Or the sweet agony of setting the video to record something that was then delayed because of sport running late so you missed the last ten minutes of the film and had no way of finding out what happened - ThreadSky

mattgreencomedy.com • 165 days ago

Or the sweet agony of setting the video to record something that was then delayed because of sport running late so you missed the last ten minutes of the film and had no way of finding out what happened

Reposted from Sooz Kempner

Kids today will never know how it feels to own a copy of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom taped off the TV at Christmas and you've watched it fifty times so you know the order of the adverts off by heart and you just flat-out watch them every time.

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mikefinleymusic.bsky.social•165 days ago

I made my mum cry more than I'd ever seen when she messed up the recording of the Peter Cushing Doctor Who and the Daleks film on channel 4. I've never felt like more of a monster. 30 years later and I still feel terrible for it.

nkrowe.bsky.social•165 days ago

Oh god yes. I think it was the last episode of Flashforward (or maybe Heroes). Anyway, the whole thing was coming to the climactic ending & I'd set my recorder as I was on hols. Got back to find I had an hour of snooker as it had over-run. The fan uproar caused a repeat showing weeks later.

drewsilla.bsky.social•165 days ago

I’ve never seen the end of Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory because of this. To me they go to his office, he says good day sir and it ends 😂😂

nataliasdad.bsky.social•165 days ago

There was a brief period when they had some technology where you set your VCR using a code for each show in the listings. The broadcasters would send out a signal when the show actually started & the VCR would start & finish recording based on that. Then VCRs went on the scrapheap & that was that.

kewcogs.bsky.social•165 days ago

Still got my VCR in a cupboard but my telly has no SCART socket and the batteries in the remote leaked brown goo all over it.

nataliasdad.bsky.social•165 days ago

SCART to HDMI adapter and a universal remote should sort you out.

tramontana.bsky.social•165 days ago

Not sure it'll work anyway. They closed down the SD channels recently - everything is HD now.

drrthomas.bsky.social•165 days ago

You only did that once. Future recordings were set to finish waaaaay after

randomronil.bsky.social•165 days ago

Well this was buried trauma

refitman.bsky.social•165 days ago

Oh god, you just unearthed an anger hidden for decades.

permaconfused.bsky.social•165 days ago

See also: being the only person in the family with a copy of Halliwell's Film Guide and receiving regular phone calls about "thingy, the guy from that film with whatisname".

80s-crop.top•165 days ago

This is all bringing back a lot of old memories of VHS technology & it's quirks that I had long forgotten.

I had to buy a specific used Sony VCR so that I could watch things recorded at my parents because the tracking was so awful on their's that it was the only make that could play them back.

manspyder.bsky.social•165 days ago

I still don't know the ending of Akira thanks to the tape running out. Thanks, BBC Two.

jasmineflower.bsky.social•165 days ago

Oooft
Right in the childhoods

garyofearth.bsky.social•165 days ago

Whereas now it’s become almost impossible to avoid finding out how a film finishes before you’ve had a chance to watch it.

tramontana.bsky.social•165 days ago

In 1969 I went to see OHMSS at the cinema. When the Diana Rigg character got killed at the end a shocked gasp came from the audience. Couldn't happen now.

teriprice.bsky.social•165 days ago

Gone With the Wind. Tape wasn’t long enough. Still no idea how it ends.

pirateshipdream.bsky.social•165 days ago

Me, recording Soylent Green from BBC2 but the snooker ran late so I missed the last 20 minutes and didn't see it for another ten years

theleebo.bsky.social•165 days ago

There was a period where itv dubbed swear words in films very badly, mine and my sisters favourite vhs recording was of Aliens with every swear word changed to “freak” and such by what must have been a prepubescent intern.

thetreefox.bsky.social•165 days ago

A pragmatic man always set his VCR to record at least 30 minutes past the projected finish of a show lol (Oh god I'm old)

geologyjohnson.bsky.social•165 days ago

Always the damn sports.

steve-mcl.bsky.social•165 days ago

That feeling when you came through the house to see the clock flashing after a power cut
😐

gridlock.bsky.social•165 days ago

Squeezing 4 episodes of the X Files (44mins) onto a 3 hour tape to build a box set before they were a glint in someone's eye

berthalloumi.bsky.social•165 days ago

Oooooh or thinking Video+ was somehow smart so it could delay the start and elongate the end and then learning it was just a quicker way of scheduling something.

greedyrunner.bsky.social•165 days ago

I absolutely loved The Man Who Would be King the first time I saw it, live off the telly. The second time I saw it all bar the last half hour, because I'd programmed the VCR wrong. [Dolly zoom] "Noooooo."

tramontana.bsky.social•165 days ago

Having it cut short leaves you with an immense feeling of

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