Maxell VHS Commercial (1991)

[Oerg866]

Nobody beats me! I'm the wiz! Haha so nice :)

[cameron20101000]

finally i got some maxell vhs tapes not this model i got the one from 2000's

[lemonrind]

Wow, is that the store from that Seinfeld episode? I always thought The Wiz was a fictional store.

[thegirl44]

@lemonrind

It was real. It was actually a chain of stores owned by a bunch of brothers by the last name of Jemal. You may not have heard of it if you didn't live in the NYC/NJ area.

It was a good store, they had new products that you had never heard of.

It looks as though someone has bought out the name because there is an online Wiz store. It wouldn't be the Jemal brothers running, I don't think, as they sold out the name years ago

[Hotshotter3000]

Hehehe, this commercial was in 1991, for a kid to grow up watching his childhood achievements on tape, he would have had to have them in the late 70's at the least in order to still enjoy them at his late thirties or forties (Stand-alone VCR units continued to be made as late as Dec 2008, and DVD/VHS combos are fairly common... there's even a Blue-ray/VHS combo out there!). The truth is, its best if they were converted to digital format and preserved on hard disks. I don't buy into the 'optical.

[Hotshotter3000]

(Part 2) Optical media lasts forever' deal. I've had CDs that became completely corrupt just like that even after less than 5 years of owning them. This was despite being an original CD, and not a burned copy or pirated version. Makes me shake my head at the whole promise. Meanwhile, I had a Ghostbusters II VHS that worked perfectly in 2008 even though it was made in 1990 or so.

[Riddler95]

This commerical makes it look like VHS will last but it didn't.

There was nothing superior about VHS, LaserDisc was much superior.

[LostLocke]

I hate to say it, but VHS outlasted LaserDisc by years.

[Hotshotter3000]

Laser-rot in American LaserDiscs were sadly common. Japanese ones were of much higher quality.

[Riddler95]

My Pioneer CLD-S201 seems to handle Laser Rot very well.

[Anarketo2008]

Blu-Ray is the future...

[Hotshotter3000]

For about 5 years. They're already working on making Protein-covered disks and HVD's are on the market for large companies, and within a few years they would be affordable for your average consumer. Technology is advancing very fast. VHS was the big thing for 20 years from 1976 to 1997 when DVDs came out. It took 9 more years for the VHS to see its last major releases. For DVD it would probably be less than that (Especially since HDTVs are getting cheaper).

[Yimpinkilp]

He has to be the last person still using a 4:3 cathode ray television in 2020!

[hfkjehgufihgiufewi]

No, I will be:)

[nasw]

Yeah, but by the outline of the screen, it's an old, pre "Wega" Trinitron, so his neighbours probably come over and marvel at how good uncompressed analogue television looks compared to their fixed-pixel digital flat panels. A good tube (and a good deck) is still the only way to view low-res sources like VHS...

[Hotshotter3000]

There are still old-time gamers would want those for their NES and SNES system (as well as any of the other older stuff). I heard that the NES Zapper doesn't work on flat-screen TVs.

[Yimpinkilp]

I'm not saying they don't have appeal, I just don't think that tv set is going to last so long, regardless of how good fictional people are at holding on to their old tapes. My screen started to give out a couple months after I wrote that comment.

Beside that, this guy is a really old school gamer, as he plays baseball and not duck hunt. Or at least he did. I don't get the impression he accomplished a whole lot in his lifetime if he had to constantly validate his existence in that way.