Julia Stiles and "VHS"

Recently Julia Stiles appeared on Jay Leno. She was telling him about
a movie she watched at home, and emphasized she had watched it on
"VHS".

Uniblab...

Julia Stiles drives me bananas - her face is way too big, and I find her
completely unattractive.

Leno responded that "you make it sound like VHS is from the dinosaurs.
Some of us still use it."

Interesting how a young person would find VHS so unusual that she'd
specially mention it as such.

Lots of people still use it.

Marc Dashevsky...

A surprisingly large number of people still rent rotary telephones
from their telephone company at the cost of $60/year or more.

hancock4...

That may have been true a few years ago, but through normal transition
and attrition that number is very small today. Having a rotary phone
is difficult today since so many places require Touch Tone signals to
get through.

I've heard some exchanges don't even support rotary (pulse) service
anymore.

The flip side of owning tradtional Western Electric rotary phones is
that they last forever and will work in a power failure. Many people
today are totally dependent on phones run by house current (as cordless
phones or VOIP service) but don't have a backup. Everyone should have
at least one traditional telephone set as backup.

Many states no longer have party-line service. Pulse does not require
special hardware, the pulsing is detected by existing software.
However, party lines require hardware since the ringing current varies
depending on which side of the party line is being called and the phone
co doesn't want to support that anymore.

karl...

Though I have a dvd for bought movies, I still use the vcr for tv
recording. I'm not going to rent a dvr by the month and I don't feel a
compelling need to buy one just to record tv shows. One day I will I'm sure
when the vcr bite s the dust.

Jude Cormier...

Buy extra VCRs at a good clearance sale, store them in the closet and use
them when the old one breaks.

karl...

Why? I'm not fundamentally opposed to dvr's. I just don't feel any pressing
need to run out and replace a functional vcr.

Jude Cormier...

hey, it was just a suggestion.

Ken from Chicago...

Not to be confused with VHF (or UHF).

trotsky...

In their early twenties?

hancock4...

Sure, why not?

DVDs _in widespread use_ are still relatively new. For a 20-something,
for most of their life they've used a VCR, not DVD. It's certainly not
like a 20-something never saw a VHS player. A rotary phone, manual
typewriter, or phonograph record I could understand being unusual. But
not a VHS VCR. They still are sold.

Perhaps Ms. Stiles, being in show business, got a DVD player very early
on and got specially made DVDs early on, so maybe it's not as new to
her. The rest of us mere mortals had to wait until the prices came
down.

Steven L....

I have to use it. Over the years, I have collected an extensive library
of legacy VHS recordings, some I purchased, some TV programs I taped,
and some videos shot with a camera. Do you know how much it would cost
me to have all those recordings transferred to DVD?

Default User...

A couple hundred, assuming you do the work yourself.

Steven L....

I don't have time.
What if I pay a professional shop to do it for me?

Default User...

The cost for such service varies widely. I couldn't say.