Each month I go to a local flea market to buy tapes. Most of my collection is from that particular store. 3 months ago I saw this display rack sitting empty in a corner of the store. I told the owner to name his price. Each month he told me he planned to use it on the media aisle. Finally, he caved and sold it to me for $15. That’s $35 less than I planned to spend on it.

I placed it next to my other thrifting trophy: a mother of pearl inlayed cabinet that I found by wandering into a thrift store by accident on 1/2 off furniture day. It was marked for $100. I get to the register and the girl told me if I checked into the store on Facebook, I’d get another 50% off the discounted price. So I’m pulling out my wallet to pay $25 and realize I have a punch card for $15 in store credit fully redeemable from my last few visits. So I paid $10 for a holy grail piece. It holds all my clamshells and kid’s movies.

Both of these stores will usually charge $1 per vhs, but sometimes you catch them on a bad day and suddenly a tape that’s been sealed for 30 years is $5 or a Disney Black Diamond Edition is $10. Sometimes different cashiers interpret the pages of dynamic pricing information , faded and edited in pen from years of policy changes, different from another cashier and suddenly what was a good deal on Monday becomes highway robbery on Friday. Sometimes an employee with no barcodes keeping track of the rules will let you stack three discounts on one another. Sometimes you don’t find anything interesting.

Happy hunting!

Been watching for these to appear and finally got lucky! Lots of nostalgia here growing up in the 90s and sneaking to friends houses to watch these. 😝 Goodwill auctions and it wasn’t cheap but worth it for me.

Small town Canada - found at the church thrift

Found at various locations

I hate standard bookshelfs for vhs tapes. I remember the video store displayed the cover in full glory to attract your attention. Well I finally figured it out. A 1 1/2 inch block of wood with a 10 degree angle on the top. It holds tape firm to wall with gravity, and shows off that cover as it should be. I still have to paint walls before I attach these, but I will post updates in future.

Bought this up last week, although getting it here was a bit of an ordeal!

It initially went missing in transit, and I was starting to worry it wouldn’t turn up at all. Eventually, it arrived about five days late, but unfortunately, it had taken quite a shake around during shipping. I discovered that the pinch roller had come loose inside the mechanism, so was a little bit gutted at first.

After a day or so of fiddling about, I finally managed to get the pinch roller back into position and properly secured. Thankfully, it’s now working perfectly.

VHS Hi-Fi sounds absolutely incredible. I’ve got the VX7000 connected to my Bang & Olufsen TV and Beosystem 5000, running through a pair of Beovox Penta floorstanding speakers, and the sound quality is genuinely impressive. It’s easy to forget just how good VHS Hi-Fi could be.

The Beocord VX7000 is somewhat notorious for its reliability issues, even when these machines were quite new. Interestingly, the tape transport itself is a fairly robust Hitachi mechanism. It’s actually the power supply electronics that tend to let these machines down and they go bang.

Fortunately, this particular example has already been extensively overhauled, including a full recap of the power supply.

Its actually sitting on a Microwave stand I found on amazon as I realised its 54cm length its also about the typical size of most microwaves. Everything else I was looking for was either 10cm too small or way too big for the corner I had in mind.

The machine was fairly sophistic for the time (1993), does NTSC playback, has 7 heads so can do a proper pause and apparently can do slow motion although I have not played about with that yet.

It came from a well known B&O collector who has written a couple of books on the subject and is an absolute fountain of knowledge when it comes to the brand , I’m delighted to finally have a working VX7000 as part of my 1980s & early 1990s B&O setup.

I am desperate for Moomin' VHS but they're so rare in the US and the price tag is crazy... So DIY seems to be the best option right now!

I even have a cover I am printing myself! (I will update when I get a chance with some photos)

Today were are featuring the JVC GR-SXM265U -- a Super VHS camcorder that uses VHS-C tapes!

All footage was shot in S-VHS mode, which offers about 400 lines of resolution (comparable to LaserDisc) versus 240 lines from standard VHS tapes.

Color resolution is unchanged.

I used the Portta digital recorder to capture at 1080p and deinterlace to 60 frames-per-second simultaneously. It did a pretty good job as usual.

How do you like the S-VHS footage? Do you still find it vintage since it's analog after all? How about the mono analog sound? Good enough for VHS? Or is it way worse than the FM or PCM from more modern camcorders?

Let me know!

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P.S. 60 frames per second encode available on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/rjkPDOCS-1M

Is it bc I have a crappy tv with built in VHS? Would the tape run better in a stand alone VCR?

New xfiles find - Looking for more information on where this was distributed

All of them are brand new sealed, the guy said they were all used and in “okay condition” win for me!

Thinking on watching it tonight on my CRT. Haven't seen it since it was out in theaters.

My fiancé brought in this haul today!

Look at this mother load!! Very excited!! (I unstacked them after pic ) all for $20