VHS tapes you hold onto

[Trevor]

The following are mine: I used to have more but I got rid of some when I was able to buy DVDs.


ALI G INDAHOUSE: THE MOVIE
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN
ARMAGEDDON OUTTA HERE
THE AVENGERS (1998)
BAFFLED!
BEST SELLER
THE BIG SLEEP (1978)
BLUE HEAT / LAST OF THE FINEST
BRIAN'S SONG (1971)
BROTHER (2000)
BULLITT
CASABLANCA
CLIFFHANGER (SPECIAL FALLING OFF CLIFF ED)
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3RD KIND SPECIAL ED
COOL RUNNINGS
DEAD BANG
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
DUST DEVIL
ENTER THE NINJA
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
FORCE TEN FROM  NAVARONE
FREE ENTERPRISE
GORKY PARK
HEARTBREAK RIDGE
HORROR EXPRESS
THE HUNTED (2003)
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
JUGGERNAUT
JURASSIC PARK
THE KILLING FIELDS
KUNG POW ENTER THE FIST
LEAN ON ME
THE LONGEST DAY
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
MANHUNTER
MESSENGER OF DEATH
MONA LISA
THE NAKED GUN
NINETEEN EIGHTY FOUR (1984)
PET SEMATARY
THE PROTECTOR (1985)
PSYCHO 2
RAMBO FIRST BLOOD PART 2
RAMBO 3
REMO: UNARMED AND DANGEROUS
ROLLERBALL (1975)
RONIN (1998)
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE
THE UMPIRE STRIKES BACK
RETURN OF THE JEDI
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
THE STONE KILLER
TEENAGE MUTANT  NINJA TURTLES 3
TO HEAL A NATION
VICTORY / ESCAPE TO VICTORY
THE WILD GEESE
WITNESS
THE YAKUZA

[bob]

Forrest Gump
Barry Lyndon
Dirty Dancing
Dr. Zivago
MST3K the movie
Miracle on 34th Street
The Great Outdoors
The Fly
ghostbusters
Falling Down
Starship Troopers
Mystic Pizza
To Gillian on her 34th birthday
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi

[claws]

I got rid off all my tapes in the early 2000s except for Scream (1981). I had bought the tape from a going out of business video rental store in the mid 1990s. it was basically still brand new (movie was released to video in 1985 I think), shrink wrapped, no dents and never opened. I kept it for the longest on display in my room, and sold it at a movie fair in the late 2000s for $125. Bought the movie on DVD a few years ago in glorious widescreen.
I still miss the glory days of video rentals. Good times.

[ER]

If you notice almost all things that go on to be antiques or collectibles go through a stage of being outmoded junk, and only survive to be desired in retrospect because some people hung on to them past their initial usefulness. So I've made a point of hanging on to all my old VHS movies and TV recordings, and have them in plastic crates, awaiting a time when someone may again appreciate them.

You know, a side effect of our society going digital is likely to be the loss of a huge portion of our cultural record. Old photos and newspaper articles and books, and even ancient scrolls we can still open and read, but as one operating system supplants the next, I think we may not realize just how much of this current era's record stands to be discarded. So...for what it's worth, I have all my VHS, but then I'm an obsessive record-keeper by nature.

Good topic, Trevor!

[JaseSF]

Still have:

