Does anyone still have VHS tapes?

And a few more, packed up in a box in the closet. The VHS tapes may be worth something--a trip to the dumpster.

That reminds me: I still have to throw out those old eight-track tapes.

Anything else I got the DVD.

A variety of VHS. I had a dual VHS/DVD that just recently gave up the ghost. Even though I never watched them I kept them around because I still had a way to play them if I wanted to. So now that I have no reason to keep them, I'm looking for the best way to dispose of the tapes. Do any of you know if they can be recycled??

donate them to a thrift store. I see people buying them when I'm at one of these stores. You can also have them converted to DVD, there's a lot of people who did the conversions.

I just hate sending stuff like that to the landfill.

Still in their cellophane wrappers! I was saving them to watch with my granddaughter.

I also have a lot of tapes of the kids when they were growing up, graduations, etc. Can't really part with those.

i have a dvd/vhs combo and keep forgetting to bring them home with me.

My boyfriend buys all the Disney movies too. Plus Star Wars etc. He's since upgraded everything to DVDs. The little girl downstairs currently has his whole collection.

I never saw the value in buying a movie to keep. He bought me the Godfather and complains I've never taken it out of the case. Movies like that are only meant to be watched when you run across them while flipping channels. I say "ooooh The godfather is on" and he says

I use it for my exercise tapes! Remember those? LOL

and...wait for it... Star Wars: A New Hope, the original theater release before Lucas started messing with it, still in its wrapper.

Bunch of others.

I recorded a lot of movies.

I also have some movies and TV that have never made it to DVD, at least not as far as I know. I bought them when a video (VHS) store was closing down.

it might be deteriorated and useless.

including early ones with Joel.

Could get three episodes per tape. Also have 50+ episodes... Joel's and Mike's.

Also have a variety of other stuff. There's a repair shop near me who fixes VCR's, cassette players, etc.

Can't even give tapes away.

From what I've read, the DVD version is missing performances from a number of the artists on the VHS version.

Same situation with the U2 - Rattle and Hum documentary.

i also have some green day performances i taped in 94 (i think).

All but the last season

They are various movies saved up over the years before DVDs became popular.They still work so no real reason to replace them.

You can get some great visual effects with scratched heads on an old VCR.

I would like to know where to get rid of them to recycle them. Don't want to just throw them away and I'm sure thrift stores don't want them.

I was getting rid of a lot of stuff a few years ago. I didn't want to both with a garage sale so I listed everything on Freecycle.

https://www.freecycle.org

I had about 60 VHS of my mother's. Lots of classics. I was in Austin at the time and a film student at UT was THRILLED to get them. She said she and her film student buddies had watching parties for pleasure and education.

So if your local university has a film program their might be some students who are interested.

I never had all that many, but I did toss Ken Burns' Civil War and a boxed set of Kubrick films along with all my Python stuff. I assumed I'd replace it with DVDs but then BluRays appeared so I hesitated, and in that window of hesitation streaming replaced everything.

They are in bins in my garage. I have no idea what to do with them. Why have I even kept them?

(I said the same thing about vinyl years ago).

at a yard sale. They were in the three-for-a-dollar range. They were movies I didn't have and that the library won't have either. For that kind of money, why not?

I try to avoid adding any to the collection, but there I was and there they were, so....

As for getting rid of them, put them out at the end of your sidewalk some sunny day with a "Free - Gratis - Help yourself" sign next to them. They'll disappear. A church across the street from me has a rummage sale every August. I get rid of lots of stuff that way. I put up a notice on Craigslist inviting rummage sale attendees to mosey across the street and see if I have something for free that they might like.

The library won't take them, or any thrift stores, or the aforementioned church either. Craigslist and Freecycle are your friends.

I just watched "To Kill a Mockingbird" on VHS. I got it the same way I get rid of mine - someone left it out to be hauled away. It is the widescreen version of the film (yes, on VHS), though it's not really wide. My idea of widescreen is "No Country for Old Men." I watched that last weekend, on DVD.

I still have the old VHS machine as well and was gathering all the old family tapes to get them converted.

