Why Are People Buying VHS Tapes In The 2020s? 

I like the time machine effect.you pop in vhs tape it feels like 80s and 90s.the current times make everyone long for a better and innocent time.

grew up on VHS here, gen x kid from the 80s still have 4 vcrs and tons of blank new vhs tapes, plenty of recorded shows, movies, music videos all on vhs tape, had a “black” cable box back in the day, and video rental stores helped us for entertainment on a tight budget, and you can re watch whatever you like, get a vcr newbies and there are plenty of movie, music and tv vhs tapes out there, explore, learn and enjoy

In my opinion, If vinyl records can make a come back why not VHS?

The best part about vcr and vhs apart from nostalgia and low price is the best movies periods ^^

I love some of the horror movie VHS artwork designs. Nothing looks quite the same way anymore. I sold a VHS called Terror on Tour not too long ago for a lot of money.

9:45 The physical touch of the VHS tape, audio Cassette, vinyl record brings back memories. Sure family gives me crap about still having VHS and DVD's and Audio Cassettes and records with a record player but as i tell them, this is the stuff WE were raised on and i want to keep physical memories of them ... I still have 2 VCR's, 2 boom box radio's with cassette and cd player, record player ... and searching for an 8 track player ...

I love old VHS tapes. Takes me back. Also love old cassette audio tapes. I recently bought a brand new Tascam cassette deck for my cassette collection but my VHS player is getting older by the day. I wish at least one manufacturer would produce a new deck at least for those of us that still have colllections

I practiced at a video rental store 20 years ago. And my boss sometimes used to bring in VHS movies, which maybe had a print run of 1000 copies. Such as concert movies made by varied local bands. My guess is that these VHS movies will most likely be forgotten by time. Which is extremely unfortunate.

thank goodness for this. I've been going to a thrift store and collecting vhs tapes like crazy. Now I have over a 100 tapes and I'm hoping to get more.

I remember buying and renting VHS tapes back in the early 90s

I've recently acquired a new hobby of buying anime tapes mostly from the 90s. Before that I've been collecting retro games, but I've kinda lost interest for the time being. Being born from 2000, I do have a memories as a small kid in early to mid 2000s and even early 2010s watching stuff on VHS tapes, like An American Tale 1 and 2, SpongeBob, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Scooby Doo

I used a VHS tape rewinder to save wear and tear on my old VCR. They were $10 each at Hollywood Video.

I’m almost 21, I’ve been collecting VHS tapes for 7 years, why because my parents had a VCR back when I was little and I would watch whatever movie we had which was a couple of Disney movies, the 1995 classic Jumanji and the first two Harry Potter films, and I wanted to relive my childhood experiences of watching those movies on VHS as I did as a kid

You should check out "Meet the collector that owns 17,000 VHS". As a reseller there might be some good tips in there on what to look for for higher valued or rarer VHS tapes. Appreciate the video 😊

I still have my VHS tapes (and a few BETA tapes) and several VCRs. I plan to build myself an 80s mancave. If a time machine existed I would travel back to the 80s and live the rest of my days there.

I remember when my grandma had a whole bunch of VeggieTales VHS tapes for my sisters and I when we were little kids. She gave them to her sister for her granddaughter, and I'm kinda glad she did, cuz now a kid from the younger generation can grow up on VHS tapes

I used to have all the Dragon Ball episodes on tapes and i used to lend it out to my friend

Interesting topic, there's an interview with Frank Zappa you can find here on RU-vid from 1990 where already then he laments that some early VHS titles and manufacturers were already out of circulation.

VHS tapes mold but I do miss the sound they make and that they're analog

In 2024 i am on mission to buy physical media and bought the movie from local shop and helll yeah loved

I had little over 1,000 VHS but sold several 100s when everything was coming out on DVD. My Holy Grails have always been VHS fron Venezuela. I repent and I am so sorry especially about 100 Venezuelan. Anyway I began buying VHS again at the Needledrop record shop and got from there about 500 videocassettes. And have procured to buy as many VCRs or VCR/DVD combo machines. Actually I think I watch more videocassettes than discs. Cool video man!👍

I go retro with everything. My reason is there's just so much variety of formats back then. VHS, cassettes, cartridges, floppy disks, etc. Today and for a while now everything comes on a CD and everything comes in the exact same kind of box. new stuff is better but it's also very boring.

I will never get rid of my VHS tapes as they are nostalgic for me, especially the Disney Clamshell ones. I bought those for my daughter and she still enjoys the older Disney titles up to about 2000 or so. Some of those tapes I had to dispose of as she wore them out playing them, especially Fantasia.

