How many VHS/Beta/Laserdisc do you own?

[dkedvd]

Ok we all have plenty of DVDs and are starting out Blu-ray collections and perhaps still own a good amount of HD-DVD. But how many VHS tapes, Beta Tapes, or Laserdiscs do you have in your collection? And what titles? And have they been released on R1 DVD or Blu-ray (unless you are outside the US, then list what hasn't been released in your region)? I got to thinking of this last night when looking at my small VHS collection and wondering what everyone else has.

I do not have any Beta or Lasterdisc but here are my VHS...
- Addams Family Reunion (1998) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- The Amazing Spider-Man: The Pied Piper Of New York Town (1981) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Angels In The Outfield (1994)
- The Big Green (1995)
- Blank Check (1994)
- Body Story: Crash (1998) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Body Story: Out Of Control (1998) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Brand Spanking New! Doug: Doug's Secret Christmas (1996) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars (1998)
- Camp Cucamonga (1990)
- Culture Club: The First For Years - This Time (1987) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Double Dragon (1994)
- Dr. Dolille (1998)
- An Evening With Robin Williams (1982) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- The Flying Machines (1990) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Freedom (1998) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Gargoyles: The Movie - The Heroes Awaken (1995) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Great Books: Frankenstein - The Making Of The Monster (1993) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- The Halloween Tree (1993) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch (1971) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Hot To Trot (1988) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- House Arrest (1996)
- How The Flintstones Saved Christmas (1964) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Hulk Hogan's All Time Champ (1985) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Hulk Hogan's Rock 'N' Wrestling: Ghost Wrestlers (1985) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Hulk Hogan's Rock 'N' Wrestling: The Four-Legged Pickpocket (1985) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones (1987) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Jungle Cubs: Cub House Fun (1996) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- A Kid In King Arthur's Court (1995)
- Life With Mikey (1993)
- The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
- Loser (2000)
- Man Of The House (1995)
- The Maxx (1996) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Meatballs III (1986) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Mighty Ducks: The Movie - The First Face-Off (1997) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Mighty Max: Let Sleeping Dragons Lie (1993) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: Video Stew (1997) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Money Talks (1997)
- Mr. Magoo (1997)
- The Muppet Babies: Explore With Us (1989-1991) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- The Muppet Babies: Let's Build (1989-1990) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- MxPx: It Came From Bremerton! (2000) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- The Neverending Story III: Escape From Fantasia (1994)
- The Night They Saved Christmas (1984) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Out Cold (1989)
- Poison Ivy (1985) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Police Academy: The Series - Volume 3 (1988) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics: Heavens To Hilarity, This Is It, Sports Fans! (1977)
- Scooby's All Star Laff-A-Lympics: Yippee For The Yahooeys! (1977)
- The Scout (1994)
- Seems Like Old Times (1980)
- Sgt. Bilko (1996)
- Snagglepuss And Friends: Express Trained Lion (1961-1964) [(Peter Potamus cartoons) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1982) (Theatrical Version)
- Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) (Theatrical Version)
- Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi (1983) (Theatrical Version)
- Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (Theatrical Version)
- Steel (1997) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- The Tale Of The Bunny Picnic (1986) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Taz Mania: Taz-Tronaut (1991) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Three Fugitives (1989)
- The Tom Green Show: Tonsil Hockey (1999-2000) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Tooth & Nail Presents: Video Collection V.6 (2000) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Walt Disney World: 100 Years Of Magic (2001) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Winnie The Pooh And Christmas Too (1991) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Winnie The Pooh: Boo To You Too! (1996) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Winnie The Pooh: Spookable Pooh (2000)
- Yogi And The Magical Flight Of The Spruce Goose (1987) [Not on DVD/Blu]
- Yogi's First Christmas (1980) [Not on DVD/Blu]

[Norm de Plume]

About 200 VHSes, mostly grey-market, and about 200 laserdiscs.

[clckworang]

My VHS tapes are boxed but accessible, and I have a lot of titles on VHS, especially if you count all the ones made by recording from cable. Before there was DVD, I collected VHS. There's no way I could easily list them here.

[dkedvd]

About 200 VHSes, mostly grey-market, and about 200 laserdiscs.

Wow! That's awesome! More than I expected anyone to say they owned. What are some of your more memorable titles in that collection that have yet to make it to DVD/Blu?

