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John Toma | NOSTALGIA NATION's avatar

Great post! I thought I was the only one that collected in this niche when I found random tapes like this!! Definitely a niche thing, but I enjoy it. I have been considering growing my vhs collection, but I've had a few of these tapes destroy my VCR in the past... Great to see others are into this also!

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You are not alone. They are not as common, but I never pass up a tape with a home recording on it. I had fears of damaging my favorite VCR and Cassette decks. So I eventually picked up a decent slightly modern VCR and cassette deck at goodwill for 5 bucks to do any testing I might have with questionable tapes.

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John Toma | NOSTALGIA NATION's avatar

Funny you said thatтАж I recently picked up a back up VCR. I should have done this a while back lol

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Retroist's avatar

As you probably know as a collector, it starts with one backup VCR and then two and then....

:)

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