Vhs 4 Ever

[Disease]

I love my vhs tapes and I love collecting more and more of them. Am I the only one?

[urgeok]

i have a few thousand of them .. i only get rid of them if i can replace it with an EXACT copy of laserdisc or DVD.

[ShankS]

I've still got all my vhs tapes, doubt I'll ever get rid of them and they're probably worthless anyway. I think vhs has well and truely had it's day now, as the format is so basic compared to dvd and now that the new formats are here/on the way. The format's not even comparable to laser disc, which is as old as the hills too. It's purely for tradition & nostalgia for film collectors as regular film buyers just want the latest technology.

My video player broke a few years ago, load mechanism spring snapped. I've never bothered getting it fixed as my vhs collection is pretty much redundant. I've got some right shit films in my vhs collection, which I wont want to watch again. The better ones or ones that I want to watch again have been replaced with dvd.

None of the shops I buy from stock vhs anymore, I'd have to visit a second hand place or find a video rental shop with a bargain bin to rummage through to get vhs now.

[Disease]

That's what I love about it, the video sales are on and so is the hunt.

[urgeok]

I've still got all my vhs tapes, doubt I'll ever get rid of them and they're probably worthless anyway. I think vhs has well and truely had it's day now, as the format is so basic compared to dvd and now that the new formats are here/on the way. The format's not even comparable to laser disc, which is as old as the hills too. It's purely for tradition & nostalgia for film collectors as regular film buyers just want the latest technology.

My video player broke a few years ago, load mechanism spring snapped. I've never bothered getting it fixed as my vhs collection is pretty much redundant. I've got some right shit films in my vhs collection, which I wont want to watch again. The better ones or ones that I want to watch again have been replaced with dvd.

None of the shops I buy from stock vhs anymore, I'd have to visit a second hand place or find a video rental shop with a bargain bin to rummage through to get vhs now.

laserdisc is done now .. but if you have an elite player ... the picture quality is better than DVD..

(waaaaaaayyyy less compression - same technology)

[ShankS]

laserdisc is done now .. but if you have an elite player ... the picture quality is better than DVD..

(waaaaaaayyyy less compression - same technology)


laser disc may be done now, but a couple of films ( I may be wrong, the new Dust Devil) recenty got the special edition treatment, and they used the laser disc masters to produce the dvds.... so there's still some valuable use for laser disc.

[bloodrayne]

I love my vhs tapes and I love collecting more and more of them. Am I the only one?I actually PREFER VHS over DVD, for a lot of different reasons...But, everyone disagrees with me...Oh well :)

[crabapple]

I still have lots of VHS tapes, I still watch them, and I love them.:D

I love them especially because no one else wants them. 'Cept for geeks like you!:)

I love my laserdiscs too but some of them have the disc rot:(

Pretty soon I'll use them for Frisbees in the parking lot!:eek:

[Trilby Wearin' Maniac]

I had a clearout of all my vhs...and then regretted it

[bloodrayne]

I love them especially because no one else wants them. 'Cept for geeks like you!:)

That's a GOOD thing...More for me :p

[Disease]

I actually PREFER VHS over DVD, for a lot of different reasons...But, everyone disagrees with me...Oh well :)

Everyone just doesn't get it, where is he?

[the_real_linda]

i keep my vhs......as long as you got them and a vhs player then you can still watch them, a dumb ass friend of mine (the one who says lol....ass) throws them away and replaces them, why the frak? will he replace all his dvd's with he next thing? tis a waste of money and good vhs's.....not everthing is put on dvd.

[neverending]

Most of my vhs tapes are stuff I recorded off the air of obscure shows that stand little chance of getting released on dvd, so there's no way I can get rid of them.

[the_real_linda]

yeah i have a lot of stuff that isnt released...itsnt it strange the things we keep?

[urgeok]

having colected tapes for longer than most of you have been born (no one even mentioned Beta:eek: ) I can say that the tapes wont last forever.
I've always kept mine in ideal conditions (rewound, out of the light, cool and dry) but still the older ones are beginning to deteriorate .. especially at either end of the spool.

I'm going to archive the rare ones onto DVD

[tic]

I have the original uncut "The Burning" on VHS. (Thorn-EMI, Label) which is worth quite a lot. It's now 25 years old and still in perfect working order.

@Urgeok
You are the only person I know who has any beta(max) tapes. I didn't know there where still players for them.

