The nostalgia for sure is very cool going through them all. The temptation to want to keep some might just be that “collector” mindset inside all of us. Personally I don’t think VHS is worth keeping. The tapes deteriorate, and they are huge. Unless you can’t get it on any other form like dvd or bluray then for sure keep the VHS otherwise enjoy the nostalgia and move on. It’s so hard to learn it but I’ve finally trained myself to only collect what I will use/watch. Theres no point having hundreds or thousands of something just for the sake of having it. Curation is freedom. Letting go of something allows the opportunity for other collectors to to enjoy your things you no longer need.
I’ve started to try and train myself in that mindset. Still have slips but certainly managing to clear out more than I’m bringing in for now as I’m curating. It was nice revisiting these things and there was that slight temptation to display a couple but… zero interest in trying to borrow a played to actually give them a look. Most of what I had here were pretty standard releases. They’ll be going to the 80s video shop this weekend I think.
Im really into physical media. I still have a slightly older Samsung series 6 full hd smart TV. It has some analogue ports to hook up to a vcr. And ports to connect to a Hdmi cable! Have you seen the 1987 vhs tape by Colombia pictures called Insect, AKA Blue Monkey. I watched it on vhs before my vcr broke down. Its now on blu ray by Code Red label called Blue Monkey! Cheers.
@@stuartobrien78 to some extent kinda regret clearing out some of the older formats. But… I enjoy the space clearing it out has given me. It’s still nice to have that nostalgic dip into these things, something I’m gonna do a little more of. I’ve not seen that VHS tape, maybe one to keep an eye out for when I go along to more of the VHS collector events 🤷🏼♂️ There will be more dives into VHS to come !
Hi Phill, you did good to give them away mate, getting caught up in nostalgia is a slippery slope. Saying that one or two would look cool on display 😂 take care mate👍😃👍
They’re going today Kermit 🙌🏼 all of them. I’m possibly gonna do a little video around the place I’m taking them to, it’s a wonderful little spot. I feel happier knowing that someone can make good use of them. Might even spend some money while I’m there. Been eying up a couple of the things they make from old VHS and the cases
@@all-s0rts I’ll have to say… I’m starting to see that more and more for older movies. 4k is too good for some of the old horror. I’ve still actually kept some of my old laserdiscs, just don’t have the working player
Great video Phill.I did buy the whole original series of Star Trek on VHS from a car boot on impulse.(40 Odd tapes I think) have them all on Bluray so I really don't know what I was thinking!
I love Sneakers. Great comedic heist/thriller. It is from the 90s though :) I remember when they talked about it on Bad Influence just because it has some tech in it.
I need to watch it again soon. I love watching older movies and being amazed at the some of the Tech that was considered cutting edge now looking massively ridiculous. Just checked the Sneakers date, released ‘92 😱 I was close though, right ?! For some reason I always consider my VHS mainly being 80s although I don’t think I actually moved on from VHS until around ‘96 when I made the leap to laserdisc for the uncut version of Scream. Next time I mention VHS, I need to double check my dates first I think.
I sold a music VHS tape a couple of weeks back for £40. Worth checking when you see them as some of the more obscure stuff never even made it to DVD let alone blu-ray or 4K
Unfortunately I’ve not really got any obscure stuff left. It’s all pretty standard / run of the mill that I found remaining. I’ve donated them to the video store now, hope they can find some value in them. Even if they sell them on it’ll help support their shop.
Answering the Question you posed, My collection represents the history of home video and all its adjacent entertainment. I know folks just don't want or need all that clutter in their lives. If I may be controversial l Feel like there is little respect for the History of film, Many who say they are collectors are just buying everything new. (that's called shopping) the formats that you can no longer watch are decor. In my case, I have a physical media library /museum for my personal entertainment and relaxation. When I am not in collector mode I am watching TH-camrs collection. I love all their methods and collections but not the toxicity.Peace.
I’m not a big fan of the toxicity either. There’s a lot of gatekeeping of sorts depending what you buy… really, we should be loving the content if we’re movie fans. Love the sound of your home set up. I wouldn’t have the space to be able to set up something like that but it makes me happy that people will still celebrate and curate this sort of thing.
About 20 years back I had the full collection of Laurel & Hardy movies on VHS. Can’t remember the name of the company but they sent you one cassette a month until the set was complete. I needed to get rid of them as DVDs were the thing. I took them all to 3 different charity shops and they wouldn’t take them. I ended up putting them all in the bin. Scandalous really but you just couldn’t shift VHS tapes back then. Hind sight is always a wonderful thing but yeah, I should have kept them. Although I did replace them all with a full DVD box set from HMV many years ago and I still watch them. All fuelled by nostalgia, I used to watch them with my grandad when I was a kid, I’m now 56. He had some old cinema projectors up in his attic we used to sit for hours watching Laurel & Hardy Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Keystone cops, Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle & all the old Universal horror films.
Hi, Half of the boutique label releases are now larger than a VHS. Whatever happened to "Space is at a premium" talking point? If those recorded tapes have ads on them, there is a segment of the collector community that buys them on eBay. For me, It's time to reduce my collection from approximately 10k pieces to 1k pieces. After 40 years of collecting I only used maybe half of what I obtained and My tastes have also changed. It will be just as much fun to watch then sell my acquisitions as it was to buy and watch them. Cheers
The 80s video shop where I’m donating these VHS have someone that will grab some of these to scour through and hunt for old commercials and things. The shop will also be able to make use of the tapes and the cases. If not for display then they’ll be repurposed. My collection numbers are coming down now too. My space is certainly at a premium and I’m considering more about what I’m keeping hold of and why. I can’t justify keeping any of the VHS. The boutique labels certainly do seem to be pushing the sizes of some releases up. Every limited edition seems bigger than a VHS case now
I have all my old VHS tapes still in storage at my parents house. They aren't rare or worth anything but I can't bring myself to throw them away! Haven't actually used them in over 20 years as I have them all on Blu-ray now. Certainly space is an issue though and they will have to go at some point.