I'm 18 but have still found a lot of fun with vhs tapes. I've been using them for years, when I was a kid my family didn't have cable, so my great grandpa would record our favorite shows to vhs tapes for us since he had cable. My sisters and I grew up very outdated but it was fun! Cassette tapes and vhs tapes are certainly not better than their digital counterparts in terms of quality, and though I do pay for spotify and use streaming services, vhs and cassettes are just a lot more fun and enjoyable personally. And you'll find some great movies for cheap at goodwill sometimes too

Protect your childhood memories at all cost bros. It will give you great strength in the hard times to come.

Hey I just listed some sealed VHS tapes on my eBay page. Along with a lot of others

About 5 years ago I started to collect vhs tapes now I have a little over 5,000 of them.The thrifts in my area have stopped selling them so harder to find them.I find the picture quality very good even on Patton which is one of the 3 first vhs . I think most of the vhs that had flaws were tossed out ages ago so I have found very few bad tapes.I like to find old rental tapes in perfect condition more so then sealed tapes.If they could talk just think of the story's they might have.It's just a fun hobby I have fun doing it.Some people bird watch or collect coins and stamps and other people just look to find reasons to put people down for enjoying a hobby that they find useless or odd.Enjoy your hobby what ever it is and have fun.

If you have a SVHS (Super VHS) VCR with TBC (Time Base Correction), it can even make standard VHS look really good if the video transfer is clean. I own a Panasonic AG-1980P and even watching Titanic on VHS is DVD like quality…albeit on a smaller 42”’display.

Hi guys just started collecting. How do you grade the tapes? How do you know what the production year was etc? Trying to find information on what to look for? I just found a tonne of old vhs tapes from a deceased estate.

Nostalgia for the win!

thanks for making the point that certian movies never made the transition to dvd, etc. some people who are super into movies of all types might still buy vhses for rare movies they might have not even seen.

Because it's my childhood, that's why.

Just the other day, I sold a VHS lot featuring “The Clinton Chronicles” and it’s companion tape “The Truth About The Death of Vince Foster” for $12.00. These came out around 1995.

I live in Northwest Indiana and the number of VHS tapes available in thrift stores like Goodwill are declining in this period! That's B.S.! Why are they doing that? Where can I find lots of VHS tapes in my area?

I could see VHS coming back like vinyl. Are there companies currently making VHS players?

This 23 year old here collects brand new VHS tapes from the 80's and 90's. Buying them on eBay during this decade of the 20's. So there's no shame

My wife and j still watch our tapes regularly

I don't know what you mean "rewind slowly" ..my VCR is fast at rewinding lol. I'm looking for the 1985 TV movie "California Girls" VHS staring Robby Benson . Will pay $100 for a decent copy in its box. 😂..

I just can not understand this. My local library gives away VHS tapes as they are donated regularly. Thrift stores have them for .10-.50. I see them for free-50 cents at garage sales all the time. I just can not understand why anyone would actually want them. I have not bought a movie of any kind for around 12 years. I have not owned a VHS player for at least 17 years. When I want to watch a movie that I own (one of about 20 I just don't want to throw away) I dont go get the dvd I just stream it online. In the next 10 years as more boomers die huge collections will come onto the market/thrown away/donated. I hope you and everyone else make a profit at what they are doing but I am just so confused.

VHS was nice. Many low budget movies become better or watchable on vhs. Even some high budget scifi and horror flicks are 10x more convincing on vhs. HD was major apita for many filmmakers when it came out.

I bought over 150 vhs tapes so far :) that is sealed so far this year ❤

I collect VHS tapes. I’ve got two sealed ones: The Exorcist III and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.

I got dizzy but listening to it

Hey 510 Books, how much is a Genghis Khan lost VHS movie by Columbia Classics worth?.. It has a older style golden stand on end case with a hologram on the cassette label...

where does one look up the current value of certain tapes?

I still have my VHS tapes :) :) :) Some original movies and some recorded from tv :) I used to record things on VHS from tv all the time and then overwrite it LOL I used to get the evil eye from some of my family members that i deleted their VHS show LOL

I miss VHS, but I sure don't miss pan & scan (which most VHS tapes are). Even if you get a widescreen VHS tape, it's not formatted for widescreen TVs, which leads to windowboxing. Doesn't this bother VHS collectors?

Some movies were just meant to be watched on VHS. Some people will say that’s stupid but it really isn’t. If they legit made a certain movie to be watch in a certain way then vhs is the way to go. And also some movies were only made for vhs and never dvd

I feel like people still buy them for collecting and the charm they have

I prefer the look vhs movies, The new 4k CGI stuff is not fun to watch, Also digital is great as frees up time and helps with not having to storage movies around the house, But it doesn't feel the same going to a store ans finding something you might light..

I hear VHS tapes have a shelf life of only 40 years max. Is that true? Are tapes produced in the 80’s about to become unusable?

Have a current video store called George

probably because of nostalgia. even though vhs has crap picture and audio but they just love nostalgia so much they don't care. it's like they are just blind. i have no idea why they do that.

you can't beat watching Frankenstein on vhs

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You can find a lot of older movies on VHS only.

