Vhs 4 Ever
 

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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:

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

'Alien Contamination' and 'Brain Machine'

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

Heh...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

No fair.:(

Aww...You can find one on eBay, too

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 :)

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

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.

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.

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...

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

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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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?

This is suposed to be about VHS!

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

Your mum's a vhs.