What happened to your VHS film cassettes?

Most people have got rid of them along with their VCR player but i still have hundreds and refuse to throw them away or sell them in which i would be lucky to get 50p for each film.
Despite people saying i should get rid of them those films took atleast two decades to collect some are even rare.

All at my mummsies.

One of my housemates is a major Disney fan and refuses to buy DVD copies of the films, so he brought down his old VCR player to the house and his video collection (which ain't that big but is pretty decent). Over the past couple of weeks we've scouted out all the local charity shops and have been buying up so many more videos as they're dirt cheap - there's one place that sells them 5 for £1. The blast of nostalgia I get from some of the videos is incomparable. :)

none. i'm the opposite of a hoarder - i compulsively throw everything away, including stuff i still need. i like to keep it minimal: one pair of jeans, one pair of trainers, etc.

if it's left lying around it gets thrown away.

i'm surprised this computer's survived two months.

At my mum's house I still have a VHS recording of Starwars Episode IV from when it was shown on channel 3 sometime in the early 80s. This allows me to watch it without going mad about Greedo shooting first in the later editions. The best parts of the recording, though, are the commercials. Cheesy 80s adverts for the new Vauxhall Astra (made to make your heard beat faster), the Daily Mail (money obsessed middle classes dreaming of winning 1 million pounds), a washing powder (singing scientists in white coats proclaim we're found the system, a complete new system, New System Persil Automatic will wash your cares away).

^^

There's nothing quite like the old random adverts on one's taped-off-the-TV videos. One of my recordings has got those old "Re-record, not fade away" Scotch Video adverts with the skeleton. :happy:

As for my film and music VHS's's's's, well, they're still there, sitting on my shelves in my bedroom next to my DVDs. I think they'll become retro chic, sort of dated but cool having them on your shelves, like that of a row of LPs. Watch our videos go up in value when everyone else has simply thrown them away! :banana:

I still have some in my room, many of them wresting tapes. WWF events from 1999-2001 taped off of Channel 4 and Sky. The rest are filled with soft-core porn films taped from channel 5.

This is one such film.... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110846/

And another... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118594/


Childhood classics.

My oldest pre-recorded VHS is a Thomas the Tank Engine video, which I think I had for my 6th birthday.

Although a few years ago I did buy the original Now That's What I Call Music video off eBay which is from 1983.

Still got shedloads of VHS's, including a lot of recordings, mainly of video's from the 2 music channels we had on cable!

The oldest videos i have were the video nasties and E.T (no cover)which i stole with my friend that were stored at back of the video shop,some of which a few i still have.
(I dont steal thing these days)

One of my housemates is a major Disney fan

Only the gays like Disney. That is a fact. I bet Tubeman and Alonzo love Beauty and the Beast and The Lion king.

Still got a couple of hundred retail and home recorded tapes though both our remaining VCRs no longer work.

I still have some in my room, many of them wresting tapes. WWF events from 1999-2001 taped off of Channel 4 and Sky. The rest are filled with soft-core porn films taped from channel 5.

This is one such film.... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110846/

And another... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118594/


Childhood classics.

I forgot to add, there isn't a VCR in the house... but as I used actual money on these tapes... I shall never throw them away.

i've been thinning out my library (calling it a library makes it sound more refined than 'heap') of tapes over the last few years. from a peak of over 500, i'm now down to fewer than a hundred. sadly, most of my channel 5 1990s softcore porn collection either succumbed to wear or my desire to destroy evidence. i do still own a working panasonic vcr.

classic: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116652/

Ahh those were the days.... weekly screenings of the Emmanuelle and Confessions Of... series.

i've been thinning out my library (calling it a library makes it sound more refined than 'heap') of tapes over the last few years. from a peak of over 500, i'm now down to fewer than a hundred. sadly, most of my channel 5 1990s softcore porn collection either succumbed to wear or my desire to destroy evidence. i do still own a working panasonic vcr.

classic: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116652/


:lol: Live TV! and Bravo also showed many crappy soft core films, I think I still have a few that I recorded hidden in my Mums loft.....Shannon Whirry featured in many.....and yes I still have a Panasonic SVHS somewhere!

I found with my old VHS tapes that you could press the 'Teletext' button on the remote control during playback and see fragments of whatever was on the service at the time you recorded it. With something recorded off the BBC or Sky you'd often get good chunks of Ceefax or Skytext data, including the ability to navigate to the Fastext pages using those little coloured buttons, but with ITV and Channel 4 you'd usually just get the clock. In rare cases, you could get the subtitles for your own illegally-recorded film on page 888.

:banana:

/coolstorybro

I bet Tubeman and Alonzo love Beauty and the Beast and The Lion king.

:popcorn:

I only own Space Jam and the Pokemon Movie.

I found with my old VHS tapes that you could press the 'Teletext' button on the remote control during playback and see fragments of whatever was on the service at the time you recorded it. With something recorded off the BBC or Sky you'd often get good chunks of Ceefax or Skytext data, including the ability to navigate to the Fastext pages using those little coloured buttons, but with ITV and Channel 4 you'd usually just get the clock. In rare cases, you could get the subtitles for your own illegally-recorded film on page 888.

:banana:

/coolstorybro

Teletext! Nostalgiagasm.

Only the gays like Disney. That is a fact. I bet Tubeman and Alonzo love Beauty and the Beast and The Lion king.

Only if I'm watching with Tubeman :yes:

I haven't had a VHS cassette or player in my house for ten years. I sold 90% of my tapes on eBay, and gave the remainder to a charity shop - I sold my Babylon 5 tapes as complete sets, and actually got more for season 2 than the recently-released DVD box set cost!

I've always been pretty quick to ditch analogue technology for its digital replacement - I replaced all my audio cassettes with CDs twenty years ago, and haven't had analogue TV in my house since 2003.

EDIT: Strictly speaking that's not 100% true, as the output from my Sky+HD box is remodulated into RF and piped into my bedroom TV via UHF channel 21.

I think they’re largely useless. Anything ‘rare’ should be converted to a digital format if you really think it’s worth keeping and the cassette discarded. Eitherway, surely the quality would have degraded significantly by now?

I found with my old VHS tapes that you could press the 'Teletext' button on the remote control during playback and see fragments of whatever was on the service at the time you recorded it. With something recorded off the BBC or Sky you'd often get good chunks of Ceefax or Skytext data, including the ability to navigate to the Fastext pages using those little coloured buttons, but with ITV and Channel 4 you'd usually just get the clock. In rare cases, you could get the subtitles for your own illegally-recorded film on page 888.

Yes, you're right. You could sometimes work out when you recorded something by pressing the Teletext button while watching a video and if you were lucky you could see the date at the top, in amongst lots of @ and # interferance symbols.

Also of note, in the last couple of years I've transferred the content of a few pre-recorded VHS tapes onto the HDD hard drive thing on my TV and it automatically named them! Including an obscure music video from 1989. I wonder where it got the info from to be able to name it. :?