It’s weird looking through them. As much as I felt the nostalgia of them. I’d no real interest in trying to give any a real look. To be fair though, the titles that were left were all pretty standard releases and do have alternatives that are better quality and easy to find. I’m glad I took the time to have a dig through them though.
I still have a roll of the foil, “Warranty Void if seal is broken or removed”. We placed those on the cassettes in hopes of catching reel swappers… back in my rental days.
Reel swappers… was that a thing !? I remember my mates dad used to pirate the films by renting them out and then setting up the video camera to record the tv 😂 Indiana jones & the last crusade I partially ruined as I rang the doorbell as it was recording.
Yep they would steal the original tape and place a blank tape inside! And as I couldn’t compete with Blockbuster I had a “video enhancer” box that would defeat the macro vision copy protection! I’m sure you can imagine how many copies I had for rent! And the label you ask? I had a dam good hand held scanner and 300dpi laser printer! 😂😂
I know, I’m sorry Dave. Think it’s a show that never really got watched in my house growing up so I just don’t have the same love of it than the vast majority. The wife loves it though.
I like it, I think it's a great show, but I've seen all of the episodes so many times that I've not had the desire to watch it for years, same thing with The Young Ones unfortunately.
I am totally unanimous in how everyone feels.Like some you I was born in the late seventies in a time when VHS was a thing back then and I used to collect them in my teens (well not as much) then a few years later after graduating from high school in the early 2000s I started slowly but surely transitions from vhs to DVD and Blu-ray ( now recordable vhs you can never get rid of them ).Well I am glad that you are taking the rest to a museum type of place to good people who’ll take care of them instead of going to a landfill.The point is that it’s not keeping the format that is important, it’s keeping the memories you once have inside of you, well that’s my take on it!
They do all sorts with the videos. Some will go on display. Some may get sold on. Others, they’ll be repurposed. They use the cases and the tapes for the sell through items they produce. As long as someone makes good use out of them then I’m all for it. Whatever they need to keep their shop / museum alive. I may do a video when I pop into the store for a little tour with the guys.
I only tend to keep pre-cert VHS and rarer boxsets or things I can't upgrade. There are occasional titles you can only get this way, for example The Godfather VHS boxset which puts the films in chronological order seen on US TV has, to my knowledge, never had a 'genuine' disc release. For most standard VHS, I kept the paper sleeve, and have a folder of these, but the tapes and boxes had to go! It is a very nostalgic format but it's easy to forget the problems VHS had and we're certainly in a good place now with BR and 4k picture quality. Thanks for another fun video!
Those pre cert releases can cost a fortune too. The guys at the video shop like to get the ‘big box’ rental cases and some movies in them have started to become costly. They do a great job though. Might take a tour around it for the next video. Sounds like you have a quality collection, sadly most of what I had were pretty standard and generic (well, what I showed on the video at least) I remember having to jump up from the sofa to adjust tracking for some VHS. And then my dad being fussy about bringing a tape from the rental place if it had been cold out… couldn’t put it in straight away apparently because of how cold it was 🤷🏼♂️
@@PhillwithadoubleL I'd certainly never entertain buying pre-certs now as the prices are totally crazy. Most of mine were car boot sale pickups from around 2001 when people were giving away VHS! Think my biggest ever score was the Alien Facehugger VHS boxset for £5 and that's never leaving the collection! My collection in the 90s was mainly generic tapes and most of those have now gone, replaced with generic DVDs haha!. Rather like what's happening with audio cassettes, I think people have it in their minds that VHS was this wonderful forgotten technology that's still amazing and the truth is it really wasn't. It was amazing at the time because it's all we had but the leap in quality of tranfers has gone up and up in the digital age and VHS isn't comparable to BR/4k in the same way vinyl is with digital music. Ahhh, tracking was a nightmare, my Dad used to ban us from fiddling with it but most of our tapes were so worn out they needed constant adjustment! Never heard the thing about the cold, that's really interesting and probably why our player got knackered so often. Thanks for the reply fella!
@@Tobeshadow I stepped up from VHS pretty quickly, I’d discovered laserdisc a year or so prior to when DVD came out so at the time I was already making the leap from tape to disc. DVD just cemented that. Particularly when the recordable dvd players came out.
Some of the retro formats are crazy prices. I’ve been keeping an eye on a couple of laserdiscs for the artwork for display, not paying the crazy prices though, I’d be better off just trying to get a high quality print… especially when I can’t play the things anyway. I’m with you with the looking, always gotta check out what’s around
I do love VHS, I recently collected a load, some stuff is so much cooler, I had an ex rental big box driller killer, it's the best way to watch that film, grainy old hammer horror looks superb too, they also look great as a massive wall display, the reason I got rid is simply the lack of room, I tried selling on ebay in sets, but it just wasnt worth the time and hassle to post them all, I gave hundreds away just to save hassle. I think there's an intimacy with physical media that you just don't get with streaming. I converted loads of stuff that was recorded off tv in the 90s and have uploaded it to my youtube, which feels like the right thing to do, they are just going to rot anyway.
I had a chat with the place I’m donating the tapes to. They know a guy that will take all those recorded from TV and hunt through them for anything worth pulling off and digitising. It’s sure a better option than just binning them. Some of the covers are great but I’ve always swung more toward laser disc for a lot of the cover art collecting reasons. I do think some of these upgrades look far too good for the movies. Shame none of the boutique labels offer a non upgraded version there alongside the nice shiny remaster.
All dependent upon the individual. For me - No. I was born mid 70’s so lived through VHS. Had a large collection and sold when dvd came about. I was happy to see the width reduction from vhs tape to dvd. Was happy with no drop out lines and machines chewing tapes. I have a couple to VHS tapes that have been gifted to me. And happy with that for Nostalgic reasons. But I wouldn’t collect them now wish to put in a visually and audibly inferior format.
