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# another movie I own on VHS and have never seen!
Where has the last 15 years gone?
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 1 Jun 2012, 23:14, archived)
# Considerably longer.....
1984 that came out.

*Hobbles off on Zimmerframe...*
(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 23:16, archived)
# *cries*
I bought it in the 90s. During the VHS boom!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Fri 1 Jun 2012, 23:18, archived)
# I have a bag full of VHS tapes in my loft for some reason
and I have no idea why
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 23:19, archived)
# I expect
you're going to kindly digitise all of those rare 80s shows and upload them to the web for posterity at some point when you're not tickling big cats, Jahled? :)
(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 23:23, archived)
# Alas
nothing more dramatic than things like Star Wars with loads of shit ITV adverts i'm afraid :(

(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 23:29, archived)
# Unless you have something very obscure on VHS,
then it's usually easier to find a torrent or other digital copy to download (you may need to join a private site to obtain it, though).

(I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 23:42, archived)
# This^
a best mate lives in Beijing and to be quite frank, what I can't find online, he generally can, for next to nothing out there. My VHS tapes will be headed for the bin I guess, no reason to keep them
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 1 Jun 2012, 23:55, archived)
# Having said that,
I'm a member of a couple of private torrent sites that specialize in UK TV, and they dig up some amazing rarities sourced from people's personal video collections...some of it the BBC didn't even have a copy of before unearthing these copies (they wiped a lot of archive material up until the '80s).

So it's worth checking what's on them before you junk your video collection.
(I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sat 2 Jun 2012, 0:08, archived)
# man old man recorded the enrire live aid concert
i'm pretty sure he still has that on vhs
(I helped save b3ta! real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 2 Jun 2012, 2:49, archived)
# A cursory search indicates that this is already out there,
but as someone who appreciates Star Wars Holiday Special, which only exists in its current form because some people had video recorders in 1978, I'd say it's still worth checking out which is the better-quality version.
(I helped save b3ta! Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Sat 2 Jun 2012, 2:58, archived)
# That's your excuse.
{:-)
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Fri 1 Jun 2012, 23:24, archived)