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

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

Well the BASF T-120 was several years older than the BASF T-180 so maybe that has something to do with it. I didn't lose a movie though as the one on that T-120 I also have on a DVD recorded off cable. Same with that T-180 tape with the 2 movies on it.. I dunno if I'd worry much about several A&E Pops Goes The 4th broadcasts that are on BASF T-180's as I've only watched them 2 or 3 times since they were recorded.

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>Interesting, no? BASF videotapes have been among the worst performers, but 
>their audio tape has held up just fine.
>
>dl
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>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?
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>>> 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.
>>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> dl
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