[urgeok]

I have the original uncut "The Burning" on VHS. (Thorn-EMI, Label) which is worth quite a lot. It's now 25 years old and still in perfect working order.

mine's an origional Beta, in the hard plastic case :)

[newb]

I'm a DVD snob. Sure you can get VHS cheap.....because its a dying format.....and rightly so.

[the_real_linda]

i dont buy vhs any more....i buy dvds now, just dont see why people get rid of them

[GetrDone]

I got rid of all on my vhs except the few that are not/maybe never on dvd. I buy dvd only unless its a vhs that I feel won't be on dvd for a long time.

[Miss Olivia]

I'm a VHS collector. I love them, there are movies on VHS that just aren't available on DVD, and it's fun to pick through them. Right now I have around three hundred or more VHS, and around two hundred DVD's. I have a lot of collector's stuff, like Saturday the 14th and Howard the Duck. I am still coveting The Keep, which I bought only to discover it didn't play, and The Monster Squad, because that didn't play either.

[bloodrayne]

I am still coveting The Keep, which I bought only to discover it didn't play, and The Monster Squad, because that didn't play either.I've bought quite a few DVDs that didn't play...I even bought the same one twice because the first one didn't play...And the second one didn't play either...I've NEVER had that happen with VHS...

[bloodrayne]

i had too of the same dvds not work to...what movies were yours?'Alien Contamination' and 'Brain Machine'

[Miss Olivia]

I'm just glad I got my money back, because they were both SUPER expensive. Look up either of those movies on Amazon and check the prices out! I mean, really, they are ridiculous. It's not like they shit gold or something....
The movies I mean.:D

[bloodrayne]

I'm just glad I got my money back, because they were both SUPER expensive. Look up either of those movies on Amazon and check the prices out! I mean, really, they are ridiculous. It's not like they shit gold or something....
The movies I mean.:DHeh...I just found The Keep on eBay for $10...So I bought it...:p








What?...I am NOT a bitch.....Well, okay...Maybe a little:D

[Miss Olivia]

No fair.:(

[bloodrayne]

No fair.:(Aww...You can find one on eBay, too

[Miss Olivia]

I'm afraid of EBay.:eek:
More'n most people, even.
I've had so many people tell me to stay away from EBay, it's kind of turned into a boogeyman by now. They E-Boogey.

[bloodrayne]

I'm afraid of EBay.:eek:
More'n most people, even.
I've had so many people tell me to stay away from EBay, it's kind of turned into a boogeyman by now. They E-Boogey.Hmm, that's odd...I've been using it for 3 years, and I haven't had any problems *knocks on wood*...I've found tons of movies for less than $5 (and that's INCLUDING shipping and handling)...But, I ALWAYS check all feedback, and read any negative comments to sellers...I don't buy anything from anyone with less than 99% positive feedback...Maybe that's how I've avoided problems...


But...Right now I can't find Bette Davis's 'The Nanny' for less than $22...*sigh*

The good thing about eBay is, if you don't find what you're looking for today, it might be there tomorrow...So, I just keep looking :)

[crabapple]

I like Ebay because I like used stuff, and there's lots of that, cheap. I've had good experiences there, generally.

[Despare]

laserdisc is done now .. but if you have an elite player ... the picture quality is better than DVD..

(waaaaaaayyyy less compression - same technology)

I have (somewhere) a laserdisc player but I guess it wasn't elite. You're not saying the picture quality of an elite player is better even than a good upconvert dvd player are you? Yes it's an old thread... so what... wanna fight about it?

[urgeok]

I have (somewhere) a laserdisc player but I guess it wasn't elite. You're not saying the picture quality of an elite player is better even than a good upconvert dvd player are you? Yes it's an old thread... so what... wanna fight about it?

I dont know what an upconvert DVD player is - but the Elite series is still very sought after and valuable because of its quality..
the best DVD players may very well be better now but not many people are dumping their Pioneer elite machines for less than $800.

They used to be worth over $1200 just a year ago.

[Despare]

I dont know what an upconvert DVD player is - but the Elite series is still very sought after and valuable because of its quality..
the best DVD players may very well be better now but not many people are dumping their Pioneer elite machines for less than $800.

They used to be worth over $1200 just a year ago.