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Preserve culture. Books, film (even the old documentaries), vhs, DVD, etc. Preserve somehow..

I prefer watching Batman Returns on VHS to relive my childhood. Blu-Ray don't do it for me because the charm is not there

The flat earthers love VHS tapes. -the Troll

I'd rather collect the memories. Cause all my vhs tapes are crap now.

Depending on the movie you can either get it for 10 cents or 10000 dollars lol

There's no way I could watch one of these things again lol some people like living in the past even when the past is a massive downgrade. I'm always for the present and future looking for the best experience possible. People can be strange, no doubt. But I guess that what makes us all individuals. I'm 55 years old and I still don't get it, probably never will.

Why do people pay 60 Dollars for VHS rewinders ?

The issue with VHS is that they degrade. The tape wears out, breaks, the magnetic coating wears off, rendering the plastic useless, the magnetic recordings degrade, etc. Given absolutely no new tapes at all are being made, this won't last, sadly.

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i have more vintage vhs tape. do you buy it?

For over 2 years I been buying vhs movies offline plus fixing them with Scotch tape it starts playing again with out no problem's everything proven people like yourself are making more of it VHS tapes never stop playing at all everything proven vhs tapes don't lock up at all so we're the do

Everything is proven people like myself are cleaning out mode switches in VCR players everything proven people keep there mode switch clean out like they should people will never have playing problem's at all with there VCR players

To keep VCR players cleaning tapes vhs movies now days don't listen to other people now days only yourself now days how would you keep them if you don't listen to yourself now days you can't

Everything is proven people you start thinking right you can't never get rid of your vhs tapes y they are more free whiching then Disney plus and Netflix and Hulu y would you get rid of the best free vhs movies in your house

from a non-english perspective: dubs warner is an awful example. a bunch of the looney tunes shorts were dubbed like 2-3 times over the years. are they still available nowadays? dvd, bluray, any legal streaming service. nope 😁 yet another set of dubs. or they skipped them entirely or universal, when dvd was still new, with eg jaws. new dub, bc the old/better one was jUsT mOnO ...later bluray had it anyway - being butthurt helped 👍

Horror VHS is what I do. Life long mission. My channel is like heaven for those interested in the topic. hehe. Peace. J.

Some IDIOT just paid $5500 for a Disney Pixar Cars on VHS on eBay ... I just grabbed my DVD Cars and copied it over to a S-VHS tape on my S-VHS recorder and it looks like DVD quality and didn't pay $5500 for it LOL ...

i only collect looney tunes

Mode switches in VCR players proven they need cleaning every now and then everything proven when they don't get clean out yet VCR player itself stop playing tapes yet everything proven when that mode switch gets clean out everything starts working again with out no problem's now if you don't no what a mode switch is you can go online and say how clean out a mode switch in a VCR player everything will come up with all the videos what you need to see online

I just bought 2 brand new boxed vcr players for $150 each to play my old vhs tapes on. My 10 yo son now collects vhs tapes as well.

I hate all cassettes, it better DVD since 2010s and 2020s

be careful man. it's a fragile format, I wouldn't burn too much into these things

Y should people get rid there VCR player vhs tapes cleaning tapes everything proven people can go back and buy more them offline now days off there phone now everything proven people don't want people having what they like to have now days to much tilling people what to do now days

Show me where you can't never fix a break vhs tapes with Scotch tape everything proven people like myself are going online and all the videos online will show you how to fix a break vhs tape

I’m currently wanting to get rid of 100s of vhs 📼. Anyone here want them? Will ping to pay?

The best genres for VHS tapes : Wrestling and Disney!!

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Y people are buying vhs 1 they doesn't lock up at all like internet dose plus vhs proven they never had picture quality problems at all tv's proven their problem 1 not enough color being on 50 had turned up color on 75 or 82 Plus to much brightness being on 50 had turned brightness down on 35 everything proven it was tv's never been no problem on VHS tape quality problems is this people forgotten how go to tv picture settings fix the thing specially vhs proven they are still plays better then internet 1 when has damage vhs tapes ever stop playing plus locking up at all specially they provide they never do at all now Internet proven they will lock up in time but not vhs tapes plus damage blue Ray's proven they lock up or it doesn't play now I buying vhs because they doesn't lock up it doesn't stop playing at all plus I buy them they fixbel with scotch tape when they get broken they start playing again with out no problem I will never stop buying vcrs vhs movies cleaning tapes offline

Why are people buying dvds and records? People are stupid.

I am guilty of having thrown out scores of vhs tapes over the years. Which makes me want to kick myself in the ass now. I still have a bunch of x-rated movies that will never make it to to dvd or Blu-ray. I’m not referring to plain filthy porno, but tapes from “ The golden age of porn” where the movies had a story line and there was millions sold. A lot of playboy video centerfolds were on on vhs as well.