Blank VHS covers are always artistically fantastic.
For me it would be a new external hard drive for all my data hoarding
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.
Got some 18TB WD’s over Black Friday weekend for $260 or so a pop 🥰
Slightly more expensive than VHS then
Probably cheaper per recording. That HDD can hold a lot more shows than many, many tapes.
I remember getting a stack of blank CDs for christmas. Loved it. Burned so many CDs, made my own mix tracks, gave them out to people I liked and they returned in kind. Shit was cash.
It's so difficult to share music with people now
Anyone is free to gift me HDDs or SSDs.
In fact, if anyone wants to contribute to my holidays present with random computer parts, be my guest.
Don't even have to be new parts. Just whatever you have laying around from the last few years.
I've built one working computer from the remains of three.
I'll take my chances.
No, and I was around when VHS was popular.
so Scotch, the tape company, also sold tapes? 🤨
It seems weird, but makes sense. They already had the equipment to make long, thin ribbons of plastic, after all.
You need anything taped? Scotch had your back.
But I don't need my back taped.
It's been so long since I have seen one of these that I forgot that Scotch was more than just an adhesive company.
They are a tape company
They're a 3M brand. They make basically everything.
I'm only just now realizing they're the same company.
Why get new tapes when one battered and war-torn tape is all you need? Especially the part where you guess (incorrectly) what's safe to copy over, angering your family. Make sure you set the record speed properly!
A 20 TB hard drive
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 😬
That graphic design awakens some memories
The equivalent would probably either be something like external hard drives or thumb drives. That, or going online and finding blank VCR tapes, CDs, or DVDs for sale. I assume it's harder for VCR tapes, but I know you can still find CDs and DVDs at some stores.
I got lucky because towards the beginning of fall quarter at the college I attend, they were getting rid of an unopened stack of blank DVDs for free. Such a great gift, despite me getting them for free.
I'd still love to get an LTO drive and some tapes for christmas.
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.
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.
The equivalent now is a package of socks that don't suck.
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 5 pack of flash drives? I always seem to be out of those
I got a 10-pack of 3.5" floppies at one point.
I got a carton of cigarettes :(
Best Xmas
Banner year in the Blackout household
I was listening to a podcast and this older guy who used to tape trade, was saying that in the early 80s, VHS was new and a good player would cost like $2k in today's money. A blank VHS tape used to go for like $50+each. New Hollywood movie releases on VHS in those days were around $80
if youre a vhs enthusiast like i am its actually dtill a great gift lol
Maybe a stocking with m.2 drives spilling over.
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