Collecting VHS Tapes: Learn what to look for
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ค. 2024
- Heritage Auctions VHS Tapes Consignment Director Jay Carlson explains the rise of VHS tape collecting, and what to look for if you are collecting them.
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I think the best tapes are the ex-rentals.
These folks don’t watch actual tapes. All they know is what they’ve read online.
@@jimmydbags1070on the back of the tape lol
I buy and sell vhs and ultra 4k steelbooks because of the quality and artwork but grew up in the 80’s watching good ole VHS but I want mint copies. I make enough to do that so I sell ones I don’t want in order to buy the ones I want and that are coming out. Just like there are collectors that want high grade sports cards and there are those who like to collect the new stuff. Quit complaining
As someone who had their parents store his old vhs tapes in an old barn without my knowledge, I know from experience that weather can destroy the film inside the tape. It makes me wonder how many of these graded VHS tapes are actually destroyed inside.
Odds are if the box of a VHS is in nice condition the tape is too. Weather doesnt just destroy the tape, usually. It destroys it all.
@@SK8R43i have good condition cases with tapes that have mold. So yeah
Depend all on the environment had sealed tapes that were molded.@@SK8R43
I had a sealed “Its a Wonderful Life” but when I shook it, you can hear something was rolling around in it. I opened it up and a piece was broken where tape is so I threw it away. In the south where its humid, mold can form. I have family and movies on vhs with mold. 🥲
Investors want 'Genuine" sealed tapes. Collectors don't care if they are sealed. The problem with sealed tapes is that they are so easy to counterfeit. Also, there is no database to refer with the information on which movies are what printing and whether or not they all have or do not have watermarks. At least with comic books and trading cards they can actually see everything about the i order to grade them. You can't do that with sealed vhs or sealed video games. I can't wait until someone actually starts cracking some of these grails open and find used copies of part one Titanic in them. lol
Thats because they are making it up as they go along. No one has ever placed value on sealed titles, let alone common ones, so there is no previous database. All we have is the thousands and thousands of unsold listings on ebay over the last decade of the same exact tapes not even selling for dollars, that are now being put in hard plastic cases and touted as valuable to the uneducated public. Watch how many diff sealed copies of the same movie show up lol, since there were so many copies made of these titles, theres still plenty of sealed stock for these guys to try and sell off as “rare”.
Amen
Companies like VGA authentic them as genuine the same way they do with sealed video games.
@@joerogaine3093 And we all know there is no corruption/manipulation in the sealed video game grading. lol.
@@craigwinans1948 Yeah well there are counterfeits in every collectible market so i guess don't buy collectibles if you're afraid of that. It certainly would be impressive to replicate 40 year old plastic/the watermarks, the box, etc. so well that it would fool an expert.
How do he know if the tapes aren't moldy?
Don't think they will be playing them lol.
It's like Schrodinger's cat, you don't know until you open them, and nobody will be opening them...
Unless that mold explodes out of the tape and starts seeping through the packaging, nobody is going to know or care. :)
I've bought some sealed tapes from ebay even though they are original i had opened one because it wasn't very rare or valuable but because it never existed on dvd or bluray i made my own dvd from the tape but even though the vhs was in mint condition visually the playback had some bad parts and to be able to make a quality copy i had to use a total of 3 different tapes of the same movie to get the scenes i needed and use a editing program to obtain a perfect film
Hello . I came across your tube video about Old versions of vhs tapes. I am a Healthcare worker who came across a client's collection of Walt Disney movies in excellent condition and some even have plastic coverings on them . Not opened. Also some other collections . She had no idea that these can be valuable. She would like some advice on the value of these. She even has a collection of DVDs of seasons of I love Lucy and Murder She wrote. ......the list goes on . Can some please reach out
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Are betamax opened copies are worth grading. I have a star wars beta with serial number
You wouldnt get a grade then if its unsealed, its not like trading cards
What about signed ones?
So if they are unsealed, they aren't worth anything to a collector? Just wondering,
On cinema at the cinema!
Kiss meets the phantom of the park 1978 worldvision clamshell sealed the difference between this release and the later release is the 1988 release was in Lp mode
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someone get this guy a job at the VFA!!!!
No mention of runtimes...this guy is no Gregg Turkington.
Cool
I buy seal vhs movies, then I open them and watch they.
Treating VHS tapes as investment grade assets is not smart.
