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Post by briancook on Aug 5, 2014 7:25:30 GMT
I was disappointed to find that a national charity shop and others no longer take videos or vcr's and that recycling points at supermarkets now no longer do either.
This poses the question whats going to happen to those tapes now? I know oxfam n the past have had an excellent spotter system in place for 'unusual' donations and are trained to spot rare items, but it looks like another source of collecting missing tv is going to be lost forever.
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Post by Joe Haynes on Aug 5, 2014 7:37:12 GMT
The problem is that charity shops get thousands of VHS and no one buys them. My local shop gave away all their VHS stock and it took about 4 weeks for most stuff to disappear. The removal of VHS from Charity shops has been happening for a few years now. Also most charity shops would never take in home recorded VHS as it infringed copywrite.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Aug 5, 2014 8:16:41 GMT
Some of the smallest charity shops and most rural ones still have them. But they are a dying obsolescent format.
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Post by John Green on Aug 5, 2014 8:54:34 GMT
We've just had (another) new charity shop open,and they sell videos.Two of my sons are autistic,and can't use DVDs without damaging them,so it's as well for us that there are still videos around.There's still material which came out on VCR but has yet to be released on DVD e.g. lots of 'Rosie and Jim' and 'Tots TV'.
Whenever home-recorded tapes come in,I try to have a look before they get chucked,just in case there's something missing there-or something I want to watch.There was a panic a few years ago when tapes labelled as Hollywood musicals-Calamity Jane,Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,The Unsinkable Molly Brown-turned out to be porn.
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Post by PAUL COTTON on Aug 5, 2014 10:03:43 GMT
Charities sometimes cycle stock between shops in different towns/cities. One charity recently accepted a donation of videos from me on the basis that they would sell in one of their city shops.
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Post by RWels on Aug 5, 2014 11:07:59 GMT
But how many of these tapes would have missing material? Precious few, I fear.
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Post by John Green on Aug 5, 2014 12:16:16 GMT
But how many of these tapes would have missing material? Precious few, I fear. It's true,though from my point of view I.m also keen on material which survives,but hasn't been released. |
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Post by RWels on Aug 5, 2014 15:14:17 GMT
But how many of these tapes would have missing material? Precious few, I fear. It's true,though from my point of view I.m also keen on material which survives,but hasn't been released. That's something I totally agree with. But the same problem applies: How to find that one tape that does not have, say, a late '90s repeat of Friends on it, but a never seen again program from 1982? What's the expression, too many cook spoil the broth? |
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Post by John Green on Aug 5, 2014 15:40:08 GMT
It's true,though from my point of view I.m also keen on material which survives,but hasn't been released. That's something I totally agree with. But the same problem applies: How to find that one tape that does not have, say, a late '90s repeat of Friends on it, but a never seen again program from 1982? What's the expression, too many cook spoil the broth? Yeah,the heydays of home-taped days are over; at least I was lucky enough to buy loads of TCM movies from the days whwn they were on a par with the U.S. network,which means I've still got a few movies for which people are demanding release. A glance will usually tell one the date of most of the shows in a collection.If the top half-dozen are 'Friends' then there's unlikely to be much of interest.Though I suppose one can like Friends AND Jools Holland. |
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Post by Patrick Coles on Aug 5, 2014 17:18:09 GMT
sadly it seems the VHS format has now gone the way of the cassette and even (in some charity shops) the vinyl LP & singles !
ANY material released only on VHS tape & not on DVD will effectively become rare or 'lost'....then at some point people will be eagerly trying to track down 'lost' items (and the circle goes around and around...)
Vinyl was supposedly 'killed off' by the advent of the compact disc (tho' I always found CDs were more prone to becoming faulty or unplayable than vinyl ever was) - and maybe DVDs or even Blu ray etc, will prove over time to be not as great as is currently envisaged (we can only guess) - but rare albums DO still have a market even if some charity shops don't see it - while others go way OTT re prices, I've seen 'budget priced' Elvis albums being way over priced....and likewise items such as 'non collectable' era later Rupert Bear annuals etc - they become aware something may be 'collectable' or sought after, and assume everything related to that subject must be ! - a little knowledge can be dangerous....
I find alot of charity shops these days have had these posh 'makeovers' then they are thereafter nowhere near the same interesting shops as the darker dingy older versions were....
while vinyl & VHS have in many cases been it seems somewhat 'snootily' dropped, indeed a good number of charity shops seem to have now become very 'corporate' (you can always spot the salaried management staff as opposed to the more casually dressed volunteers !)
To me the heyday of a good rummige through decent charity shops has now passed, and the current versions are rather too 'made-over' and often too pricey to appeal as they once did a few years ago ...no doubt the customers duly then paying for the shop 'make overs'
- a great pity as the very worthwhile causes these shops represent now badly need support more than ever...
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Post by John Green on Aug 5, 2014 20:54:16 GMT
I'm waiting for Kaleidoscope to open a 'new to you' shop as a cover to wait for some poor old soul to innocently ask: "My husband used to record all the old programmes.They're not the proper tapes even,they're those funny square ones.I don't suppose they're any use to you?".
Look for a 'funny old video machine' to appear in the retro room at your local charity shop,to be bought as a novelty item,not a functioning piece of machinery.
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Post by Ian Wegg on Aug 5, 2014 21:31:14 GMT
sadly it seems the VHS format has now gone the way of the cassette and even (in some charity shops) the vinyl LP & singles ! Certainly true for VHS but vinyl is still very much alive around my way. There is even an Oxfam near me that now specialises in nothing but books and vinyl, I've picked up quite a few good singles there. ~iw |
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Post by Marty Schultz on Aug 6, 2014 6:29:48 GMT
My local shop gives me any VHS home recordings they get. The reason is because ANYTHING could be on the tape. I get a couple a month - unfortunately nothing missing or pornographic... yet.
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Post by Alan Turrell on Aug 6, 2014 7:31:22 GMT
sadly it seems the VHS format has now gone the way of the cassette and even (in some charity shops) the vinyl LP & singles ! Certainly true for VHS but vinyl is still very much alive around my way. There is even an Oxfam near me that now specialises in nothing but books and vinyl, I've picked up quite a few good singles there. ~iw Yes totally agree Ian vinyl is most certainly still alive i can vouch for that. |
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Post by johnnyharley on Aug 6, 2014 7:52:52 GMT
Charity shops in my area refuse to take anything like VHS tapes and have posters on their doors to confirm this! Apparently they cannot sell the things! Now wish I could convince my mother...
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