Post 299584 by Rob_T_Firefly@b3ta.social
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 (DIR) Post #298696 by thegibson@hackers.town
       2018-09-30T14:20:31Z
       
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       Did anyone ever us a T-120 VHS cartridge to actually record at 120?I set every one I ever got my hands on to 360 to get the full 6 hours.
       
 (DIR) Post #298718 by viciousviscosity@cybre.space
       2018-09-30T14:24:25Z
       
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       @TheGibsonTo record Empire Strikes Back's 75 minutes, i switched from SP to LP near the end to get it to fit almost exactly, cutting commercials of course.
       
 (DIR) Post #298739 by thegibson@hackers.town
       2018-09-30T14:26:50Z
       
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       @viciousviscosity that's a trick I never tried... but cool!Nope, I was LP on every tape all the time.... but I did manage to get the sw trilogy on a single tape!I think I trimmed credits iirc. Been a while.
       
 (DIR) Post #299087 by Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org
       2018-09-30T14:57:54Z
       
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       @TheGibson Probably, but don't really remember!
       
 (DIR) Post #299519 by Rob_T_Firefly@b3ta.social
       2018-09-30T15:35:50Z
       
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       @thegibson Only when it was something I really wanted to have a copy of in the highest quality possible.  SP was basically my home-recorded VHS equivalent to the Criterion Collection.
       
 (DIR) Post #299540 by thegibson@hackers.town
       2018-09-30T15:37:47Z
       
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       @Rob_T_Firefly right!I had two holy tapes that could not be recorded over.One had all three movies from the Star Wars OT.The other had Flight of the navigator, and two Christmas movies that I can't remember now.I also remember taping Transformers, Voltron, and Robotech obsessively.
       
 (DIR) Post #299556 by thegibson@hackers.town
       2018-09-30T15:39:34Z
       
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       @Rob_T_Firefly I also distinctly remember a wired remote with a single slide switch on it to pause and resume recording...It was kind of an awesome analogue device looking back.
       
 (DIR) Post #299584 by Rob_T_Firefly@b3ta.social
       2018-09-30T15:42:02Z
       
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       @thegibson My main standing recording obsessions were the various 1990s "Star Trek" variants, "Max Headroom" and "Twin Peaks" from when Bravo broadcast them ad-free, "Red Dwarf" from PBS, and "Quantum Leap."And woe be to anyone who dared to touch my holy cassettes containing my home recordings of the 1996 "Doctor Who" TV movie, or the miniseries of Stephen King's "The Stand."