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

[Cary Ginell]

I, too, haven't had any problems with my old tapes. All of my video interviews with western swing musicians in the 1980s were done on VHS and I have not transferred any to another format yet. Maybe I should think about doing that.

Cary Ginell

> Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 22:31:58 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> 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.
> >>
> >>
> > 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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