Who Still Has Their Old Vhs Video Player/recorder And Their Collection Of Tapes?

[anotheoldgit]

I have, but unfortunately I do not know what I recorded on most of them, but the other day I was asked if I could transfer a friend's home movie tape onto a DVD disk.

Not remembering how to do it, I selected one of my own unknown content tapes so as to practice carrying out this task and I was delighted to discover it contained one of my favourite films, Kirk Douglas and Doris Day in the film 'Young Man with a Horn' later to be called 'Young Man of Music' for UK viewers.

Great trumpet playing dubbed by the great Harry James.

[tamborine]

I have some as theyre excellent fire lighters of wet wood in my wood burner ;)

[anotheoldgit]

Prudie

Ah! yes those family videos, I have converted all of mine onto DVD and also have them stored on my DVD player's hard drive.

Those that I took on cine film before the days of VHS cameras, I had professionally converted along with background music.

[chelle7272]

Don't remember those AOG, I do recall stacking up vinyl 45's to play one after the other. Until one of them would start slipping around and the sound was distorted, I used to run to take it off in case it got scratched :)

[jno]

I did like Dean Martin, but I found a little Lewis went a long way. However, their films weren't screened nearly so often, as they were still being made (also true of Wisdom). L&H films were hauled out of the archive and could be played week after week. Stan might look 20 one week, 50 the next.

[Bazile]

I've still got my VHS recorder

I've also still got my HiFi seperates - Deck / Amplifier / Speakers - Bought in the eighties

[Prudie]

AOG that is certainly something I need to do (old video onto DVD). I assume you have to get it done professionally?

[Prudie]

Bazile I have all that too, top notch in its day now up in the loft!

[anotheoldgit]

Prudie

/// AOG that is certainly something I need to do (old video onto DVD). I assume you have to get it done professionally? ///

Not at all Prudie, if you have a video player and a DVD recorder connected up.

Best if your DVD recorder has a hard drive, then when one plays the video and presses the record button on the dvd remote, it plays the video on screen whilst recording the contents onto the hard drive.

Then once on the hard drive one can edit the contents and then transfer them to disk.

[Prudie]

Wow thanks, I'll look into that

[maggiebee]

Still have my old video recorder and a collection of tapes. No idea what's on a lot of them. Job for a rainy winter's day methinks.

[Buenchico]

Did you know that it's technically illegal to retain all of those old off-air recordings, AOG? You're only allowed to record TV (and radio) broadcasts for short-term'time shift' purposes; anything else breaches copyright legislation. I doubt that you'll be banged up for it though ;-)

I've still got a VHS recorder, plus a very large collection of pre-recorded tapes that I amassed when charity shops were clearing their stocks of them (often at 5, or even 10, for a pound). They include loads of old BBC comedy programmes, together with most of the Carry On films, etc. I do have to admit though that it's ages since I actually watched any of them!

[murraymints]

still have player/recorder and tapes even though I have put them to DVD oh refuses to part with them !!

[Togo]

Have got a Sony Betamax c7 stashed in the loft. This was a superb machine in it's day, and I have never been able to find it in me to get rid. I remember when it was released as a new machine and we in the trade got to open it up and look at the circuit diagrams. We were bemused for a few days until we got our heads around it. Very reliable machine that only ever needed repairing if it had been damaged. Usually cheap pirate blank tapes wrapping around the heads or liquid spilled into them or a dropped machine.

[-SharonA-]

Gave a load away ages ago. They were the grankids Disney and other kiddie films. But had no machine.
My dad still has his tapes and machine. All oldies.

[Arksided]

So you're a Betamax type fella Togo.

Arky chortles to oneself. ;-)

[murraymints]

I had Beta way back, it was always thought to be the way ahead...also had a laser disc player..like huge cds..they died a death..my ex was the gadget king !

[mikey4444]

I have loads of VHS tapes, but rarely watch them these day. To be honest, I rarely watch TV of any kind....maybe an hour or two in evening....I am too busy here on AB !

[Togo]

I had both systems Arks. I used to repair them and was a trainer on the systems for a while when they were first released. I actually was a big fan of the JVC VHS system and also for a while had one of the Philips systems to trial. I think they were Umatic, or something, systems. The JVC machines were far and away the best VHS systems, but I loved the Betamax because of it's brilliant engineering. That was the only reason that I hung onto it. Would you believe that on most of the systems the main faults were usually mechanical not electronic faults. All the systems had a variety of felt clutches, rubber pinch wheels, belts and pulleys that gave trouble. Some of the belts were more akin to little elastic bands that perished and broke, besides getting tangled up in the tape loading system when they broke. Happy days.

[maggiebee]

I have a copy of my daughter's wedding on video. Keep meaning to transfer it to DVD. Mind you, it was only 21 years ago...