What to do with old VHS tapes..!!

I know the post is 3 years old but... stick them on Gumtree and offer them for free or check if you have any local selling groups on Facebook and offer them for free on there. Always someone will take your tat.
 
Oxfam were very grateful. Got shot of a Micromark CCTV camera (as new, boxed!), Casio digital camera (also boxed), South Park Kenny soft toy and a Mitsubishi CCTV VCR - not sure whether that'll be much use to 'em on reflection...
 
SickAsAParrot said:
Does anyone know how long they last anyway? I'm pretty sure some of my late-80's tapes don't work anymore because of oxide breakdown and dumping it all over the head and I wouldn't risk playing them on my last-and-only VHS deck.

I would have thought in 20 years or so the rest of my legacy collection will be junk too.
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I've played 20+ year old tapes and they were fine. It depends on how you've stored them though. If they've been kept dry and out of sun light or heat then they should still work.
 
We have about forty in the loft, I have no idea why we haven't thrown them out yet, as space up there is constrained somewhat.

I guess if houses in the UK were generally bigger or basements were more common then they'd be easily stored but, I still can't think why that would be a good idea.

It's difficult throwing electronics out. Sign of the times.
 
I'm in the middle of converting my wifes collection of tapes to the PC so we can store them on an external drive (or two). 40 done so far, many were 6 hours long and done overnight.

I don't mind it as it'll free up space in the house, but I know she'll never look at them.
 
drone said:
Still got the whole X Files series on boxsets always used to think they would be collectors items one day lucky to get £2 for them on ebay now and at the time they were £80 a boxset each :eek:
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Well with everything available digitally on the internet these days, having the 'complete set' on physical media isn't that much of a big deal anymore.

Box-Sets are a waste of money unless heavily discounted :cool:
 
i just remembered i have every start trek episode on VHS from original series tng deep space nine and voyager and all the films in between.

i cant imagine throwing something like that away.
 
As a teenager I recorded every X-Files episodes that was aired on BBC TV during the 90s and had them stacked under my desk in my bedroom. This would have been around 1994 - 1996. Along with all sorts of gems like Channel 4s extreme cinema series where the films were introduced by Mark Kermode. That series really got me into cinema and understanding films were more than just entertainment.

Simpler times, but everything had more meaning when it wasn't so easy to access.....if you forgot to record something it was tough...you have missed it and had to hope a mate had a copy.
 
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A lot of talk about the media being highly digital however I am not currently there with it all yet.

If I want to watch a series or whatever I'll watch it on SKY, however should I miss it or for whatever reason feel the need to own it, it's straight to Amazon or HMV for the physical copy on DVD/Blu-Ray.

Where do people build their digital libraries from? iTunes seems stupidly expensive.
 
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