I found these VHS tapes on the street. Let's see what's on them!

[@trapexit]

It might be worth ripping the MTV one. Sometimes it is hard to find copies of old commercials and there are communities online that will rip them and even clean them up.

[@RelaxRelapse720]

Both old commercials and old TV shows can get lost to time. The music videos aren't worth saving, unless there's some obscure one that never made it online, but the Video DJ segments, the MTV News breaks, and all the commercials are 100% worth saving if they're not available yet.

[@littlebasher3959]

I found a grocery bag full of VHS tapes when i was a teenager. Their contents were exactly what you can imagine !

[@MrSupahlovah]

the T5's all i'd need :(

[@nickwallette6201]

@@MrSupahlovah HAHAHAHA! :-D

[@BilisNegra]

Exactly what a teenager wants?

[@buggerlugz6753]

What an awesome find! can you digitize them for us? ;)

[@Barracuda48082]

Oh man..I just tossed about 150 Disney originals in cases, a few dozen scotch brand high grade mylar vhs t120, t160 blanks, just no interest in them and players, recorders are back to their release date prices from 1984

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

I've said this before and I'll say it again: The most interesting part of looking at and preserving VHS tapes like this is the commercials. If you taped the movie "Jurassic Park" (or even the various bad movies that were advertised here) off of commercial television, for example, then that movie is still available to watch now via a dozen avenues, but the commercials which are snapshots of the culture of the moment were never preserved, except on the VHS tape of whoever recorded the movie that night. Yet so many people like me instantly remember the commercials. Now you find the tapes set out in people's junk piles on the street. It's kind of surreal.

[@artofnoise5013]

I like how delighted how Adrian is by the giraffes all these years later!

[@mattelder1971]

12:53 The Visa ad says that the offer they are talking about runs from 10/1/94 to 12/31/94, so I'd guess that pretty much dates the video tape. The movie Exit to Eden (which was a lousy movie based on an excellent book by Anne Rice) came out on October 14, 1994, so that also seems to correspond to that date range.

[@nickwallette6201]

Haha.. I have the same reaction when watching old video: "GO BACK! I saw a beige computer!" LOL

[@sprint955st]

I found a tape in amongst my tapes beneath the telly, I didn’t instantly recognise. My in-laws were there waiting for us to go out for dinner, and I was hastily trying to record some or other broadcast. It was rewound, I inserted it and said “I’ll just quickly check what’s on it before I tape over it.” I hit play…10 seconds and a seriously red face later, I really wished I’d just hit record instead….

[@Chriva]

Playing unknown VHS tapes is a dangerous game lol. Might regret seeing what was seen :D

[@scotshabalam2432]

Nah I'm cool man I already saw Exit to Eden and after that nothing on 4chan ever shocked or disgusted me.

[@adamwhite2364]

Better clean up those tapes with some isopropyl alcohol first 😂

[@gilbert1975nf]

I guess he make a pre-view first. I don't believe Adrian will so naive.

[@philh9421]

Content advisory definitely recommended…

[@ax14pz107]

Yeah there's been busts because people have thrown out tapes with CSA recordings

[@Skracken]

Seeing that stuff from MTV in '94 made me strangely nostalgic even though I didn't exactly experience it. I grew up in a tiny rural town in Sweden, and we had no cable available and my parent's weren't interested in getting satellite. So we literally had only 3 over the air channels, 2 public government run ones and one commercial. The commercial channel came on the air around 91/92. Seeing ads on the TV was mind-blowing for 10 y/o me and watching the ads was entertainment in itself. How things have changed, since now I hate ads with a passion...

[@WhiteScarsEmo]

I have lived overseas for most of my childhood and into my teens, so I have an interest in "old" shows and commercials from the 1980's-to mid-90's. I am so glad there are KZbin channels that play that stuff all the time.

[@TheVideoGuyfromOhio]

if you don't like ads, would you perhaps like it better in say, North Korea? where the only ads are propaganda for the government trust me, the opposite can be much worse

[@Skracken]

@@TheVideoGuyfromOhio Ok

[@robjones3818]

Please do the rest when you have time! As someone who grew up in the 80s and early 90s these time capsules make amazing second channel content.

[@jamessmith1652]

This was a hoot. I hope some of the other videos are even half as fun to watch. Please share them with us, as well as your reactions!

