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VHS BLANKS STILL AVAILABLE

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I love classic videotape formats (VHS, S-VHS, Beta, ED-Beta etc...) and use VHS HQ to record from TV and DVD to buy pre-recorded stuff on, blank VHS tapes are still very easy to find in the UK (I wish Beta was still offered as well) and are seemingly still selling in large numbers in 2008, here is what is available in my part of the UK (Salford, Eccles and Manchester) if this is of any interest to any videotape fans;

JVC E180SX (Morrisons)
JVC E240SX (Morrisons, Poundland)
MAXELL E240SQ (Exclusive to Lidl)
MAXELL E180M (Morrisons, Wilkinsons, Argos, HMV, Maplin)
MAXELL E240M (Morrisons, Poundland, Home Bargains, HMV, Maplin)
SAMSUNG E180SUPER RD (Myladoor)
SONY E180CD (Woolworths)
SONY E240CD (HMV, Poundland, Boots, Sony Centre)
TDK E180TV (HMV, Maplin)
TDK E240TV (HMV, Poundland, Poundworld, Super Pound Store, Maplin)
TDK E180HS (Central Radio)
TDK E240HS (Central Radio)
TDK E300HS (Maplin)
TDK E180E-HG (Central Radio)
TDK E240E-HG (Central Radio)
TDK SE120XP (Central Radio) -SVHS-
TDK SE180XP (Central Radio) -SVHS-
TDK SE240XP (Central Radio) -SVHS-
TESCO E180

These tapes could be found in the last 2-3 years in my area but have are are either discontinued or just no longer stocked;

FUJI E180SD
FUJI E240SD
FUJI E180F
FUJI E240F
JVC SE180SV -SVHS-
MR.VIDEO E180
MR.VIDEO E240
SAMSUNG E180RD
SAMSUNG E240SUPER RD
SKY E180
SKY E240
TDK E240TVR (Excusive to Aldi, dropped earlier this year)

Of course, in the 70's, 80's, 90's and early 2000's there have been an almost never ending amount of different brands, grades and lengths, I love collecting them - I find them fascinating with their different packaging and tape shells unlike boring blank DVDs. I love video!

What tapes are available near you?

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RE: VHS BLANKS STILL AVAILABLE - Cosmic Closet 07:43:23 10/23/08 (3)
Apart from quality issues, enjoy your collection; you're obviously quite dedicated to video tape.

I still have VHS and Betamax because I still have tapes not transferred to digital. While I can count the scan lines when I play them on the Panasonic 58 HD screen, I can still appreciate them as I see them more as a piece of my media history, much like when I play audio cassettes. There are lots of memories on them. Will I ever mistake them for my Blu-Rays? Hardly.....

Older formats I use because they ARE high quality: 2-track reel-to-reel and LPs.

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- RE: VHS BLANKS STILL AVAILABLE - DS.UK 08:26:15 10/23/08 (1)
  Someone with a brain, thanks for your comments.
  
  I see newer formats as additions to my older ones, I have masses of stuff on VHS and Beta that will never see the light of day on DVD or Blu-Ray or the opportunity to record them in unedited form on a newer format on today's TV broadcasts (like old sitcoms) and even if shown uncut nowadays they'd be most likely be ruined by on-screen logos, promotions and other rubbish. I can enjoy my original clean-screen BBC/ITV and Channel 4 recordings on the formats that they were recorded on and which let me down.
  - RE: VHS BLANKS STILL AVAILABLE - DS.UK 08:29:08 10/23/08 (0)
    That should have read NEVER let me down.
    
    I have my DVD recordings which failed me on the brain.
    
    Regards
- Quality R2R and quality vinyl are hard to beat. - Wendell Narrod 08:13:48 10/23/08 (0)
  DSD is pretty good too.
  
  -Wendell
What about them Elkysets? - ZS KEKKY 19:44:23 10/22/08 (0)
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Wow! Maybe someone will bring back tintypes for photographs - Wendell Narrod 08:34:33 10/22/08 (4)
and the purity of black and white television. :-)

-Wendell
- RE: Wow! Maybe someone will bring back tintypes for photographs - DS.UK 23:25:53 10/22/08 (3)
  I also have a Panasonic DVD-recorder but use it little. I love the history and variety of blank video media and certainly don't trust blank DVDs after problems with it in the past.
  
  Anyway, continue with your sneer-a-thon if you like.
  - Not to mention the incredible video quality of VHS. - Wendell Narrod 05:49:59 10/23/08 (2)
    :-)
    
    -Wendell
    - RE: Not to mention the incredible video quality of VHS. - DS.UK 06:26:05 10/23/08 (1)
      Mmmmmmmm..... I don't remember making any claims about VHS quality just that I love classic video formats.
      
      If you have a problem with other people liking older technologies and continuing to use them (as well as newer ones) then that really is your problem.
      
      Feel free to continue to be as infantile as you like if it makes you happy.
      - Let's bring back paper tape and wire recorders. - Wendell Narrod 06:48:32 10/23/08 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Not to mention the incredible video quality of VHS. posted by DS.UK on October 23, 2008 at 06:26:05
        
        :-)
        
        -Wendell
RE: VHS BLANKS STILL AVAILABLE - DS.UK 03:59:31 10/22/08 (0)
Nearly forgot, EMTEC E180EQ, E240EQ, E300EQ and SE180 blanks were available at Maplin until less than a year ago. Also EMTEC E60 and E90PROFESSIONAL CAM COPY MASTER tapes may still be found at some branches of Comet. WH SMITH E180 and E240 tapes may also still be found at some of their branches.

I long for the variety of the 1980s!

Regards to all.

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