How to Start Collecting VHS Tapes | 4 Essential Tips to get started in 2025

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

What's the one tape you are hunting? For me I am still struggling to find a decently priced copy of The Goonies in the slipcover case, not the clam shell. I'd love to know what yours is!

[@VHSArchiveAGoGo]

I'm still looking for Army of Darkness, I want to find it in person instead of just on ebay.

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

@@VHSArchiveAGoGo Same!

[@willywampa84]

I'm trying to find the first Ninja Turtles on VHS! I still have my childhood copies of 2 and 3, but not sure what happened to the first one. Would love to find Surf Ninjas as well, but I feel that's going to be tougher than TMNT.

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

@@willywampa84 That's wild that you just said Surf Ninjas. While I have that already I saw yet another copy at the christmas retro market at the mall this weekend! Good luck on your hunt!

[@VHSArchiveAGoGo]

@@willywampa84 That's such a good one to be hunting! Good luck!

[@IndyAdvant]

You need more subs, stat!

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

Thanks, spread the word :)

[@VHSArchiveAGoGo]

Right!!!!

[@hamsticklehq]

i appreciate the pumpkins t-shirt

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

Thanks! One of my all time favorites!

[@VHSArchiveAGoGo]

My grail currently is Army of Darkness!

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

Same. I have Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2, still looking!

[@sir.reelcinema]

Thank you for sharing this video, it was incredible.

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

Thanks! I really appreciate it!!

[@MrJest2]

My main issue with this is that magnetic tape media is not "permanent". Even if you don't read/write to it routinely, in several years the data will fade anyway.

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

You are correct. What I find interesting are the tapes that are nearly 40 years old that play perfectly. I know that will eventually not be the case, but they aren't as fragile as folks make them out to be. I collect for the fun and nostalgia of it. My Blu Rays and 4k discs are for the home theater enjoyment.

[@MrJest2]

@@ChrisCollectsStuff It is indeed surprising how durable mag tape *can* be - depends on how they were manufactured. Many moons ago I bought the "pre-remake" original Star Wars trilogy, and they still play pretty decently some 30 years later. Of course, I have long since ripped them off onto optical storage, but I'm still impressed with the quality of these recordings.

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

@@MrJest2 My pre-special edition box set is a prize possession, I had to mow so many yards as a kid to get it!

[@MrJest2]

@@ChrisCollectsStuff I am old enough to have been a young teen when "Star Wars" came out in theaters. I've probably seen almost every version that was available at the time, including mono-audio "drive in" editions. I always laugh at people purchasing t-shirts and whatnot that say "Han shot first". They should really say, "Han shot, period." In the original, Greedo never got a round off at all - he was just brutally wasted under the table. 😋

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

@@MrJest2 HAHA So true about Han!! I wish I could have seen it in a drive in!

[@joshuapowell1868]

People like myself 300 vhs tapes 5 hi-fi VCR players in my house

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

Heck ya! That sounds familiar!!!!

[@joshuapowell1868]

😊😊

[@stuartobrien78]

The LG dvd/vcr Model RC689D is an Australian dvd combo vcr, that comes with a digital tuner! Plus on the dvd part, it plays dvds from around the world. Plus it can be hooked up to a full hd smart TV. Having connections to coloured plugs and an HDMI cable. It's a 2012 model!

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

2012! nice!

[@joshuapowell1868]

People like myself are buying everything else off eBay and Amazon now days for 10 dollars all my vhs tapes more cleaning tapes

[@joshuapowell1868]

Everything proven people keep there mode switch clean out in their VCR players like they should people will never have playing problem's at all everything proven online how clean out a mode switch in a VCR player 😊

[@joshuapowell1868]

Vhs tapes good for your health keeps me moving more 7 days of the week not bad for people's health now days your not getting lazy on VHS tapes like you would on Disney plus and I got rid of my Disney plus because I was getting lazy

[@markhellman-pn3hn]

the DVD format killed the VHS format ... i keep them next to my TV - which has 300 channels to choose from .... sooner or later, ill get rid of them

[@ChrisCollectsStuff]

I regret getting rid of my dvd's I had put them into binders and then tossed them maybe 6 or so years ago. Sadly not everything I used to be able to watch is still available

[@joshuapowell1868]

Damage blue ray movies don't play or DVD's my vhs tapes out did my damage blue ray movies plus DVDs😊 I had

[@markhellman-pn3hn]

@@joshuapowell1868 i think you misunderstood - special edition DVDs have bonus features that i cant get on TV

[@joshuapowell1868]

No problem your welcome 😊😊

[@joshuapowell1868]

Vhs tapes more haveing in your home now days y get rid of your free whiching movies not good thinking to get rid of them 😊

[@joshuapowell1868]

People like myself will never buy blue ray movies again Walmart worker people told me blue ray movies don't get scratched up not true they do to just not as fast is a DVD does 😊😊

[@joshuapowell1868]

Everything proven back in the old days people was never to know about mode switch in VCR players needs cleaning out every now and then now days today people are showing you how to do it how to get on that put down how clean out a mode switch in a VCR player and every other video will come up

[@joshuapowell1868]

Vhs tapes more lasting than people is vhs tapes more replicable than people is