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Victor Khomenko

I was organizing and cleaning my home theater, and again faced the same question - what to do with all those films on tape?

Many of them are now available on DVD or streaming, but just to dump all that in the trash - somehow I can't do it. I still have players, but I haven't used them in ages.

So you have similar issue?

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Sometimes buried treasure, sometimes buried for a good reason a reason - Bambi B 19:48:31 07/09/19 (0)
Victor Khomenko,
I like to haunt thrift stores that have books and those that do often also have VHS. Othwer shops won't even take them as a donation. I have an old Sony combinations VHS and DVD player.
A couple of weeks ago I bought a Janes Fighting Ships 2003-2004 for $1- and you can't beat the price per pound. At the same time I saw a whole pile of 70's 80's opera performances and got half the Ring Cycle and Beverly Sills performances I'd never heard. Also a Bolshoi tape. I also hadn't seen "What About Bob" since it was new or the great E> g Robinson /Orson Welles, "The Stranger" for a long while. I'd never seen Antonionionioni's( < sp?) "the Passenger" with Jack Nicholson. As any VHS was $.25, I took a big risk and had hours of entertainment.
"What About Bob" wasn't as goofily funny as I remembered when I was 35 years younger, and "The Passenger" was beautifully made but the premise was incomprehensible; "Why does Nicholson give up a prestigious journalist's job, a huge house in London, and beautiful wife, for wandering and pursuit by gun-running killers just because his Land Rover got stuck in the sand in Africa? Gosh, a whole quarter wasted!
"The Stranger" however was wonderfully quirky- sort of on the edge of surreal / noir. Who would ever think to put Edward G. Robinson in a Nazi fugitive in Vermont thriller with all all the action in a clock tower? Should it have been "The Covered Bridge of Spies"?
Anyway, the point is that what seems rubbish round the house might be gold to the thrift store punter, or at least a failed experiment comes at a reasonable price.
Not to belabor the point too much further, but there have to be a lot of movies never transferred to DVD.
Cheers,
Bambi B

Edits: 07/09/19
VK, since you are such a celluloid luddite . . . - Billy Wonka 13:25:22 07/08/19 (1)
You should liquidate DVDs and VHS for 8mm. I think you would enjoy it tremendously. You could transfer all your favorites to 8mm B/W and be in hawg heaven.

8^)
- Hand cranks rule - Victor Khomenko 14:31:18 07/08/19 (0)
  But I lost my cherry long time ago to a 110" screen and great Sony HD projector...
RE: VHS Films - dean_martin 19:02:08 07/07/19 (2)
Yeah, I have a few too
- Wow! Planeta Bur'! - Victor Khomenko 05:57:15 07/08/19 (1)
  I remember when it came out, how we rushed to see it. Still remember our arguments - what was that at the end? :) The dying robot brought tiers to our collective eyes. BTW - there was a Russian athlete inside that contraption - it was, apparently, quite heavy.
  
  I watched it again out of nostalgia a couple of years ago. The studio props are laughable, but the story itself still holds.
  - RE: Wow! Planeta Bur'! - dean_martin 17:01:07 07/08/19 (0)
    That's an awesome account of the original release! Thanks for sharing. I discovered the film in the mid-90s.
Watch one - Awe-d-o-file 19:54:01 07/06/19 (8)
The terrible 240 lines will motivate you to toss them or give them away.

ET

"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
- LOL! Great point! :) nt - Victor Khomenko 07:09:53 07/07/19 (7)
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  - Especially on an HD screen! nt - Awe-d-o-file 15:26:07 07/07/19 (5)
    ET
    
    "If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
    - I might try it for grins - Victor Khomenko 15:53:33 07/07/19 (4)
      Problem is - none of my VCR's has HDMI output. :( And I don't want to buy yet another adapter.
      - RE: I might try it for grins - Awe-d-o-file 06:41:03 07/08/19 (3)
        
        In Reply to: RE: I might try it for grins posted by Victor Khomenko on July 07, 2019 at 15:53:33
        
        Ahhh, no composite video in on your video system. My plasma from 2009 ish has one.
        
        ET
        
        "If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
        
        All done through HDMI... I belive - Victor Khomenko 07:04:24 07/08/19 (2)
        
        In Reply to: RE: I might try it for grins posted by Awe-d-o-file on July 08, 2019 at 06:41:03
        
        Actually, I need to look at my Samsung plasma, who knows, it might have it.
        
        The adapters are like $15, no big deal, but I am not sure it is all worth the effort. Maybe, if I try it on my 110" screen downstairs. :)
        
        Yikes - Awe-d-o-file 19:33:20 07/08/19 (1)
        
        In Reply to: RE: All done through HDMI... I belive posted by Victor Khomenko on July 08, 2019 at 07:04:24
        
        You could probably count the 240 lines on your 110!
        
        ET
        
        "If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
        
        Not if I watch it from across my back yard. :-) nt - Victor Khomenko 21:42:23 07/08/19 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Yikes posted by Awe-d-o-file on July 08, 2019 at 19:33:20
        
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  - RE: LOL! Great point! :) nt - Awe-d-o-file 11:31:13 07/07/19 (0)
    But as I'm half Scottish I get it.....
    
    ET
    
    "If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed" - Curly Howard 1936
RE: VHS Films - Gary 19:49:19 07/06/19 (0)
I digitized them, backed up the files, then dumped the originals. All they were doing was taking up space and gathering dust.
Yes... I donate them to the local charity second hand store... - TWB 09:34:47 07/06/19 (0)
the money goes to a good cause...
I'm going through the same thing myself with VHS tapes - Chris from Lafayette 09:34:22 07/06/19 (0)
Ms. CfL said that there is an electronics recycling company near us that will take them. I'll give it a try next week.

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