Got a couple of VHS lying around here. Some documentaries, old cartoons before they had reoccurring characters, and some classic Star Wars type stuff in good condition.
The Last American Virgin
Fuck Compton Video
Body Heat
Jimi Hendrix
Love Jones (Bootleg w/ the superior crowd reaction)
Thief
The Driver - just copped off Amazon (kinda raer)(not on DVD or Bluray)
Boomerang
Daughters Of The Dust
I the Jury - (not on DVD or Bluray)
Various 90's Porn
Great Expectations
Nighthawks
U Turn
Player's Club
Shaft
Superfly
Star Wars Trilogy
Various other shit I dont feel like digging out list
I offloaded all ours BITD. The wife gave me specific orders not to offload any of hers. Oddly, she's not missed any of them enough to realise they have propped up the charity shop for years. Space in my yard >>> Pretty Woman. My only regret was a live Motorhead one, which was packaged to make the VHS box look like a cake. It's the one where The Plasmatics' Wendy O. Williams joins them onstage for "No Class" and gets spat on, IIRC.
Happy days of hooking up 2 VHS players to copy some nth-generation pr0n where the wandering tracking line kept putting man off his stroke. Actual pastel shades would occasionally return to the snowy mess :pasue:, implying the vision of the original cinematographer, as a fickle bee might bless a souring bloom. All marked up as "North Sea Jazz Fest '90" to deter the overly-curious domestic browser.
the equipment is being kinda undervalued at the moment?
Camcorders, tapes, tube tvs, VCR's are at virtually all the second hand sales. Sometimes folks will pay to have them taken away. IMO, it is absolutely crazy.
the equipment is being kinda undervalued at the moment?
Camcorders, tapes, tube tvs, VCR's are at virtually all the second hand sales. Sometimes folks will pay to have them taken away. IMO, it is absolutely crazy.
of those, the only thing I've thought about buying are the camcorders. Stuff filmed on those old VHS cameras can look cool, especially the black & white ones. But VCRs are going to die off along with the VHS tapes, which have no shelf life whatsoever. And tube tvs are like gramophones now.
When I was younger, I thought that only old TVs could receive old TV shows (as opposed to a new TV showing reruns or a home video!) Anyhow, I have about 100 tapes; most of which is exploitation stuff that has not been issued on DVD yet.
I gave away my VCR as soon as DVDs came out along with all the tapes I owned. I am a bit of a minimalist and try to throw out anything I haven't used in a year--clothes, shoes, magazines, everything. Spring cleaning is when I take stock of all my shit in an effort to de-clutter and simplify. The only exception is good books and records. It feels so good to let shit go, but I fully understand people who want to keep shit to revisit or "just in case".
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
I never stopped watching video tapes. Why throw them out when they still work fine and a bunch of them are still only available on VHS?
I just watched Von Ryan's Express on vhs last night.
I'm not saying you should toss out your VHS tapes, but I am saying you should transfer them to another format AND THEN toss them out.
If you want that stuff for sake of posterity, hanging on to them in a rapidly decaying tape format is not the best way to do it. Plus you know when they get around to releasing those exploitation flicks on DVD it'll just be bad transfers from some old VHS anyway, done by dudes who waited for the film to enter into the public domain and are releasing it at minimum cost.
I'm not saying you should toss out your VHS tapes, but I am saying you should transfer them to another format AND THEN toss them out.
If you want that stuff for sake of posterity, hanging on to them in a rapidly decaying tape format is not the best way to do it. Plus you know when they get around to releasing those exploitation flicks on DVD it'll just be bad transfers from some old VHS anyway, done by dudes who waited for the film to enter into the public domain and are releasing it at minimum cost.
Ive been hearing that Tape Decay shit since the 80's. My VHS and Audio Cassettes are fine.
As well as my Vinyl, CDs, DVDs, and Paper Comic books.
I wont give a shit when im 80. But right now im still rockin that shit.
the OG came out on dvd before they did the shitty 'director's cut'.
I have that as well.
