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Oldest Extant Off-Air VHS/Beta Tape You Have
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Re: Self-made VHS tapes at Thrift Stores
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Re: Self-made VHS tapes at Thrift Stores
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Re: Self-made VHS tapes at Thrift Stores
Hey it any of you need a vcr to play tapes ,they are a dime a dozen at tag sales and fleamarkets.I seems like every weekend I pick up one for about $5 bucks or less and some do work great too.those tunerless combos in the stores are useless to me {cheap}and they are crappy workmanship.I rather get the old ones and rebuild them for backups, for my collection.
Hey it any of you need a vcr to play tapes ,they are a dime a dozen at tag sales and fleamarkets.I seems like every weekend I pick up one for about $5 bucks or less and some do work great too.those tunerless combos in the stores are useless to me {cheap}and they are crappy workmanship.I rather get the old ones and rebuild them for backups, for my collection.
Re: Self-made VHS tapes at Thrift Stores
I've posted in the earlier VCR thread about finding VCRs at Goodwill. Onething I'd do though is to make sure they have a return policy in case you get a bad one. Some Goodwill stores have it and some only sell them as is.
I've posted in the earlier VCR thread about finding VCRs at Goodwill. Onething I'd do though is to make sure they have a return policy in case you get a bad one. Some Goodwill stores have it and some only sell them as is.
Re: Self-made VHS tapes at Thrift Stores
Yes I agree.today I got a great deal.One guy had 3 vcrs for $5 each.i gave him $10 for all Hifi models.One happen to be Go -Video combo .Toshiba and Proscan were the other two,They all work with a little tlc.{means Pro head cleaning and minor repairs like belts and adjustments}.Yesterday a I picked up a Mitsubishi HS-u61
S-VHS vcr for $5.This was a mess I had to rebuild the loading mech .plus the HiFi sound board is shot.to get back to the topic,the jammed video tape had shows from NBC back a few years ago.
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Yes I agree.today I got a great deal.One guy had 3 vcrs for $5 each.i gave him $10 for all Hifi models.One happen to be Go -Video combo .Toshiba and Proscan were the other two,They all work with a little tlc.{means Pro head cleaning and minor repairs like belts and adjustments}.Yesterday a I picked up a Mitsubishi HS-u61
S-VHS vcr for $5.This was a mess I had to rebuild the loading mech .plus the HiFi sound board is shot.to get back to the topic,the jammed video tape had shows from NBC back a few years ago.
Re: Self-made VHS tapes at Thrift Stores
Goodwill stores seems to be a bit picky these days and would rather just throw away things like video tapes instead of stocking them on the shelves. The little local thrift shops are the ones to shop. A few years ago, I picked up a few tapes at a little local thrift store which had CNN coverage of the Space Shuttle Challanger explosion from 1986 as well as coverage of the 1986 Statue of Liberty centennial celebration, followed by a complete NYC 11pm newscast (I think it was WCBS-TV 2)
Unfortunatly all the great VHS tapes I have sit in the closet because neither one of my VCRs are in working condition and no one repairs them locally anymore. I'd just buy another one, but I haven't had the luck you guys have had in finding VCRs.
Goodwill stores seems to be a bit picky these days and would rather just throw away things like video tapes instead of stocking them on the shelves. The little local thrift shops are the ones to shop. A few years ago, I picked up a few tapes at a little local thrift store which had CNN coverage of the Space Shuttle Challanger explosion from 1986 as well as coverage of the 1986 Statue of Liberty centennial celebration, followed by a complete NYC 11pm newscast (I think it was WCBS-TV 2)
Unfortunatly all the great VHS tapes I have sit in the closet because neither one of my VCRs are in working condition and no one repairs them locally anymore. I'd just buy another one, but I haven't had the luck you guys have had in finding VCRs.
