Any "Tape Heads" or "Spinners?" (VHS or Laserdisc Collectors?)

yeah, how awful of me to want to cut down on the wear and tear.

well, a VCR sitting unused is more damaging than running them since the lubrication residue from the tapes will eventually dry out. either that or the belt will dry rot.

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That would be bad news for a VCR that was sitting unused

https://gizmodo.com/releasing-new-mo...end-2000536155

yeah, and those Aliens Romulus tapes were snatched up by bots and now you can't get it for less than $100. plus, the transfer is apparently ass.

they clearly meant for those to sit on a collector's shelf unopened, which is just lame.

it's clear that no hobby is safe from jackals.

I am well and thankfully done with any sort of linear recording media. I have seen a resurgence in cassettes and VHS tapes, and it only has me scratching my head. I do see a reason to have some LD media if one already has a player and wants to collect those original releases or films that are hard to track down otherwise. I gladly ship any old tapes I run across in my basement into the recycle, and good riddance!

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i am instinctively nostalgic. more so than my peers based on conversations i've had; it's the curse of being a Cancer



for me, my childhood wasn't the greatest so i would escape into movies (i think i've mentioned this before in other threads), so the first 12 years of my life are defined by VHS tapes.

it's weird the things we remember: for instance, there are certain movies that when i hear their name i am instantly transported to a memory where i'm looking at the spine of a Blockbuster rental (i.e. Lake Placid, The Postman, The 13th Warrior), and when i was sick i'd watch the Star Wars or Indiana Jones trilogy. watching tapes back to back would get me through the worst cases of strep throat.

it just transports me to a time where life was more carefree and the biggest dilemmas i faced were whether or not to tell dad i broke the computer again.

EDIT: unfortunately, the thing that i was most excited for was going through the tapes we used to record free Showtime/HBO weekends only to find that mom recorded over them in the late 2000s. my whole childhood was literally erased, so i'm just trying to recapture what little slices i can.

too cheap to pass up. i’ve spent more on a cup of coffee

best dollar spent ever!



i gotta open up the Goldfinger tape to get a loose piece of plastic out, but i only really cared about The Living Daylights

so I watched The Living Daylights last night. it is definitely a first edition release. man did it look like ass. i loved it!

reminded me of the Christmases where my Gramps would broadcast the Bond movies from upstairs to the basement and we had to deal with grain and dropouts. ah, those were the days!

@Sedai: are you telling me you don't miss this?!

Most certainly do NOT miss it!

That flick is bad ass, though.

i got $5 on it

It's cool, but I'm glad I'm storing all that media anymore. A VHS tape is a space-sucker.

yup, that they are. i’ll have an exact count once i put them in my cube organizer. but once that’s full…no more!

by my math, i think i can fit 200ish and think the family collection i took over was maybe around 100

That sounds like a reasonable limit.

I've let go of almost all my tapes, save for a handful of favorites. Disks are more compact, so I have them jammed into wallets as archived master copies. I am glad, for example, that I still have my DVD of The Devils Advocate which has the original CG of Milton's painting. Seeing as how classic films are being restored by 4K "upscales" that are making characters look like wax figures, I think I will hold on to them for as long as I can.

@Corax: totally. i’ve got DVDs with some rare cuts. only like a handful. i took my grandparents storage cabinet and that’s holding my disc collection (which is also 200ish). it’s a hodgepodge of movies from their collection, my own, and the family.

i had thoughts of getting rid of everything, but the return would be one tenth of what it took to build it, so meh. i’ll let it take up space in the spare bedrooms.

my retro game collection is far more discerning, and getting smaller by the day. those retro cats are crazy!

i got the 8-cube organizer together today. not crazy about how only the Walmart ones will fill the space (see the ones i got are too small?). but oh well, i will make do. i’m just glad this fits perfectly in the space i picked for it.