No.6512
Is anyone into VHS collecting? I've noticed it gaining popularity lately. Just enough time has passed for a nostalgia appeal.
What are the best movies shot on VHS? Do you even have the patience to watch a full production shot on VHS?
I will recommend the shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark:_The_Adaptation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pP24WIw78I
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No.6513
I don't own many of them but this documentary on VHS fetishists is fun
it reminded me of Vinyl (vinyl collectors, duh) and So Wrong They're Right (8 track collectors). weirdos find their identity in a media format. I'm waiting for the documentaries about laser disc and cassette collectors, and maybe a subculture that loves Realplayer
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No.6619
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Video mixtapes of random VHS crap are fun. I know about Found Footage Festival, TV Carnage, Everything is Terrible
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No.7654
http://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanyhodak/2016/07/23/rip-vhs-worlds-last-vcr-to-be-made-this-month/
> Be warned, vintage videophiles: Japan’s Funai Electric, a company that claims to be the last manufacturer of videocassette recorders (VCRs), will manufacture its last VHS player this month.
> Funai, which manufacturers the VCRs in China for Sanyo, says the decision comes after selling only 750,000 units last year, down from a peak of 15 million units per year. The decreased production numbers have made parts costly and difficult to source, the company says.
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No.7658
>>7654
lol should i start collecting vcr for when they become hard to find? i bet in 20 years they'll be very scarce, most will be floating around in the ocean or buried somewhere. make a lot of future dollars on future ebay
as if i'll be allowed free enterprise in 2036
saging for a pointless off topic drunk post. wouldn't it be cool if there was a seriously active film image board?
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No.7665
>>7658
Well, don't know much else where to go. Criterion forums, maybe?
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No.7666
>>7658
> should i start collecting vcr for when they become hard to find?
There will always be a lot of vhs releases that don't make it to other formats. It's comparable to vinyl records ... there are still thousands of vinyl-only releases.
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No.7667
>>7666
will they be any good though satan?
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No.7670
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>>7667
probably not very much "good" stuff unless you have specific taste for oddities
there are more great vinyl records than great vhs tapes because there's more music in general, and vhs is a poor quality format anyway
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No.7674
I feel like the primary treasure of VHS is recordings of old television. interviews, documentaries and such that would never be seen again if some guy hadn't programmed his VCR to record it while he was at his early 90s technology company called InfoTech or something
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No.7677
>>7674
Yeah people post long blocks of old television onto torrent sites. I just checked MySpleen for the first time in a year or two and found some. I don't really have time for this but the concept is interesting.
I've also noticed people want the TV broadcasts of some movies because the running time is padded out with additional scenes, or the framing is open matte
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No.7679
>>7677
yeah I'm not really into the vintage commercial vaporwave kind of thing, I mostly like to find old interviews with people I admire/are involved in works I admire. I'm on myspleen too, I like niche trackers like that
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No.7680
>>7677
>>7674
do i get trve points if watch VHS rip of Level 5 in CRT screen?
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No.7684
>>7680
> you will never experience kino as it was intended on a fuzzy 13" Magnavox in 1993
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No.7690
>>7684
CRT screen have the best static. if you trance out to that you will see some shit
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No.11250
No but I have a nice laserdisc collection from my parents. It includes some original Criterion titles did anyone know that Trainspotting was distributed by Criterion at one point in time?