Italicized if also have on DVD or Blu-Ray

The Wicker Man
The Omega Man
Soylent Green
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
Return of the Jedi
Hell's Kitchen
Girl Interrupted
The Thirteenth Floor
The War Lord
The Ten Commandments
Spartacus
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom
Mask
The Wizard of Oz
Return to Oz
Interview with the Vampire
Dr. Strange
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Star Trek: All Good Things...
White Palace
Star Trek: TNG: Q Who?
Star Trek: TNG: Encounter at Farpoint
Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever
Star Trek: The Cage
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Deep Red (1994)
Matinee
The Aqua Diary
Quatermass (1979)
Quatermass and the Pit (1958)
Battlestar Galactica
Apollo 13
The Shadow
Harvey
New York Rangers: 1994 Stanley Cup Champions
The Nightmare Before Christmas
James and the Giant Peach
Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz
Transformers: Beast Wars: Beasties Escape
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
The Mighty Thor: Enter Hercules/Battle of the Gods
WWF Invasion '92
WWF Wrestlemania 1-15, 18
Highlander 2: Renegade Version
Vertigo
Apocalypse Now
The Elephant Man
Street Fight (Bakshi)
Tales of Tomorrow Vol. 1 - 4
Charlotte's Web
The Planets (narrated by Patrick Stewart)
The Bear
WWF Inside the Steel Cage
Best of the WWF Vol. 2, Vol. 11
Hulkamania: The Best of Hulk Hogan
Pro Wrestling Illustrated: Lords of the Rings: Superstars and Superbouts
Wrestling Classics in Genuine Black and White
WWF St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House
Grunt! The Wrestling Movie
The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling
American Angels: Baptism of Blood (1989)
WWF Capital Carnage 1998
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise
Curse of the Blair Witch
The Blair Witch Project
The Shawshank Redemption
On the Waterfront
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
The Collector
Seven Years in Tibet
Bat*21
Chinatown
Patlabor 1: Mobile Police (Movie)
Patlabor 2: Mobile Police (Movie)
Fail Safe
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Spawn
Spawn (cartoon series)
Rage Against the Machine
R.E.M. Road Movie
Creature Comforts
Charly
Kill Cruise
Cop Land
The Atomic City
WildCATS (cartoon show)
Batman (movie serial on 2 VHS tapes)
Aeon Flux (cartoon series)
Orgy of the Dead
Night of the Living Dead
Panic in the City
Godzilla vs. Megalon
Runaway
Meteor
The Alien Legacy
WWF Bad Blood: In Your House
ECW Path of Destruction
WWF Royal Rumble 1989
NWA Starrcade '88: True Gritt
ECW Cyberslam '99
NWA Clash of the Champions 1, 5
WWF The Ultimate Warrior
WWF The Immortal Hulk Hogan
NWA The Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament 1988
WWF Wrestling World Tour
WWF Sunny
WWF Confirmed Hits
ECW Wrestlepalooza '97
NWA WrestleWar '89: Music City Showdown
NWA Chi-Town Rumble '89
WWF King of the Ring 1998
WCW WrestleWar 1990: Wild Thing
NWA The Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament '87
NWA The Great American Bash '87: The War Games
WWF Paul Bearer's Hits from the Crypt
Doug's 1st Movie
Hey Arnold! The Movie
The Fan
High Society
The Big Sleep
Lolita
Best of I Love Lucy
Madeline Christmas

[VenomX73]

Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) English - UNCUT

[Trevor]

Highlander 2: Renegade Version

I'm glad to see that there's someone else who likes this movie. 

[claws]

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3RD KIND SPECIAL ED

this one is totally worth upgrading to blu-ray. it contains all three versions plus PQ and audio are amazing.

[FatFreddysCat]

When I tossed the last remnants of my VHS collection five or six years ago, the only one I held onto was KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park. I didn't have the heart to throw it away.

[lester1/2jr]

ALI G INDAHOUSE: THE MOVIE

"we need a massive massive"

[A_Dubya]

WWF Invasion 2001

[Jim H]

If you notice almost all things that go on to be antiques or collectibles go through a stage of being outmoded junk, and only survive to be desired in retrospect because some people hung on to them past their initial usefulness. So I've made a point of hanging on to all my old VHS movies and TV recordings, and have them in plastic crates, awaiting a time when someone may again appreciate them.

You know, a side effect of our society going digital is likely to be the loss of a huge portion of our cultural record. Old photos and newspaper articles and books, and even ancient scrolls we can still open and read, but as one operating system supplants the next, I think we may not realize just how much of this current era's record stands to be discarded. So...for what it's worth, I have all my VHS, but then I'm an obsessive record-keeper by nature.

