It's vid-ay-o
We've got to declutter our flat, and the wife wants me to ditch all my videos.
I've already had one crack at it, losing any films I'd taped off the telly, but keeping the bought ones I don't now have on DVD.
I've still got around 3 or 4 hundred though, that have been in boxes, under the stairs for four years.
I still have a working video player rigged up for archiving onto DVD, but I never seem to get round to it.

My argument is, there's stuff taped off the telly that will never be commercially available or repeated, and also there's a huge financial investment there.
On the downside, that financial investment means jack all now, and the tapes have probably degraded so much now as to be unwatchable.
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:12, 12 replies)

Bin them and don't look back.
Make a list of the ones you want to get on DVD if you have to.
Also, the 'financial investment' in the tapes is indeed now worth about as much as the same investment in used coffee grounds.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:15, closed)

VHS
I've still got a stash of old footie off the telly and random stuff used to fill the "utility" tapes.

But ultimately, everything will be available. The BBC will send a FTL probe with a very sensitive wire coathanger hooked up to a rack of betamax VCRs to the edge of Earth's emission shell, then hit "fast record" for the return trip.

Due to time dilation, a full set of Doctor Who should be available in the shops for Christmas, which will more than cover the budget requirements.
(Ronnie Spleen MMMMNEURRGH I AM A GAY SPAZ AND I LOVE IT UP MY BU, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:16, closed)

Vid-ay-o?
Absolutely.
(gordonjcp, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:17, closed)

;)

( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:17, closed)

When my dad died...
i had to sort all his stuff. He still had loads of VHS around the house and throwing them away was one of the hardest things.

I knew how long it had taken to make his 'collection' and he was in the middle of copying them to DVD - can you imagine the quality? I considered completing the task, but knew i'd never watch, or have room to store, all the DVD's.

Sad
( Another_tragic_case wished he hadn't eaten all the cake, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:19, closed)

*sads* but
stuff pron
(Ronnie Spleen MMMMNEURRGH I AM A GAY SPAZ AND I LOVE IT UP MY BU, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 13:24, closed)

Wrong way round!
1. Ditch the sell-through tapes - they'll all be available on DVD/BluRay/streaming HD at some point anyway.
2. Convert the taped-off-the-telly stuff to digital - the adverts and station idents from 1982 will be as gold for TV nerd nostalgia completists.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:04, closed)

Don't I know it
I spend far too much time on YT watching them
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:18, closed)

i've still got a working vhs and i still watch vhs movies
i haven't quite got 100 of them though, so space isn't really that much of an issue. just have a vicious sort out and only keep the stuff you desperately can't live without

and say hi to lady scaramanga from me too
( mictoboy shitting in your cunt since, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 23:02, closed)

Dr Who
I have a shed load of old Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee episodes on video that i spent ages buying from ebay, car boots and markets, some of which aren't available on DVD yet. I have a functioning VHS player so i will be damned if i am going to get rid and replace yet. I just can't afford it
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 11:16, closed)

^Yes
Me too - but I have *every* Dr Who VHS ever!

I'm building up my Who DVD collection (cheaply - my motto is never pay more than a tenner) and one day will give the redundant tapes to charity (except the signed ones).

FUCK Blu-Ray. I'm not going through all this again!
(Dr Skagra glorious glargzhem, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 11:46, closed)

Just download em
Same difference really.
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 6:49, closed)