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Unfortunately no, I actually bought these for that same purpose but I think the seller pulled a fast one on me. He claimed there was stuff from the late 70's, but all of the tapes were from 1981 on. Most of the movies are either from pay-per-view or copies of rental tapes (some are even from demo tapes that say "not for rental" in mid-movie, not sure where these came from.....). Out of 200+ tapes I only found 2 or 3 with commercials, one was from A&E in the late 80's, the other was from CTV in the mid 90's.
These tapes were not local, so I had someone pick them up for me.... if I'd seen them in person, I probably would have realized what was really on them and taken a pass. Obviously I can't sell bootleg movies so the only other option is to erase them and sell as blank tape.
Pirate copying seems to have been a much bigger problem with the Beta format.... I guess it must have been immune to Macrovision or other copy-protection schemes.
I'm always looking for old commercials myself, especially two that I fondly remember from the early 80s: Rust-Check ("Keeps the rusties away forever") and Smarties ("... do you eat the red ones last?"). Anyone ever come across those?
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