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Starting to get into VHS
Topic Started: Jun 29 2014, 11:57 AM (1,010 Views)
okerlo
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Hello Cinehound-Community,
alright, time to confess I guess, I want to get into VHS but I have no clue where to start so I thought I should start this thread so that you can answer my beginner questions.

Of course I used VHS back in the day but I was quite young back then and it was more like: "Tape into the VHS-Player and there is the movie, time to watch." I never seriously thought about these things. Now several years later I'm already buying DVDs, Blurays and VCDs, rejecting digital downloads of movies so the next step should be getting into VHS. Also I'm starting to love the format itself, the cool covers, putting the tape into the player, it is just a satisfying feeling

I'm living in Germany so there are TONS of movies only available on VHS to buy and the community is big, too I guess.

My questions:

  • Which VHS player are considered as good models? Any specific brands or models that I should look for?
  • How can I make sure that I can play videos from any region? Can NTSC become a problem?
  • What is important when I buy a VHS? Anything I should be aware of?
  • How should I store the tapes?
  • Anything else you would recommend someone who is just getting into VHS?

Thank you very much in advance!
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Okerlo
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anthonyCSR
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welcome Okerlo :hello!: :cheers:

one big problem when you start getting into vhs: it quickly becomes an addiction that will cost you a lot of money and storage :lol:
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- be aware of mould/fungus on tapes (it ruins the tape and your player, but can be cleaned sometimes)
- get to know the difference between sell through tapes and ex-rentals (cause sell-tru's are worth shit so don't pay much for them ;))
- work hard so you have much money to pay for your new addiction :D
- buy only from me so I can get your hard-earned money :up:

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Joos
Jun 30 2014, 09:24 AM
- be aware of mould/fungus on tapes (it ruins the tape and your player, but can be cleaned sometimes)
- get to know the difference between sell through tapes and ex-rentals (cause sell-tru's are worth shit so don't pay much for them ;))
- work hard so you have much money to pay for your new addiction :D
- buy only from me so I can get your hard-earned money :up:

welcome on board! :hello!:
Thanks for the answers (man, is this really already a year ago?)
Why do collectors prefer ex-rental tapes over sell-throughs? How can I spot the difference between them?

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I'll be talking about European ex-rentals here. Apparently, rental and sell-thru tapes in the US are the same. But in Europe there's a difference between the two formats. The rental tapes were made to be rented out to a lot of customers and thus the quality of the tapes was much better, they were simply stronger and made to last. Some of the sell-thru tapes that I bought during the last days of the VHS era were crap beyond belief. The quality just wasn't very good. So that's one reason.

Then there's the rarity of the tapes. Finding old, rare rental tapes is a lot cooler than just buying sell-thru tapes that you could get anywhere. Needless to say, even sell-thru tapes are getting more rare now but I would argue it's nothing like the rarity of rare ex-rental tapes.

Also, a lot of films never made it to sell-thru tapes but only came out on rental.

How can you spot the difference? It's usually indicated on the boxes if they were rental tapes. Some countries would have a "Not to be rented out after this date 19xx" notification.

However, if you ask me, sell-thru tapes from the 80s are collectable as well. For instance, I have Jackie Chan sell-thru tapes from Denmark that are totally rare. I'm not gonna chuck them out just because they're not ex-rentals. And of course, sometimes rare films only came out on sell-thru or they had better versions.
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At least from what I'v deduced, a lot of ex-rentals seem to have previews on them, while sell-throughs only have the actual movie though sometimes some previews.
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