VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video] (youtube.com)

He should make "shorts" of his own videos that are 8 minutes long.

I have such a huge nerd crush on this guy. Witnessing the incredible skill of making even the most humble and obsolete of technologies seem like an absolute pinnacle of human ingenuity is always a pleasure.

Alec is probably my favorite YouTuber. I remember catching his videos before he really blew up and they ticked all my nerd boxes! Unlike other youtubers I enjoy, I never seem to get tired of his content — keep going!

It upsets me that so much video was recorded on tapes instead of film, because it didn’t wear well and looks awful today. The only hope we have now are approximations using AI.

Think of all of the 80s TV shows and movies we’d be streaming today if the quality weren’t so poor.

This video nerd-sniped me so hard. All these mechanics put a smile on my face.

Memory unlocked. Around 1980, our local, government mandated, public access program for cable TV would loan out the first over-the-shoulder camera he showed, along with the sorta-portable battery VHS recording rig. White balance was always a challenge with those. AV nerds could go out and tape random events that nobody would watch but it kept us off the street.

Every time I hear about VHS I like to bring up Marion Stokes : https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/marion-stokes-televisi...

I remember as a kid we had a whole bookcase of those small cassettes for the family camcorder. I always loved getting to put the tiny one into the full-sized VHS, felt like magic that it actually worked when you popped it into the VCR.

This video was recommended to me yesterday and I refused to watch, I believed it would take me into some kind of rabbit hole. Either this guy videos or about VHS (or worst, both).

From the comments here, it seems I was right. But now I regret, I could live with a couple of hours of sleeping depravation (I guess).

I wish I never got rid of my VCR and tapes.

Preferred video8 and its successors, they were so much better.

We had VHS and used it just to ingest tapes into Video8, keeping our collection purely video8.

Interesting that camcorders were produced before the widespread use of ccds. The early models used cathode ray tubes to detect the image. [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_camera_tube

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