Rescuing VHS tapes from landfill

[anonymoususer]

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[anonymoususer]

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[anonymous-user]

I am amazed there are enough people interested in watching VHS to make a shop viable. Like all nostalgia, it is best left in the past as trying to relive it is going to ruin those memories.

Even DVD looks rubbish these days so I can only imagine how truly terrible trying to watch a VHS on a 55 inch 4K television would be.

[bloomen]

He does have a point about the potential for films being lost. There must be a lot of trash that never got beyond VHS.

Comparing it to vinyl is pretty weird though. For enough people vinyl is 'better'. If anyone tried to convince me of that with VHS I'd have them put down. It is a physical experience so I guess that must be satisfying for some.

I wonder many cubic miles of VHS is now buried in landfill.

[dudleybloke]

This YouTube channel has a lot of obscure VHS titles ripped, some car stuff on there too.

https://youtube.com/c/DrRIPVHS

[V8mate]

Joey Deacon said:

I am amazed there are enough people interested in watching VHS to make a shop viable. Like all nostalgia, it is best left in the past as trying to relive it is going to ruin those memories.

Even DVD looks rubbish these days so I can only imagine how truly terrible trying to watch a VHS on a 55 inch 4K television would be.

He's working on the basis that if he collects enough, he's bound to pick up a good deal of the homemade and black market 80s pr0n that used to be bought and sold at car boot sales and irregular street markets.

[AlexS]

Interesting that it is claimed that he has probably the last remaining video shop in the UK.

I know that 20th Century Flicks is still going in Bristol and they even have a small cinema for in house viewing.