Comments on: #1592 – Spool (8 Comments)

By: Heatherface

Heatherface — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:42:48 +0000

There is at least one teenager who will see this comic and go “What’s a VCR?” I don’t think I’ll ever get over the recent shock of a friend’s younger sibling asking me what a cassette tape is.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:42:22 +0000

biggest scam ever: auto rewinder….

By: Lynne Skysong

Lynne Skysong — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:34:29 +0000

I have a lot of family videos on VHS and haven’t been able to play them… I finally found a working VCR at a thrift store a while back. (My old one stopped properly ejecting tapes. I took it apart, fixed it, tested it (it worked) and my boyfriend (ex now, for different reasons) took metal tweezers to the circuit board (live) to pick up a screw and fried it. One the bright side, it worked for 20 years before croaking.

By: Thatonefan

Thatonefan — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:09:50 +0000

Ah, VCRs. I remember them. So many commercials for Kimba the White Lion, Bill Nye episodes, two weeks of frosty the snowman every December.

By: kingklash

kingklash — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 17:15:12 +0000

I have a DVD/VCR combo, mostly because of several taped programs from years past, and a few movies I haven’t found on disc yet. I do enjoy the “ch-kakt! whhhirrrrrrr…..” when a tape starts to play. I can do without the “chukt-yynngg-yynng-yngg***” when a VCR tries to eat a tape.

By: Dzelda

Dzelda — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:07:45 +0000

And the tapes, they could survive a nuclear bomb detonation and still be there for our mutated ancestors to play

Man, miss VCRs

By: RoguesAndGhosts

RoguesAndGhosts — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:10:07 +0000

Ooooh, I remember our first VCR from when I was a kid, and all the funny sounds it made! When we fast-forwarded or rewinded a video tape, it sounded just like as if it was shouting “Roooolig fiiiiilm! Rooooolig fiiiiiilm!” (which is Swedish for “Fuuuuunny mooooovie!”)

I don’t know what is the weirdest thing about this; the fact that the VCR actually made such a fitting noise, or that I kept hearing words in the sounds I heard as a little kid…

By: Pyro

Pyro — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 07:27:30 +0000

*sniff* reminds me of the death of our old Betamax, I loved that machine, went down in a blaze of glory, literally, it caught fire.

AS for VCRs, I always rather liked them, there was something satisfying about being able to understand how a machine worked.