When Did Everyone Get Their First VHS/Betamax Player?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by kfbkfb

1st VCR: Sony SL-2300 Betamax (purchased 1984-12 at Wards [demo model, was $350 instead of $600])

1st VHS VCR: RCA VJT-255 (purchased 1985-05 at Walmart)

1st VHS Hi-Fi VCR: Emerson (purchased 1987-04 at Walmart)
Found out the local PBS station (KMOS TV 6 was in stereo and also took this VCR to KC and watch Miami Vice in stereo in WDAF TV-4)

I recently bought several used VHS Hi-Fi VCRs (from thrift shops) to record from the 5 streaming services I have (using an HDMI -> baseband NTSC color video converter)


Kirk Bayne

You know you can buy HDMI capture devices that will record those streaming box outputs in full HD right? Most you need a cheap HDMI splitter before the capture box to strip copy protection (it's the friggin plague I swear nobody wants you to be able to archive anything and most services don't want you to time shift if you aren't renting their DVR for more $) from the HDMI for recording to work. That's what I switched to when I still wanted to regularly capture from live streamed sources.