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

[David Lennick]

You're right about the BASF 120s, actually. As for their 160s, I once bought a 
batch of used ones that had been in security cameras, and apart from some 
stress at the beginning where they'd been stopped many times in fast rewind, 
THEY worked just fine..at slow speed!

Polaroid, Kodak, RCA, Scotch, Fuji, Audiotape (for about 5 minutes), MGM (no 
idea who made those but they were very good)..of those, I think you can still 
get Polaroid from one of the AV suppliers like American Digital.

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.
>>>
>> 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.
>>