Interesting, I'd like to see them both side by side. Upconverts can be very good getting almost HD DVD quality visuals. I think my laserdisc player was a Pioneer or a Panasonic...
The only thing I didn't like about laserdisc was the switching of discs mid-movie, really took me out of some flicks.

[kpropain]

I'm afraid of EBay.:eek:
More'n most people, even.
I've had so many people tell me to stay away from EBay, it's kind of turned into a boogeyman by now. They E-Boogey.

I've bought tons of stuff off of ebay and have only had one problem and that was getting a burnt dvd copy when the seller advertised it as "official release still in shrink wrap" and after threatning to leave him negative feedback he refunded my money...

Other than that I've had nothing but excellent transactions from ebay...

I ALWAYS check all feedback, and read any negative comments to sellers...I don't buy anything from anyone with less than 99% positive feedback...Maybe that's how I've avoided problems...


Same here I always read sellers feedback, I won't buy if it's less than 99% either...

[urgeok]

Interesting, I'd like to see them both side by side. Upconverts can be very good getting almost HD DVD quality visuals. I think my laserdisc player was a Pioneer or a Panasonic...
The only thing I didn't like about laserdisc was the switching of discs mid-movie, really took me out of some flicks.

the side flip bugged me at first - dont mind it so much now (i wouldnt be too thrilled with a manual flip)

[Despare]

the side flip bugged me at first - dont mind it so much now (i wouldnt be too thrilled with a manual flip)

Ah well, mine WAS manual and yeah, you wouldn't be thrilled lol. Anyway, you know what they say about vide... laser discs.

"Pirate 1: Help yourself, mates. A chest full of video discs.
Pirate 2: No!
Pirate 3: What good are they?
Pirate 4: Can't record on 'em.
Pirate 2: They're not compatible with my system"

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[crabapple]

It's strange to say this, but when I watch a laserdisc, it gives me a nostalgic feeling...I get all dreamy and think about the mid-90's when I was a big laser-nut. I used to love going to the laserdisc rental stores and checking out the many rental discs that were, even at that time, quite old! There is something so geeky about these things.

I WANT THAT HILLBILLY JOHN LASERDISC, NOW! GIVE IT HERE, DO YOU HEAR MWE?

[Disease]

This is suposed to be about VHS!

[Disease]

dvds can lick my toilet bowl in this thread, VHS forever!

[Phalanx]

Your mum's a vhs.

[crabapple]

I have so many nifty weird movies on VHS, getting back to VHS. Creature from Black Lake, The Day IT Came To Earth, Dracula vs. Frankenstein, Return of the Living Dead Pt 2 (original version), lots of neat stuff, and I like popping a tape in. It relaxes me.

I am not so much for one technology over another; I am more in support of everything. I mean, I still have cassette tapes and cassette decks. I love cassette tapes. If I could have an 8-track player and a collection of 8-track tapes, I would be so into that. I like the old and the new sort of mixed together. I put it all in a blender with some ice and I just let it happen, baby.

[Disease]

That's what I'm talking about!

[urgeok]

Ah well, mine WAS manual and yeah, you wouldn't be thrilled lol. Anyway, you know what they say about vide... laser discs.

"Pirate 1: Help yourself, mates. A chest full of video discs.
Pirate 2: No!
Pirate 3: What good are they?
Pirate 4: Can't record on 'em.
Pirate 2: They're not compatible with my system"



those are video discs !! CEDs ...
those poor quality ones that came in a hard pastic sleeve - you could never touch the disc ..

those were terrible ... no better than the quality of vhs ..

[urgeok]

my biggest beef with vhs is the tracking problem - and losing the stereo track ..

cant remember that ever happening to me with DVD :)

[Disease]

I see what you meen, but that's all part of vhs, I like the quirks.

[Disease]

besides, vhs never skips!

[the_real_linda]

yeah vhs deteriorate afte rtime but who cares!? i like dvds better still

[Disease]

Last year I lived in a street which had the best video store I have ever know on the corner, I went through that suburb yesterday and bought the last four Friday the 13th vhs tapes I needed for my collection. They weren't even for sale, but this store is so good they still sold them to me.

[the_real_linda]

i dont get it....would they not sell them to other people or do other stores not sell vhs anymore?

[crabapple]

I see what you meen, but that's all part of vhs, I like the quirks.

quirks! that is a good way to describe it. I have some old tapes, and the image quality, the film-to-video transfer itself, is murky, poor...and there are these weird hums and hisses...but when I watch these things, I get a strange kick out of them because they're literally old, they are some ex-rental thing someone bought for fifty cents and sold to me for three dollars.