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No.11252
>>11250
> original Criterion titles
Those are probably valuable? I was going to say Criterion started on Laserdisc but that's not true. They had "a brief stint on VHS" according to their site. I can't find many details about their VHS releases.
http://www.krsjrproductions.com/the39steps.html
<This VHS appeared on eBay, and when asked about its authenticity, Criterion originally denied it. A few months later, someone shared pictures of it on Criterion's Facebook page, and they retracted their denial, admitting, "We did release a few VHS tapes in our early years." As soon as they confirmed it, I went to eBay and bought it. I have scanned every aspect of the VHS and included the pictures below, for all Criterion collectors to enjoy. For further proof of its authenticity, I have a Criterion catalogue in my laserdisc edition of Children of Paradise, and in that booklet, Criterion states that this, The Lady Vanishes (Spine #4), and The Third Man (Spine #5) are all available on VHS. I've seen The Lady Vanishes VHS on eBay, but I've never seen the VHS of The Third Man.
https://www.criterion.com/lists/213519-criterion-on-laserdisc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Criterion_Collection_Laserdisc_releases
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No.11254
>>11252
>Those are probably valuable?
Unfortunately for me, no they are actually worthless (fiscally).
Laserdiscs never went up in value. All of these formats whether it be vhs, laserdisc, betamax... none of them are investments. I was looking through ebay and came across this listing...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Beauty-And-The-Beast-VHS-Black-Diamond-Classic-Walt-Disney-1992-RARE/331874339217?epid=2172137803&hash=item4d45408991:g:fzAAAOSwbYZXVPVI
Not sure what to make of it. There are other similar listing, all Disney films.
Do you know how much the Criterion VHS cassettes go for?
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No.11255
>>11254
Those Disney VHS prices seem like an attempt to trick people into overpaying (by a lot). There are 2 actual sales listed at $4999.99. If those are legit it must have worked.
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidsLogin&item=331874339217&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2564
http://archive.is/Gf11z
https://www.snopes.com/black-diamond-collection-disney/
So far I can't find any ebay auctions for Criterion VHS. There's an old discussion on Criterion Forums where some guy payed 2 bucks for The 39 Steps at a local store. They also make passing reference to Criterion on Betamax.
http://www.criterionforums.com/forums/index.php?/topic/825-criterion-vhs/
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No.11287
I’ve got a small collection of VHSes, quite a few of which I got growing up.
A whole load of old cartoons I used to watch growing up (Count Duckula, He-Man, Tintin, Moomin, Disney films, etc.), and many of these are unlikely to see a DVD or digital release any time soon, especially the dubbed versions I got.
I’ve also got the three Alien films in a VHS box set, five or six seasons of Buffy, and one of Angel.
I have found several, quite rare big box releases as well as some of my post treasured possessions; my great-grandfather’s old home video recordings.
Still got a fully working VCR along with my blu-ray player. My TV isn’t that big, so VHSes look quite good still, and they have a certain nostalgic touch that blu-ray lacks.
Also, Blu-ray & DVD releases cannot compete with a big VHS box.
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No.11291
>>6512
Well there is the supposed Director's cut of Event Horizon on vhs that contains the entire movie before parts were cut.
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No.11297
>>11287
Cool cases for sure. I never saw one with liquid before.
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No.11301
>>11291
It wasn't a VHS release, it was just a VHS transfer of the workprint made for archival purposes.
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No.11302
Tales from the Quadead Zone
I overshot 16mb so I had to split the video...
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No.11303
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No.11304
saw this in the nerv center
if I have a shitload of VHS lying around what should I do with them I want to keep those movies for the future, ideally in the original format, but I am afraid it will degrade or I wont be able to find a VCR when mine shits the bed
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No.11305
>>11304
What's in your collection? Your options seem to be
1 - Backup the vhs to digital or dvd. Of course those formats are subject to loss/degradation too
2 - Try to preserve the originals as best as possible
or a little of both. Maybe backup the essentials to digital and see how it goes. The process is probably time-consuming.
I wonder how badly vhs will degrade over time, say 50 years from now?
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No.11308
>>11304
sites like CG have already archived a bunch of VHS transfers and the rippers usually have pretty good knowledge of the required scripts and the additional signal processing hardware to get the best digital rips so don't worry too much about duplicating work somebody else has already done, just keep your VHS boxes nice and pretty, they're the real treasure
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No.11311
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No.11315
>>11311
It is legit; I recall Brad 'The Cinema Snob' Jones did a big box review of it. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it will be hard and/or expensive to get a copy now though.