[@retrocomputerskip4635]

As someone who regularly converts these old VHS tapes to digital versions I am always amazed by what's on them granted the ones I usually convert are poorly shot 80s weddings

[@Somebody_Different]

Please archive all the tapes! You never know whenever somone might be looking for their contents.

[@KillroyWasHere86]

At least the commercials if the recorded content is copyrighted.

[@BilisNegra]

@@KillroyWasHere86 Aren't commercials copyrighted too?

[@coreysothwell3269]

Pbscla1989

[@tyx823]

oh hey i didnt know you watched him too

[@Somebody_Different]

@@tyx823 as you can see, I am

[@toasTr0n]

I'm still not sure why I spent 48 minutes of my life watching this, but I found it relaxing. Feel free to review the other tapes! 😄

[@nicoleking772]

Yeah. I think I'm outa here

[@geoffreyreuther5260]

I mean, I sometimes will watch 80's and 90's commercial compilations, so... no judgement here.

[@buggerlugz6753]

good times eh! :)

[@sniperviperman6400]

Oh yes, please show us rest of the tapes. this is a gold mine for us in Europe.

[@rodhester2166]

The pin drop.. Worked at sprint for 23 years. That brought back some memories..

[@johanlaurasia]

I did some research on the preview guide you were seeing. It was called Star Sight, and eventually became the guide on cable called Prevue. I was trying to determine how the television received its data, but couldn't determine how. Back then, in some instances, devices were being programmed by (automatically) turning to a specific channel at a specific time, and digital data was being transmitted on the video side (producing black and white blocks on the screen as you've shown before with other devices). Also, I saw one device that was essentially a set top box that replaced your tuner, and had its own internal guide generation ability, and received data over the pager network of all things. Before the internet, digital services like that were starting to creep in any and everywhere they could. It's amazing, with the internet, and internet capable wireless devices these days, digital transmission of data is basically standardized.

[@paul_boddie]

Technologies that used the vertical and even horizontal blanking intervals were pretty established by then. People in Europe are pretty familiar with Teletext (TV Text), and the volume of data transmitted to provide a rotating selection of pages would have been enough for a television guide, not least because such information was readily available on programme listing pages as part of existing Teletext services. Using spare parts of the analogue signal, maybe even the visible parts in out-of-hours broadcasts, was supposedly an element of WebTV's service prior to the roll-out of broadband. They claimed that you could get a gigabyte of browsable Web content every night.

[@johanlaurasia]

@@paul_boddie the things I’m talking about used the video channel to transmit the data. Only closed caption uses vertical blanking, any other data transmitted in the vertical blanking would be decoded and displayed as 🗑️

[@paul_boddie]

@@johanlaurasia It absolutely uses the vertical blanking interval (as noted by another comment on this video). Here is a relevant magazine article: "At the heart of StarSight's circuitry is a receiver that picks up a variety of data transmitted in the vertical blanking interval (VBI) of the local PBS station's TV signal. Along with the program schedule information, that data includes authorization messages, region commands, category information, additional program information, and special services including closed captioning." ("A Star is Born", Popular Electronics, November 1995, p10) Here's a rather awkwardly written paper by the people at Zenith and StarSight: "Since the StarSight program data is transmitted in a caption-like format and the main chassis micro of the TV receiver has caption decoding capability, acquisition of the StarSight data is relatively easy with provisions that have been incorporated into the caption decoding hardware of the main chassis micro. These provisions allow data to be acquired on various VBI lines under the control of the firmware of that micro. This provides the means for easily getting the raw program data into the receiver." ("An Individually Addressable TV Receiver With Interactive Channel Guide Display, VCR, and Cable Box Control", IEEE 1994 International Conference on Consumer Electronics, p60) "It's here, concealed in the VBI, where Public Broadcast System (PBS) stations transmit the StarSight Telecast on-screen programming guide, the marquee attraction in Samsung's VR8905." ("Samsung VR8905 Hi-Fi VCR", Popular Electronics, December 1995, p32) Apparently, it took between four and twelve hours to transmit the first seven days' worth of information over the VBI, tuned to PBS. There was also some kind of registration required, needing a call to a toll-free number, presumably to get the registration ID to make the software do its work.

[@WW-jt2sq]

This is a really awesome thing seeing you review these tapes. Especially your perspective as someone who was already an adult in the 90's. Would love to see more of these style videos.

[@PixelatedH2O]

I know this was probably intended as a one-off type of video, but I'd love to see more of this on the channel. It's just fun seeing this old media and seeing Adrian's reaction to it all.