I guess for me it's a retro thing in some ways

[ShankS]

Whats the most you've paid for a vhs tape?

me, would probably be for 'Braindead' I managed to find it in HMV on Oxford Street, about 11 ~ 12 years ago cost me around £35. It came in this extra big case with great artwork. It was an exclusive to hmv at the time.

[bloodrayne]

Whats the most you've paid for a vhs tape?

me, would probably be for 'Braindead' I managed to find it in HMV on Oxford Street, about 11 ~ 12 years ago cost me around £35. It came in this extra big case with great artwork. It was an exclusive to hmv at the time.I may end up having to pay $22 for The Nanny (Bette Davis) on VHS...I keep checking back to find a cheaper one, but no luck yet...I'm really hoping to find one in a set...

[Disease]

Whats the most you've paid for a vhs tape?

me, would probably be for 'Braindead' I managed to find it in HMV on Oxford Street, about 11 ~ 12 years ago cost me around £35. It came in this extra big case with great artwork. It was an exclusive to hmv at the time.

Is that the one with the puffy fold out cover?

[Disease]

i dont get it....would they not sell them to other people or do other stores not sell vhs anymore?

This store still has a lot of tapes for rental, a lot of hard to find stuff, but since they had these on dvd they let me have them. get it?

[crabapple]

Heh heh...I spent $35 on a "Godzilla vs the Sea Monster" VHS tape once, from a store that used to mark up stuff they knew was rare. They had some resident geek working for them that knew about obscure movies--I never saw this person, but this person was there, certainly, because everything rare would ALWAYS be marked way way up so the store could screw you for what it had coming to it. "This cheesy tape is rare, and some poor fool will pay $35 for this if he has to..."

Aw, heck, it was worth it, though. Fun movie.

[urgeok]

when VHS tapes first came out - only the rental stores bought them .. or rich guys ..

i remember some titles being close to $100

[bloodrayne]

when VHS tapes first came out - only the rental stores bought them .. or rich guys ..

i remember some titles being close to $100I remember that...The video stores would put the prices on the backs of the cases...If anyone lost a movie they would charge them $60-$100...That was insane...

[urgeok]

i paid a fortune for The Abyss when it came out .. that wasnt that long ago.

but worth it .. the super nice old greek couple that ran the video store i went to gave me the promotional package for The Abyss which is a gorgeous thing worth a fair buck now... certainly worth more than i paid for the movie itself.

[Roderick Usher]

i paid a fortune for The Abyss when it came out .. that wasnt that long ago.

but worth it .. the super nice old greek couple that ran the video store i went to gave me the promotional package for The Abyss which is a gorgeous thing worth a fair buck now... certainly worth more than i paid for the movie itself.

You should know better than to accept a gift from Greeks!

I'd keep an eye on that Abyss Promo Package if I were you:D

[urgeok]

You should know better than to accept a gift from Greeks!

I'd keep an eye on that Abyss Promo Package if I were you:D

obviously you havent taken our diversity course yet young man !

you'll find it under the eEthics heading on the intranet home page.

:p

[Disease]

I remeber they where around 100 - 120 bucks each if you wanted to buy them when they where a new release, and you had to wait for months and months to be able to buy them you could only rent them. That's mainly what vhs was about, renting a movie.

[Disease]

No, you suck!

[Disease]

ok disease !!!! Your right I do suck, I suck on hairy donkey balls, and other guys balls aswell, sometimes I even suck on my dogs balls.


Thanks for that.

[Amalthea_unicorn]

I have nearly 150 VHS tapes, and I still love them!
Does anybody still have 300 minutes VHS tapes?

[ShankS]

I have nearly 150 VHS tapes, and I still love them!
Does anybody still have 300 minutes VHS tapes?


the trouble with that sort of length, the tape starts to get too thin, LP recorders get round that by turning 4hrs into 8hrs recording time. I remember snapping loads of audio casette tapes because I used to buy the longest ones to get more music on them... bit of a cheapskate then. Trouble was my hi-fi tape player stretched the tape to easily.

[Disease]

Do you mean those big heavy ones, I've still got a couple of them.

[Disease]

I think I will go VHS shopping today!

[Disease]

Just hold them for me, I think of a way..?