Yeah, I don’t think I had any temptation to try and watch any of these. I remember the tapes getting chewed and having mild freak outs about it. At the time of VHS through the 80s, my dad used to be a tv and VHS engineer and used to fix things up for folks on the kitchen table. I saw loads of things that got jammed into VHS flaps… cheese, necklace and a grass snake are the ones that stick in mind… not all at the same time. Think I sold a majority of tapes to a local video store for about 20p each at the time.
I like retro stuff and nostalgia from the 80s & 90’s. Trouble with me is I’m a hoarder and have almost run out of space in my home. It’s a tricky decision but with old vhs videos you’re unlikely to play them again 🤔
Yeah, despite the nostalgia of looking through them. I had zero interest in trying to look at playing any. They’ll all be donated. No sense in keeping something I no longer ‘appreciate’ in the same way.
I dunno man, I have them on Blu Ray. Dont massively ‘need’ the VHS. I remember seeing Crimson Tide at the cinema. Loved it. In fact, it’s gotta be due a rewatch again soon.
@@PhillwithadoubleL Crimson Tide is top 3 Tony Scott for me. I also have a VHS video coming out soon (Ive been seeing a lot of them on TH-cam lately) lol but I have really been diving back into them.
@@PhillwithadoubleL Dude I've been watching VHS's a lot lately & I talk about it a lot more in my video coming out but for me, & I may be alone but for me, with VHS I know exactly what im getting, im not watching to focus on quality like I feel I do with 4Ks, im watching because I genuinely love the movie & I can just focus on that. Plus the nostalgia factor is pretty high lol
@@thelastmoviestanding that’s the thing with the increasing quality of these thing. I see more reviews of black levels and audio format than I do of the movies and extras… the stuff that really should be most important
I'm pretty sure SP was normal length when recording (ie) E180min 3hr VHS tape was three hrs and LP made the tape 6hrs E360 of recording time And Bad Boys came out in 1995
Yes, realised my mistake when editing. LP for Long Play not slow play 🤦🏼♂️ Bad boys came out in 95… for those growing up late 70s / early 80s it woulda been the right sort of age for getting that sucker in the collection.
I primarly collect blu ray but i have a few shelves of VHS, i mostly restrict my VHS to movies i absolutely love and want on multiple formats or old cartoons i grew up with or otherwise cant get on bluray
Do you still have a VHS player too ? I think if I had the space a couple I might have kept, but admittedly I wouldn’t have ever played them. It would have been more just for the nostalgia and display.
I have a few VHS tapes from when I was a kid and I don't think I'll part with them (I only have about 25 commercial tapes and another 25ish recorded tapes). None of them are movies and most of them are football tapes e.g. classics like Danny Baker's Freak Football or Alistair McGowan's Football Backchat😆. I do have two X files tapes - even though I have series 1 - 9 on DVD. (File 1 The Unopened file and File 3 Abduction). I did have Gremlins 2 many years ago as a kid on VHS but I think that was given away when my parents cleared out their VHS films. I do miss that Gremlins 2 tape for the sole reason it had that weird bit in the middle where the Gremlins invade a John Wayne film whereas in the DVD version Hulk Hogan is shown watching the film in the cinema instead. I bought a cheap VHS player (about £20) years ago for the purpose of digitising my small collection of mostly Football/Soccer Season Reviews and recorded wrestling PPVs. Yes VHS tapes do take up a lot of space!
I had loads of XFiles at one point. There were a few shows that I recorded way back. I think some of those must have been the first to go. Many upgraded to the dvd box sets.
I’d say the film or TV show is the priority, not the format. The only reason I’d keep or buy a VHS or a Laserdisc if there was a significant difference in the film that never made to later formats. The Star Wars trilogy for example.
Perfect example there. Star Wars 🙌🏼 I’ve previously cleared out my VHS… and these will all be moved along too… only things I’m struggling with parting with are a few laserdiscs and a few DVD.
Unfortunately there is no market in sell through tapes, they are basically worthless. The market however is crazy for ex rental tapes and pre-cert tapes. Those are the ones worth keeping.
The video store I’m taking these too will repurpose the cases and tapes if not being used for display. They create some cool retro stuff. All these tapes will be donated to them
I threw some of my vhs tapes in the trash that as movies were not really great but also the pic quality in them had suffered. You see vhs movies for 0.5€ or 1€ at flea markets and no one is buying them.
No, I still see them knocking around too. DVD seems to be suffering the same to some extent. Piles of them on flea markets and car boot sales and no one is interested anymore. I think I lot of the general public now are more interested in the streaming over actually owning.
@@PhillwithadoubleL pretty much yes. I myself have come down from the high horse so to speak and if there’s a movie I really want to see but no bluray/4K around, then I’m perfecly happy when I find a dvd from thrift store etc. From time to time I try streaming services but the experience is always the same: you get good picture, blurry, good, blurry. All in one session. Perhaps a even faster connection would help but meh. I will stick to discs. A small offtopic: I just watched the Northman for the first time last week (from disc ofc) and instantly during the beach scene I was like ”omg is that Phill!” And surely enough, yes it was you as I checked Imdb. Good movie, you had a fun little role in it.
@@GRORGvideot ha, good spot on The Northman. It was a really good experience being able to work on that one. Over time I’ll be sharing more about some of my acting work on the channel. I’ve mentioned a couple of bits during live streams but would be good to do a couple of actual videos around it
I lovevthe VHS format, big cases and tapes. Got about hundred left, mainly ones that hasnt got dvd release with finnish subtitles (Copycat, Mixed Nuts, Hawk the Slayer) or ones I realy like (Hudson Hawk, Conan Barbarian). Also, I have saved some big boxed rental tapes just becouse the art work (Forbitten World, Barbarians),.. those make nice degorations on dvd shelves. But yeah, those you got, unless there isnt any super favorites among those, I would donate/trashed them. Except, Due South, 24 boxset, Gremlins ...if not for youreself then for someone else, a little eyecandy/memorybilia from old days. Actually, around here its guite common to collectors buy old vhs releases for artwork to their shelves. Sad though, theres nothing wrong about VHS even today. Went through some of my old tapes last summer, they still looked quite good in 28" television 👍 friend of my has one of those small tv/vhs combo devices on his cabin. With about couple dozen of his favorite movies/tv series episodes... perfect for a rainy days during cottage vacation.
