Instead of cleaning your old VCR, why not buy a brand new one? The final push to convert all our VHS tapes has begun!

@josephocharles

3 жыл бұрын

Nice to learn from you. Ive got some old stuff and would be great to get digital. You know your audience!

@LarryLeeMoniz

3 жыл бұрын

I never thought I would think about buying a new VCR in 2021! Thank you for the information and the inspiration!

@heypero

3 жыл бұрын

This is a great idea! I'll try to save same old VHS tapes.

@cody2135

3 жыл бұрын

What happened to Daryl's long hair

@qwertykeyboard5901

2 жыл бұрын

My orion machine doesn't have hifi but is still pretty good

Guys, I have the same VCR. I bought it around the year 2000 along with a 20" JVC Stereo CRT TV, all with money from my first job. I still have the VCR in original box all packed up in the basement, just in case. The TV is also still in the basement. They have zero issues. I purchased a 50" Panasonic Viera 80 to replace the CRT in 2009. That plasma is still in use as my main TV. Thanks for the blast from the past. I also think it's great that you guys play 80/90s Rock and Metal on your show. Metallica rulez!

@dannie2712

3 жыл бұрын

I still have my Panasonic 46' Viera plasma tv as my main that i purchased in 2010.

I also love the smell of new electronics. I've never got to smell a 20-year-old VCR though.

My 18 year old buys VCR's and hoards them up in his room. Cracks me up younger generations embrace what we had. Anyway we enjoy you guys because you bring nostalgia to my 45 year old butt, and my teenager just wish's for a time machine after watching you guys. Cheers!☺

I had problems with capturing to my computer when the tapes had tracking problems or other glitches, it would act like nothing was wrong but the captured file might have only been the first few minutes or something. I bought that Clearclick based on Eric's recommendation a few months back, was about $150 from Amazon, and it's outstanding. It captured exactly how the tape played, glitches and all. Highly recommended if you're doing this, I can't imagine a much simpler solution.

You guys included "The More You Know" graphic short. That made my night. Excellent video.

That new VCR smell. Glad you didn't try to use the batteries.

I still have a vcr but it’s a vcr/Dvd combo I used to transfer all my old videos to dvds. I also have the same clear click video capture that I got off of eBay also. I haven’t had a regular single vcr or a tv with one in years since I was a kid. eBay is great for all that stuff. I learned how to work a vcr at age 2 in 1995!! I gotta say you guys are so inspiring and awesome. I’ve commented on a bit of your videos.🙂

I remember my parents not only commenting that we were gonna get cable but that they planned to buy a VCR as well. Oh man, was I excited! I had this grand scheme that I was gonna record all the metal videos from MTV. I was gonna put all the Van Halen videos on one side of a VHS tape and all the Ratt videos on the other side, Def Leppard on one side and Stryper on the other and so on and so forth! 😅

Thanks now I know how to convert my old home movies!

I love it when you dub those guitar fx over the unboxing. It makes it extra fun to watch!

@EricDarrell

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I had the idea to do that before we even shot the video lol -E

@HeathenwoodOfficial

3 жыл бұрын

@@EricDarrell it was a great one!

I remember being 4 years old (2009) N' watching some videos of a childrens band on the VCR. Still have the tapes and keep them as memorys N' we have a drawer underneath our T.V. filled with VHS tapes from movies N' films my dad recorded of my sisters when they were babies. We still have VHS as memorys N' even tho some movies are on DVDs, we still keep them like cassete tapes which we have a full drawer for. I'm lucky that my radio has a cassete player since the radio originally belonged to my grandma, now me. Even tho I'm a teenager N' didn't grow up in your generation, I have used some of the things you guys would use thanks to my parents being born in different decades N' my older sibilings born in the 90s N' cousins born in the 90s.

I still have my Sanyo vcr. Works like a new one. It’s a must have for all my Kiss vhs tapes.

Love this thanks guys brings back memories of that vhs era keep rockin it.

