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Wheather you have VHS,BETA,etc... what is the earliest recorded tape you have???

The oldest one I have is a 1980 release of SILVER STREAK by Magnetic Video on VHS.....

Not sure which one i have is the oldest. I'll have to go through them. My oldest Beta is Tron.

I have the two-tape Magnetic Video version of The Towering Inferno, from 1977 or 1978, one of the first fifty movies to be released on Beta (or VHS) videotape if I remember right. My oldest home-recorded tapes are from fall 1979. I recorded the original broadcast of "Jaws", when the two blank tapes (for my one-hour-only Beta VCR) cost me a full day's pay. Understanding that cost issue, that movie may be one that I recorded over, later.

Not videotape, but about a year or so ago, I dug out a cassette tape I'd made back in 1971... Didn't even know to run a patch cord from the "Rec Out" jack on my Sony CRF-230 to the "Mic In" jack..It was done w/taping a mic to the speaker panel.. Lots of radio station airchecks, vintage commercials, etc. HORRIBLE sound quality, but it sure did bring back LOTS of memories..

I got a buncha stuff like that too..... Somewhere between 2000 and 2007 I think, WABC am radio
did a anniversary special, and they played a tape backup they found at the transmitter
they kept there if the line went dead between the transmitter and studio..... I taped it,
and got a few hours of it somewhere.... It was Gan Ingram from the 70's Pretty cool...
I bet by now there are copies of it on the internet....

We watched a movie a few months ago that was really old, I forgot what it was, but funny old
FBI warning, and some studio run contest to win a vacation trip.... I really wanted to send
in an entry form...... Wonder what would have happened.....? How many they still get.....

M*A*S*H 1977, Magnetic Video, VHS.
jr

one of my oldest tapes would be Williard on vhs and beta...

Y'Know, when I'm Dead & Gone, somebody MIGHT find that 1971 tape amongst my belongings, & pop it into a cassette player.. MAYBE I'll "Speak" to them thru the years, & formats... And POSSIBLY, they WON'T Throw Me Away...

MASH 1977 (MVC)
The Sand Pebbles 1977 (MVC)
The Boston Strangler 1977 (MVC)
The French Connection 1978 (MVC)

....and dozens from 1979-1980 (including Silver Streak).

All of them still play fine.

Yes and I figure with good care they should continue to :)

That MASH one you have is that the FIRST release on VHS?? (I have Silver Streak by them)

1979 and both it and I look fine!

Recorder Panasonic NV-8400, Camera WV-3300E (Both still in the garage)

Recorder weighed over 20 pounds and the camera over 7 - so outings were a manly affair. Wish I was still in that shape!

MASH, Patton, and the Sound of Music were the first three released in the US, according to other sources.

The back cover of my 1977 copy of M*A*S*H from Magnetic Video lists what I believe to be the first 50 movies released by the company:

Quote:

Hello Dolly, Fantastic Voyage, Von Ryan's Express, The King and I, Patton, The Hustler, The Agony and The Ecstasy, Cleopatra, The French Connection, Hombre, The Only Game in Town, Can Can, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Desert Fox, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Bible, The Boston Strangler, Tora Tora Tora, The Detective, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Longest Day, The Grapes of Wrath, The Robe, How to Marry a Millionaire, Dr. Doolittle, The Panic in Needle Park, The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, Vanishing Point, The Sand Pebbles, State Fair, Bus Stop, Three Coins in a Fountain, From the Terrace, Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, The Song of Bernadette, How to Steal a Million, How Green Was my Valley, M*A*S*H, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Anastasia, Boy on a Dolphin, The Hot Rock, The Seven Year Itch, Valley of the Dolls, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The long Hot Summer, The Paper Chase, Carmen Jones, The Razor's Edge, A Farewell to Arms.

IIRC the copy, which was a gift cost about $50.

Add: just found a picture of a 1980 MVC release that shows added titles:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IZUwIBl5cW...40/Picture.png
Now including "Sound of Music" and "Towering Inferno" ("and many more").

jr

Peter Pan off-air from KYW-TV NBC in March 1989 on VHS. Still looks good and the commercials are great.

I bet they do buddy!!

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Originally Posted by jr_tech

Add: just found a picture of a 1980 MVC release that shows added titles:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IZUwIBl5cW...40/Picture.png
Now including "Sound of Music" and "Towering Inferno" ("and many more").

jr

My 1980 release of SILVER STREAK has the same movies listed on the back.. (In the same order also)