roxics
Veteran
I admit I got roped into vinyl record collecting back in 2014. But I have an excuse. I inherited my parents old 45 collection (along with their VHS collection) and even though it isn't a huge collection, maybe a hundred discs, I figured I might as well have a way to play them. I have no intention of getting rid of them. I didn't inherit a lot from my parents and nostalgia is real. So I bought a used turntable from a local record shop back in 2014 and a couple old Jethro Tull LPs from the 70s. They were only a few bucks each (before used records got stupidly priced) so I figured why not. The next day I went out and bought a new LP (Tool - Undertow, for the curious), just to see if it sounded different. Since then people have been buying me records as gifts or I've picked up a few of my own that I think would sound good on the format. But mostly I'm interested in the artwork and colored discs. As a collectable thing. I enjoy the concept. I've also somehow ended up with two more turntables over the years as well. So that's that. I'm fine with it. Lol!
But it has me thinking, there isn't as much love for analog video. I realize a lot of that likely has to do with the quality of the analog video formats we have. Most being standard definition. And the couple of HD analog formats that did pop up on the market were rare and limited. W-VHS and Muse Laserdiscs.
There are people do that collect SD Laserdiscs and VHS tapes. The latter seems to be most popular with horror movie collectors, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the connection between horror movies and VHS and not say rom-coms and VHS or action/adventure and VHS. I guess maybe nostalgia in combination with the gritty look of the format contributes to the appeal for horror movie fan in particular?
Even so, this is a smaller community, it's not like the resurgence we've seen with vinyl records where they have been selling them again in big box retailers and record stores have mostly converted back to 70-80% vinyl or more. Every so often I hear someone say something like "VHS is the next vinyl" or laserdisc or whatever. I don't buy it, and I don't think most others are either. I just don't think VHS was good enough quality to get more people interested these days. I could see laserdisc being appealing for the artwork size, but it was always a niche format and finding a working player these days is limited. Not like all the new turntables on the market.
People are still collecting movies on DVD/Blu-ray/UHD Blu-ray. Hypothetically I'm curious what it would take for people to be interested in an analog video format. I assume it would need to be able least HD or 4K these days. Would it also need to come on something like a big 12" vinyl discs in different colors and splatter or marble designs (that would be cool). Would it need to be tactile like dropping a stylus tipped tone arm down on it? Or do people just not care about analog video they way they do analog audio, and if that's the case, why not? Shouldn't the same notions/audiophile apply to video as they do audio. That we live in an analog world and digital will never fully capture the entire range of color and tonality and blah blah blah that analog will. I'm not making that argument, just pretending to be somebody who might.
I don't know, just something I've been thinking about.
But it has me thinking, there isn't as much love for analog video. I realize a lot of that likely has to do with the quality of the analog video formats we have. Most being standard definition. And the couple of HD analog formats that did pop up on the market were rare and limited. W-VHS and Muse Laserdiscs.
There are people do that collect SD Laserdiscs and VHS tapes. The latter seems to be most popular with horror movie collectors, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the connection between horror movies and VHS and not say rom-coms and VHS or action/adventure and VHS. I guess maybe nostalgia in combination with the gritty look of the format contributes to the appeal for horror movie fan in particular?
Even so, this is a smaller community, it's not like the resurgence we've seen with vinyl records where they have been selling them again in big box retailers and record stores have mostly converted back to 70-80% vinyl or more. Every so often I hear someone say something like "VHS is the next vinyl" or laserdisc or whatever. I don't buy it, and I don't think most others are either. I just don't think VHS was good enough quality to get more people interested these days. I could see laserdisc being appealing for the artwork size, but it was always a niche format and finding a working player these days is limited. Not like all the new turntables on the market.
People are still collecting movies on DVD/Blu-ray/UHD Blu-ray. Hypothetically I'm curious what it would take for people to be interested in an analog video format. I assume it would need to be able least HD or 4K these days. Would it also need to come on something like a big 12" vinyl discs in different colors and splatter or marble designs (that would be cool). Would it need to be tactile like dropping a stylus tipped tone arm down on it? Or do people just not care about analog video they way they do analog audio, and if that's the case, why not? Shouldn't the same notions/audiophile apply to video as they do audio. That we live in an analog world and digital will never fully capture the entire range of color and tonality and blah blah blah that analog will. I'm not making that argument, just pretending to be somebody who might.
I don't know, just something I've been thinking about.