I got the Due South DVD box set so no massive need to keep those VHS. To be honest, the VHS artwork doesn’t really sway me, I lean more towards laserdisc for the art, think I moved away from VHS and more towards laserdisc for a good while through my more ‘formative’ years.
@@PhillwithadoubleL laserdisc are nice looking releases. Conan Barbarian would be nice to own but dont have good place to but it. And those are way more harder to storage than vhs and steelbooks 🤔 About artworks. Seen only about couple dozen laserdisc covers, all of them has been just normal "photographig" posters. I mean, around here most popular (and expensive) ones are old rental vhs tapes. Those were little bigger cases than those normal vhs reases they sold in stores. And the coverarts pwere many times made by "drawing" ...little like comicbook covers. Or just super stupid looking 🤪 but still, vhs is good enoug for me... no empty wallspace anywhere to put huge posters.
@@PhillwithadoubleL dont know did you have big cases in rental stores 🙄 did or not, you should check a video from a Finland's 🇫🇮 most popular (movies/collecting) youtubers (english) channel, VideoTalk . ...and the video I am talking about is named: The Grand Tour Through My Home ...that guy has guita a collection 👍
@@DVDhoarder I had a unit special for the laserdiscs at one point. Kinda difficult to read the spines sometimes though, especially if the disc had moved and ‘blown out’ the spine. I’ll give that video a look when I get the chance. Still love looking through the retro stuff.
I don't miss tapes either type. Them getting eaten by player, so worn the tape just breaks, or the rr ff . That is not something I wanna go back to. Though I do still own a vhs player. I have my copy of Rockula on vhs because I can't afford the few discs that show up for sale.
And having to get up to adjust tracking 😂 I remember those days. Have you looked into getting your VHS of Rockula converted to digital so you can put it onto a disc ?
I have approx 6-7 VHS tapes at home but then again i still have a VHS player as well (Stored in a low use room). I will never throw out my VHS copy of Robocop 2 as it along with the first film were some of my favorite movies as a kid and i like the bigger artwork and nostalgia. I recently bought a Simpsons cartoon VHS from a charity shop as i remember renting it as a child. If only you had Robocop 1 on VHS id want that. Also whats wrong with Dirty Dancing ... i am a bloke and love that movie its a massive cult film, it may have even scored higher then 'Top Gun Maverick' if IMDB had existed in the 80's.
I had the first Robocop on VHS at one point. No more though, can’t remember where it went to. Nothing wrong with Dirty Dancing. I have it on Blu Ray… and digital I think. The VHS though, that was the wife’s. I keep hold of some of my laserdiscs for the same sort of reasons. That cover art !
@@PhillwithadoubleL Even if you decide to throw them, you could take the cover art out of all the cases (Good ones) and make it into a piece of wall artwork in a frame. I like the Gremlins VHS, thats cool, dont bin that.
Yeah all mainstream VHS releases nothing to get excited about. Now, if in that box you had treasures like pre cert video nasties etc then we would be talking! I actually keep a working VHS player, DVD player, HD DVD player alongside my UHD player and want to add a laserdisc player to my arsenal 👍🍺
I loved laserdiscs. Still have a few discs but I sold the player a few years back. Yeah, All them VHS were pretty standard. Couple of big boxes but nothing of note. Had to clear out the HD DVD player when I just didn’t use it for many months / years. Wanted to limit the amount of boxes under the TV.
I would keep the books and it's a matter of fact I had to get rid of my VHS player because it tore up but there were a few VHS tapes that I keep and I finally replaced the my VHS player but if you're not planning on getting another one I say get rid of the VHS but I don't think you should be getting rid of your books
I’m right there with you. Books will be staying for sure. The VHS have now all been donated to a good place. 80s video shop have taken them in. I’ll be doing a tour of the place in my next video 🙌🏼
Not to my tastes really. A lot of older relatives used to love that stuff… I grew up to hate it being on as I didn’t like them as kids… similar with stuff like Last of the Summer Wine. Ugh. Can’t bring myself to even try any of them now.
Am sorry people don't want to here about mode switch in VCR players that is what causes VCR players stop playing or eating tapes when they get dirty in time everything proven people was never to here about mode switch in VCR players y that's were they got their money at
Only the pretty ‘standard’ releases left of the collection. Most of my other stuff got sold on. There’s were selected more for the father in law when they got passed on to him. He wouldn’t have appreciated the horror or anything… a little more unique.
If they were Horror titles they'd be worth keeping. I think out of all genres it's the most sought after on retro media.
Absolutely. I’ve just been to the 80s video shop to drop these off. As I was there the guy on the counter was being asked for some 80s horror. Amazing
The nostalgia for sure is very cool going through them all. The temptation to want to keep some might just be that “collector” mindset inside all of us. Personally I don’t think VHS is worth keeping. The tapes deteriorate, and they are huge. Unless you can’t get it on any other form like dvd or bluray then for sure keep the VHS otherwise enjoy the nostalgia and move on.
It’s so hard to learn it but I’ve finally trained myself to only collect what I will use/watch. Theres no point having hundreds or thousands of something just for the sake of having it. Curation is freedom. Letting go of something allows the opportunity for other collectors to to enjoy your things you no longer need.
I’ve started to try and train myself in that mindset. Still have slips but certainly managing to clear out more than I’m bringing in for now as I’m curating.
It was nice revisiting these things and there was that slight temptation to display a couple but… zero interest in trying to borrow a played to actually give them a look. Most of what I had here were pretty standard releases.
They’ll be going to the 80s video shop this weekend I think.
Im really into physical media. I still have a slightly older Samsung series 6 full hd smart TV. It has some analogue ports to hook up to a vcr. And ports to connect to a Hdmi cable!
