I can see collecting rare VHS, but not still preferring them as your go to medium.
What to do with collection of VHS Trek tapes??
- Thread starter Kevin G. Chapman
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I like DVDs for convenience, I stream for variety, but love VHS for a bit of nostalgia and fun.
You mean you dumped them? Or left them at another place? Or you just left them a goodbye note?
Maybe burying them is best.
I know, from experience, that the better metal detectors can detect the small screws that vhs tapes are put together with, at quite a decent depth, so....kewl.
I reluctantly left them behind at the old place, with a lot of other stuff I didn't have room to take. I don't know what happened with them.
Coming in late here, so apologies if this has already been suggested earlier.
If I had a huge collection of Star Trek VHS tapes and was now looking to dispose I would-
1. Review the material for unique content- Intros, trailers, additional material.
2. Copy that to a digital format.
3. Remove the sleeve inserts from the boxes and put them in an archival quality folder.
4. Dispose of the tapes at a suitable recycling facility.
Some VHS collections will have a whole tape of material which has not been replicated in that way in a later formal release. For example, the two Red Dwarf "Smeg-up" tapes (there was also a tape that combined both). In this case you might wish to copy the entire tape onto a digital format and/or keep the tape itself, preferably both. In the example above most of what was in the "Smeg-up" tapes are in the "Just the Smegs" DVD but a lot of fans hold onto those VHS tapes particularly since there is some different content.
Addendum- With home taped stuff. That's trickier. Again you can review for trailers, but in all honesty there simply isn't much you can do. My brother had a whole load of home-taped Dr. Who stuff which he eventually had to get rid of, but what he did do was capture a lot of continuity announcements first, particularly of the earlier shows, since no-one else (to our knowledge) was actually preserving these.
If I had a huge collection of Star Trek VHS tapes and was now looking to dispose I would-
1. Review the material for unique content- Intros, trailers, additional material.
2. Copy that to a digital format.
3. Remove the sleeve inserts from the boxes and put them in an archival quality folder.
4. Dispose of the tapes at a suitable recycling facility.
Some VHS collections will have a whole tape of material which has not been replicated in that way in a later formal release. For example, the two Red Dwarf "Smeg-up" tapes (there was also a tape that combined both). In this case you might wish to copy the entire tape onto a digital format and/or keep the tape itself, preferably both. In the example above most of what was in the "Smeg-up" tapes are in the "Just the Smegs" DVD but a lot of fans hold onto those VHS tapes particularly since there is some different content.
Addendum- With home taped stuff. That's trickier. Again you can review for trailers, but in all honesty there simply isn't much you can do. My brother had a whole load of home-taped Dr. Who stuff which he eventually had to get rid of, but what he did do was capture a lot of continuity announcements first, particularly of the earlier shows, since no-one else (to our knowledge) was actually preserving these.
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I have tons of VHS tapes in my attic. Whatever you do with yours, I'd be very interested to know about it!
I think I have the 30th Anniversary UK TOS videos that have introductions on them before the episodes and give some interesting pieces of info on each episodes. Don't have the time to put all that to digital though. I'm sure someone else has done so already. It's probably out there.
I am sure it is but it's probably... "sub rosa"...
You don't have to leave the place totally clean for the next person to move in? I never understood those movies where someone moves into an old house and finds stuff in the attic.
My parents were using VCR for taping stuff up until some months ago but then it started to act up so they had to finally relent and get a hard drive recorder. Some day old technology just simply stops working and you can't replace it anymore.
I have an old VCR that was still working the last time I used it but it's because I only use it like one hour every six months. I have old movies that only exist in tape form and once in a great while I want to watch one.
I still have a working VCR, and I cross my fingers every rare occasion that I use it that it's not going to decide to gobble up the tape that day.
I repurposed a lot of VHS tapes into a rolling TV table.
Most were ones I got for cheap at the local thrift store (I bought as many double VHS sets as I could get as they were the same price as single VHS), but I went out of my way to find all of the star trek movies that were released on VHS (sans Insurrection, I couldn't find that one) plus a single episode tape from each series (sans enterprise, as I don't think it was released on VHS here) to make the top of the table
Most were ones I got for cheap at the local thrift store (I bought as many double VHS sets as I could get as they were the same price as single VHS), but I went out of my way to find all of the star trek movies that were released on VHS (sans Insurrection, I couldn't find that one) plus a single episode tape from each series (sans enterprise, as I don't think it was released on VHS here) to make the top of the table
I moved to a smaller home in 2015 so i lost the spare room i had which i stored a lot of stuff in, including my vast collection of VHS tapes, i offered them to a few charites shops but the did not want them, so i just recycled them at the local rubbish collection depot.
I used to have a VCR that I got rid of because it was damaging the tapes I viewed with it. It took me some time to realize that it did so though because it was only during the next viewing that the damage was visible. Damn contraption!!!
I recorded all my WWF Saturday Night's Main Events to DVD from VHS years back and they still look good!
JB
JB
My VHS tapes are going into the trash tonight. It was fun having them, but they are just worthless at this point. All Good Things . . .
NOO!!!!!! At least give them a proper burial. A shovel and a nice spot in your backyard if you have a backyard. Say a few words over them.
Jason
Burying things that aren't biodegradable is a crime against nature and (at least in my country) is against the law.
About 6 years ago I threw away 2 perfectly good Sony VHS Players because I moved and they were taking up space and knew I would never use them again, so I threw them into the dumpster. Later my Mom said she wished I would have given them to her since she still has vhs movies. I always hated how tapes would get those dropouts in the picture, or white streaks...and then the more you watched the tapes they would start to fade. I was happy when DVD came along, still like the format, although I am also into Blu-ray as well.
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