It's still good to have a VHS player
Really,
some things are never going to be released on DVD/Blu-ray and are a lot cheaper to source on VHS.

It's complete bunk that the video store told you to rewind tapes, real archival places tell you not to as it preserves tension on the tapes better and gives you a chance to warm up the playing heads.

Trash Video in Brisbane closed this year and still has a 10K+ tapes in its collection.

I recently purchased this fine piece of work
www.amazon.com/Vixens-Daphne-Lawrence-Deborah-Lorrain/dp/B000MM28XI/

And also this
www.amazon.com/East-Side-Story-Margarita-Andrushkovich/dp/6304829825/

Trash Humpers used VHS footage to make itself look authentic if nothing else (it's mainly just Harmony Karmoine and his friends dicking around.)

Mark my words, its going to end up like Moog or C64s, people will want to go back to video footage just like film SLRs even if it is just to do re-enactments of supposedly "found" footage.
(TimChuma, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 11:45, 3 replies)

Are you saying
that I should hold on to the Sony U-Matic players I inherited from a defunct AV company? Jesus, I've just defeated my hoarding instinct and was going to bin them (I only took them because the flight cases were useful), now I won't feel able to. Thanks for that!
(Rsoles, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 12:58, closed)

I have a Sony VCR
but since the only tapes I have are Tom and Jerry (which I already downloaded all the episodes of) and some camcorder stuff, its not been used for years.
(Archeleus hates cabbage, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 16:14, closed)

Mark my words, its going to end up like Moog or C64s, people will want to go back to video footage just like film SLRs even if it is just to do re-enactments of supposedly "found" footage.
bindun:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_Humpers
( Slippery Mick ‏, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 17:42, closed)