I had inherited the VHS when a family member passed although my machine was a Sony Beta Hi-Fi which I still have.
Unbelievable, huh. Same story as above....getting family movies from that format converted but wanted to check in which order to appear, etc.

They're my own artwork from the 80's mostly.

... computer graphics, and some installation work

Do you think it's a DS thing?

I have never been one to care much for the miracle of high def. If its HD, great, if not, it really does not impact my enjoyment of a good film or television program. We have lots of disney films that my children now enjoy. I have a good collection of films that I enjoy and watch often. I have lots of series taped from over the years that I enjoy. While they will never be worth anything in terms of an investment, they are worth a lot to me. I get a lot of hours of enjoyment out of them. We cut the cord some time ago and between the tapes, a broadcast antenna and netflix, I don't spend much on viewing entertainment.

I was given a widescreen/flat screen TV for [strike]Christmas[/strike] a day near the end of 2015. Before that, I was watching a 19" TV that I snatched from a trash pile. The Sony's cord had been snipped off by the copper scavengers, so I had to repair that. I did so in November 2014, and the Sony went into service.

The widescreen TV came from a trash pile too. I was with the person who gave it to me when he found it.

On a 19" screen, VHS (probably Beta too, but I haven't thought to try) looks fine. On a big screen TV, tapes just can't cut it. I don't have an S-VHS VCR, but I don't think that even it could compare to DVDs. I do not have a Blu-ray player, so although I can get OTA in 1080i, I still have standard definition for any input from an external device.

I was watching one of the tapes I got last weekend, "Ronin," before heading to the computer. It was an official video; i.e., it was not recorded off HBO. Still the colors are washed out, and it is fuzzy. On a 19" set, these flaws would not be apparent.

The 19" Sony has a glorious picture, and stereo sound is not bad either. It is a late enough TV set that few improvements were made to CRT TVs in the following years.

The day after I got my widescreen TV set up, a neighbor threw out a CRT with about a 27" screen, including the remote. The date of manufacture was March 2006, IIRC, which means that it had a digital tuner, per FCC mandate. The neighbor had just got a flat screen TV for {some unspecified holiday} too. Had I not just acquired my flat screen TV, I would have gone down there with a hand truck and retrieved it.

No episode 4. No "New Hope"; but no VCR either

I got worried about George's penchant for changing a cherished childhood experience.

The rest of my tapes I put in my parents' garage but they have long been given to charity.

I think some are still unopened. I have about 30 live bootleg Page & Plant concerts from their 1995 and 1998 tours. Quality is excellent - even better than some of my audio-only soundboard shows.

Whatever digital magic our LCD HDTV performs on this obsolete analog input makes the tapes look better than they ever did on our old bulky CRT television.

But I'm still reminded of the time my kid put toast in the VCR slot, back in the days a VCR was a considerable investment for us. This was our second VCR, a replacement for one that was stolen by someone who broke into our house, a crime so great the police came out to take a report, examine our pried-open window, and ask a few neighbors if they'd seen anything. Our renter's insurance paid for a replacement.

I don't have any "valuable" electronics anymore. By the time I adopt any new technology it's already being sold in thrift stores or I find it in dumpsters or on the curb, requiring only minimal repairs.

Though I seldom use it, I still keep my VCR as an input as there are a few old movies and other programs that are as of yet unavailable on DVD/BR.

While the best of them can't hold a candle to DVD for image quality, some have held up surprisingly well after such a long time; showing no fade since new. Others seemed to turn to mush in less than 5 years. I have no problem keeping them, other than the fact they're so big and bulky and take up storage space.

Taped off local broadcast my father sent me eons ago. That's the only reason I've kept them and the player.

of course. (I think I have that on DVD around here somewhere too.)

And a few Robin Williams movies, that I will probably never be able to bring myself to watch again. I was a big fan of his and devastated by his death. I should probably give the movies away.

We don't have a VCR and since we bought a new smart TV last Black Friday our DVD player isn't compatible with the TV. We have to stream videos if we want to watch them.