Would it be worth it to grade a sealed black diamond jungle book? I ask because i bought it and it is probably the most minty VHS i have ever owned/seen. I dont care about the value of it and the cost of grading. Mostly just want to know because of how nice it is.
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@@HeritageAuctions Not interested in selling it as it is part of my collection. Just wondering if people grade stuff like that or if it is just older movies that are worth alot.
@@SK8R43 Unfortunately, due to how many copies of Disney movies were produced, there are still a lot of sealed copies out there and tend to not be worth very much. But if you want to get it graded for yourself, then that’s great! To give you a better understanding, 7 of the Top 10 most produced VHS tapes of all-time are Disney animated films. The Lion King, Aladdin and Snow White are the top 3 with 32M, 27M and 25M copies produced. For the most part, the only Disney VHS tapes that are desirable are the tapes produced prior to 1986.
No not worth. You can still buy a hard plastic/acrylic case for it to keep it in good condition.
Everything is proven people like myself are whiching free vhs movies in my house forever until I get rid of it
Tape grading is such a Schrödinger's cat proposition. Who knows what the actual tape is like. There's a huge assumption that a sealed tape was stored properly. Mold on tapes that have perfectly nice wrapping and cases is common. Also, if the tape was stored upside down for a length of time, tape-stretch with gravity will also ruin a VHS. Was it ever kept near a magnet? Who knows! Also, how can anyone judge rarity on tapes like this? Some of these titles from huge studios and distributors had very large runs, not to mention multiple runs. Was it a sealed rental? A sell-through? Is there enough accurate reference to determine the difference?
Just as a "for instance", I'm a huge fan of The Monster Squad and personally own 40 unique variations of the film on VHS and Betamax from all over the world. Just in the US alone there are at least six different variations of the VHS. All of them use the same paper case, and only 3 of them are identifiable by the shrink wrap (or in a couple cases stickers on the back of the box. There are three rental-store versions of the tape that are identical on the outside but have vastly different rarities based on the tape inside (a Spanish Subbed version and two different tape label variations.) Without having an accompanying order form to illustrate whether the tape was a Spanish Dub, you'd absolutely have to open the tape to make sure what it is as it's not marked on the box, nor is there a special watermark on the shrink-wrap. Same with the two different label sizes, one of which is extremely rare and should make it arguably more valuable. But who can you identify without opening the wrap? I've seen both VHSDNA and IGS graded, seal copies of Monster Squad claiming that it was an original release, both in both cases the tapes were not distributed by Vestron (who put out the original rental) but Live Distributing who was a sub contractor to liquidate the over run of original paper cases by inserting cheaper sell-through copies in the cases and marking them with a sticker on the back. I'm no expert on VHS in general, just an enthusiastic fan of The Monster Squad so I happen to know this basically useless junk about that specific release. But if these tapes are being mislabeled by grading companies, how can the process really be trusted?
Thank you for your feedback (As an aside, I’ve been to Branded in the 80’s and enjoy your content, especially when it comes to The Monster Squad). If we are specifically discussing the copies of The Monster Squad that we have previously offered, none of those copies have been mislabeled to our knowledge. The information provided on the slabs for those copies made no claims of any being a first release, nor do they infer anything that is not clearly visible from the outside of the factory-sealed tape. Rather, they recap the important details for sealed collectors, such as seal style and watermark information, box style, distributor information, year on box, etc. In rare instances where we have observed typos or incorrect verbiage, we have worked with the grading companies to correct those errors.
People like myself are buying vhs movies offline for 10 dollars
You have a direct email for video games you don't have a vhs email address
All of our departments are related and many overlap. Try reaching out to Entertainment@HA.com.
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This doesn't make sense the vhs and VCR were invented before the 80s.
😂I have original King Kong vhs uk
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A whole lot of haters in the comments section. Like it or not, this is a thing and it's here to stay. And pretty Fn cool too. FYI, this is a whole different level of collecting it's an asset class while your version of "collecting" just means you love watching movies. Not the same. What's the name of this channel? Exactly
First release Texas chainsaw massacre for the WIN..👍💕🔥🤗🤙💯🤘
That wasn't a first release of TCM that was shown, that was the second release on Media home entertainment, and this video is seriously dumb.
Who the heck buys vhs tapes?
*VHS covers* are *really Nice* (Fab artwork)
But... The actual bulky tapes? No thanks