Do you still have VHS tapes?

[RCMerchant]

I got about a hundred. My favorites are the clamshell horror tapes from Sinister Cinema.
I kinda miss the adventure of seeking out films. Now you can see everything anywhere anytime. Which is great! But I miss the hunt.

[bob]

yes

MST3K the movie
Falling Down
Ghostbusters
The Fly
The Great Outdoors
Starship Troopers
Mystic Pizza
To Gillian on her 37th Birthday
Doctor Zhivago
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Forest Gump
Baseball – Ken Burns documentary
Cal Ripken Jr.: The Iron Man's Legendary Career
Dirty Dancing
Miracle on 34th Street
Highlander 2: The Quickening

[RCMerchant]

A had- (some loaned out-ei. stolen) many old Something Weird tapes- still got a few. Stuff you can't even see streaming. the GIRL AND THE GEEK, ONE MILLION AC/DC- wonderful garbage!

[El Misfit]

Yeah we still do; some MST3K episodes, the There Goes A vehicle series, some Disney and childhood movies, and others.

[lester1/2jr]

Yes but not a player. I have Mystery of the Leaping fish on VHS haha

[claws]

Nope. Got rid off all my tapes when I made the switch to DVD in 1998. I nearly had 1,000 tapes, maybe even more. 70% of my collection were dupes. Making copies was cheaper then buying most of the actual tapes. They used to have insane prices! I remember buying Brain Damage (1988) for $79.99. That was a lot of money even back then.

Once I went with DVDs I boxed all my tapes and we drove them to the dumpster. With the tapes gone I forgot how much space my room actually had haha. They were only collecting dust for the most part anyway.

Renting movies was an important part of my life. I spend most of my teen years browsing vhs aisles. Nothing but fond memories even though returning rentals was annoying af

It's the digital age, and thinking back movies on tape had such poor quality, and most were zoomed or presented in awful 4:3 full screen.
For the record - and you can drool all you want - but (older) movies weren't made or meant to be seen in that scratchy, blurry, washed-out and print-damaged "Grindhouse Look".

For example, you haven't really seen Messiah of Evil (1973) until you watch the restored, color corrected and clean print version in proper widescreen on DVD or blu-ray.
It finally looks like a real movie, and is presented the way the director always intended it to be seen.

[Alex]

I had about somewhere between one and two hundred, but they were all thrown out years ago while I was on deployment. Otherwise I'd have sold them.

[chefzombie]

we still have about a dozen in an an old style "drawer" thingy. no player, lol! and the drawer thingy is in the closet , strangle likes to sleep on it.

[ER]

Buried them in a time capsule in 2020.

[Trevor]

I thought I had more than these:


THE AVENGERS (1998) Sorry Alex
GOTTI (1996)
ALI G INDAHOUSE
BROTHER
THE WILD GEESE
ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ MEN
BRIAN’S SONG
CASABLANCA
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT
FREE ENTERPRISE
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE 3RD KIND
THE BIG SLEEP
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
APOLLO 13
FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE
THE HUNTED
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS
COOL RUNNINGS
BAFFLED!
DEAD BANG
ENTER THE NINJA
HEARTBREAK RIDGE
HORROR EXPRESS
AN EYE FOR AN EYE
CLIFFHANGER
BEST SELLER
KILLER INSTINCT (1990)
JURASSIC PARK
DUST DEVIL
ARMAGEDDON
TO HEAL A NATION
THE PROFESSIONALS (TV SERIES)
THE SEDUCTION
THE KILLING FIELDS
KUNG POW ENTER THE FIST
LEAN ON ME
THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (what a terrible cover this one has!!)
THE LONGEST DAY
MANHUNTER
MESSENGER OF DEATH
MONA LISA
THE NAKED GUN
1984
NIXON
THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES
THE PROTECTOR (Jackie Chan)
PSYCHO 2
RAMBO 2
RAMBO 3
REMO WILLIAMS
RIO BRAVO
ROLLERBALL
RONIN (Russian dub)
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN
THE SEARCHERS
SHANGANI PATROL
THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
STAR WARS 4
STAR WARS 5
STAR WARS 6
TEARS OF THE SUN
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3
TRAINSPOTTING
UNFORGIVEN
THE VERDICT
VICTORY / ESCAPE TO VICTORY
WHERE EAGLES DARE
WITNESS
WYATT EARP
FOUR X FILES EPISODES
THE YAKUZA

And I do have a player.

[Rev. Powell]

Yeah, a few. Almost everything I own has been reissued in DVD/Blu-ray by now, though. I still have a player hooked up but it's been years since I used it.

[lester1/2jr]

In American Psycho (the book) Bateman repeatedly RENTS De Palma's Body Double. Even the super rich didn't actually buy videotapes when they first came out. They were like 90 dollars.

[Alex]

In American Psycho (the book) Bateman repeatedly RENTS De Palma's Body Double. Even the super rich didn't actually buy videotapes when they first came out. They were like 90 dollars.

True that. I remember being shocked as a kid when I saw a rental copy of 'A View To A Kill' with the price tag still on it. (£75 iirc, in British money). One of these days I need to finish reading American Psycho.

[RCMerchant]

I have an old copy of the HUMAN MONSTER (1939), and it has an ad for video tapes that says "Welcome to the world of Video Home Recordings! For only the price of-" some insanely high price.

[zombie no.one]

oddly I have no recollection of what films I owned on vhs... normally I'm very nerdy about that kind of stuff. I also don't remember how I got rid of them, even though I must've done. - although there's a slight chance they might all still be in bags in my parents' attic or somewhere.

my nostalgia for the vhs era is low. rewinding and fast forwarding was a chore. tapes getting mangled up in the machine... also my dad had this weird obsession where he was  convinced that if you played a vhs tape in a video recorder, and it had already been played in a different video player, it would damage the heads on the player... like some kind of 'vhs tape virus'.  erm, what? so he didn't like us hiring tapes out from blockbuster or watching tapes borrowed from friends (although we did anyway)