Hey Dude111--where do you find all these VHS tapes? I have seen some in the thrifts and sometimes buy em. And yes ANALOG only for me.

Always trust your instincts
 

Today I was @ salvation Army and I found Star trek 1-5 (Seperate releases not the newer 6 pak of all star trek movies together)

I have thankfully been able to replace my star trek copies (1-5 (90s releases)) months ago with original releases which are MUCH BETTER! (Nothing digital in the transfer)

Well today I got the box for Star trek 5 as I have the original 1989 tape but I didnt have the original box....

Something told me to HOLD ONTO THAT TAPE I HAD (Not blindly replace it with the brand new copy (Unopened) I got today)

Looking @ the label on the tape I could tell it wasnt exactly the same..... I put it in and it was crap (Like the newer star trek 1-6,recorded the same way)) They got rid of that stuff @ the beggining and the contrast was slighter darker....... I dont know if it was digitally transferred but it certainly wasnt as good as the other copy I found @ salvation army months ago!! (It was soaked,semi wet.. Left outside in the rain) -- I was hopefull I could save it...... I bought it and let it dry until the next day before trying it.........

So the copy I found today was a NEWER 1989 copy (Apparently after they started compromising the star trek movies)

Now the only one I dont have the original of is Star Trek 6 (1991) -- I dunno if its out there,probably not....... (Ill take the first 5 believe me -- MUCH NICER)

Its quite sad but Im glad I listenend to my instincts!!!!


Usually salvation Army....... I love analog...... Beautiful,pure.......... Wonderful :)

Theres two Salvation Army stores here where I'm at. One of them being a superstore and they usually have a decent selection. Theres another thrift store also gthat keeps a lot in all the time.

At the local Blobfest today (The Blob was made a few hundred feet from my house) from a street vendor;

Star Wars Trilogy box set in widescreen.
MST3K The Movie.
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (Goodtimes LP mode).
Gamera Guardian of the Universe.

Maybe we will live long enough to see VHS make the same comeback that vinyl has. There was another vendor who owns vhsps.com (VHS Preservation Society) picking up OOP VHS and xfering them to DVD.

And I met one Christopher Mihm who writes, produces and directs cheezy, original films in the style of the 50's horror and sci-fi. He is from Minnesota and has about 8 titles out there. I bought his DVD of "The Giant Spider"..."Eight creeping crawling legs of sheer terror!" Lots of extras and the audio is in English/Esperanto. Even the DVD case artwork is in the 50's screaming style of horror. If I can pull a few stills, I will post them in "off topic" with my review. Stay tuned.

I never knew, that classic movie, was made out East.
I think I have an original copie of it.
Until I got the movie, I haven't seen it, for like 30 years.
I think the people that were there, were more concerned about the small dog, than the people, that were consumed by the blob. :D

Scored a nice pile of VHS tapes today at the thrift store. Some are still sealed! Luckily, I solved my flagging issue--only some tapes were causing that issue, but I though it was the equipment.
Anyway, here is the list:
Laurel & Hardy-Utopia
The Matrix
A Clockwork Orange
Dial M for Murder
Timecop
Eddie Murphy-Delirious
Deep Blue Sea
Secret Window
Passenger 57
Late Last Night
Reality Bites
Alien (3rd copy)
Wall Street (my favorite movie of all time, 4th copy)
The Haunting
total price= $10.99

last week , star trek complete orginal series 58 ep. some were still in plastic wrap.

Star trek is always a nice find on any format. I have several on vhs, laserdisc, and ced. Was out yesterday looking through vhs but didn't find anything. Maybe today. :)

Excellent!!

I have them also.........

You scored some great movies there!
I looked high and low for Delirious. Finally found one about a year ago. The family cook-out skit, still has me cracking up.
" Aunt Bunnie's falling down the steps again" :D

Was out yesterday and picked up these:

The Mask (1994 Jim Carrey)
Big Bully (1996 Rick Moranis/Tom Arnold)
The Animatrix (2003)
Youngblood (1986 Rob Lowe/Patrick Swayze)

Haha, Aunt Bunnie..I was always a fan of comedy in general, and Eddie Murphy really had the audience roaring with Delirious. I watched it that same night I bought all those tapes. It played great luckily! I'm surprised someone let it go...Even if you dump your vcr, it's tough to part with classic tapes like this one in my opinion!

I've said it many times before, "People are fools". It's good for us though.
One of the other movies, I was seeking, "Cheech and Chong's next movie.
The welfare office scene and the way they harassed the neighbor, next door.
I don't know how someone couldn't get a laugh out of that! :D

Another classic!! In the same vein as "nice dreams" and "up in smoke"..both of which I have on DVD

My last purchase is a Foster Brooks tape, "Foster Does More in '94". Still haven't made time to watch it, and I've had it for months. Thrift store find, might have only been 25 cents.

Awesome, my father used to like Foster Brooks a lot!
A friend of mine surprised me with some cast-away tapes since he 'no longer owns a VCR' hehehe:
Stevie Ray Vaughn live at El Mocambo (great guitar show!!)
Guilty Conscience (Anthony Hopkins TV movie)
Tommy Boy
Hugo Pool (what a stupid movie)
Tourist Trap
some Duran Duran music videos that SCREAM 80s..lol I am almost embarrassed to own em, but then again, I do have some vinyl of theirs..
Quiz Show (plagued by brightness fluctuations thanks to macrovision..need to buy a t.b.c.)
Andy Kaufman I'm from Hollywood (love this tape)

Today I got Close Encounters of the third Kind - 1977 :)

I was happy to spot this today... A couple weeks ago there was another copy of this movie there but it was a newer one that had been DIGITALLY MASTERED and I dont want that crap!!!!!

