What was your LAST VHS purchase??

[Ed in Tx]

Last purchase was 2 boxes 10 ea. of Fµji H471S S-VHS tapes about 10 years ago. About the same time I looked around at the nearly 1,000 tapes on shelves and boxed up I had already recorded over 20 years and never watched, and stopped recording stuff off the air and satellite. Still have not opened a box yet. What a waste. But I broke my habit.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Last purchase was 2 boxes 10 ea. of Fµji H471S S-VHS tapes about 10 years ago. About the same time I looked around at the nearly 1,000 tapes on shelves and boxed up I had already recorded over 20 years and never watched, and stopped recording stuff off the air and satellite. Still have not opened a box yet. What a waste. But I broke my habit.

A friend just asked me about the hundreds of video tape copies of movies, she got from her uncle.
I replied that the quality probably wouldn't be that good. I seems to me that, the longer the tapes are kept after being recorded, the picture quality diminishes. Especially, when recorded in the SLP speed.
Factory made pre-recorded tapes, held up much better.

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

A friend just asked me about the hundreds of video tape copies of movies, she got from her uncle.
I replied that the quality probably wouldn't be that good. I seems to me that, the longer the tapes are kept after being recorded, the picture quality diminishes. Especially, when recorded in the SLP speed.
Factory made pre-recorded tapes, held up much better.

Yep those skinny 19 micron-wide tracks at SLP just don't retain as much magnetic flux as the 58 micron-wide tracks laid down on the tape by dedicated duplicating machines. SP tapes recorded on a 4 head machine should do as well as pre-recorded tapes though. Plus SLP (EP) 19 micron tracks require more precise tape path alignment for decent interchange between different playback VCRs.