[@scottlarson1548]

The stop motion animation demo tape may have come from Will Vinton Studios which had a production company in NW Portland back then. They made a ton of national stop motion animation commercials including the California Raisins, the Avoid the Noid, and the dancing M&Ms.

[@PeteWord]

Claymation Kung Fu Chili Peppers

[@andybaio]

Yeah, it’s almost certainly a test for one of their Chili’s ads. Looks like the same model. kzbin.info/www/bejne/epSso4GweNKmgpY

[@jadetheprootlol]

@@andybaio It is. Probably showed it to the client before making it.

[@cheeseparis1]

This is safer than browsing through a bag of USB thumbnails found in the street :p Loved this video. I bet in the next tapes, you will find things taped over other things, with random stuff at the end... Please keep on!

[@TechnicolorMammoth]

Only thing that could be corrupted is the heads in your VCR getting dirty or your eyes if you accidentally see something you didn’t want to.

[@WeatherMan2005]

random used usb drives are cursed amulets. if you use them do it offline on a trash spare pc lol

[@michaelperugini4199]

back in the early 90s when you were signing up with local phone company, they would ask what service you wanted to use for long distance. You had to be careful about answering this because someone had the bright idea to name their company “I Don’t Care” and " It doesn't matter" .

[@TheWeepingCorpse]

Imagine if one of the tapes contained footage of Adrian fixing computers lol creepy.

[@scotshabalam2432]

The Aura Interactor("Game Vest") was hooked up to the audio-out of a game console and worked as a wearable feedback device. It was uncomfortable and stupid.

[@nomadcowatbk]

a subwoofer on your back

[@matthewspence3251]

Adrian’s got into the trash again, he’s like a raccoon. Need to get those Adrian proof trash cans.

[@El_K_Bron_Del_Moycas]

Definitely interested to see the rest of the tapes. Thank you for sharing all that MTV info.

[@RetroSwim]

14:07 -- Doing a life insurance quote in Xtree Gold hey? Hahahahah, oh TV, never change! :D

[@thewi2kbug]

Candace Bergen was the Spokeswoman for SPRINT Also SPRINT also stood for Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony

[@VernGraner-w9e]

When I saw this thumbnail and description, and knowing what I know was commonly on "unlabeled" VHS tapes back in those days, part of me was wanting to scream, "ADRIAN!!! NOOOO!!!!!!! What is SEEN cannot be UNSEEN!!!" 😁😂🤣 😁😂🤣

[@techgecko3372]

TOP SECRET SPY BRIEFINGS??? These can get you killed!

[@TheWeepingCorpse]

Ginger On The Rocks is my fave.

[@scotshabalam2432]

(Zenith ad) The on screen guide was called Star Sight. It seems to have used PBS's regional transmitters to transfer program information as the manual refferences PBS channels when signing up for subscription as something you need to list. It was a subscription service and the manual doesn't imply that it charges a fee but I imagine getting deep enough into the process leads to a request for monetary transfer(Why would there be a subscription service at all if it were free?), with the instructions giving either option of following "more directions on the TV"(likely the on-screen instructions asked for money) or directly through the phone where they would likely ask for a credit card.

[@thomasives7560]

That was fun! Thanks!! I'd watch more if you want to present it. BTW, Nostalgia Nerd (UK) did a video a few years ago on the Interactor 'cushion' - he added some good background information if anyone is interested. Apparently the technology came out of military research, probably for simulators. Anyhow, more nostalgia like this is always welcome. Cheers!

[@stevef6392]

This was so much fun! Thanks so much for sitting through all of that for make benefit glorious audience of your second channel! I think digital cable was a brand new thing in my area back in '94 or '95. I remember our cable box bragging about its "MPEG Video" capabilities right on the front, even though it couldn't record.

[@AntonyTCurtis]

The old computer/electronics/game ads are fun. Pretty sure that there will be Jaguar fans who would want that ad digitized

[@WhiteScarsEmo]

Dang, that is scary stuff. When I was a kid, there was this segment on "Unsolved Mysteries". A couple of teens had found a backpack by the roadside. Inside was a couple of VHS tapes. So, they went home and popped in one of the tapes. It was footage of a few houses on fire at night, taken from a far distance. The cameraman was saying some creepy stuff, oh, and praising Satan. I admit, I did not sleep well that night! I think they caught the kid, eventually. But if I found some old VHS tapes, I'd be very cautious about playing it.

