Your oldest video tape ...

[RetroTechRules]

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The oldest tape I have, which I still have from when it was new, is an E-180 VHS tape bought from Granada TV & Video in 1986.

Unfortunately two-thirds of it are taken up by a movie recorded in the 90s sometime, but after it is some stuff from TOTP in 1987, and some stuff from ITV/Granada...including a full episode of "Prospects".

[DemonEyeX]

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ill do a list of wha i got guys there aint many tv shows all films the recorded ones i went through one day and brought the original vhs and destoryed the one i got from tv as breaks in films from itv theres loads but ill do list for you and send it over to u

Cheers mate, that would be awesome. I'm particularly interested in big box originals, but whatever you find will be interesting.

[Finnthedude]

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I remember our first VCR - a Ferguson VideoStar - big silver toploader. I also remember the first film we ever saw on it. It was called "The Exterminator" - looking back it's a pretty poor film but as it was the first video we ever watched I think we actually invited the neighbours round to come see it.

The local video shop carried on well into the 90's but when it closed down they had a sale and I bought a few vids - "The Exterminator" being one of them. It's probably not the same copy I watched back in the day but I bought it anyway. I've got it on DVD now as well so it'll never get watched on VHS even though I do still have a VHS player.

Cheers,
Finnthdude.

[xmark1234]

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ill do a list of wha i got guys there aint many tv shows all films the recorded ones i went through one day and brought the original vhs and destoryed the one i got from tv as breaks in films from itv theres loads but ill do list for you and send it over to u

[darren]

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Ill buy them heh.

you must have tons of stuff tapes from tv and im sure some is worth a bit.
but u would be better keeping it. childhod memories and all.

gosh tha a tuff one ive been recording vhs and buying them from early 70s so i say all mine got loft full of vhs tapes there every where ( anyone want buy them lol)

[DemonEyeX]

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gosh tha a tuff one ive been recording vhs and buying them from early 70s so i say all mine got loft full of vhs tapes there every where ( anyone want buy them lol)

Any early big box videos I would certainly be interested in buying.
Anything from the 70s until around 84 would be my particular cup of tea.
If you are seriously interested in selling them, could you possibly get a list together ?

Also, you may well have some rare stuff on the tapes you recorded yourself,
What kind of things do you have ?

[tonyblue]

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Mine would be a first release of the movie Jaws onto video from 1980.

[xmark1234]

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gosh tha a tuff one ive been recording vhs and buying them from early 70s so i say all mine got loft full of vhs tapes there every where ( anyone want buy them lol)

[I. R. Fincham]

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I have many old BBC Dr Who vids and a Grange Hill vid (season 1)
I also have well over 10,000 tapes.

Doctor Who vids? would that be home recordings, or commercial release?

If you mean home recordings, when did you start? Got any recordings of Pertwee, or even older?

[DemonEyeX]

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At the moment all of my videos (except for the rare pre cert ones) are in storage.
The furthest back my recorded tapes go is 1978 I believe.
I have lots of movies (James Bond, Bruce Lee, Clint Eastwood, e.t.c.) that were taped at Christmas time in the late 70s/early 80s,
Luckily these were all recorded without pausing out the breaks, so all the adverts are intact !
I may have originals that go further back than 78, but i'm not sure about the release date of most of them.
I also have thousands of unlabeled tapes, so who knows what could be on them...............
My new years resolution is going to be to get my videos sorted out.

[darren]

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YOU have 10 thousand tapes but how old are they mate.
mosst of my tapes are at least 25 yrs old.

Several dvds and cds i bought the oxide peeled off .Being in a hot ,dry climate wouldn't help.
Some also got scratched.They aren't really any more reliable than tapes were
I have over 10,000 tapes and all mine play perfectly.

[Moondog]

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i still have a cupboard full of old WWF VHS tapes from 1998 - 2002, as well as 'Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation', Weekend At Bernies, and 2 of the Spider-Man TV movies from the old 1970s live action TV show. probably gonna give them all to a charity shop except for the spidey movies, cos i have digital copies of the rest.

[Richard1978]

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I suppose it pays to take care of them. About the only long term problem I've had is with a tape that was in danger of snapping, I managed to extract the contents onto my computer.

I had a chrome tape in the mid 1990's that sounded strange when I recorded something on it for the first time, but when I had another go it was fine.

Some cheap video tapes seemed to only cope with a few recordings before the picture went all flickery, sometimes even on the first recording.

[stud1al]

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Several dvds and cds i bought the oxide peeled off .Being in a hot ,dry climate wouldn't help.
Some also got scratched.They aren't really any more reliable than tapes were
I have over 10,000 tapes and all mine play perfectly.

[Richard1978]

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Yeah cobber.
I wonder how many dvds will still be playing perfectly after 27 years?
I've had some cds and dvds stuff up after just 12 months.

I've got a few second hand CD's made in the mid 1980's that still play perfectly, I've only had 1-2 faulty ones, even then one 1-2 tracks.

I've not heard of any DVD's giving problems, though some early ones (pre-2000) did get as well mastered as ones you can get now.