I'm excited to see more footage! Love your channel ❤️👍

You guys are bringing some excellent content. I love the old music stuff but vintage technology is always a win. Really cool . 🤘🤘

I discovered you guys's channel like a month ago. And I've been watching the crap out of all your videos. While I was watching this video I realized I wasn't subscribed to you guys which is interesting cuz I could have swore I subscribed at some point. But it's all tape under the erase head..... so for the first or possibly the second time I am a new-ish subscriber.

Yess! Loved this video guys! I love that you made reference to my 2 favorite movies, Indiana Jones and back to the future!!! Looking forward to all your vhs stuff! I’m in the same process myself.. Funny, my vcr decided not to give me my tape back so I had to use a flathead and knife to slide it out slowly lol. so I just borrowed my dads, praying it works! I might have to buy one on eBay too, great idea! You guys are such an inspiration and I’m so thankful I found your page!! Keep it up!

I'd watch the heck out of a series of you two unboxing, testing, and telling the history of old tech. Keep this up!

That’s really neat at the end that you used the old camera. 👏👏

@marksantucci4230

3 жыл бұрын

yes.

So cool guys!!! I have a large cardboard box of VCR tapes I need to convert, I kept them in a dark closet for 20+ years. Crossing my fingers for your tapes and mine that they are still decent quality. Rock On!! 🤞

Boy! That bring a lot of memories back! Lol 😆👍I still have to of those hanging around somewhere in the garage! Cool video you guys!👌😎👍

This is amazing, thank you! A while back I purchased a Roxio VHS to DVD 3 plus, looks like a little box with cords for I think $50 at Best Buy but I have yet to try to use it. I needed a VCR & I have about 8, but after moving a few years ago, they got mixed up & I dont know which ones worked & which didnt & have been afraid of trying it out. Im going to buy this Clear Click thing instead & maybe a new VCR from ebay. I never thought of looking for a new one there. I did buy a used but fully functional DVD/VCR unit there many years ago but I only searched for the exact model I was replacing. Im working on converting negatives, slides, scanning photo's & need to work on all the VHS tapes & VHS-C & Mini DV tapes too. All my kids lives are on all these tapes, plus all the Headbangers Ball videos I recorded. I have 2 of the VHS-C adapters but have to locate them, Ive misplaced them in the move. Thanks so much for all the tips, im so glad I came across your channel last fall.

Yes, I recorded all my general hospital episodes on this exact same model from 1996 through 99!!

The only kind of unboxing video I will watch. Hi from a fellow 80s kid 💗

Totally Tubular Awesome Video Bros! My family's had a Samsung VCR in the family since the '90s. I just changed the belt and cleaned everything inside. She works like new now.

Never end this channel !!

Hi from Chicago, Oh it's single digits and snow is coming. Love you guys so much!

@EricDarrell

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and stay warm! 🔥

Hey guys 🤙🏻 Wow, look at the difference between you shooting in 6K versus shooting it through the VCR. You guys went from being crystal clear to the blob 😂 The VCR footage was so blurry. But that’s ok, we still gotta respect ✊🏻 our VCRs. It’s all we had to watch movies on in the 80s/early 90s. I still have a VCR (Phillips brand). It’s about 15+ years old. Thanks for sharing the unboxing vid with us guys. A very educational video for the young, brought to you by, the old. I’m in the “old” category with you guys. I’m so old, I’m low-fi living in a high fidelity world and John Cusack is nowhere to be found. Jack Black is also MIA. 😂 One VCR to play them all ✊🏻 Gandalf said so.

Sweet! I can’t wait foe more videos! 🤘🏻

I remember in the mid-late 90's, it was all about the "4 head, HiFi stereo" VCR's. If it was a 2 head and no HiFi, then PASS!

@raaawkstaaar

3 жыл бұрын

my dad had to have the SVHS JVC super high-end pro-consumer units which I still have 2 of them a well as newer JVC SVHS that I purchased to replace those in 1998.

