VCR Tapes Recycling

[Archive7]

I have quite a lot of video types of recorded programs and also purchased films and classical music mostly operas.
Ever since the DVD came into my life, I have never watched any of the VCR tapes and the thought of copying anything onto a DVD or HDD is out of the question because it will take me weeks to create bad quality backups that I will never watch again.
So what have you done with your video tapes till now?

 

[Lazarus]

Chucked them in the skip.

They degraded and became unreadable, sadly.

 

[archive10]

Ditched most of them. They're not worth it.

Even bought a BBC series "history of flight" on something like 30 VHS tapes for GBP 20 locally (not available on youtube or DVD or anything).

Was full of ancticipation when I dusted off the old VHS...
Quality is cr*p, programmes are really dodgy, just goes to show how much sh*t was produced. (And still is, in fact.)
More stuff to the skip...
Or stick it on E*Bay! Sure to find someone who will waddle in the nostalgia VHS-pool!

No need to hold on to all the old stuff, just because it's on VHS.
Ask yourself: Time is short - do you really need to watch all this in shoddy quality?

 

[Analoguesat]

Ive rescued some old ones from work & sent them down to Kaleidoscope. Mine are interesting for the guys down there as they come from an ITV area where the official archive in in a right muddle & lots of stuff is missing / misplaced. A couple of bits of historic Border news & continuity have been rescued off them. Ive still got a few boxes stashed away in an air con room until one of the lads has time to restart the project!

Nobody wants the average tapes though - even the charity shops wont accept them nowadays.

 

[Llew]

Problem with my collection is that most are off-air recordings of live jazz perfomances (from Mezzo etc), mostly of artists no longer with us (Charlie Mingus, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk to name some).

Never found them available in DVD box sets or the like, and mine are also barely watchable now due to tape age degradation.

 

[BlindFaith]

Most of it will be repeated

 

[purplemarina]

All my vhs tapes went to the tip, i kept them for years in the loft, the day i decided to sort them i released this probably wasn't the best place to store them! they had degraded so much they were barely watchable, i managed to save a copy of whitesnake at donnington 1983 i think on to a harddrive. just watched it if it didnt have memorys i would delete it, just about caught it before it was unwatchable.

 

[Captain Jack]

My parents still have a load of VHS tapes in their living room - I am pretty sure they still watch it now and again. I, of course, have a nice erm... adult entertainment tapes hidden away somewhere.

 

[Archive7]

Chucked them in the skip.

They degraded and became unreadable, sadly.

I think this is what I should do.
In the meantime they serve as sound proofing material as my next door neighbor kitchen is just behind the wall where I have my library and she can drive me crazy with the water tap running.

 

[Archive7]

My parents still have a load of VHS tapes in their living room - I am pretty sure they still watch it now and again. I, of course, have a nice erm... adult entertainment tapes hidden away somewhere.

and how would you get rid of these tapes one day?

 

[hairybadger]

Not all that long ago I bought a DVD set of "Robin of Sherwood" or whatever it was called, HTV series from the 1980s with Michael Praed and then later Jason Connery in the title rôle. Picture quality is *awful*, probably never noticed at the time Must have been filmed on VHS....

 

[Jumpstart]

About two years ago, I threw about 800 video tapes out that were in my garage. Could be more. They all went to the tip.

 

[Archive7]

About two years ago, I threw about 800 video tapes out that were in my garage. Could be more. They all went to the tip.

OMG that is over 400 Kg in weight.
Funny thing is that all the content on these tapes can fit on one HDD the same size as just one tape and would have a better quality.

 

[Lazarus]

Or a 128GB Micro SD Card!

I bought a 64GB one recently and my entire CD collection, ripped to MP3, takes up only half the space available on the Card.

 

[Archive7]

Or a 128GB Micro SD Card!

I bought a 64GB one recently and my entire CD collection, ripped to MP3, takes up only half the space available on the Card.

Which means we were born 30 years too early.
The young generation would be writing something similar in 30 years from now about how heavy their SD cards are and about the new technology that will be available then. Maybe no more hardware just plant something in the brain and it will record all the films and music directly by wifi and then hit play with play button on the forehead.

 

[Lazarus]

Ooooh, surgically implanted Music

 

[Archive7]

Ooooh, surgically implanted Music

Yes SIM

 

[PaulR]

Which means we were born 30 years too early.
...

Not too early at all. I saw a T-shirt which covers this subject very aptly. Something along the lines of:

I may be old but at least I saw all the good bands.

 

[Archive7]

I, of course, have a nice erm... adult entertainment tapes hidden away somewhere.

I checked one of these tapes and the girls have become grannies or is that tape degradation?

 

[Lazarus]

Not too early at all. I saw a T-shirt which covers this subject very aptly. Something along the lines of:

I may be old but at least I saw all the good bands.

Absolutely.

Anything after 1980 is rarely better than utter carp.