Re: Self-made VHS tapes at Thrift Stores
Not at a thrift store or any shop, but I got around to viewing what was on a few old T-120 blanks at my house. Two of them were Kodaks, one was a 90s Sony. The two Kodaks have what says "Arachnophobia" (horror-comedy from '90) and "Total Recall" on them, but I found more stuff on it than that. Same with the Sony's label of the horror film "Freaks" from 1932.
The Freaks tape (seems to be recorded in late 1995) has the end of some movie at the beginning (with Gulf-Western Paramount logo as well). After the end of the mystery movie, there are TNT promos (Coming Up Next, listing 4:20am ET for the movie, so overnight time-shift recording, The Lazarus Man promo from late 1995), as well as a couple of 800 direct response ads, followed by the intro to the movie. I don't check ends of tapes.
Total Recall: First minute of the tape has likely a Godzilla movie taped, but the video is very messed up in quality. After this it goes straight to the movie, starting at the scene where Arnold Schwarzengeer sees the commercial for Rekall.
Arachnophobia: Now this one is quite weird. It starts with a couple minutes of a Rosie O'Donnell show from the late 1990s, then it goes to a Bugs Bunny cartoon taped off ABC in the 90s as well. Haven't checked if the movie is even on there.
-crainbebo
Not at a thrift store or any shop, but I got around to viewing what was on a few old T-120 blanks at my house. Two of them were Kodaks, one was a 90s Sony. The two Kodaks have what says "Arachnophobia" (horror-comedy from '90) and "Total Recall" on them, but I found more stuff on it than that. Same with the Sony's label of the horror film "Freaks" from 1932.
The Freaks tape (seems to be recorded in late 1995) has the end of some movie at the beginning (with Gulf-Western Paramount logo as well). After the end of the mystery movie, there are TNT promos (Coming Up Next, listing 4:20am ET for the movie, so overnight time-shift recording, The Lazarus Man promo from late 1995), as well as a couple of 800 direct response ads, followed by the intro to the movie. I don't check ends of tapes.
Total Recall: First minute of the tape has likely a Godzilla movie taped, but the video is very messed up in quality. After this it goes straight to the movie, starting at the scene where Arnold Schwarzengeer sees the commercial for Rekall.
Arachnophobia: Now this one is quite weird. It starts with a couple minutes of a Rosie O'Donnell show from the late 1990s, then it goes to a Bugs Bunny cartoon taped off ABC in the 90s as well. Haven't checked if the movie is even on there.
-crainbebo
Re: Self-made VHS tapes at Thrift Stores
Found a blank tape stuffed in the junkroom with a baseball game of the Seattle Mariners at the Angels taped off ESPN in late '95. Unfortunaly, commercials are not on this tape. It's a Fuji blank.
Might be heading to the flea market tomorrow to go find some blanks, hopefully not with sexual content taped over
-crainbebo
Found a blank tape stuffed in the junkroom with a baseball game of the Seattle Mariners at the Angels taped off ESPN in late '95. Unfortunaly, commercials are not on this tape. It's a Fuji blank.
Might be heading to the flea market tomorrow to go find some blanks, hopefully not with sexual content taped over
-crainbebo
Re: Self-made VHS tapes at Thrift Stores
Went up to the flea market, and found a motherload of T-120s in one vendor. The clerk said he recorded them off C-Band satellite back in the late 80s/early 90s. However I also saw tapes of Men In Black (1997) and X-Men (1999) on blanks so it looks like other people's blanks are in there as well. I picked up the older ones These tapes don't have labels, but a cut and pasted satellite TV guide insert with info about the movies (what actors, rating, etc), since the clerk used to get a TV Guide just for C-Band viewers, and he would cut out what he would like to watch, and tape it.
The tapes/movies I got there on blanks were
Tape 1: Innerspace (Dennis Quaid) and The Big Chill (Glenn Close). I have the Big Chill already on a retail VHS, but I was looking for promos/etc. The tape is a Maxell blank.
Tape 2: The Beast (George Dzunda) and The UFO Incident (James Earl Jones). Tape is a TDK blank with the late 80s HS casing.
