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Originally Posted by bgadow
I love to find stuff like that; I have some Beta tapes I found from '82 or so. Some of them look as good as live. I've thought about getting a DVD recorder but I really don't trust that they will be permanent.
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I hadn't planned on buying a DVD recorder. but I did so recently just so I could copy some things I taped years ago.
My tapes were always stored in a closet out of the heat until Katrina. For about 2 years afterward they were in a non air-conditioned workshop. When I brought them back into the house, some of them had visible mold (white dust) on the tape reels looking through the top. Many of them (with or without the mold) have suffered serious degradation of the video quality. I am also having to run the head cleaner through the VCR way more often than before.
We didn't get a VCR until Christmas 1991, and I recorded a lot of stuff up until 1997, so I'm talking about tapes that are 12-18 years old, all name brand, recorded at LP & SP.