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Old 04-12-03, 08:59 PM
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Out of your laserdisc/vhs collection, how many have you replaced with dvd?

I have replaced only like 7 out of like 50 vhs tapes.
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Just about all of them.

I have hundreds of laserdiscs, most of them I ended up buying on DVD if I liked them enough and sold about 100 of the lds. Not that I think that LD is better than DVD, it is just an easier format, especially spacewise.

Same with VHS. Although I have well over 1000 tapes and can't replace them all.
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Old 04-12-03, 09:19 PM
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I don't have a very big VHS collection, and I don't own any laserdiscs.

I replaced about 50% of my VHS collection so far. I usually replace the ones that have good extras. I'll eventually replace the other ones.
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Old 04-12-03, 09:25 PM
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So far, I've replaced about 600 VHS tapes with DVDs - which means I have about 2000 VHS tapes still hanging around here, many of which may never show up on DVD.
There are probably anout 100 titles on DVD that I would have bought to replace VHS, but they are only out in p&s - and I refuse to buy anything that is not OAR.
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I've probably replaced half of my 600 lasers with it's respective DVD. Since the LD's are virtually worthless on Ebay, I end up keeping them.
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I had about 200 VHS tapes and I sold them all, and bought about half so far on DVD.
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I've never owned a laserdisc, but I've replaced about 50 VHS tapes with DVDs.

I only have about 10 VHS tapes left, which I'd love to replace with DVDs.

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I've replaced all my VHS movies with DVDs except for 6: the Star Wars Trilogy and the Indiana Jones Trilogy.
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i never had many pre recorded vhs tapes to begin with...and of those, ive replaced most with dvd
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Out of 1,300 lasers perhaps 400. I don't sell the LD's either. In fact I still purchase them regularly.
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If I can get it on DVD, I replace it. I still ahve a lot that I CAN'T replace yet.
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I was going to say only 1 left out of over 100 VHS. Dances with Wolves: Director's Cut. Which will be replaced here shortly. But then someone mentions Star Wars Trilogy and Indiana Jones. Which is 6 more, and then reminds me of Speilberg and I had Schindler's List on VHS but alas no DVD yet. So now we are up to 8 total out of over 100.

One of my last ones to replace was From Dusk Til Dawn, and I got that free with the Tarintino release day a few months back.
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dont have any laserdiscs and only had about 15 VHS tapes..

the only ones i've replaced are wedding singer, braveheart, bulletproof, star wars episode 1, nightmare on elm street,

i think that's it
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I've replaced most of my VHS that I could replace, probably about least 30, plus a bunch more that I recorded myself. I have about 9 on VHS that I could replace but haven't. Usually, I replace them through Columbia House (which is also where I got most of the videos in the first place), so the cost isn't even that much.

Most of the others, such as Once Upon a Time in the West, The (original) Haunting, the Innocents, There Was a Crooked Man, and the Decline of Western Civilization I, I'll replace ASAP if and when they are released on DVD.

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Many, many, many. What movies have you re-placed multible times?

Me:
Jurassic park- VHS-(ws)VHS-DVD-(dts)DVD
Jaws- VHS-(ws)VHS-DVD-(dts)DVD
Die Hard trilogy-VHS-(ws)VHS-DVD
Apollo 13-VHS-(ws)VHS-DVD
Pulp Fiction-VHS-(ws)VHS-DVD
Seven-VHS-(ws)VHS-DVD
Silence of the Lambs-VHS-CC DVD(didn't re-place..held on to this)-SE DVD

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Old 04-13-03, 07:52 AM
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All of about 100 with the exception of:

KiKi's Delivery Service (replacing 4/15)
Jeffrey (6/3)
Fame (6/3)
Grease 2 (6/10)
Brady Bunch Movie (6/10)
Very Brady Sequel (6/10)
Sleeping Beauty (9/9)
Lion King (10/7)
Alladin
The Rescuers

I also have the Hallmark Little Rascals set #2 which sucks because they have released set #1 on DVD but I have heard nothing of them releasing set 2.

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95% of my vhs and i'd say about 90% of my lasers. At this point...the only lasers i have will NEVER be released on DVD. Tis a pity but that's what dvd recorders are for
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I never got into LDs or VHS. I own maybe twenty pre-recorded VHS cassettes, three of which are the THX Star Wars trilogy (widescreen, natch). The rest are music-related, most of which don't have DVD releases yet, like "Danzig," "Nirvana Live Tonight Sold Out," and "Perry Farrel's The Gift."

I never bothered buying movies on VHS because I was waiting for DVD, before it even existed, in fact. I didn't want to start sinking $$$ into the expensive and hard-to-find LDs, or the poor quality and non-durability of VHS.

Guess I made a good choice.
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I had about 120 VHS and I've replaced maybe 20 or so. Many of them I give to my mom if she likes the movie. I haven't sold the rest just because they aren't worth a whole lot. I keep thinking that when we get around to a garage sale I'll see how many of them go then.
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Out of the 10 LD I own, only one so far.

I had tapes of movies I taped off HBO, as soon as I got a DVD player I tossed all of them.
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I've replaced 1 LD and 95% of my old VHS collection.
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Never had lasers (might pick up a player soon, though), and replaced all of my VHS that I wanted on DVD, some I didn't bother with. So--probably about 50.
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Out of about 200 LD's, Ive replaced almost all of them. The only ones I haven't are the ones not available on DVD, at least in region 1. The LD's are The Final Countdown, Where Eagles Dare, Ice Staion Zebra, El Cid, The Agony and the Ecstasy, The Fall Of The Roman Empire, The Haunting and The Innocents.
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All except for The Lion King, Sleeping Beauty, and Lost Highway.
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Old 04-13-03, 02:00 PM
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Originally posted by costanza187
i never had many pre recorded vhs tapes to begin with...and of those, ive replaced most with dvd
Same here. Roger Rabbit Vista knocked another one off the list, as I replaced my WFRR tape with that. Some I would have liked to replace but they're not available on (R1) DVD in OAR, like Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Of the tapes I have that are unreleased on DVD, I think Aladdin is just about the only one left.
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