You have to clean the heads on a VCR eventually. Sure a brand new VCR is gonna be fine for awhile, but head cleaning is integral to keeping your machine working.

@EricDarrell

3 жыл бұрын

Entirely accurate. -D

idk what it is ab this channel but i keep coming back so keep on keepin onn

I think the last VHS recorder I bought new for about 30 bucks at Walmart. 10-15 years ago maybe? I don't remember what brand but it is very light weight and feels cheap but it works. Currently not hooked up. I bought it to record family videos to DVD on a Magnavox DVD-R (which is probably also obsolete these days). I'll also mention great use of sound effects on this video. Nice job!

VCR tech still lives 🤘🏽💯

That's pretty cool, great info. I think somebody's got a vcr in the family still, might have to look a little deeper into that. I know we have several vhs and camcorder cassettes so that little device wouldn't be a bad idea.

I just inherited my great-grandfathers VCR from the 90s. It's a Panasonic 4520 and it works like a charm, although we are still looking for the remote cause it is lost somewhere in my grandparents house

I remember the first VCR we had. Was a symphonic. It was a floor model from Fretter. It lasted a long time.

@Eric & Darrell I'm loving the t-shirts 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘. Man that was blast from the past I remember staying up late to record horror movies on vhs while my parents were in bed 😁😁😁😁

Flying Erase Head is the newest member of The Avengers.

Damn good video. One can still get New Old VCR .... Wow Nice capture device 👍🏼👍🏼

You guys "ROCK"!

I have so many VHS tapes! Lots of MTV hair metal music videos, the Moscow Music Peace Festival, the US Festival, and more. A long time ago I bought a tape-to-DVD recorder, but I had so many tapes to convert I never got the job done and the recorder died. Do you have any tips on how to finalize the DVDs I never finished on that recorder? The Clear Click is a dream come true! Thanks for this great video!

Big fan of your channel! I really need to ask does this device work with a camcorder from the late 90's? im looking to capture old camcorder videos. any advice?

I've been thinking about this. I have some home movies on DVD's a Hard Drive and a flash drive. They are not in mp4 and I want to be able to put them on here in case something happens to them on those sources.

Nice ARTWORK behind :):):)

I used a $25 Ebay usb capture device to computer until I got a computer with a capture card built in that was my over air antennae tuner also. You could probably use that thing to capture ur old cassettes too

@EricDarrell

3 жыл бұрын

I had one of those tuner cards too. I had forgotten all about those. -E

I think that JVC was one of the later models that was made in China. By the late 90's it was getting hard to find the Japanese brand VCR's like Panasonic and JVC still being manufactured in Japan. But JVC and Panasonic were my go-to brands. My last VCR I ever bought was a JVC I bought in the late 90's. I think I paid about $250 at the time. It was one of the last JVC's still coming from Japanese factories. Great solid VCR. Probably stopped using it around 2005 or so but it still worked. Sold it on Craigslist I think.

@alriz7066

Жыл бұрын

On the box i can see 2002 FIFA WORLD CUP logo. JAPAN and SOUTH KOREA were the joined host for 2002 WORLD CUP and JVC was one the main sponsored for that tournament. So this is stock from as early as 2002.

Panasonic 👍 if I remember correctly, vcr plus was to set like chapters and stuff and mark commercials on recordings, that's an awesome capture device, I've got to get me one of those

@raaawkstaaar

3 жыл бұрын

no, it was an auto recording feature like a DVR

Nice!

Hello from London 🇬🇧 love watching your channel....your videos are like a little piece of escapism, back to such a great time 😊 Thank you xx

@DOCTOR_SONG

3 жыл бұрын

More like these recorded on various types of tape.

I guess I'll have to do that! Guys, thank you for an informative video! I've got a whole bunch of VHS tapes that need to get converted digitally (before it's too late!) but found that the VCRs we have eat them up :( So can't I just clean the heads or, I don't think I want to go the route of buying a new one or is that just the best way to go?

