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Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder

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115 points naves | 1 comments | 30 Jun 25 18:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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larvaetron ◴[30 Jun 25 18:42 UTC] No.44426514[source]▶
> ... VHS players rapidly became throw-away items – eventually nobody really cared if they only lasted a year or two.

I don't know if I'm losing my marbles, but I don't ever recall a time growing up when my family (or anyone else I knew) were buying a new VCR every year or two.

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1. protocolture ◴[30 Jun 25 23:01 UTC] No.44428839[source]▶
My grandparents had the same 3 VHS units in their house until they moved to digital tv.

We only ever replaced ours once.

A mate of mine had 4 in a stack for the purpose of duplicating and distributing VHS tapes illegally. I think 1 of them stopped working.

Another mate had one that wouldnt rewind faster than playback speed. But they just returned the tapes in dickhead mode rather than paying for a new VCR.