I wish more films got a limited big box VHS release ;_;
Imagine a new big box VHS release of Re-Animator & The Thing
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No.11318
Maybe unrelated, but what do you guys think is the best way to rip VHS in 2017?
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No.11319
>>11318
I've done a lot of things with video but never captured VHS.
This guide looks okay http://www.digitalfaq.com/guides/video/capture-playback-hardware.htm
It says that "It takes more than a new computer with a burner and capture card to make good digital video." Regardless I would probably start with just that, a basic setup to experiment before buying expensive equipment.
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No.11320
>>11319
Very interesting, thank you, anon.
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No.11321
>>11320
What do you have on vhs?
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No.11333
>>11321
Nothing really valuable, I guess. Like old documentaries or something.
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No.11367
I've seen plenty "vinyl is making a comeback" articles. Now here's one for VHS. Alamo Drafthouse is opening a VHS rental shop.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/alamo-drafthouse-cinema-is-opening-a-video-rental-shop
Dust Off That VCR, a Cinema Chain Is Starting to Rent VHS Movies
<The blast from the past is an extension of Alamo’s national VHS-screening series, Video Vortex, which features the best straight-to-video releases (not an oxymoron, apparently). For the last three to four years, Alamo has been raiding the shelves of going-out-of-business video rental shops the world over, snatching up films that date largely from the early 1980s to the early 2000s. For the new rental shop, it plans to curate a rotating selection of those cassette tapes themed to whatever’s playing in the theater. There’s a logistical component at play: Alamo’s VHS catalog now includes tens of thousands of titles. Put together, they’re a remnant of a deeply influential film era you may not know even existed.
<“When video stores started appearing on the scene, there were a lot of people that said, ‘This is amazing,’” says Skip Elsheimer, an Alamo Drafthouse consultant who helped come up with the rental shop idea. “You had a lot of people making things, weird things. … They realized that the expense of releasing that in theaters—they couldn't afford it. But they could film something and sell it directly to video stores.”
<Alamo is still in the midst of assessing which cassettes are in rental condition, but potential offerings are an eclectic bunch: They include the 1988 Hong Kong-filmed action flick, American Commando Ninja; Fistful Of Fingers, an early comedy western from 1995 by Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright; I Was a Teenage Werewolf, a 1957 drive-in classic starring Little House on the Prairie actor Michael Landon; and Grim Prairie Tales, a 1990 horror anthology set in the West, with James Earl Jones.
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No.12217
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No.13419
bumping since ive been thinking in collecting this stuff and super 8 films
any good site or youtuber to watch?
>inb4 ebay
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No.13421
>>13419
What types of stuff do you want to collect? Movies or weird stuff that's exclusive to those formats?
I'd say the first step is to check out local thrift stores to see what you find.
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No.13442
>>13421
both, i guess?
but i dont want to overpay for stuff or get something that will stay salable in the future
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No.13444
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>>6513
A good documentary, and probably a good place to start
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No.14146
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No.15368
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No.15369
>>15368
>watching films at home
americans ruined everything
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No.15402
>>11304
>>11305
Very recently got bit by the vhs bug aswell, I got lucky enough to find a warehouse with over 100 tapes, I'll try to go down there soon enough to clean and categorize the tapes, if I find something good I'll post it here and try to rip them to digital at least for posterity's sake
i'll leave my discord: italodisco#1330 if anyone wants to talk more about rare tapes and how to redistribute them, I've been going at it with an american friend for some time now.
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No.15403
also found this still in its thin plastic cover, wonder if they still sell/make these, if anyone wants it lol
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No.15412
>>15402
I remember visiting an Italian trading forum that had some raers. Wish I remembered the name of it. There was VHS and some Telecine stuff. I was surprised that people were still doing mail trades in the age of torrenting.
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