Have you seen the 1987 vhs tape by Colombia pictures called Insect, AKA Blue Monkey. I watched it on vhs before my vcr broke down.
Its now on blu ray by Code Red
label called Blue Monkey!
Cheers.
@@stuartobrien78 to some extent kinda regret clearing out some of the older formats. But… I enjoy the space clearing it out has given me.
It’s still nice to have that nostalgic dip into these things, something I’m gonna do a little more of.
I’ve not seen that VHS tape, maybe one to keep an eye out for when I go along to more of the VHS collector events 🤷🏼♂️
There will be more dives into VHS to come !
Hi Phill, you did good to give them away mate, getting caught up in nostalgia is a slippery slope. Saying that one or two would look cool on display 😂 take care mate👍😃👍
They’re going today Kermit 🙌🏼 all of them.
I’m possibly gonna do a little video around the place I’m taking them to, it’s a wonderful little spot. I feel happier knowing that someone can make good use of them. Might even spend some money while I’m there. Been eying up a couple of the things they make from old VHS and the cases
Kermitsghost… I think I slid down that slope. Oops, sometimes things just get out of hand.
Ha, havent thought about Due South in decades!
I have the DVD box set but only recently discovered that there’s HD versions on TH-cam. I think it’s a great show.
Certainly worth another look
While I have an oled tv and really enjoy the spectacle of 4k, It REALLY feels good to watch horror movies on the original format.
@@all-s0rts I’ll have to say… I’m starting to see that more and more for older movies. 4k is too good for some of the old horror. I’ve still actually kept some of my old laserdiscs, just don’t have the working player
Great video Phill.I did buy the whole original series of Star Trek on VHS from a car boot on impulse.(40 Odd tapes I think) have them all on Bluray so I really don't know what I was thinking!
Thanks Brian,
I bet they look cool all together though.
I think we all go a little crazy collecting sometimes.
Movies and series on streaming services get altered, censored or removed. Some movies in their original form are only available on VHS.
True, more common place now for the digital tinkering with the streaming services I think.
I love Sneakers. Great comedic heist/thriller. It is from the 90s though :) I remember when they talked about it on Bad Influence just because it has some tech in it.
I need to watch it again soon. I love watching older movies and being amazed at the some of the Tech that was considered cutting edge now looking massively ridiculous.
Just checked the Sneakers date, released ‘92 😱 I was close though, right ?!
For some reason I always consider my VHS mainly being 80s although I don’t think I actually moved on from VHS until around ‘96 when I made the leap to laserdisc for the uncut version of Scream.
Next time I mention VHS, I need to double check my dates first I think.
I sold a music VHS tape a couple of weeks back for £40. Worth checking when you see them as some of the more obscure stuff never even made it to DVD let alone blu-ray or 4K
Unfortunately I’ve not really got any obscure stuff left. It’s all pretty standard / run of the mill that I found remaining.
I’ve donated them to the video store now, hope they can find some value in them. Even if they sell them on it’ll help support their shop.
Answering the Question you posed, My collection represents the history of home video and all its adjacent entertainment. I know folks just don't want or need all that clutter in their lives. If I may be controversial l Feel like there is little respect for the History of film, Many who say they are collectors are just buying everything new. (that's called shopping) the formats that you can no longer watch are decor. In my case, I have a physical media library /museum for my personal entertainment and relaxation. When I am not in collector mode I am watching TH-camrs collection. I love all their methods and collections but not the toxicity.Peace.
I’m not a big fan of the toxicity either. There’s a lot of gatekeeping of sorts depending what you buy… really, we should be loving the content if we’re movie fans.
Love the sound of your home set up. I wouldn’t have the space to be able to set up something like that but it makes me happy that people will still celebrate and curate this sort of thing.
About 20 years back I had the full collection of Laurel & Hardy movies on VHS.
Can’t remember the name of the company but they sent you one cassette a month until the set was complete.
I needed to get rid of them as DVDs were the thing.
I took them all to 3 different charity shops and they wouldn’t take them.
I ended up putting them all in the bin.
Scandalous really but you just couldn’t shift VHS tapes back then.
Hind sight is always a wonderful thing but yeah, I should have kept them.
Although I did replace them all with a full DVD box set from HMV many years ago and I still watch them.
All fuelled by nostalgia, I used to watch them with my grandad when I was a kid, I’m now 56.
He had some old cinema projectors up in his attic we used to sit for hours watching Laurel & Hardy Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, Keystone cops, Buster Keaton, Fatty Arbuckle & all the old Universal horror films.
That’s some awesome memories right there.
As much nostalgia as the VHS bring I think you got the better options with the dvd set.
Hi, Half of the boutique label releases are now larger than a VHS. Whatever happened to "Space is at a premium" talking point? If those recorded tapes have ads on them, there is a segment of the collector community that buys them on eBay. For me, It's time to reduce my collection from approximately 10k pieces to 1k pieces. After 40 years of collecting I only used maybe half of what I obtained and My tastes have also changed. It will be just as much fun to watch then sell my acquisitions as it was to buy and watch them. Cheers
The 80s video shop where I’m donating these VHS have someone that will grab some of these to scour through and hunt for old commercials and things. The shop will also be able to make use of the tapes and the cases. If not for display then they’ll be repurposed.
My collection numbers are coming down now too. My space is certainly at a premium and I’m considering more about what I’m keeping hold of and why. I can’t justify keeping any of the VHS.
The boutique labels certainly do seem to be pushing the sizes of some releases up. Every limited edition seems bigger than a VHS case now
I have all my old VHS tapes still in storage at my parents house. They aren't rare or worth anything but I can't bring myself to throw them away! Haven't actually used them in over 20 years as I have them all on Blu-ray now. Certainly space is an issue though and they will have to go at some point.
It’s weird looking through them. As much as I felt the nostalgia of them. I’d no real interest in trying to give any a real look.
To be fair though, the titles that were left were all pretty standard releases and do have alternatives that are better quality and easy to find.
I’m glad I took the time to have a dig through them though.
