What was your LAST VHS purchase??

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by Dude111

I last got The Isle of Wright Festival - 1970 (Promotional copy - not for sale (Ah man!!)) About 2 Hours....

This concert is almost as good as Woodstock 69 (Thats my favourite music event)

You'd probably like this Woodstock 40th anniversary Director's Cut Blu-ray but it's (heaven forbid!) DIGITAL! So maybe not. The extra performances and extras discs are well worth it. I bought a copy a few months ago.

[Dude111]

I have the orginal 2 tape Woodstock 69 Eddie and its excellent!

I have it in all these formats

1) The original 1970 records
2) The orginal 1970 cassettes
3) The first 1979 VHS releases

Goregous concert!!

[Labrat]

After years of searching, I found the original series of Star Trek on VHS.
Not 30 minutes later, I found the series on DVD. I bought both.

VHS sixteen tapes, DVD, eight discs.
For some reason, the original series was never available here, while the later variants of star Trek were.

Also, twenty-two years after its release, I found the box set of
Long Way to the top.

Wayne.

[old_tv_nut]

I wonder if those Star Trek tapes were made by running the 24 fps film at 25 fps, which was often the technique used in 50 Hz countries. The first time I heard a Star Trek episode in Switzerland, it sounded to me like Kirk was regressing back toward puberty.

[Dude111]

Thankfully the NTSC star trek tapes I have are not sped up.........

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Thankfully the NTSC star trek tapes I have are not sped up.........

Running 24 fps film at 30 Hz would change the pitch and timbre unacceptably. So, 3:2 pulldown was used.

If you cannot see the effects of 3:2 pulldown, don't try to. Once seen, it cannot be unseen.

[Dude111]

Yes they didnt seem to care did they??

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Dude111

Yes they didnt seem to care did they??

?? I don't understand what you meant here. Who didn't seem to care about what?

[Airedale]

Fiddler on the Roof and Robin Hood, Men in Tights.

[Dude111]

I got a movie in the mail I ordered today

PAPILLON (1973) - First CBS/FOX release (1981)

This is the longest movie I have ever seen on 1 tape (150Mins)

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

?? I don't understand what you meant here. Who didn't seem to care about what?

The idiots that do this to movies!!

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by Dude111

The idiots that do this to movies!!

If you mean 3:2 pulldown, it was done for conversion of 24 frame per second film to 60 field per second video. Every NTSC VHS tape has it. Again, if you didn't realize it or understand what the visual effects are, don't try to see them unless you are more interested in technology than in enjoying the movies. You will never be able to unsee it.

[Electronic M]

This is reminding me of a thread a few years ago in which someone more or less explained 3:2 pull down to dude explaining that it's basically the only way to convert film frame rate to NTSC frame rate without changing audio speed an unacceptable amount, and he basically didn't understand any of it and replied something to the effect of "that's stupid. Why don't they do it some other way?" As if there's some magical analog solution to frame rate conversion other than 3:2 pulldown, running the film at the wrong speed or trying to run the TVs vertical deflection at the wrong speed (which never would have happened in the consumer space in the analog era due to broadcast regulations).
Between that and a old post of dude's where he claimed all digital sound and picture conveyances have mind control built in I've been long convinced dude is a gullible moron who has no understanding or aptitude regarding how electronics work.
Basically he's videokarmas equivalent of a grandma with no technical knowledge showing up to a grandchild's programming competition and cheering and booing random people on and complaining about the good rules of the competition without actually understanding anything that is going on...

[Dude111]

Im sorry tommy....

[pac.attack76]

Recently picked up:

Baywatch white Thunder at Glacier Bay
Iron Eagle II
Beverly Hills Ninja
Bullitt
Jack's Back
Dark City
No Mercy

[Airedale]

Picked up some anime, Dominion Tank Police parts 1 through 3 and Macross 2.