Pre-recorded VHS tapes

Tbh, I have trouble shifting dvds as it is. What with a lot of places offering free delivery and them being so cheap for most of my collection it can't be done unless in bulk/I'm making a loss :(
 
Lysander said:
All mine are snowy recordings of soft-core porn from channel 5.

The internet now makes it so simple - getting your porn as a teen in the mid 90s wasn't that easy.
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LOL, I hear you on that one. When I was in my early teens I'd tape anything I was watching on TV just in case there was any nudity whatsoever, including the classic grainy rubbish off Channel 5. Then I'd tape on the end with the next program/film etc.

The the internet came along....

The tapes are still at my parent's house. Heaven forbid they watch any of them.
 
This is why I 'worry' when I see folk with hundreds of DVDs, that costed thousands of pounds and will be watched - how many times?

One day these DVDs wil be just like the VHS of today. Worth nothing, crap quality and superseded.
 
I've got a few cardboard boxes full of VHS tapes, mostly pre-recorded. I was going to sell them but to be honest I found they wouldn't make hardly anything and it wasn't worth it, so I decided to just keep them. I've got a 'Super VHS' player with some clever features on it, so the image is pretty good from most of them considering the age of them. I haven't bothered to replace them all with DVD either. I've probably only got somewhere in the region of 15 to 20 dvd's in all. :)

Re: the laserdiscs. As said above some are really rare and quite a few laserdiscs change hands for good money. They are still pretty good and I wouldn't mind getting a laserdisc player and some discs for novelty value more than anything. I saw a comparison between LD and DVD a while ago on a website somewhere and in some cases the LD was better. I think that it was mostly in the sound department that it won out.
 
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tb2000 said:
I've got a few cardboard boxes full of VHS tapes, mostly pre-recorded. I was going to sell them but to be honest I found they wouldn't make hardly anything and it wasn't worth it, so I decided to just keep them. I've got a 'Super VHS' player with some clever features on it, so the image is pretty good from most of them considering the age of them. I haven't bothered to replace them all with DVD either. I've probably only got somewhere in the region of 15 to 20 dvd's in all. :)

Re: the laserdiscs. As said above some are really rare and quite a few laserdiscs change hands for good money. They are still pretty good and I wouldn't mind getting a laserdisc player and some discs for novelty value more than anything. I saw a comparison between LD and DVD a while ago on a website somewhere and in some cases the LD was better. I think that it was mostly in the sound department that it won out.
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It must have been a while ago. VHS looks like crap. S-VHS will nly benefit you if the tape is recorded using SVHS, it does't really make a standard VHA look better. LD's are barely any better than VHS. LD does have better sound, but the picture is still analog. The PQ is worse than SD TV. There's a couple of threads on AV forums where some guy hooks his LD up to his new kuro just to see. What was once state of the art looks embarassingly primitive.
 
whitecrook said:
It must have been a while ago. VHS looks like crap. S-VHS will nly benefit you if the tape is recorded using SVHS, it does't really make a standard VHA look better. LD's are barely any better than VHS. LD does have better sound, but the picture is still analog. The PQ is worse than SD TV. There's a couple of threads on AV forums where some guy hooks his LD up to his new kuro just to see. What was once state of the art looks embarassingly primitive.
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That's fair enough. Granted, I don't really watch the VHS tapes now but they're there if I choose to. I still use a CRT 32" widescreen TV so they don't look too bad. ;)
 
tb2000 said:
That's fair enough. Granted, I don't really watch the VHS tapes now but they're there if I choose to. I still use a CRT 32" widescreen TV so they don't look too bad. ;)
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:) yeah - I had written a comment on using a CRT will make the difference less obvious but deleted it before posting. I have a Panasoninc SVHS edit deck and and a Sony trinitron TV and enjoyed watching many VHS tapes on that combination. But to compare them to flatscreen TV's and digital signals is foolish. They are leagues apart :)
 
you could just break them open and snap the clear plastic rings, unhook the tape from the empty reel, turn it upside down and watch the film spiral off....makes a cool sound as it gets near the end.

lasts a good 5 minutes on a 180

down side is trying to fit it in a bag afterwards :(
 
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