[@archivethearchives]

That case was actually referred to as "The Stockton Arsonist." The kid who taped that and was saying all of those things was trying to impress another juvenile criminal he was associating with. Pretty hair raising stuff. You can still find that tape on KZbin and read about the case online.

[@TronNerd82]

I get the strangest feeling somebody's gonna make a creepypasta out of that stop-motion tape one day.

[@SockyNoob]

Ikr

[@SomeMorganSomewhere]

around 27 mins is the "Aura Interactor" it was a subsonic actuator in either a backpack or couch cushion format, what I assume was all of the local stock got sold off cheap through a local surplus electronics supplier in the late 90's, I had a couple of them.

[@Mac84]

This was amazing! Please do this again! ❤

[@BalooUriza]

13:25: The Real World and Yo! MTV Raps on at the same time would put this sometime between 1992 and 1995. Exit to Eden being currently in theaters narrows that down to the third week of October 1994 at the earliest, Thanksgiving of the same year at the latest. Though it's possible that movie left theaters before Halloween, as it swept the Razzies with Rosie O'Donnell taking home Worst Supporting Actress, Dan Aykroyd getting Worst Supporting Actor, and both together got nominated (but didn't win) Worst Screen Couple. O'Donnell was also nominated for Worst Actress in the Stinkers Bad Movie Awards for that.

[@50shadesofbeige88]

This viddo is proof, the channel isn't really about fixing old PCs. It's about watching Adrian do stuff. This was very entertaining. Reminds me of BrutalMoose.

[@adriansdigitalbasement2]

I love his channel, he's WAY better at this kind of thing than I am. www.youtube.com/@brutalmoose/videos (for anyone who isn't familiar)

[@WeatherMan2005]

that also reminds me of that guy. thats why i watched this video too

[@七人の侍-b1q]

@16:30 That's the guy from That 70's show guy Danny Masterson. He got 30 years in prison. Crazy

[@twocvbloke]

Well, it's now canon, Adrian's Analogue Attic is a thing, though maybe spelled differently... :P

[@Dukefazon]

You should archive those video game ads with their original audio track, maybe these are the last recordings of them!

[@NickBourke]

Adrian's Digital Basement - Black Spine Edition. Love it

[@50shadesofbeige88]

Adrian's Analog Attic ❤

[@evilgibson]

Cringe

[@chrisw.3695]

@@evilgibson What is cringe?

[@dhpbear2]

38:55 - Phil Harman!

[@PeterBellefleur]

Starsight was an early EPG system that actually required a subscription. They sent data over the VBI on a couple of different channels. I used to install cband dishes and they had an add-on module for some uniden IRDs.

[@kaitlyn__L]

That’s amazing. Did the scheduled recording functionality just hook into a VCR like I’m expecting? The UX is similar to recording on a PVR but 94 seems way too early for those.

[@PeterBellefleur]

@@kaitlyn__L yep, it had an IR blaster and could control a VCR for recording, just had to keep a tape loaded and it did the rest.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@PeterBellefleur sweet. I remember some of my friends’ Sky boxes doing exactly that in 99.

[@FranLab]

An actual "found footage" video!

[@Dark_eVader]

True that Fran!

[@manueldi_77]

Adrian, that yellow spindles need some retrobrighting 😂

[@johnsonlam]

I really love the 80's and 90's and the VHS really have a lot nostalgic content. I still have the Jurassic Park Laser Disc!

[@lutello3012]

I got the CAV version for 75 cents.

[@Andrew-x7q8c]

This was a good video from the happiest guy on YT! 😂 Picture quality is extremely good on that second tape.

[@s13works]

Love some of the ads on that MTV tape, particularly the Phil Hartman CD-i ad. I'm pretty sure the woman in the Secret deodorant ad (31:22) is Charisma Carpenter, and slightly less sure than one of the women in the Magnavox ad (39:34) is Amanda Peet. Both before they had done pretty much any other work, though Charisma Carpenter was in an episode of Baywatch right around when this would have been recorded. I definitely remember that Sheik condoms ad, too.

[@tommink2577]

38:56 The late great Phil Hartman. 😢

[@michaels.niquette3879]

I did remember some of those commercials LOL. I used to have hundreds of video tapes like that but sadly they were stored in a basement and they all got mold on them. I would love to see what was on the other tapes

[@Darxide23]

Adrian kind of in boomer mode not knowing what half this stuff was and joking about the most basic things. But there are _tons_ of preservation groups that would love rips of all of these tapes. There's a fair chance with this much content that at least a commercial or bumper or two is unarchived.

