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VHS Movies

  • 30-11-2008 5:07pm
    #1
    nouveau_4.0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 162 ✭✭


    Does anybody use VHS anymore?

    Moving house at the moment and can't justify lugging my VHS movie collection to the new house. But I can't face throwing them out either!

    Does anybody have any use for them, or are they just fit for the bin?


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  • #2
    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Give them to one of your local charity shops.
    I have a heap of films on vhs and a lot of them were not re released on dvd so I would not part with them.


  • #3
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    a lot of them were not re released on dvd

    It's amazing how many old movies were available on VHS but have still to arrive on DVD.


  • #4
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Nolanger wrote: »
    It's amazing how many old movies were available on VHS but have still to arrive on DVD.

    There are? In my experience pretty much everything you could ever want is available on DVD at this stage. Granted you'll have to switch regions for certain titles but I'm sure at this point that the library of DVD's available is far greater than that of VHS ever was.
    Does anybody have any use for them, or are they just fit for the bin?
    They're not fit for the bin, but I would encourage getting rid of them (at least most of them).

    OP I would suggest cross-reffing your vhs collection with the DVD's available at Amazon.co.uk. Then hang on only to anything not listed there. The rest just give to a charity shop. If you find in time that you want one/some of the donated titles then you can at least pick up the DVD (probably for a song too).


  • #5
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


    The Snapper is one that I could never get on DVD. Was it released as such? Would love to have a DVD copy.


  • #6
    Irlbo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 347 ✭✭Irlbo


    Ive alot of VHS you cant get or find hard to get on DVD


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  • #7
    Running Bing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,841 ✭✭✭Running Bing


    kraggy wrote: »
    The Snapper is one that I could never get on DVD. Was it released as such? Would love to have a DVD copy.

    http://www.amazon.com/Snapper-Colm-Meaney/dp/B00005R87D/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1228127972&sr=8-1


    As pigman says I cant imagine there is much stuff not available on DVD now, people always say there is but I imagine it is more wishful sentimentality than anything else.;)

    Im very into my obscure stuff (silent film, exploitation film, obscure foreign stuff) and I have never come across anything I wanted that was on VHS but not DVD.


  • #8
    redfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 752 ✭✭✭redfan


    i went down never out on dvd lads.


  • #9
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Pigman II wrote: »
    There are? In my experience pretty much everything you could ever want is available on DVD at this stage.

    There's 1000s of old movies unavailable on DVD.
    Not everyone is just satisfied with Empire Magazine's top 100 movies of all time.


  • #10
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Nolanger wrote: »
    There's 1000s of old movies unavailable on DVD.
    Not everyone is just satisfied with Empire Magazine's top 100 movies of all time.

    Empire's list does have old stuff (eg from the 70's 80's and 90's).


  • #11
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Pigman II wrote: »
    Empire's list does have old stuff (eg from the 70's 80's and 90's).

    That's the problem - "old stuff" should be from the '20s to the '60s - of which only the famous movies are available on DVD.


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  • #12
    Varkov
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,263 ✭✭✭Varkov


    Leave them on the roof of your shed. Birds can use them as insulation during winter


  • #13
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    Nolanger wrote: »
    That's the problem - "old stuff" should be from the '20s to the '60s - of which only the famous movies are available on DVD.

    That's ok tho. Most of that old stuff wasn't very good anyway. Too much acting, not enough action most times.


  • #14
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,753 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    Can you not convert your VHS to DVD's?
    I have a DVD recorder and record old films whenever they're on so I have a nice DVD collection of films that aren't on DVD. (for my own personal use only- piracy is a CRIME) :eek:


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