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Telecolor 3007 · #16 10-01-2007, 11:15 AM

Off-topic: I'm dreaming to get me S.-V.H.S. professional (like "Panasonic" AG), U-Matic (Low-Band, High Band and S.P.) and Betacam S.P. (both small and big tape) V.C.R.'s. But this will not happen soon...

bgadow · #17 10-01-2007, 12:58 PM

I have a ton of VHS tapes-I like finding TV shows from the 80s. As much fun for the commercials as anything. A friend of mine gave me a box of Umatic tapes, then he found me a deck to play them on. I think he had the deck given to him. I now need to find a betacam deck-I might be going to a hamfest this weekend, and that's a good place to find them. Lots of weird commercial/military equipment ends up there and can be cheap.

radotvguy · #18 10-01-2007, 02:17 PM

I still have vhs tapes . I tend to come across them either free or dirt cheap at the flea market , like 25 or 50 cents each . At that price , its worth buying a movie and if you dont like it , you can throw it it . I expecially like finding older tapes which have old commercials on them .

By the way , do any of you guys collect beta machines . I have a really nice beta unit and its in great shape and its heavy . Dont have a nead for it .

ChrisW6ATV · #19 10-02-2007, 04:35 AM

I have a few VHS tapes, but mostly I have Beta tapes. VHS to me was for movie renting, but Beta machines in various versions up through ED Beta were what I used for my recording and archiving. I probably have nearly every tape I ever bought since late 1979 when I got a used one-hour Sony SL-7200 for "only" US$320 when I was 19 years old. The one thing I regret is erasing some early recordings in the mid-1980's, like the original U.S. TV broadcast of the movie "Jaws". It took me almost a whole day's salary (typical teen-ager's job) to pay for the two L-500 tapes I needed for that movie. Still in my collection are a Chicago Cubs game from 1979, and many other recordings from throughout the 80's and early 90's. (Anyone remember "Friday Night Videos" starting in 1982 on NBC? I still have lots of those early videos, including the simulcast stereo sound from a local FM radio station. The show started not long after Beta Hi-Fi stereo sound was introduced.) Some day, I will go through all of my tapes to see what is on them, but I see no reason to get rid of them at this point.

I have a Sony LV-1901 with its internal SL-6200 Betamax VCR, and an EDV-9500 ED Beta VCR.

bgadow · #20 10-02-2007, 11:48 AM

"Friday Night Videos" is a good period show to have! I actually didn't appreciate the show or the music much back then, but do now. I'd love to find some Saturday Night Live shows from the early 80s. Just last night I was playing around with the newer of my 2 beta machines. I couldn't remember if I'd ever tried it out. Works pretty good. I was watching part of an ABC News documentary called "45-85" about all the history that took place between those years. Peter Jennings sure looked young. Later on the tape is a Bush-Dukakis debate. Great stuff, and couldn't have looked better if I recorded it last week. (this tape is one I bought-I could never afford to buy blank tapes back then when I was a kid so what little I recorded got taped over again and again)

NowhereMan 1966 · #21 10-03-2007, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

I have a few VHS tapes, but mostly I have Beta tapes. VHS to me was for movie renting, but Beta machines in various versions up through ED Beta were what I used for my recording and archiving. I probably have nearly every tape I ever bought since late 1979 when I got a used one-hour Sony SL-7200 for "only" US$320 when I was 19 years old. The one thing I regret is erasing some early recordings in the mid-1980's, like the original U.S. TV broadcast of the movie "Jaws". It took me almost a whole day's salary (typical teen-ager's job) to pay for the two L-500 tapes I needed for that movie. Still in my collection are a Chicago Cubs game from 1979, and many other recordings from throughout the 80's and early 90's. (Anyone remember "Friday Night Videos" starting in 1982 on NBC? I still have lots of those early videos, including the simulcast stereo sound from a local FM radio station. The show started not long after Beta Hi-Fi stereo sound was introduced.) Some day, I will go through all of my tapes to see what is on them, but I see no reason to get rid of them at this point.

I have a Sony LV-1901 with its internal SL-6200 Betamax VCR, and an EDV-9500 ED Beta VCR.

I remember "Friday Night Videos." I also watched "Night Flight" on USA Network back then too and I think I might have it on tape somewhere.