[drmar35mm]

I still have a few hundred VHS's--movies (which I will still pick up cause they're only costing $1 or 50 cents or 25 cents these days) and stuff taped from TV; and a few dozen Betas. For ten years I couldn't play the Betas, having no machine. But a year ago I grabbed one at a garage sale (a Toshiba that weighs a ton) for $2! Works like a champ. I'm reminded why Beta was the superior format.

[KillerCannibal]

I probably have around 75 VHS tapes, many of which I've re-bought on DVD but I just didn't want to part with the tape. Damn you, nostalgia!

[matome]

A few VHS of things that never made it onto form of disc and about 600 laserdiscs.

[orangerunner]

I probably have around 75 VHS tapes, many of which I've re-bought on DVD but I just didn't want to part with the tape. Damn you, nostalgia!

I still have about 20 or so titles that I'm keeping for nostalgic reasons.

I still have the first pre-recorded VHS tape I bought, the original rental release of Raiders of the Lost Ark with an ad for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom - Coming Soon! at the beginning of the tape.

I also held onto Halloween in the origjnal Media Home Video case, Blade Runner from Embassy Home Video with the extra footage and a couple of Warner titles like The Road Warrior and Risky Business that are in their original black "clamshell" cases.

I also have Hallowen II in the CED video disc format.

[critterdvd]

I have probably about 300 purchased VHS's (used to live near a very cheap used video store) and about 500 recorded VHS. There all boxed up now (save probably 20 rare VHS that arn't on DVD) but easily accessible and labeled. I doubt I'll ever really get rid of them by choice.

[RagingBull80]

I have almost no VHS tapes

On Laserdisc I have:
Taxi Driver - Criterion
Blue Collar
T2 Extended
2001
Trainspotting - Criterion


I also have Hallowen II in the CED video disc format.

Yay for Videodiscs!

I have:
Taxi Driver
Blade Runner
Animal House
Blazing Saddles

[tofu]

Still have one: Fist of Legend

[jjcool]

Prerecorded: Probably about 75 or so. About 20 I kept because I havent gotten them on disc yet. Probably another dozen are the various iterations of the Original Trilogy. The rest are Disney stuff and the parents small collection.

Probably about 150 tapes we recorded movies and stuff on to save. And about 10 tapes that we were using to record day to day shows on until the digital switch. Havent gone through these in a while, and the onyl reason I still have most of them is because I havent gone through them.

[supermike07]

Way too many, well over 1000 probably. Some stuff that can be found on DVD, but I picked it up on VHS for under a buck, which works fine for me so why spend more money just for a disc? The only reason I will "upgrade" a title is if the tape fails to play, which has only happened to a couple of tapes so far.

[hasslein]

VHS not on DVD
Americathon
Mary Tyler Moore Show Christmas Episode (DVD is edited)
The Police Outlandos to Synchronicities

Laserdisc 100s but some choice ones not on dvd-
THX-1138 org cut
Police Around the World
Revolution org cut
Star Trek the Motion Picture Extended cut
Rudolph Red Nosed Reindeer dif cut
King Kong 33 color
1492
Solid Gold Workout
Godzilla vs Biollante
One Million Years BC long cut
Yellow Submarine org cut
Taking it Off (Kitten Natividad)

[Norm de Plume]

Wow! That's awesome! More than I expected anyone to say they owned. What are some of your more memorable titles in that collection that have yet to make it to DVD/Blu?
Most of my laserdiscs are/were out on DVD, but none of the VHS films. Too many to list.

[rw2516]

All I have left are the 3 Stooges not yet released on DVD, Earth Final Conflict season 2 and a box of about 100 tapes of toons, mostly Looney Tunes. Everything else either got a dvd release or I transferred to DVD. Transferring all the toons not on DVD is my winter project.

[Mister Peepers]

Hundreds. Mostly horror and sci-fi with some kids stuff thrown in. Cleared out a few rental stores that went out of business and bought the stuff that wasn't out on DVD yet.

[Ash Ketchum]

I have thousands of movies on VHS, a few hundred (maybe more?) on pre-record, the rest taped off broadcast and cable. A huge number of them have never come out on DVD. Many of the ones I've taped have never come out even on VHS. I recently ran across an IMDB entry for a movie I taped off broadcast TV some 23 years ago. (A Technicolor costume adventure from Hollywood in the 1940s.) No one had reviewed it yet on IMDB. I located my tape of it (I have a good numbering system) and I watched the film and submitted my review of it. Wouldn't have been able to do that if I hadn't taped it so long ago. And I've done that frequently with IMDB--found films that no one has reviewed, located them in my collection, and reviewed them. All things impossible to find elsewhere.