Good topic, Trevor!

We don't know for certain... They're doing a way better job with backwards compatibility now than they did 30 years ago (almoat any OS made 20+ years ago is emulatable now), but a lack of easy recreation (you can see what's on film with a a piece of glass and any light) means you could be right eventually.

However, historians nowadays consider one thing hugely beneficial. Letter writing greatly declined with the advent of the telephone, and a LOT of important conversations are unknown because of it, as well as just average communication. With email and social media, there's a lot more of it again that can be examined when looking back. A lot won't be saved of course, but .1% of email is still a TON of written text.

Also, worth noting that VHS tapes won't last. They'll become unwatchable after enough time, depending on conditions they are stored in. They said 30 years, but some are clearly lasting longer. I have recordes tapes that are from the early 90s, stored in a dry basement, that are almost unwatchable already though. Sad.

[Trevor]

Also, worth noting that VHS tapes won't last. They'll become unwatchable after enough time, depending on conditions they are stored in. They said 30 years, but some are clearly lasting longer. I have recordes tapes that are from the early 90s, stored in a dry basement, that are almost unwatchable already though. Sad.

That's the problem I have with my Remo VHS: an ex rental, it is almost unwatchable, sadly.

[Jim H]

Also, worth noting that VHS tapes won't last. They'll become unwatchable after enough time, depending on conditions they are stored in. They said 30 years, but some are clearly lasting longer. I have recordes tapes that are from the early 90s, stored in a dry basement, that are almost unwatchable already though. Sad.

That's the problem I have with my Remo VHS: an ex rental, it is almost unwatchable, sadly.

Yeah...  My father was a heavy VHS recorder, he had ALL of Star Trek taped (except Enterprise, which came later), including the Special Edition thing the Sci-Fi channel did, where they had brief snippets of video interviews shot for Sci-Fi in-between commercial breaks by the actors/directors relevant to each episode.  Pretty cool.  He even live-edited out the commercials on most of it.  He also recorded lots of classic monster movies on Beta (he was a Betamax die-hard, only switching to VHS when blank Beta tapes got too expensive and hard to find in the early to mid 90s), as well as lots of other great films off of HBO, Cinemax, and the Movie Channel.  These tapes were what sparked a lot of my love for a variety of genres, since I usually wasn't allowed to rent anything until I was around 12-13.  Even still, I'd still comb through the old tapes in my teen years, and find some interesting stuff, especially as he was big fan of AMC (American Movie Classics, back when they mostly showed black and white oldies without commercials).  Adventures of Robin Hood, Frankenstein, King Kong, It: The Terror From Beyond Space, Them, The Fly and Little Shop of Horrors (both versions), etc. 

He died in 1999, and years later when we went to move, we had to figure out what to do with the old tapes.  We pretty quickly discovered almost all of them were unwatchable.  In particular, he had recorded some stuff in EP (extended play), those go fastest.  Even a lot of the Beta stuff from the 80s and 90s, while it was still often watchable, frequently the audio was so bad with hiss, whine and other issues they were essentially ruined. 

We ended up throwing almost all of it out. 

[RCMerchant]

I-like ER-have a LOT. I aint gonna got threw all the titles. I got over 200 still.
I got a lot of the old clamshells ....some of my favorites...for sentimental reasons...
.EQUINOX (1969).-only on the video box its called the BEAST.
.The DEVIL MASTER (1977) aka DEMON LOVER
.DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT (1973)
.MANSON (1972)
.WHITE ZOMBIE (1932)
.The BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (1959)
.SATAN'S SADISTS (1969)
.ZOMBIE (1979)
.the HUMAN MONSTER (1939)-this one is OLD-it has an intro that says-"Welcome to the world of VCI Home Video "-and how their product only cost $49 a title"...