I still have a roll of the foil, “Warranty Void if seal is broken or removed”. We placed those on the cassettes in hopes of catching reel swappers… back in my rental days.
Reel swappers… was that a thing !?
I remember my mates dad used to pirate the films by renting them out and then setting up the video camera to record the tv 😂
Indiana jones & the last crusade I partially ruined as I rang the doorbell as it was recording.
Yep they would steal the original tape and place a blank tape inside! And as I couldn’t compete with Blockbuster I had a “video enhancer” box that would defeat the macro vision copy protection! I’m sure you can imagine how many copies I had for rent! And the label you ask? I had a dam good hand held scanner and 300dpi laser printer! 😂😂
@@BigDinSanDiego that’s amazing 🤩
You must the only person I’ve ever heard say they’re not a fan of only fools & horses! Best British show ever made! (imo)
I know, I’m sorry Dave.
Think it’s a show that never really got watched in my house growing up so I just don’t have the same love of it than the vast majority. The wife loves it though.
Make that +1. I too was never really a fan, although did like the Batman & Robin sketch.
@@mintteaandmartialarts yay 🙌🏼 I’m not alone !
I like it, I think it's a great show, but I've seen all of the episodes so many times that I've not had the desire to watch it for years, same thing with The Young Ones unfortunately.
I am totally unanimous in how everyone feels.Like some you I was born in the late seventies in a time when VHS was a thing back then and I used to collect them in my teens (well not as much) then a few years later after graduating from high school in the early 2000s I started slowly but surely transitions from vhs to DVD and Blu-ray ( now recordable vhs you can never get rid of them ).Well I am glad that you are taking the rest to a museum type of place to good people who’ll take care of them instead of going to a landfill.The point is that it’s not keeping the format that is important, it’s keeping the memories you once have inside of you, well that’s my take on it!
They do all sorts with the videos. Some will go on display. Some may get sold on. Others, they’ll be repurposed. They use the cases and the tapes for the sell through items they produce.
As long as someone makes good use out of them then I’m all for it. Whatever they need to keep their shop / museum alive.
I may do a video when I pop into the store for a little tour with the guys.
I only tend to keep pre-cert VHS and rarer boxsets or things I can't upgrade. There are occasional titles you can only get this way, for example The Godfather VHS boxset which puts the films in chronological order seen on US TV has, to my knowledge, never had a 'genuine' disc release. For most standard VHS, I kept the paper sleeve, and have a folder of these, but the tapes and boxes had to go! It is a very nostalgic format but it's easy to forget the problems VHS had and we're certainly in a good place now with BR and 4k picture quality. Thanks for another fun video!
Those pre cert releases can cost a fortune too. The guys at the video shop like to get the ‘big box’ rental cases and some movies in them have started to become costly. They do a great job though. Might take a tour around it for the next video.
Sounds like you have a quality collection, sadly most of what I had were pretty standard and generic (well, what I showed on the video at least)
I remember having to jump up from the sofa to adjust tracking for some VHS. And then my dad being fussy about bringing a tape from the rental place if it had been cold out… couldn’t put it in straight away apparently because of how cold it was 🤷🏼♂️
@@PhillwithadoubleL I'd certainly never entertain buying pre-certs now as the prices are totally crazy. Most of mine were car boot sale pickups from around 2001 when people were giving away VHS! Think my biggest ever score was the Alien Facehugger VHS boxset for £5 and that's never leaving the collection!
My collection in the 90s was mainly generic tapes and most of those have now gone, replaced with generic DVDs haha!. Rather like what's happening with audio cassettes, I think people have it in their minds that VHS was this wonderful forgotten technology that's still amazing and the truth is it really wasn't. It was amazing at the time because it's all we had but the leap in quality of tranfers has gone up and up in the digital age and VHS isn't comparable to BR/4k in the same way vinyl is with digital music.
Ahhh, tracking was a nightmare, my Dad used to ban us from fiddling with it but most of our tapes were so worn out they needed constant adjustment! Never heard the thing about the cold, that's really interesting and probably why our player got knackered so often. Thanks for the reply fella!
@@Tobeshadow I stepped up from VHS pretty quickly, I’d discovered laserdisc a year or so prior to when DVD came out so at the time I was already making the leap from tape to disc. DVD just cemented that. Particularly when the recordable dvd players came out.
The prices for some old horror movies are insane'
That's why when I see VHS tapes in pawn stores and garage sales I always have a look
Some of the retro formats are crazy prices. I’ve been keeping an eye on a couple of laserdiscs for the artwork for display, not paying the crazy prices though, I’d be better off just trying to get a high quality print… especially when I can’t play the things anyway.
I’m with you with the looking, always gotta check out what’s around
I do love VHS, I recently collected a load, some stuff is so much cooler, I had an ex rental big box driller killer, it's the best way to watch that film, grainy old hammer horror looks superb too, they also look great as a massive wall display, the reason I got rid is simply the lack of room, I tried selling on ebay in sets, but it just wasnt worth the time and hassle to post them all, I gave hundreds away just to save hassle. I think there's an intimacy with physical media that you just don't get with streaming. I converted loads of stuff that was recorded off tv in the 90s and have uploaded it to my youtube, which feels like the right thing to do, they are just going to rot anyway.
I had a chat with the place I’m donating the tapes to. They know a guy that will take all those recorded from TV and hunt through them for anything worth pulling off and digitising. It’s sure a better option than just binning them.
Some of the covers are great but I’ve always swung more toward laser disc for a lot of the cover art collecting reasons.
I do think some of these upgrades look far too good for the movies. Shame none of the boutique labels offer a non upgraded version there alongside the nice shiny remaster.
All dependent upon the individual. For me - No. I was born mid 70’s so lived through VHS. Had a large collection and sold when dvd came about.
I was happy to see the width reduction from vhs tape to dvd. Was happy with no drop out lines and machines chewing tapes.
I have a couple to VHS tapes that have been gifted to me. And happy with that for Nostalgic reasons. But I wouldn’t collect them now wish to put in a visually and audibly inferior format.
