[78-L] Does this episode of Hoarders apply to you?

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

Some of mine are 20 to 25 years old & they still play to this day. That Beethoven 7th VHS tape is 18 years old & played perfectly. Good storage & not playing them a lot helps I'm sure. One tape I recorded in the middle 80's, Mickey Rooney's version of The Last Mile taped off WGN played fine this afternoon. So they can last more than 10 years if you take good care of them but then maybe the south Texas climate helps too stored indoors with air conditioning.


From: Mark Bardenwerper <citrogsa at charter.net>
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>Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 9:24 PM
>Subject: Re: [78-L] Does this episode of Hoarders apply to you?
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>On 8/1/2011 9:45, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>> I began taping sometime in the early 80's myself. Didn't keep everything but did wind up with a lot of movies from TCM, AMC (before they started running commercials) and a few other cable channels. Some of my old VHS tapes are classical music broadcasts from PBS&  others are copies of classical VHS tapes I borrowed from the library. I remember having to buy those 3 hour BASF tapes for the 4th Of July show that A&E used to run every year. Thankfully the local Pops Goes The 4th that local Ch 26 ran for awhile only needed a 2 hour tape. Haven't watched any of those in years but I'll still keep them. I did play a PBS classical recording that had Beethoven's 7th symphony on it a few days ago though. It was good. Tried taping at LP speed a few times. It didn't look as good as SP and EP speed looked even worse so all the recordings I kept were done at SP.
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>Most all of my old VCR tapes had to be tossed because of deterioration. 
>If yours are nearing 10 year old, you will likely find many of them 
>unplayable.
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