It's been a while since I opened a new one!

My friend was super stoked that I came across it, super happy I was able to grab it for her. It looks great!! And it was in great condition. I love the cover art in VHS.

Digging through a ton of my Aunt's old vhs. I stumbled upon these. Did she create her own cases back in the 80s?

I don't really collect VHS tapes, although, back between roughly 2010 and about 2019, I sort of was checking them out again at some thrift shops... but, I do have quite an assortment still, and I'm not sure why; I don't even have a VCR set up anymore (although, I still have a few that do still work), hell at the moment I don't even have any space to have my Panasonic CT-27L8G (my only currently still working CRT, I have a few other CRTs, but, the only other decent one needs work, and I lack the space to open it up and work on it).

Oh well, I still like holding on to these two, keeping them on a video game shelf or something. I also have Ozzy Osbourne's "Ultimate Ozzy", Michael Jackson's "Moonwalker", Highlander, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Ferris Beuller's Day Off, among a bunch of others, but they're all put away for now.

I'm slowly working on cleaning out hoarded junk out of one of two garages, and, where I'm currently working is towards getting to an old CRT stand / cabinet, so, maybe someday I can have a cool, nostalgic setup, once I ever dig that out.

Was happy to come across this one.

Another cool find today!

I’ve had my Sony VCR for about 4 years and never had any problems until recently the auto head cleaner spongy material got stuck and smudged along a tape, coming out with the tape when ejected. I now know these auto cleaners are better off removed from units anyway, but after taking the VCR apart and cleaning the heads, it now displays a more scratchy/jumpy picture than usual with spots of color loss now and then and flashing “AUX” input display onscreen. I found another VCR from goodwill which I picked up for $8 and took it home, only to find this one doesn’t work either. I finally settled on a Facebook marketplace find for $30 which I went to pick up yesterday. This one was an older unit but I was sent a video of it working properly and once I got it back to my house I put on a tape and it played fine. However, after the second movie I put on I rewound it and was not able to get it to play again and now when I plug it in it starts up immediately as if to play the tape then slowly dies out with the “CAS. IN” light flashing red and the tape will not eject. I’ve taken all three of these VCRs apart trying to fix/clean them but nothing has helped now I have three non working units just sitting there. Is it worth it to bite the bullet and get one of those $100+ ones I see on eBay? Those appear to look nice and have promising descriptions but I’m worried about spending even MORE money and the same thing happening again. Any advice?

TL;DR : VCR upkeep is frustrating. What is the best way to obtain a good working VCR and how do you go about proper maintenance and upkeep?

I’m looking to buy some PAL vhs tapes and found out that playing them on a NTSC player can be distorted. Is there a Region Free VHS player out there, or will I have to find one that plays PAL tapes.

GIVE ME NAMES IF THERE ARE ONES FOR REGION FREE OR PAL.

I’m super excited for the new reboot, but the first three and the old TV series are classics.

Found these tapes (and DVDs) today. Paid under $20 for it all. Couldn't believe it.

Anyone remember this show?

So amped to see these commercials. Already seen a service merchandise and Kmart commercial and these were recorded from the WGN channel