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.

That's what I'm talking about!

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 ..

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

cant remember that ever happening to me with DVD :)

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

besides, vhs never skips!

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

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.

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

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

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...

Is that the one with the puffy fold out cover?

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?

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.

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

i remember some titles being close to $100

I 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...

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

obviously you havent taken our diversity course yet young man !

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

:p

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.

No, you suck!

Thanks for that.

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.

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

I think I will go VHS shopping today!

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