Tape 3: The Karate Kid Part II (Ralph Macchio and Predator (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Tape is a Memorex blank.
For commercials/promos, I unfortunaly found almost no promos or bumpers at all. Tapes 1 and 2 at both the start of movie one and end of movie one/start of two went right to the movie. Tape 3 had a cut off HBO Movie intro at the beginning, and between movie one and two, a cut off Next On bumper, dating back to about 1987 or early 88.
Other tapes I saw there: Star Trek (not sure if it's original or TNG), Raiders of the Lost Ark on one tape, as well as a few without labels (who knows what content might be on those). In that same vendor there was a boatload of laserdiscs (at least 250)! But the big part was finding the blanks. I knew flea markets were good choices.
If you're wondering, this is the same flea market I found the Maverick blank tape at (but didn't pick it up).
-crainbebo
Went up to the flea market, and found a motherload of T-120s in one vendor. The clerk said he recorded them off C-Band satellite back in the late 80s/early 90s. However I also saw tapes of Men In Black (1997) and X-Men (1999) on blanks so it looks like other people's blanks are in there as well. I picked up the older ones
These tapes don't have labels, but a cut and pasted satellite TV guide insert with info about the movies (what actors, rating, etc), since the clerk used to get a TV Guide just for C-Band viewers, and he would cut out what he would like to watch, and tape it.The tapes/movies I got there on blanks were
Tape 1: Innerspace (Dennis Quaid) and The Big Chill (Glenn Close). I have the Big Chill already on a retail VHS, but I was looking for promos/etc. The tape is a Maxell blank.
Tape 2: The Beast (George Dzunda) and The UFO Incident (James Earl Jones). Tape is a TDK blank with the late 80s HS casing.
Tape 3: The Karate Kid Part II (Ralph Macchio and Predator (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Tape is a Memorex blank.
For commercials/promos, I unfortunaly found almost no promos or bumpers at all. Tapes 1 and 2 at both the start of movie one and end of movie one/start of two went right to the movie. Tape 3 had a cut off HBO Movie intro at the beginning, and between movie one and two, a cut off Next On bumper, dating back to about 1987 or early 88.
Other tapes I saw there: Star Trek (not sure if it's original or TNG), Raiders of the Lost Ark on one tape, as well as a few without labels (who knows what content might be on those). In that same vendor there was a boatload of laserdiscs (at least 250)! But the big part was finding the blanks. I knew flea markets were good choices.
If you're wondering, this is the same flea market I found the Maverick blank tape at (but didn't pick it up).
-crainbebo
Re: Self-made VHS tapes at Thrift Stores
I actually went to a Goodwill in my area not too long ago, and I found a tape of a Wizard of Oz special presentation taped on 2/21/90. It was taped from WNEV-7, which was then the CBS affiliate in Boston. This tape also has Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! on before Oz (it said that right on the label), and that's mainly what I was interested in. It also had an old Lottery Live drawing with Dawn Hayes, something I never thought I'd find.
I actually went to a Goodwill in my area not too long ago, and I found a tape of a Wizard of Oz special presentation taped on 2/21/90. It was taped from WNEV-7, which was then the CBS affiliate in Boston. This tape also has Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! on before Oz (it said that right on the label), and that's mainly what I was interested in. It also had an old Lottery Live drawing with Dawn Hayes, something I never thought I'd find.
Re: Self-made VHS tapes at Thrift Stores
Went up to the same thrift store in Bothell where I spotted a few movies on blanks last time. Unfortunaly I asked the checkout lady if they still take blank tapes, and she said no. So a thrift store off the list for 80s TV nostalgia
-crainbebo
Went up to the same thrift store in Bothell where I spotted a few movies on blanks last time. Unfortunaly I asked the checkout lady if they still take blank tapes, and she said no. So a thrift store off the list for 80s TV nostalgia
-crainbebo