What to do with old VHS tape

[zzzippper]

I'm in the same boat. We've carried them from St. Louis to Japan to St. Louis to Korea and now Denver.

 

[RonJ]

I have the original Star Wars trilogy without the modifications later made by Lucas. (Han shoots first ) Wonder if they are worth anything?

 

[SgtLumpy]

All of my old VHS tapes have music that goes -

Bwank buck-a Bwank Buck-a Bwank Bwank Bwawawawawaaaah


Sgt Lumpy

 

[RonJ]

All of my old VHS tapes have music that goes -

Bwank buck-a Bwank Buck-a Bwank Bwank Bwawawawawaaaah


Sgt Lumpy

Nasty, nasty!!!

 

[Straightshooter2]

MY brother had 3-400 of the things he had recorded off of HBO or Cinemax. If you think about the components of a VHS tape, they are recyclable. We did that with about half his collection when we were cleaning out his room and into the recycle bin they went. Still got another half of it to go.

CW

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

All of my old VHS tapes have music that goes -

Bwank buck-a Bwank Buck-a Bwank Bwank Bwawawawawaaaah

Michael Bolton...

 

[wildenout]

I would take them to your favorite shooting spot, and shoot them.

 

[mtgianni]

In Castaway Tom Hanks used them for cordage. That might be the best use so far.

 

[the ringo kid]

Im copying all mine to DvD soon as I get a recorder/player? then off they all go to retirement homes.

 

[walkin jack]

We have many many VHS tapes. A few are some we took at various occasions like college grad, weddings, snowball fights and other family stuff but most of em are movies. They may not be all that valuable these days but it would be financially impossible to replace them all in DVD or Blueray.

We have a good quality Stereo VHS player that still works (for now) but I am concerned about what to do when it goes. Are they still available in stores? Would any repair place still have parts and repair them?

We still watch most of the tapes we have, several of them every week.

Shoot I still have an 8-track player and some tapes? Bein' old can be fun and interesting but ya gotta keep buyin' stuff as technology progresses. I like the improvements this brings but DANG it's expensive.

 

[the ringo kid]

Believe it or not but, store bought VHS are collectable--especially the John Wayne ones as a prime example. I loaned one of my last vhs tapes to a gent named Ivan, who was supposed to make me a couple copies on dvd a few years ago, but never did. Same goes for dvd copies to other non-American movies like: Anzacs: The War Down Under, The Way To the Stars, Hell in Korea and probably a few others.

 

[blujax01]

Ask the folks who hung onto their old 78 RPM records.

Movies can be transferred over to DVD but those are on the way out, too.

If you go to a Salvation Army or Goodwill Store, they're flooded with the things.

Unless it's of a personal nature, I'd pitch the whole lot.

On a related note, anybody want to buy my Panasonic Omnivision Video Camera? Make your own movies, 1986 style!
Bow-Chicka-Wow-Wow.

 

[vytoland]

decorate that green Christmas tree with brown garland....

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Is Angus hungry?

 

[Kinman]

Over the years we had some VHS tapes and no longer have a machine that will play them, let alone the fact that some of the newer high def t.v.s will not play them clearly. My wife found a guy locally that converts VHS tapes over to C.D.s, he charges about $25 per VHS...it seems like highway robbery, but hes the only show in town. We only had a few family made VHS tapes that we wanted to keep, according to the guy you still need to re-burn the C.D. about every 5 years unless you get some really high quality C.D. Once you have the C.D. just about any computer with a disc feed will allow you to download the C.D. so you can burn another C.D. at will. Thats probably the next thing to go is disc feeds on computers, they are already something you have to ask for when getting one built, they are switching over to thumb drives which only require a small port.

 

[wheelgun28]

Glue them together and make an igloo in the back yard?

 

[therevjay]

Why not just watch them? That's what I do with mine. If one breaks or gets unspooled THEN I'll replace it with a DVD.

 

[Wicked1911]

I've had my important ones transfered to DVD.

Where did you go to get that done? I have a couple of important ones I'd like to do the same with.

 

[Fishslayer]

All of my old VHS tapes have music that goes -

Bwank buck-a Bwank Buck-a Bwank Bwank Bwawawawawaaaah


Sgt Lumpy

You need to clean & align the heads. It's s'posed to go "Brown-chickie-brown-cow."

 

[M3Stuart]

Yea, I transferred my important ones to DVD.

Here's the easy way; they make a machine that has both a VHS player and a DVD recorder. You just put it in, push a few buttons and let 'er rip.

Just google 'VHS to DVD converter' or something like that. There's a ton of them for cheap.