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    Old fashioned video tape players

    Time for a rant.

    I have a huge library of video tape stuff. Our video player died last night. If I wanted to waste the rest of my life converting it to digital format, I'd be a happy bunny. But I don't want to do that. I really really hate what people call the 'New Improved' format.

    But if I want a new video player, I can have one for Ј300. If I want a DVD player, it's Ј22. The cost of buying a machine to convert one to the other is, well, not worth mentioning.

    The most annoying thing is that it's my own fault. All those years I watched them, I could've been converting them to DVD. But I didn't.

    Aaaaargh.
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    No it bloody isn't.

    Is 'Google' going to come round to my house and do all the work?

    Can I lie on a sunlounger and watch the Google serf do all the work?

    Of course I can't.

    It's a pisser, and no mistake.

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    Those sites do the work for you. I don't know their price but all you would have to do is drop the tapes and come back some other day and pick up the DVDs.

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    Now you're just trying to be sensible. I appreciate your level headed, conciencious and methodical approach to life mate, I really do. But at this moment I just want to rant, rave, kill my neighbour and his wife, and run down the street naked brandishing a Katana shouting;

    'I just want to play my videos.......................'.

    That's sort of it really.

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    My apologies chaps.

    But I really did need a rant.

    Very badly.

    Anyone know where I can buy a good Katana?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Dutch View Post

    Anyone know where I can buy a good Katana?
    As Colander was so nice to point out, Google is your friend:

    http://budk.com/category/Japanese-Sw...FcHe4Aodbg8Adg


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    Re: Old fashioned video tape players

    I have a VHS player that probably works, I could dig it out and test it should you want to borrow it a while?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Septic View Post
    I have a VHS player that probably works, I could dig it out and test it should you want to borrow it a while?

    Septic.
    That's very kind of you Septic old chum. However the replacement has already been ordered. This time, each time I play one, I'll copy it to DVD.

    By the way, I should've posted this in 'off-topic'. Sorry about that. :)

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    Re: Old fashioned video tape players

    What is your solution to this?? Do give details.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Doc View Post
    What is your solution to this?? Do give details.
    I found a Toshiba machine just like the old one which will play the videos whilst recording them to DVD-R.

    That's the annoying part. I already had a machine which would do the job of converting them while I watched. I just never bothered doing it. Now that machine is bust.

    There is no stronger rage than being enraged by one's own laziness/lethargy/can't be arsedness.

    Hmmph.

    By the way Colander, thanks very much for the links, and I apologise for my rudeness.

    Deacon, perhaps I'll leave out the Katana for now, but thanks to you too.

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    Dutch, not a problem

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    Re: Old fashioned video tape players

    These guys put all our old tapes onto dvd. Cheaper than snappy snaps and also made a pretty cool family film from all the footage. My mum won’t shut up about it, ha : https://www.moreofyourmemories.com/s...-dvd-transfer/

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