Big_Stacks"I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
Hey,
I have a grip of old VHS tapes including (off the head):
-"Last American Virgin"
-"Fast Times at Ridgemont High"
-"Prince of the City"
-"Scarface"
-"Friday"
-"Road Trip"
-"A Soldier's Story"
-"The Color Purple"
-"Heartbreak Ridge"
-"The Deadly Mantis"
-"The Godfather"
-"Once Upon a Time in America"
-"Regarding Henry"
-"Lumumba"
-"Steel Magnolias"
-"Fried Green Tomatoes"
-"Pulp Fiction"
-"The Shawshank Redemption"
-"Survivors"
-"Eating Raoul"
-"Place in the Heart"
-"Blue Collar"
-"Buddy Hackett Live in Atlantic City"
-"Predator"
-a gang of old-school 'flicks'
-a gang of old boxing tapes
-a gang of old rap video shows recorded
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The Last American Virgin
Fuck Compton Video
Body Heat
Jimi Hendrix
Love Jones (Bootleg w/ the superior crowd reaction)
Thief
The Driver - just copped off Amazon (kinda raer)(not on DVD or Bluray)
Boomerang
Daughters Of The Dust
I the Jury - (not on DVD or Bluray)
Various 90's Porn
Great Expectations
Nighthawks
U Turn
Player's Club
Shaft
Superfly
Star Wars Trilogy
Various other shit I dont feel like digging out list
Shit looks terrible on a flat screen though.
Happy days of hooking up 2 VHS players to copy some nth-generation pr0n where the wandering tracking line kept putting man off his stroke. Actual pastel shades would occasionally return to the snowy mess :pasue:, implying the vision of the original cinematographer, as a fickle bee might bless a souring bloom. All marked up as "North Sea Jazz Fest '90" to deter the overly-curious domestic browser.
Kids these days have it so easy.
Camcorders, tapes, tube tvs, VCR's are at virtually all the second hand sales. Sometimes folks will pay to have them taken away. IMO, it is absolutely crazy.
of those, the only thing I've thought about buying are the camcorders. Stuff filmed on those old VHS cameras can look cool, especially the black & white ones. But VCRs are going to die off along with the VHS tapes, which have no shelf life whatsoever. And tube tvs are like gramophones now.
This
And what they did to The Warriors is foul.
Ill hold on to my VHS OG. Fuck that.
I just watched Von Ryan's Express on vhs last night.
I'm not saying you should toss out your VHS tapes, but I am saying you should transfer them to another format AND THEN toss them out.
If you want that stuff for sake of posterity, hanging on to them in a rapidly decaying tape format is not the best way to do it. Plus you know when they get around to releasing those exploitation flicks on DVD it'll just be bad transfers from some old VHS anyway, done by dudes who waited for the film to enter into the public domain and are releasing it at minimum cost.
He swears by the quality.
I have a feeling that his house is a bit like this though:
b/w
The big box VHS collectros scene is no joke. Cats got made RAERS (in their moms basement).
Think that guy posts here under the name Speakmumbles.
Ive been hearing that Tape Decay shit since the 80's. My VHS and Audio Cassettes are fine.
As well as my Vinyl, CDs, DVDs, and Paper Comic books.
I wont give a shit when im 80. But right now im still rockin that shit.
I have my VCR and all of my tapes, but everything is in the garage.
Necro's 187 Reasons Why is kind of cool on VHS.
I got $40 for my Gleaming the Cube VHS. It went to a skate park in Georgia.
the OG came out on dvd before they did the shitty 'director's cut'.
I have that as well.
I have a grip of old VHS tapes including (off the head):
-"Last American Virgin"
-"Fast Times at Ridgemont High"
-"Prince of the City"
-"Scarface"
-"Friday"
-"Road Trip"
-"A Soldier's Story"
-"The Color Purple"
-"Heartbreak Ridge"
-"The Deadly Mantis"
-"The Godfather"
-"Once Upon a Time in America"
-"Regarding Henry"
-"Lumumba"
-"Steel Magnolias"
-"Fried Green Tomatoes"
-"Pulp Fiction"
-"The Shawshank Redemption"
-"Survivors"
-"Eating Raoul"
-"Place in the Heart"
-"Blue Collar"
-"Buddy Hackett Live in Atlantic City"
-"Predator"
-a gang of old-school 'flicks'
-a gang of old boxing tapes
-a gang of old rap video shows recorded
I could go on forever, but I'll stop here.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak