VCRs that will last forever

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Originally Posted by John Hafer

My first VCR was a Panasonic PV-1500 in 1979. I still have tapes I made back in 1979 and 1980 ...

So, who wants to bet my DVD recordings I made on my DVD recorder using DVD-R disks will still play 30 years from now.
John

My thoughts exactly. My first VCR was a Panasonic PV-1000 and I too have old tapes from '78-'79 on, that still play fine.

Another thought.. all the TV captured on tape from the '70s, '80s, and '90s up until DVRs took over, and that kind of archiving won't exist in the future with no more VCRs and all hard drive based DVRs...