I have the original widescreen box set of Star Wars trilogy still in shrink wrap. This set has a hologram sticker on front, a book about George Lucas and a fourth VHS on the behind the scenes footage of the movies. This set came out in 1992 before widescreen was very popular. Three years later they introduced the THX version (which I also own in widescreen still shrink wrapped) and two years after the THX versions came the Special Editions that made alterations to all three movies that have stayed with the films ever since. Another of my favorite VHS tapes I own is the very first instance of James Bond. This was before Dr. No, by 8 years, kicked off the movie franchise. Casino Royale was a live action TV movie put out in 1954 on CBS' Climax anthology series.
@@ChrisCollectsStuff The Pan & Scan versions I still have as well, but those were bought when all I knew was home movies fit in a square screen. The letterbox editions I bought after DVDs started coming out and I saw the difference between the square and rectangular formats.
@@nosliwec I wasn't old enough to see the original movies in theaters so the first time I saw them widescreen was the special editions and no kidding it was like a whole new movie. Especially scenes in Jabba's Palace, there were creatures and bounty hunters I had never seen.
I really have no idea what my most expensive tape is. If i had to guess, probably Captain Scarlet Volume 7 (Distributed by Channel 5 Video from the mid-late 80s.) They’re trickier to find than the Polygram and Carlton VHS releases from the 90s and 2000s. I’m also a UK collector. We don’t actually have a lot of slipcover tapes OR clamshells, we usually had hard plastic cases. I just actually found one of my dream tapes in the wild yesterday, it’s The Rutles: All You Need is Cash. Been looking for it for months and i managed to score it for only £2.70 too. So that’s probably one of my favourites in my collection, along with Toy Story because that was my favourite film growing up
Ah, the old VHS days. VHS did serve a purpose for a while. I was lucky enough to work in a mom & pop video shop from ‘93 to ‘95, best job ever for a shiftless twentysomething film nerd! I can understand the vinyl comeback, but VHS coming back is just madness, the quality is just so inferior, unlike vinyl. Don’t get me wrong, I still have both my trusty high end Sony VCR and Pioneer LD player hooked up and ready to roll, recently refurbished even, but I only collect stuff on LD that hasn’t come out on DVD or Blu, and I only collect stuff on VHS that hasn’t come out on LD/DVD/Blu. I’ve upgraded all possible pieces of my collection to at least DVD, and most of it I’ve upgraded to Blu, slowly but surely. I have much more nostalgia for laserdisc than VHS because the video resolution is twice as good as VHS and actually still looks pretty decent on HDTVs, the audio quality is massively better, better than DVDs even, and the player won’t eat your disc. Plus, you get that big lovely LP-style jacket art. I’ve kept most of my LDs for that nostalgia factor, even though I’ve upgraded most of them. I’ll pull them out and watch them from time to time for a retro blast, like last night I watched my LD of the uncut theatrical version of Blood Simple, which is stupidly unavailable on DVD/Blu/4K. But I wouldn’t buy a laserdisc now if I could get it on DVD or Blu. I don’t have enough room for my Blu-rays and DVDs fer chrissakes!
No lies detected there. I think for me it's about finding the tapes that I had as a kid, its the hunt. I have a small tv next to my desk that vhs tapes look great on, but when I want to watch them big and on my big tv I will go to my blurays or streaming.
3:50 That depends on which clam-shell case you're talking about and which movies. Ex-hire tapes came in big, puffy, clam-shell cases. Those are usually worth far more than tapes in cardboard boxes, because the ones in cardboard cases weren't made to be played as many times. The physical magnetic tape is thicker in tapes made to hire out and they have much greater density of iron in the tape, because they were made to be played hundreds of times. If you look at the tape in ex-hire tapes, it's almost black, compared to the pale brown colour of the thinner home-release tapes. Aside from the physical differences between the tapes, the nostalgia attached to ex-hire tapes tends to make them far more sort after than home release tapes. BTW. If you want your tapes to last, it's best to store them on their edge, not flat on their back. If they're on their backs (or fronts) gravity pulls the tape down, deforming it. That also makes the tape stretch. I used to have about 700 VHS tapes. I still have about 40-40, but I replaced all the others with discs. I still have all the A Nightmare on Elm Street videos. They're all ex-hire VHS tapes. Each of them sells for many times more than they do on DVD (we can't even get the Blu-Rays of them in Australia, but the first movie is available on UHD). I also still have an original ex-hire tape of Evil Dead 2. I have no idea what that goes for. I have an original ex-hire tape of Hellraiser, but I don't have the sequel. An ex-hire copy of Hellbound: Hellraiser II is exceedingly rare. In Australia, it was released in a double tape case along with the first movie, because Hellraiser II is a direct continuation of Hellraiser. PS. You need to state which country's currency you're talking about. This is the world wide web and about eight or nine countries use dollars.
