April 20 – THE THIRD TRIANNUAL GREAT PORTLAND HOME VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT SWAPATHON: HURTS SO GOOD

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THE THIRD TRIANNUAL GREAT PORTLAND HOME VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT SWAPATHON will welcome Portland’s premiere video cassette swap-tacular  back to the warm bosom of Floating World Comics. Inspired by relaxing weekend getaways to Oregon’s wine country with Floating World owner Jason Leivian and brunch server Mayhaw Hoons, the SWAPATON was formed to take their experiences and supply a haven for Portland’s VHS-enthustiast community to swap video tapes, their concerns and… romance?* Guests are heartily encouraged to bring their own VHS to swap or sell. Please e-mail Jason if you are interested in exhibitor table space.

*romance will not be provided

WHO: Tabled exhibitors, VHS lovers
WHAT: VHS swap meet
WHEN: Saturday, April 20th, 3-8PM
WHERE: Floating World Comics, 400 NW Couch St.

Bio info:

The Video Home System (better known by its abbreviation VHS) is a consumer-level analog recording videotape-based cassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan (JVC). The VHS cassette is a 187 mm wide, 103 mm deep, 25 mm thick plastic shell held together with five Phillips head screws. The flip-up cover that protects the tape has a built-in latch with a push-in toggle on the right side. The recording media is a 12.7 mm wide magnetic tape wound between two spools, allowing it to be slowly passed over the various playback and recording heads of the video cassette recorder. VHS tapes have approximately 3 MHz of video bandwidth and 400 kHz of chroma bandwidth, which is achieved at a relatively low tape speed by the use of helical scan recording of a frequency modulated luminance (black and white) signal, with a down-converted “color under” chroma (color) signal recorded directly at the baseband. In modern-day digital terminology, NTSC VHS is roughly equivalent to 333×480 pixels luma and 40×480 chroma resolutions.

On December 31, 2008, the final truckload in the USA of recorded programming on VHS tapes rolled out of a warehouse owned by Ryan Kugler, the last major supplier of VHS-recorded videos.