I'm teaching a class at a local college and I show film clips on DVD and VHS. Many of the most important clips I show are out of print on VHS (d'uhhh) and not available on DVD at all. My tape copies may be all that's left of some rare and obscure titles.

There's one store nearby that still sells used VHS tapes. I still buy them if it's something I don't have and have wanted to see, but don't want to pay a lot of $ for. These tapes range from $1-$5 each.

[danwiz]

I have the 3 VHS Tape set of the original "Star Wars Trilogy" before they cut it up and re-made it!! Anybody want to make me an offer on it?! I bought it way back on August 30, 1995 - it had just been released. I also have a few other VHS tapes, but mostly porn!

[dkedvd]

I have the 3 VHS Tape set of the original "Star Wars Trilogy" before they cut it up and re-made it!! Anybody want to make me an offer on it?!!
I got them too. But you can pick up the new "Original Trilogy" DVD pack for $25.00 now-a-days. As soon as I get around to buying it, those tapes will be seeing my local pawn shop.
There is a local Goodwill that seams to get in hundreds of tapes a week and they sell them for $0.25 each. So if there is something that I do not have yet on DVD that I want to check out, I get it. I also have bought many blind buys from there as well. Why not? For 25 cents if its sucks I really spent nothing and If I like it I now know to grab it on DVD next time I see if for cheap. :)

[visitor Q]

Wow, some of you guys really are film buffs.

I'm in the 25-30 range of pre-recorded VHS tapes, and no laser discs. It was the only way I could get anime and HK action films some time in the mid-90's - unless my friend at the time could copy certain laser disc rentals before DMCA (IIRC).

Still own most but they are in storage.

Remember paying $30-40 for the special edition of Akira with subs, Wicked City, the live action version of Wicked City (not available on disc), Ghost in the Shell with subs, Fox Lorber double release of Hard Boiled and The Killer with slipcover.

Good stuff ...at least back then!

[EdTheRipper]

Not a one. I had hundreds of VHS tapes as recently as 3 or 4 years ago. I'd always planned on transferring as many as possible to dvd but laziness and apathy got in the way. Eventually, it got to the point where they were an unsightly mess and really just eating up storage space so I boxed them up and gave them to my landlords to sort through and dispose of.

[Demonmoon68]

Still own 500 VHS and proudly display them with my DVDs and BDs. Still love them way more then the dvds as well. no school like the old school.

[SanityRemoved]

Hundreds of Beta and VHS, almost took the laserdisc plunge in 1984 but realized that finding discs while moving around the world was too much of a hassle. First VHS movie I bought was Slapshot, it cost $69, first Beta was music related, I think I bought a couple that day and they weren't cheap either. First Hi-Fi VHS ran me $680 and that was cheap compared to it's price in the States.

[JCWBobC]

Around 150 laserdiscs and probably around 1,000 VHS tapes left including wrestling, movies, and kids tapes.

I spent 13 years working in video stores so I had over 1,000 tapes with 3-4 movies on each and I would get somewhere between 10-20 screener tapes a month. I threw away a ton of tapes in 1999 because I got tired of having to move them every time I moved. A lot of them haven't been released on DVD so i'm still kicking myself for not storing them in my mom's attic until DVD recorders came out.

[darkhawk]

I had over 1500 VHS tapes in 1997. Never got into laserdisc, because I didn't like flipping over the disc in the middle of the movie. Only a few had 2 tapes because it was a long movie. With VHS, I could sit through the whole thing. The price and size of laserdiscs also kept me away. In 1997, when I first saw 4 dvds on a display shelf, I was hooked. I had all 4 of them on VHS and started selling them off on ebay. Then, everytime I saw a new dvd title come out, I sold them as well. I'm now down to about 45 VHS tapes. Non of which are available on dvd.

[JCWBobC]

I actually got into laserdiscs because of the price. New release laserdiscs were between $24.95-$34.95 plus I got a 20% employee discount while new release VHS movies were $89.99-$99.99 and eventually went up to $104.99. My laserdisc player, which I still have and works great so far, would flip the disc over automatically so I didn't have to get up unless it was on more than 2 disc and usually it was only the special features on the extra discs.