My folks worked as movie extras, they collected all the films they were in on VHS. They were in a lot of movies. I also have the VHS of , TNG , Star Trek set. I had Rodan, but it never tracked right.
Is that the going rate for you to pay someone else to take it away? I had that on VHS, but I only watched the first ten minutes or so of it. It was the biggest pile of crapolla.
@@jamesconroy7030 I was about to say, I've got one in the other room that I've had since I was in high school and it just is still rocking as if it was new. If you can't find those look for one made prior to the year 2000, and a name brand. I have also found 2 Toshiba vcr / dvd burner combos that have hdmi out. Most dvd / vcr combos with HDMI don't send the video from the vcr out the hdmi.
I had a collection of about 1500 VHS movies that took up an entire room. I worked at blockbuster between 96-99. I threw out most of those and kept about 8. There is simply no reason to keep an inferior platform. At this time I have about 7000 DVD/RB that has had their cases chucked and all are in 14x CD wallets but everything at this point has been ripped and moved over to to my Plex system.
I agree, for most people it makes no sense to keep an outdated format for their primary viewing. My dvd and blu rays are all ripped on a plex as well. But sometimes when I work at my desk I love to pop in a vhs and watch the old trailers and promos.
I got one that might be a collectible not sure. It’s a random 80s cartoon movie that’s not too well known. I got GoBots Battle of the Rock Lords movie. Random but I’m glad I got it cause it don’t look like it’s streaming anywhere
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Do you collect vhs? What’s your favorite from your collection?
The colorized 1933 King Kong. When you squeeze his chest on the cover he roars. Or at least he did until the battery died.
@@geraldmartin7703 What!!! That's incredible
In Melbourne Australia in 2025, dvd is dirt cheap in Thrift stores.
VHS only seems to be on ebay.
I have the original widescreen box set of Star Wars trilogy still in shrink wrap. This set has a hologram sticker on front, a book about George Lucas and a fourth VHS on the behind the scenes footage of the movies. This set came out in 1992 before widescreen was very popular. Three years later they introduced the THX version (which I also own in widescreen still shrink wrapped) and two years after the THX versions came the Special Editions that made alterations to all three movies that have stayed with the films ever since.
Another of my favorite VHS tapes I own is the very first instance of James Bond. This was before Dr. No, by 8 years, kicked off the movie franchise. Casino Royale was a live action TV movie put out in 1954 on CBS' Climax anthology series.
I love this. I also have nearly every Star Wars release but not still sealed. That's awesome!
@@ChrisCollectsStuff The Pan & Scan versions I still have as well, but those were bought when all I knew was home movies fit in a square screen. The letterbox editions I bought after DVDs started coming out and I saw the difference between the square and rectangular formats.
@@nosliwec I wasn't old enough to see the original movies in theaters so the first time I saw them widescreen was the special editions and no kidding it was like a whole new movie. Especially scenes in Jabba's Palace, there were creatures and bounty hunters I had never seen.
Dope video!
Thanks!
I really have no idea what my most expensive tape is. If i had to guess, probably Captain Scarlet Volume 7 (Distributed by Channel 5 Video from the mid-late 80s.) They’re trickier to find than the Polygram and Carlton VHS releases from the 90s and 2000s. I’m also a UK collector. We don’t actually have a lot of slipcover tapes OR clamshells, we usually had hard plastic cases.
I just actually found one of my dream tapes in the wild yesterday, it’s The Rutles: All You Need is Cash. Been looking for it for months and i managed to score it for only £2.70 too. So that’s probably one of my favourites in my collection, along with Toy Story because that was my favourite film growing up
Interesting!! I need to look into those, I am so oblivious to other markers! Thanks for sharing.
Ah, the old VHS days. VHS did serve a purpose for a while. I was lucky enough to work in a mom & pop video shop from ‘93 to ‘95, best job ever for a shiftless twentysomething film nerd! I can understand the vinyl comeback, but VHS coming back is just madness, the quality is just so inferior, unlike vinyl. Don’t get me wrong, I still have both my trusty high end Sony VCR and Pioneer LD player hooked up and ready to roll, recently refurbished even, but I only collect stuff on LD that hasn’t come out on DVD or Blu, and I only collect stuff on VHS that hasn’t come out on LD/DVD/Blu. I’ve upgraded all possible pieces of my collection to at least DVD, and most of it I’ve upgraded to Blu, slowly but surely. I have much more nostalgia for laserdisc than VHS because the video resolution is twice as good as VHS and actually still looks pretty decent on HDTVs, the audio quality is massively better, better than DVDs even, and the player won’t eat your disc. Plus, you get that big lovely LP-style jacket art. I’ve kept most of my LDs for that nostalgia factor, even though I’ve upgraded most of them. I’ll pull them out and watch them from time to time for a retro blast, like last night I watched my LD of the uncut theatrical version of Blood Simple, which is stupidly unavailable on DVD/Blu/4K. But I wouldn’t buy a laserdisc now if I could get it on DVD or Blu. I don’t have enough room for my Blu-rays and DVDs fer chrissakes!
