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Old 27-03-2007, 05:03 PM
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Are you sure that your VHS-tapes are still usable, or readable?

a VHS recording uses fragile magnetic tape that degrades over time - whether you watch it or not.

Don't count on those tapes lasting longer than a few years

If I were You, I’d convert my precious VHS to DVD format

I have videos that i bought in 1980 and they work great maybe not as good as a dvd in picture quality but still good to watch, so i think that they last just as long if not longer on video

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Old 27-03-2007, 05:04 PM
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Rubbish! VHS (or other magnetic tape) doesn't degrade over time, not if it's kept in reasonable conditions and not kept near a big magnet.
I have tapes I recorded more than 10 years ago that are still playable and look as good as they ever did.
But nobodys proved that DVD will last that long

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Ditto! I have some of the tapes my father recorded, over 15 years old. They play perfectly well. I'll keep the fingers crossed for the same as to the DVDs' endurance.


Btw, that wallpaper "joke" could cost someone a coronary! A thing so brilliant I haven't heard lately... It makes me think of decorating the walls b4 I move out of the flat...
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Old 27-03-2007, 05:05 PM
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If you ever go to his doctor with him, ask the doctor what price you can get for the chemicals and minerals in a human body of, oh, "about his dimensions". Just casually ask that. Or maybe ask questions about selling organs on even the black market.

And introduce yourself as his "last wife".

Just an idea...

(By the way, I got absolutely zero bids on EBay for mine. I thought maybe my written marketing skills just needed some work. Ya think? "Husband's internal organs for sale. Available on demand. -Betty the Butcher" Although "Betty's" not my real name - "Christine the Crusher" didn't sound all that inviting for organ sales, after all, and I know that alliterative brand-names sell better.)

Hubby gave me the impression he had no sense of humor about this.

That's OK. I don't think I could get much for his sense of humor anyway.
I wouldn't get much for my hubby on ebay either, If i gave him away for nothing they would still say too expensive
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Old 27-03-2007, 05:12 PM
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Even better, slightly related, is one I heard recently.
You know how when people move into a new house they usually change the wallpaper, stripping off the old paper that you put up.

When you next decorate, before you put up the new wallpaper, get a pot of red paint and scrawl something like

I shall kill again

on the bare wall. Then paper over it and leave it to be discovered.

The only trouble is that you don't get to see their faces when they discover it

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I'll do that and ask my mother in law to help next time i decorate and tell her it was me alone that decorated the last time
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Old 27-03-2007, 05:55 PM
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I Have Several Hundred Videos Half Of Which I Recorded Off The Tv Adverts Included In The 70 And 80 The Rest Are Pre Recorded Proper Tapes
No One Wants Them On Ebay Wont Pay The Postage
Collections Of Bruce Willis /john Thaw /derek Jacobi /box Sets Of Series Sherlock Holmes Open All Hours /upstairs Down Stairs Etc Etc If They Dont Sell I Give Them To Cat And Dog Charity Shop But What Do I Do With The Others The Ones I Took Off Tv Cant Sell On E Bay Illegal
I Have Even A Few Beta Tapes
70 Years Old And Down Sizing Collection
Come On Any Bright Ideas
Please tell us what you have! There may be things that some of us are looking for! Any BBC classic serials?
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Old 27-03-2007, 08:48 PM
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Please dont throw any video's away especially recorded off the tv, their are lots of people who collect that kind of stuff(myself included) even just for the adverts, some of that tv stuff might never see light of day again on tv, as for putting it on dvd and then throwing them away, I've done that, then found a few months later dvd's went bad and I'd lost my recordings.

Do you have any idea what might be on the tapes that you recorded off the TV?
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Old 28-03-2007, 06:57 AM
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I'll do that and ask my mother in law to help next time i decorate and tell her it was me alone that decorated the last time

My Mother in Law simply waved her wand and her work was done. I had to service her broomstick ahead of it's MoT or I was toast.................
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Old 28-03-2007, 07:37 AM
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When you next decorate, before you put up the new wallpaper, get a pot of red paint and scrawl something like

I shall kill again

on the bare wall. Then paper over it and leave it to be discovered.
So it was you!! How amazing that I should have moved into your old house...

I suppose a nice variation of that might be, I know where you live

Back on the subject, it is difficult to know what to do with stuff. We videoed every other film that came on back in the day, shelves groaning..... But you never have time to watch them (apart from the Patrick McGoohan stuff of course). It is a question of finding the right person. I wonder if the answer might be to make them 'FREE' on e-bay, but demand proof of interest (a web-site/blog address to demonstrate genuine enthusiasm) and then just charge carraige or facilitate collection. That might attract the right person.

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Old 28-03-2007, 11:16 AM
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My Mother in Law simply waved her wand and her work was done. I had to service her broomstick ahead of it's MoT or I was toast.................
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I had a couple of hundred VHS tapes that took up so much space so I decided that I would cull them on the basis that if I hadn't watched a particulat tape in the past year it had to go. This left me with approx 30 which I am converting to DVD and am now thankful of the space saved.
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