Its virtually impossible to sell VHS videos now.
Unless they are collectable big boxes.
Charity shops won't accept them either. Its dead tech.
I recently managed to sell this pile though, all Gerry Anderson VHS videos.
I didn't get much and was glad they went to someone who wanted to watch them.
There was Thunderbirds, UFO, Space 1999 and one Captain Scarlet.
Two types of Thunderbirds Are Go The Movie.
Some interesting 1999 Chanel 5 covers like the Cosmic Princess ...
Journey from the Black Sun [I had to look twice, I thought this was Journey to the far Side of the Sun!]
Anything there you like?
Do you still have video tapes?
Are they hard to pass on where you are?
I've got the 3 Star Cops ones as collectables and the Bleep and Booster one but that's it. No player either.
ReplyDeleteDid they ever make it to dvd? Ive got Kate Bush’s Line Cross and the Curve on vhs and I cant watch it!
DeleteBleep and booster didn't make it to dvd, Star Cops did. I have dvds of the Kate Bush vhs tapes.
DeleteI’m surprised B & B didnt make it, but as I recall it was only ever single images and not animation. I’m building my Kate Bush collection back up, just bought 50 Words and Before the Dawn cds. I just wish id bought the programme for her first tour in Liverpool all those years ago!
DeleteI remember seeing Back to the Future 2 and watching Marty innthe back alley next to a big pile of recycled laserdiscs and thinking - nah, itll never happen. Also on Blue Peter, as John Noakes explained the future of MP3s and how music would be stored in wavelengths of light. Even dvd and blue ray disks are almost obsolete now!
ReplyDeleteA local Lion's Club has a charity book fair once a month (the first one post lock-down is coming up this Saturday) which still sells video tapes, alongside DVDs, records, CDs, and books. Everything for $1 (about 50p). Very hard to find elsewhere these days. Yes, I still have a number of tapes, although many have a white mould-like covering and are unplayable. I do still have a VHS player, never had Beta. Not even sure if Laserdiscs were available in NZ, I do not recall ever seeing any, but they may have been around.
ReplyDeleteThe Space:1999 tape is Journey Through The Black Sun.
An odd thing is that VHS makers did not always get their titles correct. The Thunderbirds Special Movie Double Bill lists the film Thunderbird 6 as Thunderbirds 6.
Not many shops still have DVD, and I am not interested in Blu-ray. This makes it hard to add to my collection. While I have watched films on You Tube and Internet Archive, I still prefer to have my own copy of a film, TV show, or documentary. Something that is mine, something I can handle. Also, DVDs frequently come with a host of extras, which a film on You Tube lacks. I like two-disc Special Editions of Bond movies and others.
VHS changed the world of movie watching, and now it is dead except for a few collectors, regarded by the rest of the world as odd-balls. But someone has to preserve the past, or it will be lost forever.
Blu ray was always my weapon of choice until recently, but now UHD blue ray seems to be the way forward. Streaming services are all very convenient, but I do love the extras and bonus discs
ReplyDeleteI've kept a few VHS tapes just out of nostalgia, even though I have DVD replacements in most cases (except for Bleep & Booster and Blue Peter and one or two others). I'm lucky in that I can transfer video to DVD format, but all my equipment is up in the loft at the moment so don't ask.
ReplyDeleteAww dammit Kid, I was just going to send you a list!
ReplyDeleteI'll let you know whenever I get the equipment down and set up again, but it won't be anytime soon, alas.
DeleteThanks Kid, its good to know theres a possibility at least.
DeleteSuper VHS is used in recording Studios, it's tape, it's a cassette and you can get incredible audio quality with 4 tracks, often several vhs machines will be synchronized before mastering back to again good old vhs, so don't be disheartened there's no vhs heaven just repurposed for the music industry - MJ Southcoast base
ReplyDeleteSo is that akin to 8 Track cartridges? I understand theres a subculture based around their superior sound quality too
DeleteIts like reel to reel recording, tape noise while almost silent gives the appearance of the sound of the room of the original recording like when the stylus hits a slab of vinyl there is warmth in the sound that took years for Cd's to replicate,at my bands last recording session we used rezlo ribbon microphones that were put thru a valve pre-amp before going into a digital desk
Deletethen bounced off a reel to reel to warm it up with tape noise before mastering, recording is a complex process even when you try to strip it back to basics and I've enjoyed every moment of the process as I've gotten older, a good example of how we managed to get an old sound in a modern way is The Ricardos "watcha gonna do" check it out- MJ Southcoast base
I got a turntable recently, after about 20 years and dug out my old vinyl. The difference between cds and mp3 tracks was instantly noticable. Gave my vinyl a new lease of life entirely. I enjoy playing with sound files and recodings on Audacity, the free sound editor, just to see whats possible. A bit like applying filters to a photograph, its possible to add warmth and depth in ways I nevervreally appreciated before!
DeleteDigital recording on your PC gives you so many possibilities and what a garage band did 50+ years and a garage band can do now is light years apart, however the one thing they both have is accessibility, it's just the tech is different - MJ Southcoast base
DeleteIts no substitute for standing in front of a live session with the bass tickling your ribcage though!
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