@EricDarrell

3 жыл бұрын

Sure you could try cleaning the heads, just search youtube on how to do it with Q-tips and alcohol. Sometimes the belts may harden and the tape motor mechanism may have worn down, if those are an issue, it's probably best to buy a new one. -E

Cool guys

Where did you get the METALLICA and KISS prints on the wall?

3:04 You guys made that beautiful vintage logo?

Where did u get that metallica drawing? Damn I want one

I still have my old vcr from the 80's ? before the black ones came out. nope old to me also guys. can we say good kiss! Unfortunley you two are correct but we use to watch all our R rated movies over and over and our old head bangers ball videos , and liner notes ect? yeah vhs is what you 2 had to say.

@raaawkstaaar

3 жыл бұрын

I had black/dark grey JVC's in the very early '80s (SVHS)

They still make VHS? 📼 Oh sheesh.... It's big...its bulky...its archaic. The flying erase head info, is good to know. 💸 JVC brand ain't too bad. That's a good setup for archiving old media data. Like WWF episodes...🤣

Goodwill auctions has VCR's. Some are new in the box.

This is super useful info! How much VHS footage can you fit on a thumb drive?

@adamn7516

3 жыл бұрын

Its not so much the vhs footage itself. Its simply how many hours of video fit on thumb drive and that depends on the format you capture it in and other variables within that format. The Clearclick capture device captures in MP4 at 720p from what I saw looking at its specs so expect a 1GB file size for every hour of video.

@lavendersky11

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamn7516 Thanks! Do you think it would be worth trying to do better than 720p, or no since it's just VHS footage anyway? I'm not even sure my question makes sense, haha.

@adamn7516

3 жыл бұрын

@@lavendersky11 Can't see a benefit for going higher. Standard VHS is actually the equivalent of only about 360p if I recall so 720 is more than adequate.

That is the same one I had back in the 90's. My girlfriend jammed a tape into it and broke it. I was pissed.

The prices of NOS VCR's are about to skyrocket on ebay.

oh wow you guys are in Huntsville? i live in Huntsville

@EricDarrell

3 жыл бұрын

Yep small world! -E

🤘 you guys Rock 😎📼

Does that fancy gizmo work in reverse? can you record from your pc etc to vhs with it?

@EricDarrell

3 жыл бұрын

Yep you can do that. That's exactly how I made that last VHS clip in this video. You just have to put a video file (MP4) on the device, and feed that to the VHS to record it. It works great. -E

I love the idea of recording 6k footage into a VCR lol! Definitely a stupid idea but I'm so happy you did it. I shoot my show in 4k but does the VCR footage shoot in log?

@EricDarrell

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly I would always color grade before dumping to VHS. Love that crunchy look! -E

@DiningWithWan

3 жыл бұрын

@@EricDarrell makes sense. Log on a vhs just sounds extra terrible but I had a feeling you color graded before.

CAUTION: when testing a new vcr NEVER TEST WITH A TAPE OF VALUE. go find a buttercream gang tape or something you can destroy

@suredeydo

3 жыл бұрын

Use those old ped0-Disney VHS tapes

These videos are god love the channel whens the next video

@marksantucci4230

3 жыл бұрын

enjoy one at a time theres no rush.

I use this to convert some tapes for my Uncle and Cousin. Now I'm using a convert some tapes for someone that I work with.

We can see FIFA 2002 WORLD CUP logo on the box. So this is relatively new old stock less than 20 years old

I have these tapes

I like JVC VCR

Remember how new VHS machines smelled in 1987 ?

