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May. 23rd, 2015 07:02 pmFor someone who almost certainly hasn't plugged in a VCR this century I have a ridiculous number of VHS tapes.
I just went through them sorting for things I already have on DVD. It's not so simple, some things aren't out on DVD. Poltergeist the Legacy season 1 and Sentinel season 1 exist, I have those, but what about the subsequent seasons? But, given the aforementioned lack of even looking at relevant hardware, it's not terribly useful to keep VHS tapes that quite likely don't have useful data quality anymore anyway. And DVD may well not be the only way to acquire seasons of things any more, even legally.
... if anyone near Norwich wants VHS tapes of Forever Knight, Poltergeist, Sentinel and quite a lot of the rest of the 90s, I appear to have them.
I've got a bunch of X Files tapes, which I don't need and am never watching again. Some random stuff like Drop the Dead Donkey. The tapes with clips of my school on Blue Peter clearly need to be made digital.
The tapes of conventions or the tapes of obscure things with obscure actors from favourite shows, those are more difficult. Those need transferring to something readable, if that's even possible now. I think that requires application of money? I looked it up before.
Everywhere is dusty now and also smells interesting. I think I used the incense sticks more when I was putting these tapes away?
The silly thing is I still have two whole shelves of VHS tapes I don't want to get rid of, yet cannot watch. The ones that were presents from people that no longer exist kind of make sense, but the rest, not so very.
we put memories on the outside and then they fade faster. is weird.
I just went through them sorting for things I already have on DVD. It's not so simple, some things aren't out on DVD. Poltergeist the Legacy season 1 and Sentinel season 1 exist, I have those, but what about the subsequent seasons? But, given the aforementioned lack of even looking at relevant hardware, it's not terribly useful to keep VHS tapes that quite likely don't have useful data quality anymore anyway. And DVD may well not be the only way to acquire seasons of things any more, even legally.
... if anyone near Norwich wants VHS tapes of Forever Knight, Poltergeist, Sentinel and quite a lot of the rest of the 90s, I appear to have them.
I've got a bunch of X Files tapes, which I don't need and am never watching again. Some random stuff like Drop the Dead Donkey. The tapes with clips of my school on Blue Peter clearly need to be made digital.
The tapes of conventions or the tapes of obscure things with obscure actors from favourite shows, those are more difficult. Those need transferring to something readable, if that's even possible now. I think that requires application of money? I looked it up before.
Everywhere is dusty now and also smells interesting. I think I used the incense sticks more when I was putting these tapes away?
The silly thing is I still have two whole shelves of VHS tapes I don't want to get rid of, yet cannot watch. The ones that were presents from people that no longer exist kind of make sense, but the rest, not so very.
we put memories on the outside and then they fade faster. is weird.