Did you own a Betamax player before?

haha holy jump'n, I remember the Beta machine, I remember 'Purple Rain' Man, musta watched that movie atleast 30 times. We had a beta when i was in grade 5, so around 10 year old...akk..that would be like 24 years ago. God i feel old now :)

No. But our neighbor had one. We used to watch in their house the old Jackie Chan movies like Drunken Master. We also watched Rambo and Rocky in their Betamax. Kind a little bit funny, I still remember when I was helping our neighbor rewind the tapes. He did not want to use the player to automatically rewind them because he believed it will shorten the life of the player. So we do it manually. I hold the tape and he do the twisting.. LOL...

We've never owned a Betamax machine. Those players were long gone before I got old enough before I could have my own machine in my room. I've only ever had a VCR, and then a DVD player. Now, when I was younger, we had a VCR and a Betamax machine. We had a bunch of tapes for both machines. It was ridiculous as to how many we had. There are none left, and the Betamax has been long gone.

Hey modstar! I didn't have Betamax! I guess I just skipped that step and went directly to VHS! And now I am still there! I still don't have a DVD player yet! I am not a big movie watcher if you can believe that! I will watch a movie on tv or online, but I really don't care if I don't watch movies at all! My boyfriend keeps saying he is going to get a DVD player, but he just never does! Maybe one day he will!

Yes we do own a betamax before, and we have good movies in betamax form as well however I didn't enjoyed watching movies in betamax because when we were little as far as I can remember we already used the VHS. Our betamax is just there as a display and the tapes were already stored in a cabinet. In my time VHS is the mode of entertainment in terms of movie watching, we rent tapes in VHS form cause we do not go to movie houses before. Back then going to the cinemas to watch a movie cost a lot and we could not afford wasting our money for entertainment so we just rent tapes and watch it at home. But now we do not have both of them anymore. As time passes they became obsolete and we have to get rid of them because having them fixed is not just worth it and when the era of VCD's and DVD's roam the entertainment scene, they do not produce VHS tapes anymore. Modern technology really advances rapidly. ^-^

yeah we have that in our family,it was one of the in thing in the 80's.i remember that my brother brought this betamax abroad and he brought many betamax tapes too..the whole family including my cousins were all there and excited to watch a movies :)

yes, we did have one, modstar. it was the front loading type. actually, we hac two. i can recall now that at first we had the top loading type. and then when it got busted, we bought a new one, this time, it is the front loading type. we were told that it is the more durable model. the betamax performance was never that good. so, when the vhs machines came forth, we also bought one immediately. they proved to be more durable and better in performance if compared to the betamax.

i think VHS killed it too. i dont have any betamax player but i still have VHS player. some of my favorite films are on VHS. i have also a lot of collection of family reunions on VHS so it is nice to ket my kids watch it every once in a while. yes i think i watched ghostbuster too on betamax.

We had Betamax before! Oh my! My mom always love to rent betamax tape movie same with my brother. That was 15 years ago, I think..hehe. We don't have it anymore!

Hi, in the 80's I owned a betamax. I upgraded to vhs then to dvd's. Got rid of it years ago.

I remember Betamax. I remember when I went to buy my first VCR having to choose and hoping that I didn't choose the wrong one. I chose VHS (though I don't remember why) I did watch movies on a betamax though. Before I bought a VCR it was common for the video stores to rent you the VCR with the tapes.