[@MagnumForce51]

You're a brave man popping those VHS tapes into your VCR willy nilly. Untold horrors could have awaited you! Between felonies, paranormal horrors, or SCP cognito hazards, there was no telling what you could have found. :P Anyways I still got most of the VHS tapes I originally recorded on when I was younger. Got like 3 or 4 tapes of nothing but Code Lyoco. The oldest tape I still have is a tape that has a couple episodes of Season 2 of of Beast Wars. Right during the time of the show with that flying island. Can't recall if that was a season 2 finale or not but either way I recall recording those during their original air date. The some of commercials that went along with it were local California in origin so I'm 100% sure that one is my oldest recording I still have because I definitely remember the short time I spent living in California and that was a loooong time ago. I was surprised I still had that recording after going through my tapes again recently! :D I can't even recall what year that was. Maybe mid to late 90s I would guess.

[@rockapartie]

Yep, like one of the Poughkeepsie tapes. 😱

[@scotshabalam2432]

QuizWiz came with a book and a cartridge. Turning a page corresponded to pressing a page turn button and then you would read the question off the booklet and then press a button to answer the question which matched up with the answers in the cartridge. I don't think it did very well as kids tend not to like quizzes.

[@garyjohnson4608]

Well now you can see why so many people stopped watching tv for good.

[@richardbanks2669]

I love how involved you get - "I don't want this!" - also hilarious how it's MTV you're frustrated with, it's almost tempting to say "Uhhhh, settle down Beavis" 🤣 Seriously though, this was entertaining, and I enjoyed watching along with you - sure, it isn't fixing C64s, but that's what the main channel is for, this is just fine too.

[@sq1rlsqu4d]

11:44 - A tiny morsel of Stakka Bo's fantastic "Here We Go Again", brilliant :) Fun upload, I'd love to see more old video stuff :)

[@8bitwiz_]

As for some of the ads being a bit odd, remember that they were aimed at viewers of MTV. I was amused by the proto-grunge guy on the condom ad. That Zenith guide thing was probably the beginnings of Guide Plus from Gemstar (also known as TVGOS, TV Guide On Screen), [EDIT: apparently a different system!] which eventually got bought out by the Macrovision people (Rovi) who yanked it out of TV stations in 2012 or so. It provided two weeks (!) of guide data, with the digital version usually going through the local PBS station. I had an OTA DVR that supported it, and it was nice. There was also a Sony DVR that depended on it to set the clock, rendering it effectively useless. Current ATSC guide info here is usually only 12 hours for most channels, and 5 days for PBS, so 2 weeks was amazing. The Aura Interactor was basically a subwoofer speaker strapped to your chest, long before such a thing was standard fare for a Home Theater audio setup. You don't so much hear those frequencies as you feel them, and this puts them right up to your gut where you can feel them. Paragon was one of the cable companies over the years. I had actually forgotten about them. Here it went (from the '80s), UA Columbia, Paragon, Rogers, Time Warner, and now Spectrum. Also interesting is seeing what's on random U-Matic tapes, since not just anybody could record them. I've found 15 minutes of 1980s Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders from the sidelines (probably played at station parties), and a joke piece from a female reporter from some old KCEN tapes I found in 2003, and even a few tapes from someone I knew, who had just donated them to Goodwill in 2008. (wave to Ben C.)

[@pghcoyote]

I was looking for someone to mention TVGOS before researching to see if they were related, apparently not!. That was a godsend in the early 2000s on Panny DVRs. Now the concept is back to a subscription service through Schedules Direct for those still using Windows Media Center or other platforms that require an EPG.

[@8bitwiz_]

@@pghcoyote My MythTV will accept ATSC PSIP data, but most of the channels here only provide 12-36 hours ahead, except PBS, which is 5 days ahead. It's somewhat unreliable, both in sometimes inserting text from the wrong show into the database, and some shows having the wrong info from an episode not airing that week, but it's good enough. I don't think that there was ever a way to import TVGOS data into MythTV anyhow. I'm sure that they killed TVGOS because they decided that their schedule info was worth not giving away for free.

[@kaitlyn__L]

That sucks about the programme guides, the UK “Freeview” (free to air digital) had 24 hours originally and was upgraded to a week (in receivers which could handle it) circa 2010.