This is a special edition,I guess it includes the whole movie (No cuts) a re-release in the early 80s...... I havent seen this in 25+ years! (Im glad to have found an original/unmolested copy)

A few years back i picked up a copy of Radioactive Dreams at the goodwill. A great and cheesy 80s post apocalyptic comedy. Think i paid a full 50 cents for it.

Hadnt seen it in years, couldnt find it on dvd. I snagged that baby the second i saw it on their rack :)

I got 2 concerts today!!

1) AC/DC live @ donington (8/17/91)
2) Aerosmith live @ texxas Jam 78 (7/4/78)

There were a few other ones I might have liked but they were DIGITALLY COMPROMISED and I dont want that crap........

I have several of those rock vhs like Ozzy, Motley Crue, Skidrow, and others. Haven't come across anything lately though.

Just picked these 8 vhs up:

Caddyshack (1980)
Road House (1989)
Robocop (1987)
Robocop 2 (1990)
Police Story (1998)
Jackie Chan's First Strike (1997)
Twin Dragons (1992)
Mr. Nice Guy (1998)

I last got IRON MAIDEN - 'Behind the Iron Curtain' (4 songs from various tours in 1984)

Excellent!!

Cant go wrong with classic metal/rock on vhs. :)

Picked these up last week:

The Naked Gun: Files from the Police Squad
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear
The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
What about Bob? (Bill Murray)

Quite nice!!!!

Today I got the movie "Follow that Bird" (1985) :)

Last week, I picked up a VHS tape that is the pilot episode of a short-lived TV series called "The Duke", from the late 1970s. Not a chance this will ever be on DVD or Laser Disc, much less Blu-ray. Now I need to hook up a VHS machine to see if it looks any good. The box and tape look VERY cheaply made.

I hope its good buddy!!!

The movie I got yesterday "FOLLOW THAT BIRD" they messed up the sound!! (There is a low level hum all thru it) Ill probably take it back to salvation army......

On Thrusday i got the movie CREEPSHOW (1982) :)

This is the original 1983 release...

The very last VHS tape I will purchased and will probably be the last tape I ever purchase. Is the "X" rated howlingly stupid, but outrageously funny parody of the Buster Crab's Flash Gordon serials of the late 1930's called Flesh Gordon. It is vital to watch some of the original serials before you watch "Flesh" otherwise it will make no sense. Emperor Wang (the Perverted) of the Planet Porno is shooting Earth with sex beams. Flesh Gordon is on his way back from the Andes Mountains when the plane his is in gets hit with a sex beam. From Here Flesh meets Dale Ardor, who is constantly getting her cloths ripped off, Dr. Flexi Jerkoff, and his "interesting" rocket ship that starts with a VW key Emperor Wang the Perverted, Queen Amora, Prince Precious, and of course "The Power Pasties" The movie also answers the question I know very well you have always been curious about. How does a monster who only has three fingers on each hand flip somebody off, the answer, they can't.

Why is it the LAST on you will purchase??

Today I got: Airport - (1970) This was a 1992 release by MCA/Universal .. Most movies MCA/Universal transferred to VHS starting in 1991 were digitally recorded to the tape,THIS ONE IS NOT.. It has the original MCA HOME VIDEO master on it so I am hopefull its the original analogue master that THAT MOVIE was filmed in....


EDIT:

I got rid of the tape... Wasnt the original. Had letterbox all over it @ different parts.. (Only watched about 10 mins)

Ill try again and see if I can find an earlier copy that hasnt been ruined...

The later Pan/Scan releases of Airport zoomed out to letterbox at certain parts to account for the split screen effect. I think only the original 1980 MCA videocassette release eliminates the split screen to fill the entire frame.

Yes I now have the original MCA release and its beautiful!!!!!! (Purity hadnt been ruined yet)

It says 1984 on the tape so I assume they made this in 1984 (It was a 1981 release)

I needed 1 blank tape and ended up with a NOS Ampex. I was surprised to find it was made in the USA.

The Duke
 

The Duke is an American mini series that aired shown on NBC from April 5 to May 18, 1979.

Overview[edit]
The Duke follows an aging boxer who became a private investigator. This Chicago, Illinois-set series starred Robert Conrad as Oscar "Duke" Ramsey; Conrad was actually a professional fighter in his own early years.

The executive producer was Stephen J. Cannell, the show was produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions, in association with Universal TV.

My son had a snow day yesterday, so we went over to
our local Goodwill. He found the oldest vhs video tape
we now own.
It's a 1982 MCA copy of " Silence of the North ". We
ran the tape. The colors tend to bleed, a little blurry. It
was a rental store copy.
Ed

I've got some beta format rental tapes, and they are riddled with signal dropouts.

I just picked up a Dire Straits music videos VHS!

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But i don't have a vhs player yet XD

I last got the movie RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) on VHS (Star Wars 3)

It was recorded in LP mode off cable TV (HBO I think?) in the 80s and is georgeous!! (No changes,nothing digital)

I hope my mum and dad still kept all the old vhs tapes somewhere but i doubt it.
When i get a vcr back i can watch all those old classics again in full analogue glory :D

I can't believe anyone on this forum, doesn't have a VHS VCR. I lost count of how many, I have. I even have one Sony Beta, the only Beta, I would own.