How to Start Collecting VHS Tapes | 4 Essential Tips to get started in 2025

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  • @ChrisCollectsStuff
    @ChrisCollectsStuff  Місяць тому +4

    What's the one tape you are hunting? For me I am still struggling to find a decently priced copy of The Goonies in the slipcover case, not the clam shell. I'd love to know what yours is!

    • @VHSArchiveAGoGo
      @VHSArchiveAGoGo Місяць тому +2

      I'm still looking for Army of Darkness, I want to find it in person instead of just on ebay.

    • @ChrisCollectsStuff
      @ChrisCollectsStuff  Місяць тому +1

      @@VHSArchiveAGoGo Same!

    • @willywampa84
      @willywampa84 Місяць тому +3

      I'm trying to find the first Ninja Turtles on VHS! I still have my childhood copies of 2 and 3, but not sure what happened to the first one. Would love to find Surf Ninjas as well, but I feel that's going to be tougher than TMNT.

    • @ChrisCollectsStuff
      @ChrisCollectsStuff  Місяць тому +2

      @@willywampa84 That's wild that you just said Surf Ninjas. While I have that already I saw yet another copy at the christmas retro market at the mall this weekend! Good luck on your hunt!

    • @VHSArchiveAGoGo
      @VHSArchiveAGoGo Місяць тому +2

      @@willywampa84 That's such a good one to be hunting! Good luck!

  • @hamsticklehq
    @hamsticklehq Місяць тому +3

    i appreciate the pumpkins t-shirt

  • @VHSArchiveAGoGo
    @VHSArchiveAGoGo Місяць тому +4

    My grail currently is Army of Darkness!

  • @MrJest2
    @MrJest2 Місяць тому +4

    My main issue with this is that magnetic tape media is not "permanent". Even if you don't read/write to it routinely, in several years the data will fade anyway.

    • @ChrisCollectsStuff
      @ChrisCollectsStuff  Місяць тому +1

      You are correct. What I find interesting are the tapes that are nearly 40 years old that play perfectly. I know that will eventually not be the case, but they aren't as fragile as folks make them out to be. I collect for the fun and nostalgia of it. My Blu Rays and 4k discs are for the home theater enjoyment.

    • @MrJest2
      @MrJest2 Місяць тому

      @@ChrisCollectsStuff It is indeed surprising how durable mag tape *can* be - depends on how they were manufactured. Many moons ago I bought the "pre-remake" original Star Wars trilogy, and they still play pretty decently some 30 years later. Of course, I have long since ripped them off onto optical storage, but I'm still impressed with the quality of these recordings.

    • @ChrisCollectsStuff
      @ChrisCollectsStuff  Місяць тому +1

      @@MrJest2 My pre-special edition box set is a prize possession, I had to mow so many yards as a kid to get it!

    • @MrJest2
      @MrJest2 Місяць тому +1

      @@ChrisCollectsStuff I am old enough to have been a young teen when "Star Wars" came out in theaters. I've probably seen almost every version that was available at the time, including mono-audio "drive in" editions.
      I always laugh at people purchasing t-shirts and whatnot that say "Han shot first". They should really say, "Han shot, period." In the original, Greedo never got a round off at all - he was just brutally wasted under the table. 😋

    • @ChrisCollectsStuff
      @ChrisCollectsStuff  Місяць тому

      @@MrJest2 HAHA So true about Han!! I wish I could have seen it in a drive in!

  • @sir.reelcinema
    @sir.reelcinema 14 днів тому +1

    Thank you for sharing this video, it was incredible.

  • @joshuapowell1868
    @joshuapowell1868 Місяць тому +3

    People like myself 300 vhs tapes 5 hi-fi VCR players in my house

  • @IndyAdvant
    @IndyAdvant Місяць тому +4

    You need more subs, stat!

  • @joshuapowell1868
    @joshuapowell1868 Місяць тому +3

    Everything proven people keep there mode switch clean out in their VCR players like they should people will never have playing problem's at all everything proven online how clean out a mode switch in a VCR player 😊

  • @joshuapowell1868
    @joshuapowell1868 Місяць тому +3

    Vhs tapes good for your health keeps me moving more 7 days of the week not bad for people's health now days your not getting lazy on VHS tapes like you would on Disney plus and I got rid of my Disney plus because I was getting lazy

  • @stuartobrien78
    @stuartobrien78 5 днів тому

    The LG dvd/vcr Model RC689D is an Australian dvd combo vcr, that comes with a digital tuner!
    Plus on the dvd part, it plays dvds from around the world. Plus it can be hooked up to a full hd smart TV.
    Having connections to coloured plugs and an HDMI cable. It's a 2012 model!

  • @joshuapowell1868
    @joshuapowell1868 Місяць тому +4

    People like myself are buying everything else off eBay and Amazon now days for 10 dollars all my vhs tapes more cleaning tapes

  • @markhellman-pn3hn
    @markhellman-pn3hn Місяць тому +1

    the DVD format killed the VHS format ... i keep them next to my TV - which has 300 channels to choose from .... sooner or later, ill get rid of them

    • @ChrisCollectsStuff
      @ChrisCollectsStuff  Місяць тому

      I regret getting rid of my dvd's I had put them into binders and then tossed them maybe 6 or so years ago. Sadly not everything I used to be able to watch is still available