anthony chubb

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

anton

Steve Crook

Only "several hundred"? That's not a big problem :

You can bag 'em up and take them down to the council dump.
Or you can keep them in case DVDs don't last as long as we've been told they will.

Steve

Santonix

I had a similar amount. After putting them onto DVD I boxed them up, wrote an index on the side of each of the boxes and put them in the attic. One day you might be glad you still have them.

batman

Some schools or colleges might find them useful .... save on buying new tapes or use some of the 'suitable' titles for lessons etc ....

Don't miss out on a chance to win a rare film in Bat-Quiz 13 closing date - 31/8/8.

Steve Crook

But check what you recorded on them before giving them to a school
Not just what's written on the label or what's at the beginning. Check to see that you didn't record what appears to be on the tape recording over something less suitable and that is still visible towards the end of the tape.

Steve

Ljelja

What was that you said? Ummm...I thought a DVD would last for decades, if not for ever! Phew...Steve, can you share more info on the topic? I am worried about the purpose of my collecting stuff now!

spinalman

Now there are some forums out there populated by enthusiats that scour old tapes for the adverts to build an archive, particularly from early VHS era...are yours really from the 70's? These may be of value to such groups....I think it was a sub-group of the "believed wiped" TV forum - those guys looking for lost episodes etc.

found this:

www.missing-episodes.com - Home

or
The British Archive Television Forum - Powered by XMB 1.8 Partagium Final SP3

maybe worth an appeal?

Paul

Moor Larkin

This guy's 70..... and you want him to watch all this stuff again? You beast.

I'd box 'em up, tell the kids that one of them has the secret of where in the garden you have buried their inheritance.... and make them do some bloody work for a change.....

ChristineCB

Only the school admins would be worried. Give the kids something naughty, and oh my-!

We gave hundreds away to a local hospice, although we did cull out "unsuitable" ones - mostly action-types, or tear-jerker death-scene types. The hospice visitors and patients have their own dramas, after all.

And for those others, we gave to senior centers, who love to get even duplicates.

We've got about 80 tapes left in our collection, none of which have DVD equivalents. Jimmy Stewart films, James Garner, Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Tony Curtis, Van Johnson, Debbie Reynolds, James Cagney, George C. Scott, Gregory Peck, Jack Lemmon, Tom Selleck, Edward G. Robinson, Cary Grant, Diane Keaton - your typical non-achievers in the Hollywood marketplace - probably no way those names could ever sell a DVD these days.

But we'll keep those tapes. We liked those films, even though Hollywood and their DVD producers know they're worthless.

Carmel

I had 2045 and i boxed them all and put them in the attic to my husbands dismay he thought i threw them out till he went up in the attic 2 weeks ago God help him if he asks me to choose between the video's or him who do you think will win

ChristineCB

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.

Julie Andrews

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

Steve Crook

Nobody's proved that yet. They have put DVDs through some heavy testing, recording and playing thyem lots of times. But the only test to see if they will last a long time is to wait a long time and see if they last

Anything else you might read about how long they'll last is just advertising

Steve

Steve Crook

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

Steve

Steve Crook

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

Steve