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| Registered: May 23, 2007 |  Posts: 83 |
| | Posted: | | | | PLEASE, PLEASE, DON'T THROW AWAY YOUR TAPES! Donate them to: Halfway Houses Shelters (of all kinds) your Church etc... also give your old VCR with them it's all so a tax deduction, at what you paid for them . SO, give them away and spread the joy  |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Posts: 262 |
| | Posted: | | | | I used to have hundreds of VHS films but I'm down to perhaps 40 films that either are not out on DVD or that I can't find if they are. I replaced all of my other ones with the DVD versions.
I also have a 20 tape series of "Battlefield" -- the best WW II documentaries ever made! I spent $300+ to buy those from PBS Home Video many years ago and I still watch them from time to time.
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| Registered: November 1, 2007 |  Posts: 31 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yeah, I used to be a real VHS adict, had about a 100 maybe, never counted them, but I threw them out whem I needed the space for my DVD collection a few years back, and I never looked back. |
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| Registered: May 23, 2007 | | Posts: 83 |
| | Posted: | | | | PLEASE, PLEASE, DON'T THROW AWAY YOUR TAPES! Quote:
Donate them to:
Halfway Houses
Shelters (of all kinds)
your Church
etc...
also give your old VCR with them
it's all so a tax deduction, at what you paid for them .
SO, give them away and spread the joy |
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| Registered: March 20, 2007 | | Posts: 262 |
| | Posted: | | | | Mad Chief,
I mostly sold mine or gave them away to friends and family. I did donate a bunch to the local library one time. I don't think I threw any out though. You make a very good point however.
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| Registered: March 18, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,456 |
| | Posted: | | | | Yahoooo! Went to Walmart today and there was a huge bin of legacy DVD titles perfect for replacing some of my VHS collection. $5 each and there were lots of widescreen titles. Go get'um! Picked up Absolute Zero, Kisss of the Dragon, Double Jeopardy, Along Came A Spider, True Lies, Charliie's Angels (UnRated), Jerry Maguire, The Sum of All Fears. Yes, I know - I got a couple that weren't in my VHS at all. My bad ...  (Going back tomorrow ... ) | | | Thanks for your support.
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| Registered: July 7, 2007 |  Posts: 284 |
| | Posted: | | | | Luckiliy, I didn't start collecting VHS tapes long before the DVD hype started. So I only had about 200 VHS tapes to throw out. Still have about 10 which contain dutch movies never transferred to DVD, like "Kleine Teun". | | | My DVD's
Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard drive? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 252 |
| | Posted: | | | | Never got deep into the pre-recorded tape market myself... maybe a couple dozen total, with only about 4 titles now remaining, and only 1 not available on other formats. Usually used Beta and VHS just for timeshifting. Most of my legacy archive is LD, many of which I shamefully haven't replaced yet with available equivalent or improved DVD editions  - too much new material to acquire! Magnetic video tape will last quite awhile if well cared for... the oldest video cassette tape I have is a 1979 recording of a Nova program on Beta (there's even a CC signal present!) Still plays fine, though looks quite poor due to the limitations of the machinery then. The oldest video recordings I have are 1973 open reel tapes of EIAJ-1 format. Still have a functioning deck too, which got extensive use this past summer as I converted these to miniDV (thus scrapping the VHS dubs I had made 15 years ago.) Tapes 34 years old, and though causing frequent head clogs to be dealt with, was were actually in surprisingly good playback condition. (though in another decade some will probably have matured into diskettes! mmmm... sticky shed.) |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 76 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting richierich: Quote:
Quoting djskyler:
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Quoting Lord Of The Sith:
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I jumped in when DVD's were still regularly $40.00 and you had to flip them half way through the movie.
You must mean laserdiscs, they were $40 and could only hold 30 or 60 minutes per side.
Nope he meant DVD, I remember the 'flippers' and still have a couple of them Which movies were like this? I didn't get into DVD until 1999 with a DiVX player from CC |
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