My grandpa recorded absolutely everything on VHS in the 90s. He had so many bookshelves full of movies and shows he meticulously catalogued. I wanted to ask him if he ever actually watched any of them, but I didn’t want to break his spirit.
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atropa@piefed.social 2 days ago
Tapes , lots and lots of them
binarytobis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
atropa@piefed.social 1 day ago
OK, thanks iam that old, the years 70 and 80 where the best times to be around ,,talk to your grandfather ,ask him everything about that time
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
raicon@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I will give it a shot for the tapes my parents have in the Attic
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
57 years ago (1969) meant the only tapes were audio (8-tracks, reel to reel, and some cassette tapes), and those were just starting to become popular because Dolby (released in '65) was starting to be used during mastering to reduce tape hiss enough that they could be used for music.
Betamax was released in '75, VHS in '76.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Umatic came out in 1971. But it was too expensive for most consumers. My brother in law had one because his family business was TV repair.
atropa@piefed.social 2 days ago
Philips started with cassettapes in my country Belgium in 63 ,
DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 days ago
Uhm and what about Tapes for Data Storage? Pretty sure Mainframes existed in 1969 already.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I’m mean you had reel to reel. Which was a tape right, just not a cassette?
DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 days ago
And Film/Movies/TV Shows were also distributed as Tape Reels.