[Alan Smithee]

Short answer: tons.

I have EVERY title released on the failed CED videodisc format, including the first instore demo disc:
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...and these super-rare promo ones:

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Been collecting them ever since I found a stereo player at a flea market in 1993 for 15 bucks. There's just a couple other dealer-only discs I don't have yet- 2 were on Ebay last week and some bastard outbid me at the last second! Bet he won't even put them online!

[oldboy87]

Had a decent sized collection of VHS tapes, many of which I gave away when I started replacing them with DVD.
I probably still have around 100 titles on VHS, some are duplicated on DVD, keep em for sentimental reasons mostly.
And my wife has several boxes of VHS titles, most of which we haven't rebought on DVD, although most are now available on disc. And she has boxes and boxes of movies taped off TV.

[GoldenWheels]

I have EVERY title released on the failed CED videodisc format, including the first instore demo disc:

Been collecting them ever since I found a stereo player at a flea market in 1993 for 15 bucks. There's just a couple other dealer-only discs I don't have yet- 2 were on Ebay last week and some bastard outbid me at the last second! Bet he won't even put them online!

I had to go wiki to get the story on these--I had heard the term videodisc before but I never knew how it actually worked. Very weird (and cool).

[dkedvd]

VHS movies were $89.99-$99.99 and eventually went up to $104.99. .

Wow. I'm glad I was a kid when those days were around. But damn... My Grandmother had a HUGE VHS collection back in the 80's. She must have spent a fortune.

[dkedvd]

I had to go wiki to get the story on these--I had heard the term videodisc before but I never knew how it actually worked. Very weird (and cool).

Hahaha. Me too. Crazy idea. I bet it would have been huge if the production wasn't pushed back 17 years. Just think... We could have piles of CEDs collecting dust instead of VHS tapes. But reading the Disadvantages of CED iIm glad VHS won out.

[Bishop_99]

82 VHS movies. I never even heard of laserdisc's back then. Never saw them at Blockbuster or any other store I went to. VHS movies were expensive in their initial release but usually like 3 months after I would find them for $20.00.

[dkedvd]

I never even heard of laserdisc's back then.
I only knew of them because my middle school / high school used them in class. I remember thinking how weird they looked. I though they were some kind of record size CD. The best part was my teachers could never get them to work correctly. They would want to play a clip but it would always play something else and then they would just end up skipping around the disc for ten minutes trying to find the right part. I never realized at the time that laserdiscs were for home use with movies on them as well. I thought for the longest time that they were some kind of educational format used only in schools (since that was the only place I ever saw them). Everyone I knew back then was still using VHS.

[dkedvd]

Ok we have Beta, VHS, CED, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu-ray, DH-DVD, and I'm sure even a few UMD collectors. But common... Where are all the 8mm collectors? LOL! :lol:

[DirkUSA]

I have one LD left. The Alamo.

[Ash Ketchum]

Ok we have Beta, VHS, CED, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu-ray, DH-DVD, and I'm sure even a few UMD collectors. But common... Where are all the 8mm collectors? LOL! :lol:

I have silent 8mm reels of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH, both of which are considerably shortened versions of the features. Once I had a VCR, of course, I simply taped those movies off the air.

[GoldenWheels]

Hahaha. Me too. Crazy idea. I bet it would have been huge if the production wasn't pushed back 17 years. Just think... We could have piles of CEDs collecting dust instead of VHS tapes. But reading the Disadvantages of CED iIm glad VHS won out.

Yeah it sounds like a fundamentally flawed format...somehow that actually makes it cooler as an anachronistic collector's thing though.

[Libby]

I just have a few VHS left mostly the disney classics and I think a copy of homeward bound

[orangerunner]

I had to go wiki to get the story on these--I had heard the term videodisc before but I never knew how it actually worked. Very weird (and cool).

They were an odd format to be sure. I bought a used one in the mid-eighties when I was twelve for $200 and it came with 50 movies.

It actually used a needle like a record and the picture quality was better than VHS but the damn things skipped like crazy on many of the titles I had.

I suppose the needle eventually wore out the disc because the way it was packaged (a hard plastic sleeve that inserted into the machine) there was no way you could touch or damage the disc itself.

