| General and Gaming > Classic Video Games |
| Why did renting games become less popular in the modern era? |
| << < (4/8) > >> |
| bikingjahuty:
--- Quote from: soera on April 24, 2018, 04:23:03 pm ---Digital killed the rental. --- End quote --- This, as did rental delivery services like early Netflix which allowed you to rent pretty much as many movies as you wanted, albeit one at a time (unless you paid a bit more), for what it would cost you to rent a couple of movies from Blockbuster. I miss video rental stores sorely and wish they were still around, but why they pretty much went extinct is no mystery. |
| burningdoom:
How is VHS more unreliable? They don't scratch, they aren't prone to disc-rot, and they're a lot harder to physically break. About the only thing you've really got to worry about is keeping them from moisture and magnets. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on April 25, 2018, 01:24:56 pm ---How is VHS more unreliable? They don't scratch, they aren't prone to disc-rot, and they're a lot harder to physically break. About the only thing you've really got to worry about is keeping them from moisture and magnets. --- End quote --- Rewinding can take it's toll you will be missing parts of a movie sound etc, I remember some of my old vhs tapes going bad and missing pieces at some point. Aging also takes it toll on vhs tapes. I guess it will work for a longer period of time when abused however you will be missing small pieces of the movie overtime wich does not happen with cd's. Not a vhs collector btw but I do have some vhs tapes of my past. It's not that great to be honest, with dvd's you have disc repair an easy fix. and with blue ray scratches are almost a thing of the past. Sure discs have disc rot wich is very rare to be honest I've only seen it with bad condition discs in my country never with excellent ones. But vhs tapes also age and it will become more and more fragile when times goes by. in my opinion vhs is way less reliable. Video tape on your vhs can scred overtime when that happens it is beyone repair the shelf life of a vhs tape might be less than that of a dvd also when it is not used since it has become to fragile to use. Missing parts of a movie and a shorter shelf life not to great of a format :-\ Just like discs with care it could last allot longer but I'm pretty sure the shelf life of a vhs tape is less than that of discs from what I have seen. Also I'm pretty sure that something else will destroy a disc at the end of it's life span instead of disc rot. Disc rot is something on bad discs or when it has been stored in a bad climate it is a pretty rare thing unless your going for mediocre condition stuff and even than it is pretty hard to find. I have seen way more discs than many of you guys disc rot is not something one should worry about to much It's very rare. VHS isn't as great as one might think. There is a reason why so many people try to convert their vhs to digital they will die allot sooner than cd's . Many people give discs the hate but many people still use them while vhs is not that desired unwanted so less people complaining. Cd's are a more reliable format and they last a bit or probably allot longer the newer discs might even last an eterinity as far as blue rays ps4 xbox one discs etc go. Sure a dvd is thin and fragile you could break it in half a vhs can fall on the ground without any damage but that's the only durability/ armor it has in the short term. |
| burningdoom:
Rewinding shouldn't hurt tapes at all, unless your VCR is defective or something. If your VCR is shredding tapes, though, that means you need to use a head cleaner tape, or open her up and clean them yourself. That's basic maintenance that you need to do if you own a VCR at all. You can still buy head-cleaners at Wal-Greens and Rite-Aid. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on April 25, 2018, 04:51:38 pm ---Rewinding shouldn't hurt tapes at all, unless your VCR is defective or something. If your VCR is shredding tapes, though, that means you need to use a head cleaner tape, or open her up and clean them yourself. That's basic maintenance that you need to do if you own a VCR at all. You can still buy head-cleaners at Wal-Greens and Rite-Aid. --- End quote --- if I were you I would look things up online VHS tapes have way less shelf life than cd's wich might eventually get disc rot before they die out. This is ofcourse an example if both formats have been kept well. Not to mention that even if it still works the quality is degrading in those vhs tapes wich with cd's is not an issue at all. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |
| Previous page |