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Post by Squeeze Pimmel on Mar 8, 2016 7:01:45 GMT -5
Hello, fellow MSTies! I've been a fan of the show since around 1993. I didn't start taping it until maybe 1995 and I wasn't serious about it until the Sci-Fi era. I got into tape trading and I believe I collected most of the episodes on tape before I shifted focus to DVDs around 2005. Now it's 2016 and I have made the decision to get rid of all of my VHS tapes, including my old MST3K tapes. I would feel really bad if I just threw them all away or gave them to a good will store. I don't want to bother with selling them. I want to give away all of my old MST3K tapes to anyone who wants them. So I'd like some advice. What do you think, sirs?
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Post by Mod City on Mar 8, 2016 11:04:18 GMT -5
Hello, fellow MSTies! I've been a fan of the show since around 1993. I didn't start taping it until maybe 1995 and I wasn't serious about it until the Sci-Fi era. I got into tape trading and I believe I collected most of the episodes on tape before I shifted focus to DVDs around 2005. Now it's 2016 and I have made the decision to get rid of all of my VHS tapes, including my old MST3K tapes. I would feel really bad if I just threw them all away or gave them to a good will store. I don't want to bother with selling them. I want to give away all of my old MST3K tapes to anyone who wants them. So I'd like some advice. What do you think, sirs? How many of them do you have? Are they really taking up that much space that they need to go? I still have mine from back in the early 1990s, probably 30 or 40 or so, some being self-recorded and others I traded for. I've made room for them over the years even though I've upgraded to DVD on almost all of them. I just have too many fond memories of recording them and then setting up trades through this new-fangled thing called the Internet to let them go. Good luck finding a home for them, however. Always like hearing tales of the old VHS days  |
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Post by Skyroniter on Mar 8, 2016 12:49:37 GMT -5
I finally threw mine away after years of saving. I found that many had degraded and would no longer play. Unfortunately they took up too much space in the storage closet.
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Post by ChrisDalek on Mar 8, 2016 16:38:58 GMT -5
"Store them in a warm moist salty place, such as a cheese factory or your mouth!"
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Post by Diet Kolos on Mar 8, 2016 16:57:57 GMT -5
If they have ads on them, upload them to myspleen. They love that kind of thing.
What are your oldest tapes? Could you give a catalogue of them? I myself may be interested in taking them off your hands.
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Post by GarrettCRW on Mar 9, 2016 3:35:28 GMT -5
Yeah, the 'spleen would love episodes with commercials (they already have the DAP versions of the few episodes that haven't been released to DVD yet). If you need an in, well I know a guy (me) who can help.
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Post by Squeeze Pimmel on Mar 9, 2016 7:54:29 GMT -5
I have six boxes of the things. I'll take a look and see which ones I taped directly from TV. Perhaps most of my tapes are edits of recordings. I used to have access to a editing workstation. Not anymore. Those edited tapes I'll probably chuck. I imagine that anyone interested in my tapes would only want recordings of original broadcasts.
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Post by Diet Kolos on Mar 9, 2016 10:33:15 GMT -5
Thanks, let me know.
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Post by kmorgan on Mar 11, 2016 23:56:46 GMT -5
Also you could check to see if you bagged any other programs from back when TheFirstNetworkWhichShallRemainNameless actually had worthy programming. Some of those aren't as easy to find online.
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Post by Diet Kolos on Mar 12, 2016 9:49:18 GMT -5
Also you could check to see if you bagged any other programs from back when TheFirstNetworkWhichShallRemainNameless actually had worthy programming. Some of those aren't as easy to find online. Good point! |
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Post by fathermushroom on Mar 14, 2016 20:59:45 GMT -5
I found a younger person who I introduced to the series, and once I knew he liked it, I offered him my whole stack of VHS (every episode, more or less) and an old VCR. He was glad to take it. For him, it was quick access to every episode at no cost.
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Post by CrowTrobotfan92 on Mar 19, 2016 13:07:09 GMT -5
I still have my tapes that my dad made during the early to mid 90's and they're all surprisingly in well condition, all 20 years old now. Scotch sure pays off well.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 17:10:29 GMT -5
I have the entire Sci-Fi run on tape, most from first recordings, except for Gorgo, which only aired twice. If you have that one, I'd be willing to take it off your hands for you.  |
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Post by Mod City on Mar 30, 2016 17:24:39 GMT -5
I still have my tapes that my dad made during the early to mid 90's and they're all surprisingly in well condition, all 20 years old now. Scotch sure pays off well. I haven't looked at my tapes in years, but the last time I did I was stunned at how good they looked. They were recorded using a four-head VCR fed by a C-Band satellite signal onto Laser video tape (of all brands). Even recorded at SLP, they were as sharp, bright and vivid as most DVD releases I've seen. Weird. |
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Post by euphoriafish on Apr 4, 2016 16:59:16 GMT -5
There are services that will transfer tapes to DVD for you. I still have mine on VHS because I am cheap and can't quite justify paying to digitize. Sometime I am going to do at least some of them. Somewhere I have The TV Wheel on VHS in a special snap tight vhs case and that only aired once so I really need to save it on a disc I can easily re-play.
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