Andros
Jobber
Kind of a jerk.
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Post by Andros on Aug 6, 2019 10:11:47 GMT -5
I just started the process of digitizing my old wrestling tapes, i used to record Smackdown every week around 2004/05. It was the only wrestling that was available on free-tv in germany during the 2000's.  How many of you used to do this? i remember being very meticulous about cutting out the ads on the breaks, these days it'd be pretty cool to still have those i think. Kids these days have it better with their networks and the internet, we waited a whole week to watch a cut down, edited, 45 minutes long version of Smackdown, and then half the matches would feature Luther Reigns and Kenzo Suzuki. What are your memories of the "tape era"? Do you still have them? |
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Post by JTG on Aug 6, 2019 10:19:01 GMT -5
I remember I would have to tape the second half of Raw because it was too late to stay up when I was a kid. So I would come home from school the next day and watch the back half of it. There was also a time when my family bought this DVD burner/recording machine that I use to record PPVs on. I have most of the PPVs from 2006/2007 on disc somewhere from that.
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Post by LA Times on Aug 6, 2019 11:13:03 GMT -5
I had to throw away all my wrestling shows on VHS cassettes when I moved a few years ago.
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Post by rowdy1971 on Aug 6, 2019 11:38:07 GMT -5
I have so many VHS tapes. I taped all the WWF stuff from 1985 till the early 2000s. I have almost every Prime Time Wrestling with Gorilla and Bobby. I'd never record the matches, just the banter between them. It's fun going back and just picking one out at random and seeing what I have on the tape. And yes, 90% are not labeled. LOL
I can watch an 8 hour tape of WWF Superstars from 1985 from start to finish.
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Old Zeke
Main Eventer
'Fraid old Zeke, he rides up here with me. Can't trust a pig with watermelons, you know.
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Post by Old Zeke on Aug 6, 2019 11:41:30 GMT -5
My brother stole mine years ago. It was just one tape with loads of Sky One recordings of SmackDown, Afterburn and Bottom Line from mid-2004. Around the time of Judgment Day and Bad Blood.
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Post by HHH316 on Aug 6, 2019 11:47:35 GMT -5
I was big into this in the mid 2000s. I think it was 2004 when my parents bought me a DVD recorder for Christmas. I would just around with doing comps of just matches and then some full shows without commercials. The big one I created was every HBK match and segment from late 2002 until 2009. When I moved this last time, I dumped all of my VHS tapes I had left. Everything I was throwing out is on the network, so I didn't think it was a huge loss.
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Post by marino13 on Aug 6, 2019 11:53:38 GMT -5
Until a few years ago I had several hundred VHS tapes with everything recorded. But once the VCR's started dying out and WWE came out with a network, I threw em all away.
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Post by rkmo: The FOCUS Method on Aug 6, 2019 11:57:39 GMT -5
When I was a teen I taped special episodes and certain matches. Then Christmas 2011 I received a DVD recorder/dubber. I've tried transferring my VHS to DVD but didn't get too far. I was also able to get it set up to record off cable. Started recording every Raw and SD to create my own "Best of" compilations, and did that until my cable company forced the area to go to cable boxes and made it impossible to record them. Held such a grudge about it I didn't purchase any official annuals until this past holiday season.
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Post by Next Manufactured’s Sweater on Aug 6, 2019 12:32:03 GMT -5
I find the idea of still using VHS tapes in 2004 funny for some reason. I used to do this too though, on and off, from about 1995-99. I must have replayed the Shawn Michaels “Tell Me a Lie” music video at least 200 times during Christmas 1995. I recorded everything on longplay, so the quality was already pretty bad, but I wore the tape out even further.
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Aug 6, 2019 12:41:04 GMT -5
I have a huge footlocker full of VHS tapes. Most are JCP/NWA footage, but I have several hours of Piper's Pits, Piper promos, interviews & matches.
I'm hoping to eventually transfer them to my computer before the humidity eventually wrecks them.
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Post by Thought Collector on Aug 6, 2019 12:46:32 GMT -5
I taped everything lol. I had tons-not just wrestling, I used to tape every Simpsons ep. and Batman The Animated Series back when it first aired. One of the best and most fun thing about them is having the old commercials from back then that you sometimes forgot about and can laugh at. And in the case of the animated shows, the old bumpers between breaks too.
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Old Zeke
Main Eventer
'Fraid old Zeke, he rides up here with me. Can't trust a pig with watermelons, you know.
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Post by Old Zeke on Aug 6, 2019 14:00:38 GMT -5
I taped everything lol. I had tons-not just wrestling, I used to tape every Simpsons ep. and Batman The Animated Series back when it first aired. One of the best and most fun thing about them is having the old commercials from back then that you sometimes forgot about and can laugh at. And in the case of the animated shows, the old bumpers between breaks too. My Dad used to tape every episode of the Simpsons when he first moved out so that we had something to watch together at the weekends when I was there. I’d completely forgotten about it until you mentioned it. |
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Aug 6, 2019 14:05:23 GMT -5
In 2007 I put all my VHS tapes onto DVD thanks to a DVD recorder I bought at Walmart.
A few years later, I got a DVD burner on my new computer at the time, so I ended up getting the rest of the wrestling shows I needed off certain websites that shall remain nameless.
Then when the WWE Network came out, I pretty much threw out everything. A lot of the stuff I had was good - poor quality anyhow, so to have everything clear and crisp on the WWE Network was a blessing.
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Post by K5 on Aug 6, 2019 14:41:05 GMT -5
yeah, i taped everything as a kid. double taped rented tapes as well so i had a pretty extensive wrestling collection between my best friend and i.
seeing everything remastered on the network is really crazy, considering i wasn't seeing it in that quality when it happened live.
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Post by The Brain on Aug 6, 2019 14:47:42 GMT -5
I taped so much on VHS back in the day. I had boxes and boxes and boxes full of stuff.
I got rid of em all after converting them to DVD(which took a very long time) but man in the end it was worth it. My wrestling DVD collection is extensive to say the least.
But man VHS tapes will always have a special place in my heart.Loved going to the rental stores back in the day and picking out like 3 or 4 Coliseum or NWA Videos and going home and watching em for hours. Good times.
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Post by Rude Awakening on Aug 6, 2019 15:05:45 GMT -5
Anyone else miss the video quality wwe used to have before they went hd? Everything on the network is remastered, but whenever I put in an old dvd I get such nostalgic feelings seeing the video quality lol
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Post by Rated [R] NinJa on Aug 6, 2019 15:21:40 GMT -5
My dad would tape PPVs on VHS because I’d have school in the morning, I think I stopped doing it around 2009. I threw them all out when my interest in wrestling declined a few years ago,
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Post by POOR-ly Cuyler on Aug 6, 2019 15:53:25 GMT -5
Something to be said about those commercials. That’s the kind of stuff I like. I’ve watched old 90s commercials on YouTube because you just don’t get that kind of nostalgia with a network or streaming service.
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Aug 6, 2019 15:53:50 GMT -5
I could never throw out my VHS recordings. I've episodes of Livewire, Raw, Heat, PPVs and many others.
Watching an old Raw episode with the Sky Sports logo on top of the screen along the old commercials really takes me back 20 years and they're something I could never throw in the trash.
I know everything's remastered on the network but each tape holds so many happy memories for me. I have one that I called The Best of Mankind and I remember back in 98 recording a handful of Foley's matches and it was like creating my own entertainment.
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Post by The Brain on Aug 6, 2019 16:11:07 GMT -5
Just to give you humanoids a small perspective on the VHS tapes I converted to DVD over the years...  IMG_0328 by Bobby Heenan, on Flickr
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