Telecolor 3007 · #22 10-05-2007, 04:50 PM

My dad took all the cassettes that where at my grandmother and he keeps 'em in God knows what conditions. Shees, I know that I shouldn't criticize my father, but his V.C.R. is broken since May and still he hadn't repair it in order to see what is on those tapes and give them to me.
On those cassette are 2 animation films that I loved when I was young and want to see them again:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Dogs_Go_To_Heaven

Nakdoc · #23 10-05-2007, 05:01 PM

If you are patient you can find the big professional S VHS machines when schools or sports teams go digital. These pro decks are shockingly better! Signal to noise was never an issue with crummy old crts, but todats displays are good enough that the difference is obvious. I consider old 300 or 330 line VHS unwatchable, but Beta, SVHS, and Super Beta are all pretty good looking.
As a service shop that repaired vcrs, we have saved a few of the high quality stereo VCRs, and we save every Beta we encounter. If you lust after a good vcr, try checking with a shop. You may be able to have them repair an excellent machine that they just can't throw away 'cause it was so good in the day.

waltchan · #24 10-15-2007, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Captain Video

I still have our first VCR, a 1986 Panasonic. It's not working, and looks a little beat up, but I keep it for nostalgic reasons. Had I not took possesion of it, It could possible be in the dumpster by now.

I still want to put my hands on one of the VERY OLD models, one of those VCRs from the late 70's or early 80's - one of those with top loading and rotary tuners.

Check caps at the power supply.

eBay has plenty of these.

site123a · #25 10-17-2007, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

Anyone collecting V.H.S. cassettes?

I'm collecting VHS cassettes.

I've always wanted to have to library of video cassettes since I got my first VCR (in 2000), but because I was 13, movies were to expencive for me. But the mean reason I'm collecting tape is because I like them better then DVDs, if only I was born 10 years earlier..

I'm now at 45 video cassettes, but I would like to get more...

goraman · #26 10-17-2007, 10:27 PM

I bought a massive lot of T180 VHS tapes 1000 per case they record up to 9 hours and will do 3 hours on fast speed.I have about 60 T240 tapes that will record up to 12 hours and more T120's than I can count.My wife and I can't always be home for Indian movies and dramas so we set the VCR timer and watch at our leasure and unlike DVD's they always play.most Indian movies are 3 hours long and Line of Controle was more than 4 hours.We record over the same tape alot and have found the JVC T profesinal tapes out last everything and can be recorded over and over while maintaining a great deal of claritey but a good vcr is as important as your tapes Tosheba makes a good one and the sony SCV-N88 makes a very detailed recording as well.I got such a great deal on these tapes I will be able to watch VCR recordings till the last VCR dies.

vinyldavid · #27 10-17-2007, 10:33 PM

I still buy them a lot from the Goodwill....
I have about 300.

My Sony SLV-N71 is GREAT!

sampson159 · #28 10-17-2007, 10:48 PM

i have all the "mystery science theater" episodes and some western tv show-gunsmoke,bonanza,cheyenne,. i also have the monkees and the fugitive series. still like vhs on a roundie!

SpeakerLabFan · #29 10-17-2007, 11:22 PM

I scored a box of about 50 free VHS titles last summer from a craigslist free pile - all relatively newer titles like Meet the Parents, Saving Private Ryan, Pitch Black, Schindlers List, The Exorcist reissue. I have the space so I figured what the hell, they're nice to have around in case I ever turn on the boob tube. I also recently picked up a box of recorded VHS tapes that my father had made of movies on TV back in the 80's. Some of the gems include It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, How the West Was Won, and Never Give an Inch (film adaptation of Ken Kesey's Sometimes a Great Notion)

... and videotape of my brother's wedding from the mid-80's which ought to be good for ALOT of laughs watching with my kids this weekend...

radiotvnut · #30 10-18-2007, 12:01 AM

I have a bunch of old VHS tapes of TV shows I recorded as a kid back in the '80's and '90's. Most of them are about worn out because I've watched them over and over. I also have a bunch of tapes of family events. I also still record (once in a blue moon) on VHS. Since I don't have cable; there's not much worth recording anymore. I have thought about buying DVD issues of some of the programs I used to watch when I was a kid.