I'm cleaning out my attic and I've got many many boxes of VHS tapes I started collecting back when VHS was new
Most are still in excellent shape and 75-80% are commercially / professionally made.
I'm cleaning out my attic and I've got many many boxes of VHS tapes I started collecting back when VHS was new
Most are still in excellent shape and 75-80% are commercially / professionally made.
I'll sell you a mini tv/vcr combo you can watch them on!
Wait another 25 years until the future hipsters start claiming that VHS is actually better quality, as seen by the 'warmth' and 'softness' of playback.
In reply to Robbie (Forum Supporter) :
I used to save my old records decades past the point where cassettes and tape replaced them. Eventually tossed em all since I don't have the sort of taste that others find collectible.
If there is anything Disney, look it up on Ebay. Some of them are worth stupid money. Not what the internet will have you believe, but enough to list it and ship it for SOME of them.
Otherwise, I'd probably toss them unless there is one or two that aren't available digitally that you really enjoy.
If they are old metalworking or body shop + painting videos I would love to have them ,
But really old Warner Brothers Looney tunes seems like they fit the world these days :)
Nothing cool like that. A fair number of 1930'smovie you can watch on Turner Classic movies without having to set up a VHS machine.
Robbie (Forum Supporter) said:Wait another 25 years until the future hipsters start claiming that VHS is actually better quality, as seen by the 'warmth' and 'softness' of playback.
Lmfao. True. So true.
Get marooned on a pacific island, use it as rope to build a raft so you can get out into the shipping lanes and be rescued. Works every time.
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barefootskater said:Get marooned on a pacific island, use it as rope to build a raft so you can get out into the shipping lanes and be rescued. Works every time.
Stole my answer.
They are worth some money for a couple of reasons:
If you want to make a few bucks, get a list of everything and post them locally for a buck a tape.
If you want to make some flipper happy, donate them.
Design and fab a special gizmo that will slit the VHS tape down to 1/4" audio tape. Then you will have 1000's of little reels of audio tape to try and find a use for. 
A buds mother in law passed a few years ago and my bud asked me to go clean out the house. The house was full of VHS tapes and piles of boxes of brand new crap bought on QVC. I filled my 8' bed pickup 8 or 9 times hauling the VHS tapes to the dump. Just toss them Frenchy and spend the time you'd waste messing around with them building that Jag awaiting your attention. Stop procrastinating!
Don't dump them.....
put them on craigslist for $20 , someone stuck at home will enjoy them ,
I am working to convert home movie 8mm tapes to digital and its a pain. If they are commercially-avaialble on DVD or download, I would toss the lot.
NOT A TA said:A buds mother in law passed a few years ago and my bud asked me to go clean out the house. The house was full of VHS tapes and piles of boxes of brand new crap bought on QVC. I filled my 8' bed pickup 8 or 9 times hauling the VHS tapes to the dump. Just toss them Frenchy and spend the time you'd waste messing around with them building that Jag awaiting your attention. Stop procrastinating!
You are right. They are trash.
You can also likely donate them to an assisted living/retirement home.
We have two drawers full of kids' movies, same dilemma. We donated some to a daycare.
We also had some 8mm home movies converted to VHS, perhaps you can roll yours on to a CD or thumb drive? If it's home made porn just sell 'em for $1 at a garage sale.
Robbie (Forum Supporter) said:Wait another 25 years until the future hipsters start claiming that VHS is actually better quality, as seen by the 'warmth' and 'softness' of playback.
I finally got our VCR hooked up in the new house, and have been watching stuff since we have a bad antenna signal as well as a bad internet signal right now.
The worst thing about watching VHS on a modern TV is the fact they were all recorded in 4:3 fullscreen either by cropping or pan-and-scan, instead of just letterboxing the widescreen image to fit, so now on a widescreen TV it's pillarboxed back down to square :(
But the picture quality is still E36 M3. My god, it's awful, and age hasn't helped the cassettes get any better.
Frenchy, don't dump them yet. Wait a few years. You see what happened with LP's. Who knows? How much space do they take up? Can't be much. Attic?
Gary said:Frenchy, don't dump them yet. Wait a few years. You see what happened with LP's. Who knows? How much space do they take up? Can't be much. Attic?
One of the big differences between LPs & magnetic media such as tapes & VHS is that if the cassettes aren't kept in a fairly maintained temperature & humidity range, they'll deteriorate rapidly. I've pulled VHS out of my parents attic that had a pool of black oily stuff weeping out of it.
Note that they'll deteriorate from just sitting there anyway (think of how much more likely old tapes were to break in the player), but not as fast.
The sad fact is that they probably won't ever be worth the storage space, and if you can make someone happy for cheap, I'd take that opportunity myself.
Gary said:Frenchy, don't dump them yet. Wait a few years. You see what happened with LP's. Who knows? How much space do they take up? Can't be much. Attic?
The attic is too nice a space for junk! It's 30'x 30' with 4 walk-in dormers. And decently high ceilings through most of it. Plus I have a Vision of a bow window to overlook the lake.
I'm thinking of an art studio?
frenchyd said:Plus I have a Vision of a bow window to overlook the lake.
I'm thinking of an art studio.
GO BUILD THE JAG!!!!!
... the "art" of building a V12....
Building a V12 in the attic, what could possibly go wrong?
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