You know it'll happen. Cassettes seem to be cool now, just like vinyl records became cool years ago (I guess Edison wax cylinders never enjoyed a renaissance). So, when will VHS tapes become cool? When hipsters start making wallets out of them, we'll know that their time has come.
When will VHS tapes become cool again?
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VHS wallets are sooo over...
Seriously? Now I'll have to wait for DVD cases to become ironic.
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Or "retro" which ever comes first...
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When did they become not cool? Damn, no one tells me these things.
Vinyl records are retro now, so it'll take too long for that to happen. I'm still holding on to my circa 2003 Sandisk MP3 player, though. It'll make my circa 2023 hipster girlfriend an awesome necklace.
Somewhere around the end of the Clinton years.
Haven't you heard? Shellac is so "Blackboard Jungle", unless you're going for a steampunk thing.
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Hard to say. People like the old records because they sound better. Digital video looks better to me then anything on vhs. Who can say though. In 20 years digital may go to shit and people will like old vhs again.
Technology is weird.
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Before vhs is cool again, wouldn't reel to reel and super 8 have to come first?
Technology is weird.
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Before vhs is cool again, wouldn't reel to reel and super 8 have to come first?
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8mm has a cult following already. I have quite a few of them myself.
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Never, tape is too fragile.
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When gay couples buy them up and renovate them.
You mean this guy?
He might come back; he's a fighter.
Once I was fish-sitting for a friend back in my college days. Went away for a weekend, we got a cold snap (think -0°F cold snap) and everything in the house froze, including poor beta fish and my water pipes.
RIP, beta fish. You just don't come back from that.Once I was fish-sitting for a friend back in my college days. Went away for a weekend, we got a cold snap (think -0°F cold snap) and everything in the house froze, including poor beta fish and my water pipes.
Your water pipes? You must have owned a Turkish coffee house.
Outside faucet. Rental house (I was in college, dude!). Landlady was not pleased.
Oh, I thought you meant hookahs! This makes much more sense.
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This.
VHS tapes are bulky, the tape in them is getting more brittle by the month, and they made a bazillion of them. All of them hurt their value as collectables.
That being said, I'm guessing first prints of hard-to-find tapes and/or cult films are worth at least a little. I bet my copy of The Last American Virgin is worth more than a buck.
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