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How many VHS tapes do you own?

hemolhemol 2,578 Posts
edited June 2009 in Strut Central
I have a grip of skate videos tucked away in my parents' attic. They will be worth LOOT on electronicbay some day.

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  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,085 Posts
    Last year, I was going through a dozen boxes of VHS tapes at a local thrift store. Half of my narrowed down selection was 70s-80s action movie trash and the other half being old, store bought tapes with barely legible pencil labeling. A couple of the tapes; viewing them in the back room where they keep all the "expensive" stuff like TVs, VCRs and TV/VCR combos with a few of those battery operated, drum machine keyboards, were Greek-made 80s soft core porn. I didn't buy the tapes and just left them there for another curious soul to watch. Great tale, I know.
  • FrankFrank 2,370 Posts
    I had a large collection of european 70s sexploitation, horror, italian cop movies and just plain weird shit. All OG rental tapes. Took me years to assemble. I used to go on VHS digging trips all over germany and always had tables at movie fairs to sell/trade this stuff. Thankfully I sold of the entire collection back in '96 before leaving the country. With time I lost interest in these genres and the collectors market and prices totally colapsed since DVDs came out.

    Still feeling this tingle when walking by the occasional old-school looking video store though...
  • JuniorJunior 4,853 Posts
    Got a couple of hundred still taking up space in the loft from bitd. A lot of them are 80s horror movies sourced from dodgy dealings though funnily the ones I'm most reluctant to give up are the taped from TV movies I have ranging back to when I first caught the bug in the eighties. These days pretty much everything I've got is on DVD but the nostalgia of watching a movie with the old adverts in between still gets me.

    Totally failed to cash in on the market before it collapsed with the weight of DVDs and Torrents and now about to do the same with my 900+ DVD collection....
  • Ex-BoyfriendEx-Boyfriend 795 Posts
    I unno, a good few hundred. Keep meaning to sell but seems too much effort.
  • holmesholmes 3,532 Posts
    about 50, 99% skateboarding or music related.
  • minimini 879 Posts
    maybe twelve
  • johmbolayajohmbolaya 4,472 Posts
    I used to have a shitload, I would say I was a recording maniac and had about 200? I realize that isn't much but I don't know what I have in storage. I would like to transfer some of it to digital, such as some news items I recorded (I was on the news in 1988 around the time Tipper Gore had an influence when it came to the corruption of Prince and W.A.S.P., I was in the crowd for an Accused/Wehrmacht show and I was headbanging with my Spam shirt on) and whatever music video oddities I may have recorded back then (i.e. "Andy Warhol's 15 Minutes" with a video of Steinski's "We'll Be Right Back")

    It will be nice to get rid of what I do have, though. I've read on other boards that people are recording more modern shows to VHS because they fear "digital will make them all disappear, but the quality of VHS is not as good as it was in the mid to late 80's". Okay, then.
  • Lucious_FoxLucious_Fox 2,479 Posts
    About 50+. Any joints that Ive copped in DVD have been removed.

    Certain joints will never come out on DVD.

    I still have some late 80's early 90's Porn that I cant seem to get rid of.
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  • waxjunkywaxjunky 1,850 Posts
    I have a sealed "Back to School" around here somewhere. Hit me on PM for trades.

  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    I have a grip of skate videos tucked away in my parents' attic. They will be worth LOOT on electronicbay some day.

    man I dunno...

    my best VHS was the Big Brother "Shit" video...loaned it to a dude about forever ago...haven't seen it since...

    but, I can search youtube whenever I want to see Billy Pepper pull that knife on that lady or whatever else...
  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts
    Hundreds!!!!! All kinds of old kung-fu movies, Spaghetti westerns, horror movies, the old NMS DJ battles, crazy old Japanese TV shows, etc. Lots of OG pre-records. NTSC and PAL joints. I still have 3 VCRs hooked up at the crib. I need to transfer a lot of them to DVD one of these days but it will take A LOT of time to do so.
  • ageage 1,131 Posts
    Hundreds!!!!! All kinds of old kung-fu movies, Spaghetti westerns, horror movies, skate videos & etc

    I've been doing allot of transferring these past couple of years.
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    I still have 3 VCRs hooked up at the crib.

    records are enough dude, dang.

    unabomber luddite type action, with 3 vcrs.

    rotary phone?
  • georgeibrahimgeorgeibrahim 676 Posts
    hundreds, we used to record TV shows...then never watch them, gotta throw most of them out.
  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts
    I still have 3 VCRs hooked up at the crib.

    records are enough dude, dang.

    unabomber luddite type action, with 3 vcrs.

    rotary phone?

    Two NTSC S-VHS decks and one PAL S-VHS deck. I ran a kung-fu movie mail order company for years so I had mad video equipment back in the day. Still have a format converter and rack time base corrector too! LOL.
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    okay then hookitup with the first Big Brother video then...my girlfriend insists on keeping her vhs/tv combo thing, I'll watch it on that.
  • youngEINSTEINyoungEINSTEIN 2,443 Posts
    gotta be around 20 or so.
    peace, stein. . .
  • Big_ChanBig_Chan 5,088 Posts
    okay then hookitup with the first Big Brother video then...my girlfriend insists on keeping her vhs/tv combo thing, I'll watch it on that.

    I have no idea what the first Big Brother video is.
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts


    I have no idea what the first Big Brother video is.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6574677726781615060

    ugh @ the quality of that

    whoever upped that needs to run it through some more vcr's.

    god DAMN i wish I still had that!
  • Tonearm_RobberyTonearm_Robbery 699 Posts


    I have no idea what the first Big Brother video is.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6574677726781615060

    ugh @ the quality of that

    whoever upped that needs to run it through some more vcr's.

    god DAMN i wish I still had that!

    I used to love the "I HATE ED TEMPLETON FAN CLUB"



    That magazine was the shit.

    I have about 50 or so VHS tapes - OG Star Trek episodes, blacksploitation gems, Burt Reynolds library but my prize being my VHS copy of "INSTRUMENT" by Fugazi.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    Been watching all sorts of VHS tapes lately (they're only 50 cents at Goodwill, all you can grab). Last night I watched this...

  • voidarellivoidarelli 73 Posts
    I have around 200 dj-related VHS tapes.. All the skratch piklz stuff, most of the DMCs from 1986-1999, ITFs, NMS battles, lots of random dj footage, etc.. I'm sure some folks on here have done tape trading over the internets before?
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