Old VHS tapes

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I have been recently helping my dad sort out his attic which is full of junk and I came across a big box of my old VHS tapes. Some are proper movies and some are recorded stuff from TV.

I don’t really want to throw them away but I don’t want to keep then. What the heck do I do with them?
 
If you dont have a VHS player then you might as well chuck the lot, unless of course you find any rare/expensive videos in there then stick them on ebay and make a few quid for you and your old man.
 
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I recently had to take about 5 dozen good quality tapes to the tip. I tried maybe 5 or 6 charity shops and none take VHS anymore.

I chucked the single tapes into the waste but left the box sets ( black adder,bottom, red dwarf etc ) at the side in case anyone wanted them. I now have everything on DVD or divx anyway :p
 
I just cant bear to throw Red Dwarf away, I couldn't so that with bottom or Black adder either. It would feel like a travesty. Even though I also have most on the PC.

Depends on the size of your house. I have a room we don't use that has a wall of book shelves and I have no books. :D
 
our local videoshop was giving them away when you rented DVD he said he couldn't even give them away.

Best of luck.

However after reading this thread I didn't know there were value to some VHS tapes. Which ones and I'll see if my DVD shop has them :p
 
They are worthless. Ebay might sell you 1 of 2 for 50p. There was a thread on here recently asking this and someone took a load of VHS tapes to a car boot sale and sold 1 of 2 for 20p I think then binned the rest.
 
Well remembered...

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Haven't done anything about mine yet, but I'm resigned to the fact almost all of them are worthless.
 
jp_bl_68 said:
You can buy VCRs that record to DVD/HDD.
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The problem is that the quality is usually so poor you could download and make one your self that would be better, and tbh if I owned the VHS I wouldn't feel that guilty. But I suppose if it is rare or something.

My mate spent 2 weeks recording all his vynal to his PC and naming each track.
 
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