, or any of those other membership stores around the country, you can find Home Theater in a Box for as little as $75 now and that includes a DVD player.

My very first one was a Zenith and that is when DVD home theater was in its infancy. I paid $125 plus I had to buy a DVD player.

If you shop your local Pawn shops you can find really good systems for less than a hundred dollars. One thing to remember, is you don't have to impress all your friends or any of us with your system. When you buy a system for yourself, it only needs to impress you. For a first system, you don't need all the bells and whistles, (my first system didn't even have a remote) and you can always add on to it.

As soon as my Home Theater is totally finished I plan on posting pictures of it for all to see, and you will see that I have so many varied types of equipment a lot of the 'techo-phobes' here will probably cringe and start throwing rocks. And I will tell you again, I don't buy things to impress anyone else, I buy them because they impress me. I think we spend to much time in our lives worrying about what someone else will think of what we have or do.

As far as the VHS thing goes, if you like it so much, then you should invest in a DVD recorder and dupe them to DVD and that way you will have that 'rustic quality' that you treasure so much. We might as well face it, like records when they went from 78 rpm to 45 and then to 33 1/3 we all said that it would never work, we have to face the music that VHS has outlived its stay with us. It is time to move on and upgrade to DVD and "Bambi", "Cinderella" and all the rest of the Disney animation features await you on a far superior mode to watch.

[musicradio77]

Since I bought the "Cinderella" DVD a few days ago, I keep the VHS release from 10 years ago, because it is a collectable. As you may see, most Disney VHS releases are in a number of stores like FYE, Best Buy and so on. I don't really buy VHS tapes anymore, I'll stick with the DVD's.

[quiden]

as for the end of videotapes -- Good Riddance!

[Disney Princess Ariellen]

as for the end of videotapes -- Good Riddance!

Pretty much. I'll be hanging onto mine for nostalgia purposes and such, and because there are still some movies I have on VHS and haven't upgraded yet. I have my own TV/VCR to play my VHS-es on, and I'm quite certain I'll never buy a movie on VHS again, so yeah...they can stop selling them. No loss to me.

[deathie mouse]

after disney starts selling thier movies on DVD will they start rereleasing thier VHS classics all over again


And from what I've heard from others- these new players will be backwards compatible? Like we could play our VHSs on them?


Supposedly pan and scan and 16:9 enhanced are both being released as they couldn't stop butting heads over it. So for me that means that I'm not buying ANYTHING until one beats out the other, AND becomes so popluar that the players aren't expensive anymore.

I'm just bitter over the whole thing and won't be upgrading anything for probably 10 years or more



I think they are planing on it if it takes off (But I hope it does not as I have said DVD will become like Laserdiscs and RCA CED discs were to become even better than VHS. )

but, who is realy to buy a new DVD player when the VHS have just finally taked the former position of the Beta?

I mean to change so fast of a entertaining system with a laser doesn`t mean that our VHS collection will be useless in few years unless the DVD is perfectly compatible with the normal VHS?


If DVD becomes the main format they probably will. Even though it seems like DVD is selling right now, I'm not counting VHS out yet. Anything can happen. Who knows VHSs could still be the main format for a long time, and DVD becomes something similar to Beta or even Laserdiscs.

Personally I'm sitting out on this right now and just enjoying my VHSs. When the battle of a new video format is over whatever is the main format is what I will buy.


oh i thought this was the after DVD arrives thread
suddenly DethiVanWinkle realizes it's 10 years later and all he's been watching is Pan Scan VHS tapes while others were watching DVDs!

[Lucylover1986]

When I was buying Cinderella last week I saw VHS copies for it! There were only like 5 on the shelf though comapred to like a hundered DVD copies. It surprised me though.

[anger is pointless]

but dont we still need videotapes so we can tape things we see on tv that we cant buy like certain special ect

as far as i know we cant record to tv/dvds like we can to video tapes on tvs just yet

[MinnieMe]

after disney starts selling thier movies on DVD will they start rereleasing thier VHS classics all over again


And from what I've heard from others- these new players will be backwards compatible? Like we could play our VHSs on them?


Supposedly pan and scan and 16:9 enhanced are both being released as they couldn't stop butting heads over it. So for me that means that I'm not buying ANYTHING until one beats out the other, AND becomes so popluar that the players aren't expensive anymore.

I'm just bitter over the whole thing and won't be upgrading anything for probably 10 years or more

I'm not going to insult you the way I want to since I'll probably get in trouble in this thread, but there is no reason to make fun of others who aren't as technologically educated or snobbish as you.

If I recall correctly, DVDs came out in the mid 90s (umm let's see... I think that might have been about 10 YEARS ago) and the players were in the thousands of dollars. I bought my first DVD player last year for around 30 bucks and have since replaced all VHS's with DVDs. Disney started releasing their movies on DVD in 1998, a whole 7 years ago, and finally released their last animated classic to DVD only a week or so ago. So, it could be assumed that the hop to the new format isn't going to take place in one day so there's no reason to run out and buy a blu ray player as soon as they come to the shelves (undoubtedly at a pretty high price).

