Little bit of charity shop goodness this week😊

[patloz]

The signal was recorded at a level to make any slight degradation show the flashing colours, not the quality of the tape itself.

I don’t know either way on better physical media for rental but it would make sense given the amount of times they were going to be played.

Was in the loft recently and as always found a dozen things I forgot I had but not the thing I wanted, one of the things I dug up was a Macrovision remover for copying protected VHS tapes, will get a picture of it if any of you Macro vision nerds wants to see it, oozes 80;s charm in hearing aid beige and chrome knobs.

I remember thinking I was pirate master when i got it but after wasting an entire weekend copying tapes which I sold for less than the cost of hiring the films never mind the cost of the tapes I sort of lost enthusiasm.

I did have a flurry of sales when I got Reservoir Dogs and Clock Work Orange from a holiday in Malta as they were both unavailable in the UK at the time, even got my Nan involved swapping the tapes over due to the back orders.😁

Also found a big box VHS of Death race 2000 and one called Sakura killers which box art looks suspiciously like Shinobi.

 

[Bods]

The local video shop we used had a VHS duplicating machine and they rented out the screener tapes

I still have a small box I used when transferred some VHS to DVD, before that when I recorded tapes I borrowed from work, all you needed was certain make/model vhs recorders that removed protection, even Disney ones, certain Ferguson did and some of the Philips

 

[pooman2084]

The local video shop we used had a VHS duplicating machine and they rented out the screener tapes

I still have a small box I used when transferred some VHS to DVD, before that when I recorded tapes I borrowed from work, all you needed was certain make/model vhs recorders that removed protection, even Disney ones, certain Ferguson did and some of the Philips

Wish I knew this back in the 80s!

 

[Retroman839]

My friend had a vcr that did the same ..
The first one they did was commando

 

[hungar]

Wow Gremlins big box takes me back, I used to have that. My Nan used to live next to a video shop I'd often get old VHS for Birthdays and Christmas

 

[Retroman839]

Wow Gremlins big box takes me back, I used to have that. My Nan used to live next to a video shop I'd often get old VHS for Birthdays and Christmas

Good times 😃