Yeah, I don’t think I had any temptation to try and watch any of these.
I remember the tapes getting chewed and having mild freak outs about it.
At the time of VHS through the 80s, my dad used to be a tv and VHS engineer and used to fix things up for folks on the kitchen table. I saw loads of things that got jammed into VHS flaps… cheese, necklace and a grass snake are the ones that stick in mind… not all at the same time.
Think I sold a majority of tapes to a local video store for about 20p each at the time.
I like retro stuff and nostalgia from the 80s & 90’s. Trouble with me is I’m a hoarder and have almost run out of space in my home. It’s a tricky decision but with old vhs videos you’re unlikely to play them again 🤔
Yeah, despite the nostalgia of looking through them. I had zero interest in trying to look at playing any. They’ll all be donated. No sense in keeping something I no longer ‘appreciate’ in the same way.
great Tony Scott films! Must keep those just for legacy!
I dunno man, I have them on Blu Ray. Dont massively ‘need’ the VHS.
I remember seeing Crimson Tide at the cinema. Loved it. In fact, it’s gotta be due a rewatch again soon.
@@PhillwithadoubleL Crimson Tide is top 3 Tony Scott for me. I also have a VHS video coming out soon (Ive been seeing a lot of them on TH-cam lately) lol but I have really been diving back into them.
@@thelastmoviestanding I’ll keep an eye out for that. Have you been watching VHS tapes again for it ? How did you find that experience ?
@@PhillwithadoubleL Dude I've been watching VHS's a lot lately & I talk about it a lot more in my video coming out but for me, & I may be alone but for me, with VHS I know exactly what im getting, im not watching to focus on quality like I feel I do with 4Ks, im watching because I genuinely love the movie & I can just focus on that. Plus the nostalgia factor is pretty high lol
@@thelastmoviestanding that’s the thing with the increasing quality of these thing. I see more reviews of black levels and audio format than I do of the movies and extras… the stuff that really should be most important
I'm pretty sure SP was normal length when recording (ie) E180min 3hr VHS tape was three hrs and LP made the tape 6hrs E360 of recording time
And Bad Boys came out in 1995
Yes, realised my mistake when editing. LP for Long Play not slow play 🤦🏼♂️
Bad boys came out in 95… for those growing up late 70s / early 80s it woulda been the right sort of age for getting that sucker in the collection.
I primarly collect blu ray but i have a few shelves of VHS, i mostly restrict my VHS to movies i absolutely love and want on multiple formats or old cartoons i grew up with or otherwise cant get on bluray
Do you still have a VHS player too ?
I think if I had the space a couple I might have kept, but admittedly I wouldn’t have ever played them. It would have been more just for the nostalgia and display.
I have a few VHS tapes from when I was a kid and I don't think I'll part with them (I only have about 25 commercial tapes and another 25ish recorded tapes). None of them are movies and most of them are football tapes e.g. classics like Danny Baker's Freak Football or Alistair McGowan's Football Backchat😆.
I do have two X files tapes - even though I have series 1 - 9 on DVD. (File 1 The Unopened file and File 3 Abduction).
I did have Gremlins 2 many years ago as a kid on VHS but I think that was given away when my parents cleared out their VHS films. I do miss that Gremlins 2 tape for the sole reason it had that weird bit in the middle where the Gremlins invade a John Wayne film whereas in the DVD version Hulk Hogan is shown watching the film in the cinema instead.
I bought a cheap VHS player (about £20) years ago for the purpose of digitising my small collection of mostly Football/Soccer Season Reviews and recorded wrestling PPVs.
Yes VHS tapes do take up a lot of space!
I had loads of XFiles at one point.
There were a few shows that I recorded way back. I think some of those must have been the first to go. Many upgraded to the dvd box sets.
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I’d say the film or TV show is the priority, not the format. The only reason I’d keep or buy a VHS or a Laserdisc if there was a significant difference in the film that never made to later formats. The Star Wars trilogy for example.
Perfect example there. Star Wars 🙌🏼
I’ve previously cleared out my VHS… and these will all be moved along too… only things I’m struggling with parting with are a few laserdiscs and a few DVD.
Unfortunately there is no market in sell through tapes, they are basically worthless. The market however is crazy for ex rental tapes and pre-cert tapes. Those are the ones worth keeping.
The video store I’m taking these too will repurpose the cases and tapes if not being used for display. They create some cool retro stuff.
All these tapes will be donated to them
I threw some of my vhs tapes in the trash that as movies were not really great but also the pic quality in them had suffered. You see vhs movies for 0.5€ or 1€ at flea markets and no one is buying them.
No, I still see them knocking around too. DVD seems to be suffering the same to some extent. Piles of them on flea markets and car boot sales and no one is interested anymore. I think I lot of the general public now are more interested in the streaming over actually owning.
@@PhillwithadoubleL pretty much yes. I myself have come down from the high horse so to speak and if there’s a movie I really want to see but no bluray/4K around, then I’m perfecly happy when I find a dvd from thrift store etc.
From time to time I try streaming services but the experience is always the same: you get good picture, blurry, good, blurry. All in one session. Perhaps a even faster connection would help but meh. I will stick to discs.
A small offtopic: I just watched the Northman for the first time last week (from disc ofc) and instantly during the beach scene I was like ”omg is that Phill!” And surely enough, yes it was you as I checked Imdb. Good movie, you had a fun little role in it.
@@GRORGvideot ha, good spot on The Northman. It was a really good experience being able to work on that one. Over time I’ll be sharing more about some of my acting work on the channel. I’ve mentioned a couple of bits during live streams but would be good to do a couple of actual videos around it
I lovevthe VHS format, big cases and tapes. Got about hundred left, mainly ones that hasnt got dvd release with finnish subtitles (Copycat, Mixed Nuts, Hawk the Slayer) or ones I realy like (Hudson Hawk, Conan Barbarian). Also, I have saved some big boxed rental tapes just becouse the art work (Forbitten World, Barbarians),.. those make nice degorations on dvd shelves.
