What did you do with your old vhs tapes after converting the

[neuz]

I was just curious, what you have done with your old VHS or camcorder tapes after you converted everything to DVD. Did you throw them away? Did you put them in a box in your controlled enviroment? Do you still use them?


Thanks,

Neuz

[macleod]

I keep them. You just never know. It's kinda the mentality that they had in the 90's with a paperless society initiative. That initiative caused people to print out more paper.

[indolikaa]

They're kept in 'The Vault' for future testing.

[andyp1]

I read on one topic that our DVD discs are going to stop workig in the next 1 to 3 years due to cheap discs or bad dye , so maybe we should keep all our tapes incase we need to back them up again in a year or two. I'l try and find the topic and put a link to it.

[Will Hay]

I read on one topic that our DVD discs are going to stop workig in the next 1 to 3 years due to cheap discs or bad dye , so maybe we should keep all our tapes incase we need to back them up again in a year or two. I'l try and find the topic and put a link to it.

Don't bother
It's scaremongering.
The tapes are going to deteriorate quicker than any DVD ever would.
To answer the thread question....
....I bin mine, unless they're family moments.
The conversion of movies from VHS get binned.
The ones I felt I didn't want anymore and didn't backup filled three black binl liners.
Will Hay

[WuphonsReach]

I read on one topic that our DVD discs are going to stop workig in the next 1 to 3 years due to cheap discs or bad dye , so maybe we should keep all our tapes incase we need to back them up again in a year or two. I'l try and find the topic and put a link to it.

If you're worried about disc longevity, hedge your bets by either burning a 2nd copy, or using QuickPar to put PAR2 recovery files in the VIDEO_TS folder. (YMMV on that, some people move the PAR2 files to another folder on the DVD, I've had zero issues leaving the PAR2 files in the VIDEO_TS folder.) Then you can periodically verify the content of the disc and hopefully repair any damage that you detect (copying the repaired files to new media).

As for the video tapes... if it's a TV episode, the tape goes back in the re-use bin for a few more cycles, if it's unique footage (news event, personal camcorder), it goes in a dry cool dark place for long-term storage. Anything that I can replace commercially gets trash bin'd.

[redwudz]

I bulk erase them and give them to people that still use VHS.

[Almost Human]

All of my old Dr Who, The Prisoner, and the earliest MTV videos got media mailed to my son. All the old PBS Mystery series Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, Poirot, and the Charlie Chan movies I gave to my sister. The other old tapes went in the trash, newer ones will possibly be reused.

[dwight55]

Not only am I saving the original 8mm video tapes, but they were previously burned to VHS and I will archive them all. The thread earlier this week about the dye being bad, etc, etc, may be bummersville, but just in case, . . . still got my tapes. You should too, don't cost anything to keep em.

May God bless,

Dwight

[fmctm1sw]

I read on one topic that our DVD discs are going to stop workig in the next 1 to 3 years due to cheap discs or bad dye , so maybe we should keep all our tapes incase we need to back them up again in a year or two. I'l try and find the topic and put a link to it.

Don't bother
It's scaremongering.

No it ain't Will. BTW, please check out my left over stock of Y2K survival kits I had up on ebay a few years back. They will also work for Y3K... Better stock up now!

As for my tapes... I mailed them all to the MPAA. I felt guilty about making copies of copyrighted material....

[budz]

I'm dumping my vhs and betamax tapes after I convert them to dvd. I had mostly betamax tapes than vhs. I'm currently renting a betamax because no parts to fix the betamax I own. No sense in me keeping the betamax tapes. I got lots of music videos of the 80's. The start of the MTV era!

I have to say the betamax resolution is by far better than vhs. That's just my opinion. No, I don't wanna start a vhs vs betamax war on this forum site.

[lordsmurf]

Degauss, reuse ... or trash .. save a few rare ones

[vivisimonvi]

I like George Carlin's reference to the meaning of owning a house:

"just a place to keep your stuff"

Ever since VCD's birth I've considered tossing the tapes, I'm lucky I didn't. Then XVCD (redoing the whole process over again), SVCD... I think I'll stop with DVD. My tapes sit in a pile in the corner of my room, just waiting to be thrown away... but I just CAN'T!!!!

In response to a post above, home video tapes seem to last a LONG time, even longer than a few year old CD-R's I have that are unreadable. After watching a 15 year old family tape, the quality seems as if it was recorded that same year. No "aged" deterioration whatsoever (these tapes are kept under 'normal' conditions). This doesn't apply to TV recorded stuff from years ago (and movies before Macrovision), I wonder why... ????? The quality on these have seriously gone downhill! I'd only toss THOSE tapes away after converting.