Found 3 vintage home recorded VHS tapes at the Goodwill bins yesterday, tested tape #1:

February 8, 1988- Elvis & Me Miniseries Part 2
-1/3 of it was taped over with QVC programming from summer 1988
-Some interesting vintage commercials were found

A nice one!!!!!! -- Beautiful analog you have there!!!

I last got the movie BUT IM A CHEERLEADER (1999) on VHS (I think its much nicer looking/sounding than the DirecTV copy I have)

Picked up 32 Perry Mason tapes (2 episodes each).

I got the next two weeks off, I'm going to be watching these in the garage while I'm working on my Lincoln.

Nice. What kind of lincoln?

83 Continental

Ah nice. I had a 76 mark iv, 77 mark v, and 2 79 mark v's

A Continental is a nice car. Big fan of the Mark V and Mark VII.

I'm still caring for my Mark V. If finances/employment are good in the summer I'm probably going to replace the exhaust and look into souping it up a bit.

Does yours have the 400 or the 460? The 460 is a lot easier to soup up, even 90s era 460 truck parts would give you more power than a smogged-up late 70s 460.

It's a 460. I've considered converting it to the fuel injection the last 460 trucks had, and may do that.
Right now it doesn't run great and the carb can't carry a tune in a basket thanks to exhaust and vacuum leaks (it uses vacuum for WAY too much).

The plan is to replumb all the vacuum lines, get new exhaust without cats (there's no emissions tests on cars that predate OBD2 ports here) tune the carb and if I'm not happy start modifying it. That does somewhat depend on funds and employment status come spring/summer.

I still use my VCR today.timeshifting .Dont trust the digital stuff..Tapes are still avail online..Just know how the look for them..

Have not been to the local Goodwill but at times I find pre recorded tapes at the curb .

Awesome. I still watch more movies on tape than anything else. Over the last 10 years, I've managed to complete many sets including star trek, the terminator movies, jurassic park movies, back to the future, rocky, james bond, and a few others including a few rare movies. My last Goodwill run recently got me a few more

Today I got an earlier release of GLORIA than I had and I love it!!

The first one I had was a 1981 release but it was AFTER they changed how they put movies on VHS tapes.....

This earlier one I just got was still the orginal way... Everything on center mix and the video was much better!! (The credits @ the end were perfectly clear while the newer 1981 copy I had the credits were blurry and not very readable!)

Audio is beautiful on this copy and the vid is also!!!!!!

Just picked up

Care bears nutcracker suite (1988)
Star trek 30th anniversary
A thief in the night

Very g00d!!

The last tape I got was

BUT IM A CHEERLEADER - 1999

Much nicer than the directv copy I have! (Although I figured it would be)


Very hard to find this on VHS!! (Im not sure why they didnt put out alot.... Its an excellent movie)

Just picked up:

Def Leppard Video Archive
Cop Land
Goosebumps The Haunted Mask
Mannequin Too
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Star Trek The Motion Picture
Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
Star Trek III The Search for Spock
Star Trek IV The Voyage Home
Star Trek V The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek Generations
Three Men and a Baby
Junior
E.T.
From Russia with Love x2
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
Diamonds are Forever
Live and Let Die
The Spy who Loved Me (factory sealed)
Moonraker
Never Say Never Again
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World is Not Enough

I already had all of these but the first 4 on the list. I've started buying doubles while they're cheap and because they're not being made anymore.

Sometimes it pays off getting dupes!!! (Ya might get a better copy)

Yes plus I get a few sealed tapes sometimes

Today's haul.

Orion vcr
Kinyo rewinder

Amityville horror 2 pack
Rose Red
Side FX
Used Cars
Ren and Stimpy
The People Under the Stairs
National Lampoons European Vacation

Sweet haul. I am still running VHS roughly 25% of the time at home. Have many worthwhile machines that of course need regular use to stay healthy. My favorite daily player at this point is the Toshiba M-5900. I use it
in my B-T home transmitter rig.

This is a mid eighties 4 head hifi stereo that is built the way they all ought to be. Just have to watch for the display going weak over the years, and the high heat regulator+associated caps which get toasty.

My latest videotape purchase was a sealed original Alien

At this point, I pretty much buy every vcr I come across due to them not being made anymore. Most of them run me about $5 each. I plan on ordering a couple nice ones later on.