But yeah, those you got, unless there isnt any super favorites among those, I would donate/trashed them. Except, Due South, 24 boxset, Gremlins ...if not for youreself then for someone else, a little eyecandy/memorybilia from old days. Actually, around here its guite common to collectors buy old vhs releases for artwork to their shelves.
Sad though, theres nothing wrong about VHS even today. Went through some of my old tapes last summer, they still looked quite good in 28" television 👍 friend of my has one of those small tv/vhs combo devices on his cabin. With about couple dozen of his favorite movies/tv series episodes... perfect for a rainy days during cottage vacation.
I got the Due South DVD box set so no massive need to keep those VHS.
To be honest, the VHS artwork doesn’t really sway me, I lean more towards laserdisc for the art, think I moved away from VHS and more towards laserdisc for a good while through my more ‘formative’ years.
@@PhillwithadoubleL laserdisc are nice looking releases. Conan Barbarian would be nice to own but dont have good place to but it. And those are way more harder to storage than vhs and steelbooks 🤔
About artworks. Seen only about couple dozen laserdisc covers, all of them has been just normal "photographig" posters. I mean, around here most popular (and expensive) ones are old rental vhs tapes. Those were little bigger cases than those normal vhs reases they sold in stores. And the coverarts pwere many times made by "drawing" ...little like comicbook covers. Or just super stupid looking 🤪 but still, vhs is good enoug for me... no empty wallspace anywhere to put huge posters.
@@PhillwithadoubleL dont know did you have big cases in rental stores 🙄 did or not, you should check a video from a Finland's 🇫🇮 most popular (movies/collecting) youtubers (english) channel, VideoTalk . ...and the video I am talking about is named: The Grand Tour Through My Home ...that guy has guita a collection 👍
@@DVDhoarder I had a unit special for the laserdiscs at one point. Kinda difficult to read the spines sometimes though, especially if the disc had moved and ‘blown out’ the spine.
I’ll give that video a look when I get the chance. Still love looking through the retro stuff.
I don't miss tapes either type. Them getting eaten by player, so worn the tape just breaks, or the rr ff . That is not something I wanna go back to. Though I do still own a vhs player. I have my copy of Rockula on vhs because I can't afford the few discs that show up for sale.
And having to get up to adjust tracking 😂 I remember those days.
Have you looked into getting your VHS of Rockula converted to digital so you can put it onto a disc ?
@@PhillwithadoubleL No , I keep hoping shout I think it was will just release it again. Not that they are any cheaper most times ha.
@@halloweenlady4073 nope, there’s a couple of shout titles I keep looking at but not willing to pay their prices
I have approx 6-7 VHS tapes at home but then again i still have a VHS player as well (Stored in a low use room). I will never throw out my VHS copy of Robocop 2 as it along with the first film were some of my favorite movies as a kid and i like the bigger artwork and nostalgia. I recently bought a Simpsons cartoon VHS from a charity shop as i remember renting it as a child. If only you had Robocop 1 on VHS id want that. Also whats wrong with Dirty Dancing ... i am a bloke and love that movie its a massive cult film, it may have even scored higher then 'Top Gun Maverick' if IMDB had existed in the 80's.
I had the first Robocop on VHS at one point. No more though, can’t remember where it went to.
Nothing wrong with Dirty Dancing. I have it on Blu Ray… and digital I think. The VHS though, that was the wife’s.
I keep hold of some of my laserdiscs for the same sort of reasons. That cover art !
@@PhillwithadoubleL Even if you decide to throw them, you could take the cover art out of all the cases (Good ones) and make it into a piece of wall artwork in a frame. I like the Gremlins VHS, thats cool, dont bin that.
Dan Curtis Curse of the black widow vhs 1977 is a good movie only on Vhs.
Amicus film Danger Route spy thriller 1967 has never been on disc!
@@stuartobrien78 it’s always surprising to me when titles haven’t moved up to disc or digital in some way.
Yeah all mainstream VHS releases nothing to get excited about. Now, if in that box you had treasures like pre cert video nasties etc then we would be talking! I actually keep a working VHS player, DVD player, HD DVD player alongside my UHD player and want to add a laserdisc player to my arsenal 👍🍺
I loved laserdiscs. Still have a few discs but I sold the player a few years back.
Yeah,
All them VHS were pretty standard. Couple of big boxes but nothing of note.
Had to clear out the HD DVD player when I just didn’t use it for many months / years. Wanted to limit the amount of boxes under the TV.
I would keep the books and it's a matter of fact I had to get rid of my VHS player because it tore up but there were a few VHS tapes that I keep and I finally replaced the my VHS player but if you're not planning on getting another one I say get rid of the VHS but I don't think you should be getting rid of your books
I’m right there with you. Books will be staying for sure.
The VHS have now all been donated to a good place. 80s video shop have taken them in. I’ll be doing a tour of the place in my next video 🙌🏼
Dad's army classic film
Not to my tastes really. A lot of older relatives used to love that stuff… I grew up to hate it being on as I didn’t like them as kids… similar with stuff like Last of the Summer Wine. Ugh. Can’t bring myself to even try any of them now.
Unless they are pre cert, video nasties, first releases or late releases (such as Star Wars Episode 3 VHS) they are not worth anything.
Nope, all donated now. Had a little video around the shop as I was there for another nostalgia kick
Am sorry people don't want to here about mode switch in VCR players that is what causes VCR players stop playing or eating tapes when they get dirty in time everything proven people was never to here about mode switch in VCR players y that's were they got their money at
Tbh there all terrible vhs I only collect horror
Only the pretty ‘standard’ releases left of the collection. Most of my other stuff got sold on. There’s were selected more for the father in law when they got passed on to him. He wouldn’t have appreciated the horror or anything… a little more unique.
He doesn't know how to use the shells! 😂
I was waiting for the Demolition Man quote 🙌🏼
You win 100 respect points 🥇