The only plus was the large format artwork on the case sleeve.

[orangerunner]

Ok we have Beta, VHS, CED, Laserdisc, DVD, Blu-ray, DH-DVD, and I'm sure even a few UMD collectors. But common... Where are all the 8mm collectors? LOL! :lol:

Hey don't laugh yet! I also have a Super-8 sound copy of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry. It's an abridged version that runs 18 minutes long and is fully packaged for home use.

I think 20th Century Fox brought out several titles in Super-8 for home use just before VCRs became popular. You can also get Star Wars and, I think, Alien as well.

[clckworang]

I find it interesting as cheap as DVD prices have become how many people still buy VHS tapes. Yes, I absolutely adored my VCR back in the day, but I find it very difficult to watch a VHS tape now. I can hear the tape moving and it just looks more drab. Of course, now that I have an HD television, you now have to content with the letterbox thing, as opposed to enhanced for widescreen TVs. Of course, that's all contingent on being lucky enough to find whatever movie it is in widescreen. Oh, I remember spending a lot of time browsing through the widescreen VHS section at Best Buy ...

[reverie]

Never owned a single laserdisc.. still have somewhere under 100 VHS tapes.. mostly music-related actually (concerts, video compilations).

[clckworang]

Wow. I'm glad I was a kid when those days were around. But damn... My Grandmother had a HUGE VHS collection back in the 80's. She must have spent a fortune.

It was rental pricing that made VHS titles so expensive when they would first be released. Most titles would have a window of time where they were only supposed to be rented. That's why those titles would have $100 price tags. Once the rental window had ended, those titles would be released priced to sell to households. Of course, many bigger titles would be released priced to own, skipping the rental window. VHS prices, in the format's heyday, were roughly equivalent to DVD pricing, obviously depending on the title and such.

[rw2516]

I have silent 8mm reels of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN and 20 MILLION MILES TO EARTH, both of which are considerably shortened versions of the features. Once I had a VCR, of course, I simply taped those movies off the air.

I've got a box of 8mm titles from when I was a kid in the 60s. SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, TARANTULA, RETURN OF DRACULA, HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, BEAST WITH 5 FINGERS, WAR OF COLOSSAL BEAST, I WAS TEENAGE WEREWOLF, IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE, DISNEY CARTOONS, WOODY WOODPECKER CARTOONS, HORROR OF DRACULA, CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, CREATURE WALKS AMONG US bunch more can't remember. During the summer we would put sheet on side of garage for screen and have our own drive-in monster movie marathon.

[dkedvd]

I find it interesting as cheap as DVD prices have become how many people still buy VHS tapes.
A lot of it has to do with titles that are not on DVD. VHS is the only (practical) way some titles can be watched today. But for others maybe they just don't care. LOL. Me, I will always buy DVD over VHS. But sometimes I'll see a title on VHS I'm having a hard time finding on DVD (for my standard DVD buying price of $5.00 or less) and pick it up just to have something until I do eventually find it on DVD. 50% of the time I'm paying 25 cents for a VHS tape so I'm not loosing out.

[Alan Smithee]

There's an 8mm videotape format (called Video 8) too, in addition to 8mm film. It's about the size of an audio cassette only a little thicker- they were made primarily for camcorders and you can still get blank tapes of them, but for a few years they put out pre-recorded movies on them. I have a few just for curiosity's sake, but don't currently have anything to play them on. They supposedly have PCM digital sound on them, but I've never seen a machine that could actually play that- the analog tracks on them are in mono.

I've also got about 30 Cartrivision movies- these were the VERY first home video format to have pre-recorded material- came out in 1972, 3 years before the first Betamax, but wasn't on the market too long. Movies put out for rent had a special mechanism so they could only be rewound at the store, so renters could only watch them one time before returning them. I have the remnants of 4 machines too but can't get any of them to work.

Here's the demo video for it (and no, it's not mine)
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[Alan Smithee]

And here's the original (copyrighted 1980) instore demo for CED videodiscs:
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And a TV commercial:
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[Lastdaysofrain]

I own about 1200 LDs, I'd say there's probably 100 that are not on DVD or have commentaries or extras not on DVD that I still watch.

I have about 4000 VHS tapes, mostly in boxes in my basement. I spent about 3 years putting them all on DVD-R.