No lies detected there. I think for me it's about finding the tapes that I had as a kid, its the hunt. I have a small tv next to my desk that vhs tapes look great on, but when I want to watch them big and on my big tv I will go to my blurays or streaming.
3:50 That depends on which clam-shell case you're talking about and which movies.
Ex-hire tapes came in big, puffy, clam-shell cases. Those are usually worth far more than tapes in cardboard boxes, because the ones in cardboard cases weren't made to be played as many times.
The physical magnetic tape is thicker in tapes made to hire out and they have much greater density of iron in the tape, because they were made to be played hundreds of times.
If you look at the tape in ex-hire tapes, it's almost black, compared to the pale brown colour of the thinner home-release tapes.
Aside from the physical differences between the tapes, the nostalgia attached to ex-hire tapes tends to make them far more sort after than home release tapes.
BTW. If you want your tapes to last, it's best to store them on their edge, not flat on their back. If they're on their backs (or fronts) gravity pulls the tape down, deforming it. That also makes the tape stretch.
I used to have about 700 VHS tapes. I still have about 40-40, but I replaced all the others with discs.
I still have all the A Nightmare on Elm Street videos. They're all ex-hire VHS tapes. Each of them sells for many times more than they do on DVD (we can't even get the Blu-Rays of them in Australia, but the first movie is available on UHD).
I also still have an original ex-hire tape of Evil Dead 2. I have no idea what that goes for. I have an original ex-hire tape of Hellraiser, but I don't have the sequel. An ex-hire copy of Hellbound: Hellraiser II is exceedingly rare. In Australia, it was released in a double tape case along with the first movie, because Hellraiser II is a direct continuation of Hellraiser.
PS. You need to state which country's currency you're talking about. This is the world wide web and about eight or nine countries use dollars.
Thanks for all of that!
Not a VHS collector but I was happy to find a 1988 Secret of NIMH VHS for $3.
That's a great find!
My folks worked as movie extras, they collected all the films they were in on VHS. They were in a lot of movies. I also have the VHS of , TNG , Star Trek set. I had Rodan, but it never tracked right.
@@IvorPresents that is so cool! What a fun way to look back at their work too.
I have about 5 thousand VHS tapes wanna play
@@anthonyshook9184 that’s an incredible collection! I’ve only just begun the last couple of years.
My most valuable tape is Nudist Colony of the Dead. Worth $300
Dang! That is a great one.
WOW!!!! Nice!
Is that the going rate for you to pay someone else to take it away?
I had that on VHS, but I only watched the first ten minutes or so of it. It was the biggest pile of crapolla.
Coolest Glasses on RUclips!!!
@@dfearn09 thanks!!
Which brand of VHS player would you recommend that a new hobbyist go for?
Panasonic Omnivision.
@@jamesconroy7030 I was about to say, I've got one in the other room that I've had since I was in high school and it just is still rocking as if it was new. If you can't find those look for one made prior to the year 2000, and a name brand. I have also found 2 Toshiba vcr / dvd burner combos that have hdmi out. Most dvd / vcr combos with HDMI don't send the video from the vcr out the hdmi.
@@ChrisCollectsStuff I agree. The Panasonic Omnivision is unbeatable.
I’ve had a Sharp VCR for over five years and it’s great. Never chewed a single tape. It’s had playback issues occasionally but that’s a simple fix.
i have the Wizard ; & the Army of Darkness on VHS 😁 Maniac too, all of them found in the wild ; pd 25 cent to a dollar for each
What a steal!!!
Like Alien Romulus, Ridley Scott's Napoleon 2023 is getting a brand new VHS release!
I think I heard a24 was also going to do some vhs releases.
I had a collection of about 1500 VHS movies that took up an entire room. I worked at blockbuster between 96-99. I threw out most of those and kept about 8. There is simply no reason to keep an inferior platform. At this time I have about 7000 DVD/RB that has had their cases chucked and all are in 14x CD wallets but everything at this point has been ripped and moved over to to my Plex system.
I agree, for most people it makes no sense to keep an outdated format for their primary viewing. My dvd and blu rays are all ripped on a plex as well. But sometimes when I work at my desk I love to pop in a vhs and watch the old trailers and promos.
I got one that might be a collectible not sure. It’s a random 80s cartoon movie that’s not too well known. I got GoBots Battle of the Rock Lords movie. Random but I’m glad I got it cause it don’t look like it’s streaming anywhere
I have never seen a Gobots vhs! I remember one time getting a go-bot for a birthday present once and I was so disapointed lol