Old VHS tapes could be worth a small fortune: 'Rarity and nostalgia'

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Yes, you read that right. Videocassette recorders are still around and there are enough of them to justify a spot on the National Day Calendar — the national day marketing calendar under digital media company Zoovio, Inc.

While most people have retired their VCRs, not everyone has gotten rid of these devices or the VHS tapes that worked with these physical video players.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/national-vcr-day-old-vhs-tapes-worth-small-fortune

I have these VHS tapes, The Towering Inferno, The African Queen, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World, Driving Miss Daisy, etc.
 

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Robert59 said:
Yes, you read that right. Videocassette recorders are still around and there are enough of them to justify a spot on the National Day Calendar — the national day marketing calendar under digital media company Zoovio, Inc.

While most people have retired their VCRs, not everyone has gotten rid of these devices or the VHS tapes that worked with these physical video players.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/national-vcr-day-old-vhs-tapes-worth-small-fortune

I have these VHS tapes, The Towering Inferno, The African Queen, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World, Driving Miss Daisy, etc.
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thanks for the heads up, appreciated!
 

We had over 500 tapes up at the cabin
No TV
Just slid in a vid
Kicked back from a day of hard work
Watched a no commercial movie
Had to shut the window to dull the generator noise
But it was a nice treat
VHS tapes were less than a buck at the thrift store

Moved to town
Hooked up with TV
Gave all our VHS stuff to the thrift store

Old VHS tapes could be worth a small fortune: 'Rarity and nostalgia'​


Go figure

Now waiting for DVDs to become worthy
We have maybe a hundred of them
 
I still have the VCR and tapes! New technology is great but I have a lot of video tapes we made of the son and other things that I have not converted. Silly as it sounds I worry that they might get damaged in conversion and all those memories would be gone. I also have the old projector, screen and the film my Mom took when when I was a kid.
 
Robert59 said:
Yes, you read that right. Videocassette recorders are still around and there are enough of them to justify a spot on the National Day Calendar — the national day marketing calendar under digital media company Zoovio, Inc.

While most people have retired their VCRs, not everyone has gotten rid of these devices or the VHS tapes that worked with these physical video players.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/national-vcr-day-old-vhs-tapes-worth-small-fortune

I have these VHS tapes, The Towering Inferno, The African Queen, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World, Driving Miss Daisy, etc.
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Check out the prices on eBay of used combination VCR/DVD Players. I bought mine for maybe $50 and now they are selling used for over 100 bucks. https://www.ebay.com/itm/1245584887...FUqzcedAJUXpYNkOj8rMU2/hI=|tkp:BlBMUKCXh8unYA
 
Someone posted an ad for over 300 tapes a few years ago, mostly unopened movies and tv series, for $50 - and, of course, I didn't buy them. DUH.
 
I had a record collection. It's gone. I had a VHS collection. It's gone. I had 8-track tapes, then cassette tapes, and now they tell me DVDs will be replaced by streaming. I want to tear out my hair. Maybe the Amish will take me.
 
It's funny! When the CDs came out, many folks were taken their record collections to the garbage dump and they got rid of their record players. Now, when you go into a book store, you can find new LP records selling between $30 - $40 CND. Amazon has plenty of record players.

If you ask this ole' timer, I would have to say that sometimes technology just moves too fast. People amass great collections of music and just get rid of it because the next, new, better or whatever they tell you comes around. This is why I dislike advertising. It is always making you unhappy because you haven't got the newest gizmo. The trouble is you buy the latest and the greatest gizmo but there is a newer, latest and greatest, on a ship coming from China. Folks are like those hampsters one see going around on an exercise wheel. They are running 90 miles an hour but never catching up. For example, you might spent $1,500 on some fancy folding smartphone but in a couple of months, they put out a newer and more fancy yet. Me, I got tired of that tread mill and got off years ago. Choices! We all have them!
 
JustDave said:
I had a record collection. It's gone. I had a VHS collection. It's gone. I had 8-track tapes, then cassette tapes, and now they tell me DVDs will be replaced by streaming. I want to tear out my hair. Maybe the Amish will take me.
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They got you running on a treadmill and the market folks are laughing their heads off.
 
We've been hauling VHS tapes around for years, but now we don't have anything to play them on. We have the set of the first Star Wars movies. I've been wondering if they're worth anything after all these years.
 
Our house was burned back in 2008 and most everything was destroyed, however, we had some things stored in an inside storage compartment. Included was our VHS-DVD player, many, many VHS tapes that I wouldn’t part with because I had hoped to watch them someday and still haven’t, some estate jewelry and my war memorabilia among other things. I wished now that I would have saved all of our pictures and video tapes of when the kids were growing up.
 
I've always been on the cutting edge of technology. Only thing, I was behind the edge by about a decade. I was the first in my town to have a 4 TRACK cassette tape deck. Jessh, who needs 8 tracks? So. now, you tell me there's money in old VHS tapes? That was 4 or 5 edges ago.
 

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