[dkedvd]

Movies put out for rent had a special mechanism so they could only be rewound at the store, so renters could only watch them one time before returning them.
Wow! What an ass move. And look at that player. It looks like a mini 1940's oven. LOL. With all these other formats that could have been the norm I gotta say... Thank god for VHS. Hahaha!

[Brian Shannon]

None any longer, sold or thrown away a long time ago

[ScissorPuppy]

I used to have around 500 VHS tapes, Got rid of them around 2002 or so. I did keep around 100 or so, some of them had some wonderful artwork, and seeing some of the crap that passes as art on dvd/blu cases today, I just couldn't let the good artwork go.

[dkedvd]

and seeing some of the crap that passes as art on dvd/blu cases today, I just couldn't let the good artwork go.

That should be the DVD TALK Quote of the year. So true... So true... :(

[Mike UFC]

Two VHS tapes. Toy Story (never got rid of it for whatever reason) and trash rock band Pussy Galore's "Maximum Penetration" tape which I may sell off one of these days after converting it to DVD. I don't think it will ever see print again.

[JerryKILL]

My VHS collection is growing at a good clip lately. Mostly obscure 70s films that are not on DVD on defunct VHS labels like Video Gems, Paragon, Continental, Vestron, Lightning, Magnetic Video Corporation, etc.

[dkedvd]

My VHS collection is growing at a good clip lately.
In the past few months my VHS collection has grown quite large as well. My local Goodwill sells each tape for 25 cents. And every week I stop in I swear there must be 100 more title. So I've been grabbing tapes left and right! Why you ask?
1. There are some titles that are only available on VHS.
2. If I'm not sure if a title is going to be good why not grab if for 25 cents and if it is, get it on DVD when I see it cheap enough in the near future. Its cheaper than renting.
3. Its a great/cheap way to have a copy of a title If I haven't yet been able to find it on DVD.
And I must say... Something about popping a tape in the VCR brings back great childhood memories of watching Ghostbusters, Batman, TMNT, Aladdin, etc.

[buddhawood]

I have them all. We started with Beta in '78 Bought my first VHS in '87 and LD in '89. I still have them all. I have one of each for every main room in the house. I have the most Beta. The full Columbia House Star Trek and about 25 other pre recorded Beta's, Beta tapes from TV and such are well over 1000. I even have the Battlestar Galactica ('78) premier that was interrupted for the signing of the Camp David accords. Although it hasn't held up to well over the years.

VHS about 50 prerecorded and 400+ from TV

Laser is around 400 mostly Star Trek and Sci-fi and Karaoke

DVD...let's not get started.

HD-DVD gotta love those dead formats!

Blu-ray here I come. The Ten Commandments...I need to buy you one more time!

[balanceofpower]

Both the LD and VHS collections are lowering by the year. I probably had 1000+ of each at the beginning of the decade and am down to about 250 of each now and continuing to dwindle.

[GenPion]

None. I do have plenty of the defunct HD DVD format though.

I don't even own a VCR anymore...

[Ash Ketchum]

I even have the Battlestar Galactica ('78) premier that was interrupted for the signing of the Camp David accords. Although it hasn't held up to well over the years.


What hasn't held up well over the years? The Battlestar Galactica premiere or the Camp David accords? :rimshot:

[buddhawood]

What hasn't held up well over the years? The Battlestar Galactica premiere or the Camp David accords? :rimshot:
Good Point!

[Nick Martin]

Batman (1989) in a "screener copy" cover
Star Wars Trilogy (with the two flaps with the box office / Academy Awards information)
Star Wars Trilogy Widescreen Collection (includes an abridged book about Lucas, as well as the "From Star Wars To Jedi" documentary)
Independence Day - Fox Widescreen Series

[Alan Smithee]

This is one of the oldest Beta tapes I have, recorded in October 1976 (didn't record it myself, got it from a collection someone was dumping) Look how beautiful it is:
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[dkedvd]

Worst commercials ever! I love it! HAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Alan Smithee]

I always show that to people who claim that tape wears out after about 10 years. That one was about 30 years old when I transferred it to DVD.

[Kaori00]

VHS zero as far Laserdiscs I have 53.

[hasslein]

I always show that to people who claim that tape wears out after about 10 years. That one was about 30 years old when I transferred it to DVD.

None of the stuff I recorded in mid 80's (VHS) is watchable anymore. Tape sticks, & freezes every couple seconds, or everything is green...