I had the model up from this JVC Gold version Hifi Stereo and a couple of extras? Back when I was a JVC fanboy until I got this VCR. Boy did I get a defective unit? every 30secs it would flicker with lines in the middle of the screen Which back then I was pissed. It was for my Bedroom. It was so bad :( cost me close to $400au. The place I bought it from wouldn't replace the unit. They reckoned it was normal, and JVC also said that wasn't an issue. Strange because I had a friend who was a bigger fanboy than me for JVC And he acted like I was crazy. Everyone else said it was unusable but him haha... "The clouded mind sees nothing" After that, I stopped blindly supporting tech companies. So random a year later I got my 1st big screen TV from JVC and It lasted 1 month. cost me over $1200au back in the early 90s and it was at the JVC repair centre for 6months. they said they had to order some part from Japan? Back when stuff was still made in Japan I completely stopped buying JVC after that. just luck of the draw really thinking back. Now JVC is a shadow of their former self here in Australia. Their products are low-end trash nowadays and made in china

Hey if I send u guys my old tapes can u upload them for me? I dont know how to do all that. The tapes are on old like 3 x 5 tapes. It was from when I was a kid in the 90s. Really enjoy your channel btw

@spen2698

3 жыл бұрын

Or direct me to a place I can go? I dont mind paying

@adamn7516

3 жыл бұрын

Can usually find mom and pop shops in your city that do it. Just look up home movie conversion businesses in your area on Google. Those types of businesses will usually do digital conversions of videotapes and old 8mm home movie film.

How many hours of video will that capture device hold?

@EricDarrell

3 жыл бұрын

As many SD cards as you can buy! Of course, you can transfer to a hard drive, so as many hard drives as you can buy! -D

Those eBay prices are ridiculous. Better to find one local on Kijiji or Craigslist

💀 cool skull shirt 😎

That's an intriguing device! Anything I've seen or used before requires you to connect to a computer. Interesting.

@DOCTOR_SONG

3 жыл бұрын

From the future

All Should Convert Them In To DVDs

I want a vcr

@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS

3 жыл бұрын

Walmart still sells one on the shelf for like $35

Gotta adjust the tracking lol

Is that Darrell in a leather jacket

Hello

RIP Larry King

👏👏👏👏

No not best buy, think ole skool like the vcr. Circuit City lol.

To bad Betamax never got more popular than VHS. Because Betamax tapes had way better quality than the VHS tapes.

Man, I make youtube videos and I really really wish I knew how to edit videos like this....

So ahead of thr etimieBeen watching your history channel (hey you were making history ) for a while now . I sell and buy vintage toys . Let me know if you are looking for anything . Mostly 60’s-90’s. Not just toys but I love vintage toys. I have a VCR just not sure what year. I think when DVD was becoming more for the masses. I’ve got a camcorder from like early 90’s . I play instruments and I have a nearly (60’s) antique guitar with extra frets And abalone inlay. Ibanez guitar . It’s super unique . So if you are looking for things let me know . I may not have then up on eBay but I have a whole storage unit full of vintage . O

S video?

@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS

3 жыл бұрын

$25 Ebay USB capture device has S video input

Looks like the vcr has a minor speed issue. Might want to replace the rubber belts and put some conditioner on the pinch roller inside the new unit since it’s been sitting and the rubber belts

@raaawkstaaar

3 жыл бұрын

no, it's due to the tapes were recorded with another machine...you'll ALWAYS have those lines at the very bottom! As for that footage of his mom driving that's just deterioration of an old tape! ALL brands track differently, I traded live rock VHS/SVHS tapes all over the world since the eighties and when you get a tape from a Panasonic machine and play it in a JVC or a Mitsubishi you often have minor tracking issues. I even had a PAL unit so I could trade with Australians. Had a few connections in Japan and got killer SVHS stuff from Japan TV...their broadcast resolution was WAY better than our NTSC. Oh, how I miss those days!

2 words : Obsolete Technology

@EricDarrell

3 жыл бұрын

2 words: No Shit

@Romanian-gy1sc

3 жыл бұрын

@@EricDarrell 🤣

That's not cheap, its over $200 lol

@EricDarrell

3 жыл бұрын

Mine was about $140 during holiday season. I say it's cheap compared to the priceless footage on these old VHS tapes. -E

Recording over Legend? Blasphemous.