Anyone collect VHS tapes now they're cheap as f__?
Grafwritah
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Now that run of the mill used VHS tapes are hovering somewhere around $1 retail, I've been buying them like crazy. Fuck the video store, even fuck the library - I at least know they never have to go back. And for a buck, who cares?I have amassed so many I could build a small structure out of them.It seems like people have really been unloading them lately.Anyone else the same way?
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I see them laying around, usually for $5 and under. Occasionally I'll flip through them just for curiosity's sake... of course, I usually just see regular movies. Although I recently saw New Jack City and was tempted slightly... nto sure why though.
I know there are some collectors of them but only for the raerist of raer shit.
I pick them up occasionally too. I don't see a whole lot of them... I see more video store Kung Fu cast-offs.
the flipping sucks, its like a one minute pause isn't it ?
something like 'Dances with wolves' would have 3 discs for example, so thats 5 odd flips !!
Holler at me with some laserdiscs, I'm looking for Westerns, Action, and Kung-fu joints!
Anyone know a good spot in NYC to find some ld's?
pioneer made LD players that played both sides, im sure other companies did too...
honestly though, laserdisc quality really isnt that much better than VHS, i have an LD player (and a beastie boys "skills to pay the bills" laserdisc i got at a garage sale this summer) and the quality is definitely nowhere near DVD...
If you wanted to get serious about it yopu could bring a camcorder to preview those and a small combo (like a 13" TV w/ built in VCR to check the big guys...)
I ALWAYS think this when I see unlabeled VHS movies. Especially this one....
I think that is a good idea to take a camcorder to thrifts. How much they cost now..the ones that fit VHS tapes.
anyone here collect Selectavision discs?
CED Magic
I live in the epicenter of the used cd/tape/record/movie/videogame chain store world. Those chains practically sell VHS tapes by the pound here.
Yeah man, I remember those things. They played with grooves and a real needle too.
With the right kind of equipment, you could probably scratch those badboys like a rekkid - although it might burn your fingers at a platter speed of 450 rpm.
The disadvantage to them was the discs were majorly delicate. In order to flip a CED disc, you had to stick the sleeve into the player to get the the platter out, take out the sleeve (with platter now inside), flip it over, and reinsert into the player (which would again extract the platter, now with the reverse side facing the stylus)..
I'd tap.
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I saw on some LDphile site that the quality was "15% less" than DVDs. Ill joints that I've seen only on LD are for instance Oscar Fischinger's animation and The Frighteners LE Box that has some ill shit on there. Seen The Frighteners one reach $200 on eBay but never seen the other pop up for sale anywhere. Dope dope shit.
this looks dope as fuck. do you own this?
i got a small stash of blaxpo and rap videos (og prt 'easy star', organized 'last piece of chicken') but i usually am hesitant to accumulate this sort of thing. i picked up modern romance (the good albert brooks movie to not come out on dvd) and that cannonball david carradine movie (with axelrod score, no?) for $2 each on vhs today, which was nice. i probably wouldn't have looked if it wasn't for this thread.
at the goodwill i once saw a beta tape with a title like XXX Soulful Sisters or something and i figured i'd never buy a beta player to watch it. every day of my life i regret that non purchase.
Any good music in that?
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I cant even imagine electrode up in some thrift store with a camcorder watching blank vhs tapes. You guys have got to have better things to do.
Its cool to find movies for dirt cheap though. I agree. Laserdiscs suck a fat one though.
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