Today's haul,


Memorex vcr
Vhs rewinder with soft eject, fast forward
Top gun. A second copy for me
Lionheart
The Addams family. A second copy. U never know, lol
Best of the best
Winnie the pooh frankenpooh
Winnie the pooh seasons of giving
The many adventures of Winnie the pooh
Scooby-Doo doo and the reluctant werewolf
Richie rich
Rugrats go wild

Another recent haul:

Today's haul:

Broksonic vcr

Today's haul

Hitachi vcr
Legend
Johnny Quest
Airport
Airport 1975
Airport 77
Concorde Airport 79
Edward scissorhands
Grease
Back to School

Today's haul:

Charles Bronson 2 pack Assassination/The Family
House Party
Here Comes Garfield
The Goosehill Gang
TMNT Sky Turtles
Firestarter
Misery
Dead Calm
Color of Night

Today's haul:

RCA Home Theater vcr
North Shore
MASH sealed
Highlander The Gathering
The Three Stooges
Three Stooges Spectacular
Run
Highlander
Wake of Death
Ferrari behind the wheel
Eye see you
Detonator II
Highlander the final dimension
The Boxer
Hawaii Five-0

Very nice!!!!

Recent additions to the “fleet”
 

This years haul so far…

JVC HR-S2910U & HR-S3911U (with remote) both SVHS
Panasonic PV-S8670 (with remote) SVHS
Sony SLO-323 industrial Betamax
Hitachi VT-8000A VHS
Canon VR-40 VHS HIFI portable with VT-50 tuner/timer dock (clone of Panasonic PV-9600)
JVC HR-6700U VHS

The HR-6700U was acquired from the original owner with original box (with styrofoam), remote (with blue plastic still on it), instruction manual, both quick reference cards, and a service manual ! This vcr was on my wish list for quite a while and to have a complete one like this is just awesome. Of course it’s full of bad belts, and the drum seems stiff to turn, I hope it can be freed up somehow. Cosmetically, it is in excellent shape, and very clean. I’m going to restore this one best I can.
This was JVC’s first EP capable VHS vcr (would play LP tapes), and the last of their “first generation”, mechanical “piano key” VHS machines. It was JVC’s top of the line VHS vcr from late 1979 to about 1981. It cost around $1300 Cdn. back then.

For VHS movies:

Escape from New York
Bladerunner Directors Cut
Star Wars box set of A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi
A Christmas Carol (The good one with Alistair Sim)
The Who 1982 North American tour (recorded in Toronto)
Five blank TDK T120s new old stock

Very nice.......How is the who tour??

Did they leave it analogue?? (1982 so maybe)

Regarding the blank VHS tapes: I was looking through my blanks to discover that I have a number of them on hand. I bought a number of them at thrifts, when they still handled them.
I'm using them to record the court proceedings going on in Wisconsin. :sigh:

I haven't checked it yet. Not sure how it is.

I have so many movies recorded on VHS (which I still watch) it would take a long time to digitize. Whenever I was in a Good Will store, I would buy only low mileage VHS machines for five dollars each. I do not see any VHS decks anymore. I have 6-8 spare units to ensure I will always have something to play these tapes on. When a deck goes down, I will fix the minor issues and toss the ones with serious issues. After 35 years in the business, I don't have the time or patience to fix these anymore.

Yesterday picked up

Scanners (1981)
The Gods Must be Crazy (1984)
Fatherland (1994)

The Who Tour video is copyrighted 1983 Profile Publishing/1984 CBS/FOX Video so is not digital anything, thankfully. “VHS hifi/ mono compatible”
It plays very well and sounds better!

Yes I imagine it does!!!!!

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I last got the movie BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED (1987) on VHS http://www.videokarma.org/images/icons/icon7.gif

I hadnt wanted this movie on its official VHS tape because it says 'DIGITALLY RECORDED' on the box and every movie I have seen that says this looks like crap!!

On this copy ON THE MCA TAPE ITSELF it does not say "Digitally recorded" and looks almost as good as watching it over analogue cable! (Audio sounds a little thin but the vid is def NOT DIGITALLY RECORDED thankfully!!)

If I ever find this recorded from analogue cable Ill get it as it will probably have the original analogue audio also!

I take it then you would have no interest in that movie on high resolution Blu ray...
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Batteries not included....The movie that made little me want a Wurlitzer 1100.