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ersatzpanther

ersatzpanther

Senior Member
I'm about to cull most of my VHS tape collection. Most are ones I recorded, but a few are commercial. Some have too much sentimental value to throw out, but the majority are disposable since I need the space.

Is there any prep value to either the tape or the case instead of just throwing them away?
 
Hfcomms

Hfcomms

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They make a lot of pretty smoke in the fire. That is about it. I had about a hundred VHS cassettes and a number of years ago I copied them all to DVD's and then a few years ago I copied the DVD's to an external hard drive with another one for a backup. What used to take up a whole wall worth of tapes now fits in the palm of the hand. Pretty incredible when you think about it.
 
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boonyn

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I sell a few hundred on Amazon a year for 5 to 10 dollars each. Most vhs are worthless, but you can look on Amazon to see which ones have value. There are quite a few woth over a hundred each. I've never found one, but they exist. The valuable ones have obscure titles that you probably have never heard of. The famous titles with big stars are worthless because they were mass produced.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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You can use it to tie poles together to build a raft in order to get off the island. It will also secure Wilson to the raft.
 
changed

changed

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There were a lot of good movies that I didn't get to see when I was in my teens and twenties, but I was able to buy a bunch of them off of Amazon, some for a penny.

Believe it or not, but I had never seen Blazing Saddles. Bought it off Amazon for cheap.
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Trust me when I say that every movie you missed during that time is available on Netflix at helluva better resolution than a VHS tape can provide.
 
ioujc

ioujc

MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
You can extract the tape and string it around your garden to scare the birds.

Changed>>>>don't you just LOVE Blazing Saddles!!
 
Ku Commando

Ku Commando

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Hfcomms said:
They make a lot of pretty smoke in the fire. That is about it. I had about a hundred VHS cassettes and a number of years ago I copied them all to DVD's and then a few years ago I copied the DVD's to an external hard drive with another one for a backup. What used to take up a whole wall worth of tapes now fits in the palm of the hand. Pretty incredible when you think about it.
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Awww man.....you stole my thunder !!!!!

FLAME was the first thing that came to mind
 
Doc1

Doc1

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Movie night at home. We still have a few boxes of VHS tapes and pick up more at yard sales when we can find them really inexpensively. Why? Simple. There are movies we haven't seen and might enjoy, so if we see something that fits the bill...and something we can buy for a dime or a quarter on VHS, we'll drag it home and watch it. Of course we have a DVD player and other modern viewing tech, but there's no harm in having the VHS player available, too. I look at them as being more or less disposable. My little grand daughter doesn't care what the format is and we sometimes find VHS cartoons that she enjoys.

So yeah, VHS is a dead technology but we find ways to squeeze a little cheap life out of it yet.

Best regards
Doc
 
Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Hfcomms said:
They make a lot of pretty smoke in the fire. That is about it. I had about a hundred VHS cassettes and a number of years ago I copied them all to DVD's and then a few years ago I copied the DVD's to an external hard drive with another one for a backup. What used to take up a whole wall worth of tapes now fits in the palm of the hand. Pretty incredible when you think about it.
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You still using spinning media!?? On a flash drive, it fits ON YOUR KEY RING. :D
 
flying screwdriver

flying screwdriver

Veteran Member
As a teenager, we used to take wide 8-track or reel tapes and string them up across two poles across a highway. at night, of course.

The lights of cars and trucks would make it look like a steel cable, they would lock up their brakes and slide sideways, then hit the tape, it would snap and pop back into the bushes. Evidence would disappear.

Great fun...but someone must have reported it....the local policeman came thru, he did it, and he knew whose house to go to. :sht:

I don't recommend it for long-term freedom.
 
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Publius

TB Fanatic
I wish my wife would let go of the VHS tapes, we must have 1000+ of them here, she did release a small pile of them a few years ago but hardly put a dent in whats here.
 
Meadowlark

Meadowlark

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I have a lot of one of a kind educational tapes and family event footage. So I had to invest in a high end vhs hifi player with computer tracking control and a dvd recorder. It was amazing how old tapes I had given up on incredibly came back to life with amazing clarity.

The last part of the recording to die is the stereo hifi audio tracks. Years ago I borrowed albums and cassettes from all my friends and recorded them on 8 hour vhs tapes. I could then play them by like reel to reel tapes with 90 db dynamic range. They are just as good today, as they were 25 years ago when I recorded them! VHS like laser discs may be a dead media but it still has its nitch following.
 
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Richard

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Meadowlark said:
I have a lot of one of a kind educational tapes and family event footage. So I had to invest in a high end vhs hifi player with computer tracking control and a dvd recorder. It was amazing how old tapes I had given up on incredibly came back to life with amazing clarity.

The last part of the recording to die is the stereo hifi audio tracks. Years ago I borrowed albums and cassettes from all my friends and recorded them on 8 hour vhs tapes. I could then play them by like reel to reel tapes with 90 db dynamic range. They are just as good today, as they were 25 years ago when I recorded them! VHS like laser discs may be a dead media but it still has its nitch following.
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Actually as I remember VHS had pretty good sound quality.
 
timbo

timbo

Deceased
First, I took apart about 200 vhs tapes. Saved the screws, recycled the container and threw away the tape. Probably could have recycle the tape but wasn't sure it the recycle guy would take them.

The VHS tape is funny. The part where the sound is recorded will last much longer than the visual part. Why? Have no idea. I was a user, not a tech.
 
ioujc

ioujc

MARANTHA!! Even so, come LORD JESUS!!!
ersatzpanther
Does this actually work? We're going to build about 4 garden plots and there are plenty of birds around.
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It works for awhile. I have used it with some success. However birds are pretty smart and they get used to most things if they don't jump up and run after them. Even that doesn't work all that well>>>the birds enjoy teasing my big dogs. They come down and bath in the sma;; swimming pools we use to let the dogs cool off in in the summer. It will keep the deer away at night if you use it and shine red or green floodlights on them.
 
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