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Now this is classy.

My grandma (who lived about a 12 hr. way) had one of these growing up and I always loved it. I was disappointed one year to find that it had been replaced since it quit working.

I'm also reminded of my mother who, no joke, brought one of these home from the landfill. It didn't work, but she gutted it and turned it into a bed for our little dog we had at the time. In hindsight, she's probably very lucky she didn't hurt or poison herself in the process.

I would love to get one of these to use in like a multi-purpose gaming setup. Like use this as the TV stand for the newer TV so I can play newer and older games in the same place.

I don't really think that is true, those big wood TVs mostly aren't especially stylish, and neither are recorded players.
Although style is obviously subjective so I suppose our miles vary

They have nice styling today. You just can't afford it. To be clear, I can't either

Was, "Be kind, rewind" really that much of a hassle?

The dawn of LCD's sucked. They were inferior to CRT in most ways, they were bigger and lighter. They eventually got better and cheaper and that is when they took off.

DVD was a day 1 upgrade over vhs for watching movies.

VHS wasn’t the best format even when it came out. VHS was specifically designed to be a middle ground between quality and affordability. That’s partly why it succeeded in the consumer market, both the tape and the player were cheaper than the other formats of the day. Beta and LaserDisc both had better picture and sound quality but both had their own drawbacks as well as cost. CEDs were cheaper than LaserDisc and predated VHS by several years but didn’t have the industry acceptance of the other formats and had similar drawbacks.

A VHS physically can’t be better than CD audio. The tape would have to move faster than the VHS equipment is designed for. The Hi-Fi VHS audio system can come close to CD’s frequency range, but there is still about 70 dB signal-to-noise (compared to CD’s 98 dB), and there is always loss when writing to and reading from analog tape. CD is not destructively read, so any signal up to 22KHz will be reproducible the exact same way every time.

Hi-Fi VHS audio is nearly as good as CD audio (the best consumer analog audio format, in fact), but it’s not as good. The simple fact is that an appropriately comparably sampled digital PCM recording will always beat an analog recording. You can read about the Nyquist-Shannon theorem for an actual proof, but basically CD audio is near-perfect for almost every human’s hearing range (most people can’t hear above 20KHz).

Well this is going to be an interesting rabbit hole...

In I go!

Nope. Too vintage! Those are old enough to be haunted now. O_O

(Well, dang, so are N64 cartridges so...)

VHS or dvd? That things main use is video games lol

Video games have been doing that for over a decade at this point

Yes. I really do.

Don’t expect anything sexy or nothin’, I’m genuinely in this for the Trinitron. Do you have retro consoles or should I bring mine?

Meanwhile the hardcore smash community never left crt because latency.

I'm so torn. On one hand, cool! These things are still seeing use and stay out of landfills!

On the other hand, always a bit frustrating, this cycle of things no longer produced suddenly coming back into style with enthusiasts, and everyone trying to hustle it to get rich quick on eBay.

You don’t need any electricity to play a record

Are we talking about the hand-cranked players from the olden days?

Degaussing a CRT is also a magical experience