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Raffine
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« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2009, 04:48:39 PM »
Thanks!  Thumbup
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« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2009, 06:53:01 AM »
The age of VHS has been over for me for about 8 or 9 years.  I sold a bunch of my tapes on Ebay and when the prices really started dropping (like I was having a tough time selling most of them for more than $1 or $2, which got cut down even more after paying Ebay and PayPal fees), I just gave the final 200 - 300 tapes to my parents.  They watch the same 30 or so over and over and I don't think they've watched the rest of them even once.
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« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2009, 12:53:18 PM »
Quote from: Raffine on January 12, 2009, 11:01:01 AM
According to this story in the L.A. Times the age of VHS is "officially" over:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-vhs-tapes22-2008dec22,0,5852342.story

The good news is it looks like you can get a VHS copy of THE MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN really, really cheap. 

I still have several boxes of VHS tapes, mostly movies that haven't been (and possibly will never will be) released on DVD. I guess I need to transfer the ones I really want to keep, like ISLAND OF THE LOST SOULS, to DVD-R, or something.   


funny... I'd thought VHS was dead once people start to realize that they could store their entire collection in:







which is much better then bulky VHS storage:





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« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2009, 01:00:03 PM »
HA! I think those last 2 pictures are from your old basement!
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« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2009, 01:40:08 PM »
Quote from: Paquita on January 14, 2009, 01:00:03 PM
HA! I think those last 2 pictures are from your old basement!

Too bad we dont have the room... :)
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« Reply #20 on: January 14, 2009, 04:53:40 PM »
Quote from: Jack on January 12, 2009, 01:39:35 PM
I still buy VHS tapes occasionally.  There's about a gazillion of them available from the sellers on Amazon.  There's quite a bit of stuff that was never released on DVD, or maybe it's a movie that sounds sort of interesting (but I know it will probably suck) and they want $20 for the DVD or I can get a new VHS copy of it for $2.

I'm with you.  besides, I'm not going to get rid of a movie on VHS that isn't worn out yet.
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« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2009, 08:30:42 PM »
I finally got around to converting to DVD around Christmas of 2000 and never looked back.

At first, I was wondering how I was going to replace my gargantuan VHS collection, but over time I've gotten pretty everything on DVD that I owned on VHS in some form.

The stuff that I couldn't replace I've just kept on VHS and transferred to DVD-R's.
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« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2009, 08:40:58 PM »
Quote from: Raffine on January 12, 2009, 11:01:01 AM
According to this story in the L.A. Times the age of VHS is "officially" over:
  

FINALLY!
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