A swirl of societal forces has made the moment ripe for this unlikely rebirth, including a booming nostalgia for things retro and a need for human connection
Just saw on TV news that people are still watching VHS movies. Then found this article. Is this you?
Agreed, I don’t get this at all. Usually you can find some benefit to the analog format or luddite tech that makes it worth the hassle beyond pure personal nostalgia:
Vinyl sounds lovely in a certain way, and a pristine record on an excellent setup can even exceed digital quality.
Fountain pens require no pressure, are customizable in half a dozen ways, and can be quite nice objects in their own right.
Film can be similar to vinyl in having the potential for excellent quality, and generations of filmmakers hand crafted their works for the medium.
VHS looks bad, sounds bad, inspired no one & moved the art of filmmaking nowhere, deteriorates rapidly, has to be rewound, and has no efficient means of skipping to certain scenes. It’s awful, and I was deliriously happy to replace cassettes with DVDs. I guess the engineering around getting magnetic reel-to-reel tape into a somewhat user-friendly and cost-effective cassette is kinda cool… until it’s not.
Agreed, I don’t get this at all. Usually you can find some benefit to the analog format or luddite tech that makes it worth the hassle beyond pure personal nostalgia:
Vinyl sounds lovely in a certain way, and a pristine record on an excellent setup can even exceed digital quality.
Fountain pens require no pressure, are customizable in half a dozen ways, and can be quite nice objects in their own right.
Film can be similar to vinyl in having the potential for excellent quality, and generations of filmmakers hand crafted their works for the medium.
VHS looks bad, sounds bad, inspired no one & moved the art of filmmaking nowhere, deteriorates rapidly, has to be rewound, and has no efficient means of skipping to certain scenes. It’s awful, and I was deliriously happy to replace cassettes with DVDs. I guess the engineering around getting magnetic reel-to-reel tape into a somewhat user-friendly and cost-effective cassette is kinda cool… until it’s not.