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

[David Lennick]

Interesting, no? BASF videotapes have been among the worst performers, but 
their audio tape has held up just fine.

dl

On 8/2/2011 11:53 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> I played a BASF T-180 that had two 90 minute movies on it with no problems recently however a BASF T-120 had a very snowy pivture due to a curling problem so I had to throw that tape away. Go figure.....
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> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 9:31 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Does this episode of Hoarders apply to you?
>>
>> On 8/2/2011 10:24 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
>>> 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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>> Where were you storing yours? I've had very few VHS tapes go bad in 29 years,
>> with these exceptions..one or two off brand tapes bought in the early days when
>> full price tapes were around $20 a pop, and one Scotch (it figures) in the
>> early 90s when a lot of audiotape was also starting to exhibit sticky shed
>> syndrome. And some longer BASF tapes had curling problems.
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>> dl
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