the equivelent now is a 2TB ~ 8TB External Solid State Drive.
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1 tape using SLP could hold 360 minutes.
LP it could hold 240 minutes.
So if you were poor there’d be tapes with 4.5 movies worth of terrible quality movies in order with one tape holding the first half of Hellraiser 2 and another holding the second half lol.
A five pack of blank tapes would be $20. So $20 essentially 700mb shitty cd sized video files for a movie. 4.5x5 = 30 movies at 700mb. 30x.700 = 21gb of storage.
A platter drive currently gets about $7/tb if you’re going budget. $20 = ~3tb of storage.
142x the storage for the same price. And you can splurge on nice 1.4gb 1080p x265 rips instead. 3000/1.4= ~2143 movies for the same price lol.
E: Let’s not even get into the cost of renting first, and owning two vcrs lol.
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I got a 10-pack of 3.5" floppies at one point.
Man that’s like 14.4 megs of storage!
More like 4.32 MB of storage and a spare.
You don’t really have your data backed up unless you make 2 more floppies!
RAID-10 with floppies and a flotilla of whirring drives.
I can still smell, taste and hear those cassettes…
They were so good in the morning with coffee
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Oh baby
8/10 people in developed nations would love a 64gb SD Card, a lot would also be thrilled over a pack of USB Memory cards or even a 32 or 16 gb micro-SD with normal SD adapter card. Is it micro or mini? I get them confused but one of those works for a lot of stuff and the other hasn’t been produced since 2009.
A spool of plastic filament.
Ahh, G28 sweet G28
For me it would be a new external hard drive for all my data hoarding
Got some 18TB WD’s over Black Friday weekend for $260 or so a pop 🥰
Slightly more expensive than VHS then
Depends what’s on the VHS
😂
Probably cheaper per recording. That HDD can hold a lot more shows than many, many tapes.
Sets VCR to EP
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Hahaha that was so terrible. Our equivalent today is ‘needs more jpeg’
at their peak, a 5 pack of vhs would cost like 6 bucks, so the equivalent today would be more like a 32gb sd card.
Adjusted for inflation?
A samsung sd card instead of a sandisk one 👍
5x6hrs of shitty quality vs 32gb of digital? yea. it’s already accounted for.
Nice
Youre right buynI dont have to like it
Thumb drives?
Good stocking stuffers
Blank VHS covers are always artistically fantastic.
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Maybe a stocking with m.2 drives spilling over.
More storage for the media server NAS, which I then share with family and friends.
I’m buying you the cheapest used hard drives from ebay coupled with the SSDs from wish.com.
… I’ll make sure to have enough redundancies 😬
You got a 5 pack of VHS tapes? When I was a kid, I once got one VHS tape as a Christmas gift. And it was awesome. Because it had a plastic cover and everything.
Still sits on my childhood home shelf, with that Christmas episode of Garfield and Friends at the beginning. Can’t remember what else I recorded on it.
I recorded hours and hours of Headbangers Ball on mine
And I think I might have used the exact tapes in the picture
Break it out during the holidays and find out!
As long as they didn’t also have one of those camcorders that connected to a full-size VCR on a shoulder strap, all powered by mains power. Who knows what’s on that tape.
You’ll never forget the Christmas you saw your own conception. Only fitting.
My buddy gave me a VHS camcorder and VCR for Christmas in like 2015. My favorite thing to do with them was to buy VHS movies from the thrift store and record home movies over them, but each time I would start to record I would randomly fast forward a minute or two. It was kinda cool and trippy to watch goofy shit we’d do and then it phases into a random scene from Edward Scissorhands before going back into the next adventure of ours.
A 20 TB hard drive