[@edgeeffect]

In the UK, our tapes have a "E" prefix not "T".... e.g. E180 not T180... I wonder what that's about?

[@mrjsv4935]

The 1994 tape was interesting :D Certainly if there's anything more with old tv ads etc interesting, would be nice to see them.

[@PXAbstraction]

This is a nostalgia trip that I was not planning on today, but I approve! I've been wanting to do a night on my live stream once in a while where we just look up old clips and ads like this. I think I need to start working on that idea again.

[@dennisp.2147]

The VJ is Idalis, She was on from 1994 to 1998. Yo! is the successor to Yo MTV raps. Tape is from 1994 based on Visa commercial expiration dates. It's kind of funny and ironic that you would find an MTV tape, since my 10 year old daughter and I watched the first two hours of MTV from 1981 last night. I think it vapor-locked her mind. I was surprised at the number of bands I didn't recognize, even though I clearly remember waiting with anticipation at a friends house to watch the "New" MTV station.

[@CapnKetchup]

More please! Love your commentary on these!!! 😂

[@jeremychrzan]

I found it amusing how you responded to these when I viewed them in a very nostalgic way. I recently went through a similar effort digitizing my mom's old BETA cassette tapes to find our family's old home videos. There were lots of recordings from MTV and I really appreciated the VJ's, newsbreaks, and the commercials. The stop motion is interesting. Probably someone's homework!

[@douglasallen9428]

I would have definitely kept the MTV tape (despite the crease in the tape causing the line in the picture), mostly for the commercials! Keep up the good work!!!

[@photolabguy]

That Select Quote commercial... It appears he is using a version of XTree. The dude is just randomly pointing at file directories. 😂

[@mcg8006]

Saw that! That's a blast from the past

[@3vi1J]

@27:10 - I had one of those Aura Interactors. I probably threw it out ages ago. As I recall, the effect was basically the same as strapping a weak subwoofer to your chest.

[@ScottGravlee]

If you run the video through a Time Base Corrector you should stabilize the signal and get rid of the box.

[@roberthannah712]

This was excellent! Brings back memories of watching MTV here in Scotland, I mostly watched late night shows like Beavis and Butthead, HeadBangers Ball and Aeon Flux! Looking forward to more of these!

[@racalac]

More please, love the 90s nostalgia

[@dzaga7123]

It is really fascinating how cool equipment Andreas has! DVD quality video from VHS tapes! Is it 12 heads SVHS player? :) And/or a bunch of TBCs and picture enhancers in a chain ? :) Once again.. really fascinating!

[@Dark_eVader]

Who is Andreas? Did you mean Adrian?

[@kaitlyn__L]

That’s definitely much softer than a DVD!

[@AzagXul666]

This was so fun! I hope you'll find more tapes and do more videos like this.

[@Belwarr]

Just wanted to thank you for reminding me of the awesome song at 35:51 Lucas - With the lid off It is such an earworm!

[@lutello3012]

The video is great too. Wikipedia: "Nobody really believed - even me - that we could pull that off when we made it after 17 takes, because it was really done all in-camera in one shot. There is no post-production at all."

[@wesley00042]

I wonder if the owners of that arcade have a copy of that commercial anymore. They could probably incorporate some of those clips into future commercials.

[@williamgottlieb8723]

15:57 That Tiger brand Quiz Wiz is an electronic trivia game. It is an updated version of the original which was first released by Coleco in 1980.

[@RetroRecollections]

This was a fun video. I regret getting rid of my VCR years ago, I may pick one up again at some point. Often I have seen boxes of homemade VHS being sold at markets etc and the nosey part of me would love to see what's on those tapes :)

[@weepingscorpion8739]

It's interesting that almost all VHS tapes I've seen from NA are 120 minutes. Over here, I really only ever saw 180 and 240 minute tapes. Also Titanic was apparently on 2 tapes over yonder but on a single one here. Was 120 really the standard length over there or did it change over time? Fascinating difference either way.

[@8bitwiz_]

PAL had different tape speeds, because of 50 Hz. The length of a full spool of normal thickness tape was T-120, for just over 120 minutes on NTSC. PAL got about 40% more recording time, so a T-120 tape was called E-180. But PAL didn't get SLP mode (6 hours on NTSC but looked like crap). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS#Tape_lengths

[@nickwallette6201]

Yeah, I think if I went to my parents' house and opened their old VHS tape drawers, it would be 90% T-120. :-)

[@weepingscorpion8739]

@@8bitwiz_ Good point. I keep forgetting about the difference in frame rate. Thanks!