It's taken 10 years for DVD to finally take over VHS (obviously, since this is the first to not be released on VHS). I would expect that it would take a new format just as long. But hey, if blue ray takes over as quickly and seamlessly as you obviously think it will, then I'll undoubtedly have to jump on the bandwagon as well.

This should probably be in the blu ray thread, but I thought I'd reply in the thread that the post I'm replying to was in.

[DarthPrime]

but dont we still need videotapes so we can tape things we see on tv that we cant buy like certain special ect

as far as i know we cant record to tv/dvds like we can to video tapes on tvs just yet

Actually you can record TV Shows to DVD. DVD Recoders have been available for awhile now. They have come down in price a lot and blank DVDs are pretty cheap.

[anger is pointless]

oh ok i didnt know that thanks for letting me know darthprime

[azul017]

I've lost all interest in DVD, in that I only prefer them because VHS is too hard to find.

For one, I don't give a rat's you-know-what about OAR-if it means the picture is going to be smaller, I don't like it. The Pirates of the Carribbean DVD is just plain ridiculous-I'm not legally blind, but I do have problems with my eyes which are not helped by having to sit so close.
I would rather have a nice "fool"-screen DVD that will fill my TV screen.

And I really don't care about bonus features any more-who has time to sit and watch 3 discs and 10+ hours of making-of stuff? And a documentary of one ship's journey to the film site of POTC is hardly ideal for repeated viewing...

And DVD's are not easy to take care of. You could practically beat up a VHS and it would still last. Try telling a little preschooler with sticky fingers to handle the disc with care...

So there's my rant. Wow, DVD's have booming sound and a more accurate ratio. But I personally do not find them worth the extra $5 any more.

You should really re-evaluate your statement. Most studios are still releasing separate full- and widescreen DVDs, and on some occasions, they release a bare-bones DVD and a SE at the same time - such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Polar Express. (That way, you won't have to whine about a smaller picture or extras.)

But saying that DVDs are not easy to take care of - please, it doesn't take much effort. All you need to do is that when you open the case, make sure you put your index finger in the center hub and your thumb on the edge of the disc while taking the disc out (just make sure you don't get any fingerprints on the underside of the disc). And DVD players need a cleaning like VHS players once in a while. And if your kids want to play a movie, you should put in the disc yourself if you don't want the disc to be scratched or dirty.

Seriously, you really need to get with the 21st century. All this griping about VHS being phased out is getting on my nerves.

[dvdjunkie]

Couldn't have said it better myself. Thank you for saying what I wanted to say. With over 2000 DVD's, and I still have the first one I ever purchased, they don't skip or have a mark on them and they get played more than most CDs in my collection.

My firm belief is anyone under the age of 10 should not be allowed to handle DVD's or the quipment without proper supervision. Although I do know some adults who don't do a very good job handling DVD's, so maybe that is not as smart thinking as it sounds. Oh well, just be careful and remember that a DVD player is not a toy.

[Disney Princess Ariellen]

When I was buying Cinderella last week I saw VHS copies for it! There were only like 5 on the shelf though comapred to like a hundered DVD copies. It surprised me though.

I've seen the VHS too...I was a little sad to see that the ONE bonus feature that the VHS has is..."A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" as performed by Disney Channel Circle of Stars. Not that a VHS really has much to play with in terms of having bonus features...but the 1996 Sleeping Beauty VHS release, while fullscreen ("Look! You can't see Phillip's head as they dance!"), had that nice little making-of feature at the end of it. Ah well...you can always stop the tape before it gets to that part. (That's what I do with Stitch Has a Glitch to be spared "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride")

[Just Myself]

Was I seeing things or while browing the Disney Movie Club did I see that they listed Herbie: Fully Loaded listed on VHS??? Can anyone confirm if this is true??

[CJ]

You're not seeing things, Just Myself. I see the Herbie: Fully Loaded vhs too. They have the dvd listed for $21.95 and the vhs for $16.95.

[Just Myself]

*squeals with joy*

Will they keep releasing exclusive VHS with Disney's big movies?

[Karushifa]

I havd DVD's that I bought the first day they were released to the public almost 20 years ago, and they don't skip or have any scratches.

I don't know how you bought them almost 20 years ago, since they have only been around for 8 years.

I think he meant music compact discs here as opposed to DVDs, which did debut in the mid-80s, but yeah. I did a double-take too. The first DVDs came out in the late 1990s.

[Karushifa]

Of course, the ultimate format I could envision for down the road would be putting movies and such on a solid-state device, similar to a USB thumb drive perhaps, that would erase the need for a player with moving parts, and thus, diminish the need to exercise extreme care when handling the movies. I mean, I try my best to keep my DVDs from getting scratched, but still get burned occasionally when I get a rental that someone wasn't as careful with.

Anyway, it will be interesting to see what the affect of the iTunes service selling videos and TV episodes will be on the home entertainment industry as a whole...maybe 10 or 20 years in the future, we won't even be talking about movie discs anymore.