Why did VHS never take off as a Video game storage medium like the CD & Cartridge did? A tape could theoretically hold just as much data as a DVD.
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Why did VHS never take off as a Video game storage medium like the CD & Cartridge did...
Jace Lewis
Logan Myers
Because seek time. Same reason cassettes went out.
Christian Ward
because of the way the media is read you retard, carts and cds never need to be rewound
Blake Russell
Tapes wear out and then you run the risk of the film spaghetti-ing out of it.
Adam Foster
>Didn't own a CD rewinder
Daniel Davis
lol my apologise i was too aggressive
Carson Perez
CDs are arguably more volatile since the bottoms are more likely to be scratched. That's why Sony's UMD format was a thing.
Daniel Fisher
>magnetic tape
>less volatile
Levi Cook
VHS wasn't that great; the only advantage they have over disks is that rewinding is more fluid and more precise. I remember being a little kid and having to rewind a tape so I could watch a movie and watching the movie in reverse at four times the speed. My parents always told me it would rewind faster if you turned the TV off, not sure if that was true though.
Nathaniel Foster
>Doesn't have tapes that still play fine
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Nicholas Bennett
be grateful
Evan Smith
>CDs are arguably more volatile
they are objectively not
Austin Turner
Some VCRs had a super fast rewind that stopped video from playing back. You'd normally sit and watch a blue screen until it was done.
Joseph Barnes
Is CD disc rot not a thing where you come from?
Caleb Jackson
because it fucking sucked
Jason Brooks
>play fine
That's probably the only advantage, they can play with corrupted data. Can't do that with digital. Also, I think owning VHS tapes in this age is in line with hoarding.
Blake Edwards
VHS was the youtube of the 80s & 90s. There's literally thousands of tapes you can't find online because nobody's digitized them.
Hudson Rivera
I have fond memories of VHS but I don't miss it.
Nicholas Sanders
is tape degradation and tape players pulling out the tape out into a giant tangled mess a thing that doesn't happen in your made up idea of vhs?
Bentley Ramirez
There's also the physical connection problem, the heads get dirty.
Dylan Hill
I never owned a shit VCR so no, my tapes never got eaten. That's only an issue poor people without S-VHS decks deal with.
Cameron Bailey
Tape drives were common at one point. They were objectively pieces of shit, so slow as to be almost unusable, and got dumped the second something better was available.
Jaxson Lopez
>CD disc
>Compact Disc disc
Adam Brooks
I'm glad we got rid of vhs
If I still had my vhs of fern gully it would probably be sealed shut with cum
Aaron Sanchez
i do not that feel because im not a fucking zoomer. also all nostalgia aside im not entirely upset they're gone. the quality sucked, both audio and video. younger siblings would constantly destroy tapes. you either needed to also have a vhs rewinder or wait 10 fucking years to watch you media because someone forgot to rewind it the last time it was used. If you needed to skip ahead to a specific point it took forever. they also take up a metric fuckton of space when trying to store, both the cassettes and the players themselves. DVD was a godsend. I honestly can't wait for all movies to just go straight digital or be sold on SD cards. Its much easier to manage a home server with all your shit that you can stream from than constantly having to find shit. I also might be jaded because i move A LOT and its a pain to fucking move everything. I'm thinking of converting most of my print library to digital as well.
I will give you though that they felt pretty nice to put in though.
Aiden Miller
Pfff dont know who your kidding. I was around during VCR and Cassette tapes. But yeah kids now wont know, and who fucking cares.
William Taylor
>not sure if that was true though.
Then you're retarded I'm afraid.
Alexander Cruz
It really annoys me how zoomers who never lived the era love to fetishize everything about it. A lot of old stuff sucked.
Nathaniel Ortiz
Zoomers think VCRs are great, but don't even know how picrelated went hand in hand with cassettes.
Asher Jackson
The only thing i really miss are the crt screens. Never liked the "black" from the modern screens.
Anthony Collins
>tfw used to record movies from live tv with the ads included
Watching that now is like looking back in time. I do kinda miss it but technology is so convenient now you'd be stupid to stay in that time.
Levi Morris
I just miss being happy. All the old tech can fuck off though.
Dylan Bennett
oh it's a fellow boomer
Caleb Clark
Tapes are still common for data archiving. Transfer rates these days are much better than they used to be.
The big old tape reels you see in movie props were really cool and almost as good as a HDD in their age. They were so huge because the whole bottom of the tower was filled with loose tape. Anytime it had to seek, it could fly through the tape super fast and find its spot with tracking information on the tape.
The home cassette tapes were shit, but they were there because they were cheap. Good tape solutions were expensive.
Jacob Gomez
I just miss the internet being a lawless frontier filled with hope and excitement.