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Old 07-20-2012, 11:30 PM
 
Location: Texas
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I went to an estate sale today and they had tons of tapes for 50 cents apiece...
including one 1950s movie [now out of production] that I have been wanting for years.
Amazon sells vintage copies of it for $20 and up.... but I paid 50 cents.


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Old 07-21-2012, 12:34 AM
 
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Good,im glad ya got a good deal!
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Old 07-24-2012, 07:06 PM
 
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I went to an estate sale today and they had tons of tapes for 50 cents apiece...
including one 1950s movie [now out of production] that I have been wanting for years.
Amazon sells vintage copies of it for $20 and up.... but I paid 50 cents.


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And probably many more will never be released on DVD or future formats.
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Old 07-26-2012, 09:56 AM
 
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And probably many more will never be released on DVD or future formats.
Yep. Facets rents a lot of art product and with some of it you have to be willing to go with the VCR tapes and pay for extra shipping costs. A lot of releases never generated enough interest to make them financially viable for subsequent release.
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Old 07-29-2012, 12:18 PM
 
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And probably many more will never be released on DVD or future formats.

Yes, and those that are released on DVD sometimes don't have the same quality.

I have some great movies I taped from TV over a decade ago, that can not be found anywhere.
When I do a search, I find other people also looking for them.



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Old 07-29-2012, 12:47 PM
 
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Yes, and those that are released on DVD sometimes don't have the same quality.
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Technically speaking VHS is not in the same ballpark as the best available on DVD. Having said that many releases simply weren't encoded very well especially if they were early releases.
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Old 07-29-2012, 06:03 PM
 
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Yes, and those that are released on DVD sometimes don't have the same quality.
No they certainly do not.... They are crap compared to a good VHS analogue copy!
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Old 07-29-2012, 08:43 PM
 
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sounds like your tracking is off. try adjusting or if your vcr/remote doesnt have a tracking adjustor use the channel up/down.
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Old 07-31-2012, 02:53 PM
 
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Yup that usually fixs things like that.... On mine i also have an "Auto adjust" button,if i press it,the VCR automatically corrects bad tracking.....
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Old 11-09-2012, 01:02 AM
 
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Nothing beats a good VCR. Scre w you bluray and hd video!!
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