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@8bitwiz_nice to have confirmation that we never got SLP/EP - I never saw it myself but I always used the cheapest VCRs. In the back of my head there was always the possibility of a really fancy one with trick play features supporting it. (And I guess, since they often could play NTSC tapes, they technically did but not in the way I’m thinking.)

[@robbertscholtus2422]

Just took a (big) break from diagnosing a Toshiba HX-10 in order to dance with my wife to Tony Braxton. You're the best Adrian, keep it up!

[@johnpetruna8888]

I think we should all scour our attics, garages, thrift stores for old VHS tapes to send in. Adrian's Analog Attic has GOT to be a thing. There is something so engaging, endearing about watching your reactions, Adrian, to--let's see--giraffes coming to dinner, Rosie O'Donnell in leather, Candace Bergan's pin drop, *bulbous* CRTs, cringy B movie spots... More please!

[@volvo09]

You can find that on KZbin... Only difference is not having Adrian's commentary on the video.

[@chironbramberger]

I legit just checked and I have one of those Aura Interactors in-box. I've never used it. Maybe I should review it and make a video about it. Haha! Nice!

[@janp.schumann2591]

How cool, especially the MTV videos took me back to my childhood. MTV was always on in the background while I was doing my homework. Thanks for this and I would love to see more of it.

[@Eric-lr5ur]

Love your videos Adrian, but that could have gone horizontal, er, sideways very quickly lol.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Adrian watching some early 90s MTV. LOVE IT!!!! OMG the Sprint commercials!!! Signal is so clear you can hear a pin drop (WHAT BS!!!!!!). 🤣🤣🤣

[@adamwhite2364]

I'd love to see more! Old ads and stuff are great nostalgia!

[@djmacintosh1589]

I love doing this. Finding random VHS tapes. It’s Adrian’s Analog MST3K. 😊

[@BalooUriza]

11:18: Yo! MTV Raps was a music video program that ran from 1988-1995, so she was cross-promoting another program on the same channel.

[@jonathankent5898]

These tapes were interesting! I'd like to see the other ones.

[@anonymeister123]

I’ve seen the giraffe video before. Can’t say when or where exactly. Probably at least 20 years, and maybe Animal Planet (a TV channel) at my grandma’s lol

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

27:02 The man in the bowtie who says "This is just another step" played Dr. Silberman in "Terminator 2."

[@TheSudsy]

Oh Dear - we had a skip (for the US cousins a dumpster) delivered to the back of our house to empty our loft when I refurbished it. Each day there was a "surprise" in their waiting for me, food, bags of rubbish, old appliances, furniture etc etc - of course i was paying for it so everyone took a freebee. One morning a carrier bag of videos (VHS Tapes) appeared....... I knew before I even looked what they would be and I was right.......bootleg copies of the "top shelf" tapes from the local video hire shop. Be careful.

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

38:55 Phil Hartman plays every role in a commercial for Magnavox CD-I!

[@mrelectronicsdude]

This is great! I’m listening & watching whilst doing paperwork! I must dig out my old VHS tapes! 😂

[@jacobharvey2946]

If you need something to do with them when you’re done, the YT channel 80sCommercialVault deals in purging the actual content of old recordings and only showing commercials. I believe these would be inside the window for that channel (70s, 80s, _early_ 90s). It’s amazing how oddly relaxing the nostalgia of old commercials can be.

[@gmirwin]

7:23 When I saw the giraffe, I was immediately reminded of the Far Side comic of a horror movie with giraffes eating people. Giraffes IV: This time, they're not just looking for acacia leaves.

[@ObiWanBillKenobi]

My guess is that the last tape with the stop-motion animation was some work-in-progress or test footage for a commercial for Chili's restaurants.

[@rastislavzima]

7:50 I remember watching this same documentary with my kids back in the day, they have their rooms on 1 floor and older daughter was afraid that girafe will peek through her window. 😂

[@SockyNoob]

Adrian's Analog Attic lol. I'd love to see the rest of the tapes tbh. You definitely should archive some of those ads. Also that training video on wooden poles.

[@dhpbear2]

13:24 - From 1994 (when 'Exit to Eden' escaped! ...err, was released :) )