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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Aug 6, 2014 9:44:25 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 It might be the same one that's near me in the Thames/Southern border area, shall we say!
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Post by peterhuffman on Aug 10, 2014 4:43:54 GMT
I am in the US and used to work for a thrift store. We accepted VHS tapes and sold them (and still do), but home-recorded tapes were deemed unacceptable to sell. The same went for home-recorded audio cassettes. The rationale behind this was that if any unsavory footage was found on a tape bought in the store, the thrift store might be deemed liable for selling the tape to the customer. Not sure if that's really how it would work, though.
Anyway, all home-recorded VHS tapes during the time I was there were thrown away. I tried to save any that I thought might be of historical interest, but nothing much turned up. There is a good chance that the policy is in place there and in the majority of thrift stores, though I have heard of some who do not care what goes onto their shelves.
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Post by Richard Marple on Aug 10, 2014 9:23:28 GMT
I did hear about Americans trying to collect the original network screenings of shows at programmes are often edited when syndicated. This was before dvd box sets became available.
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Post by peterhuffman on Aug 11, 2014 1:54:22 GMT
I did hear about Americans trying to collect the original network screenings of shows at programmes are often edited when syndicated. This was before dvd box sets became available. Wouldn't surprise me. Of course, it's still quite a common occurrence for out-of-country shows to be edited before being released in other countries (sometimes due to music rights or just time constraints). Then there are those shows which were likely to have been taped during their original run, but have not been released in their home country in whole or in part. St. Elsewhere is a great example of this - anything past season 1 has not been released in the US, but is available in Europe. I imagine the sort of people who obsessively taped soap operas had medical drama counterparts...!
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Post by Richard Marple on Aug 11, 2014 12:52:08 GMT
Certainly shows that used a lot of music have been edited a lot for the DVDs. Daria is one example, aloing with the Wonder Years.
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Post by Steven Sigel on Aug 12, 2014 20:06:47 GMT
I did hear about Americans trying to collect the original network screenings of shows at programmes are often edited when syndicated. This was before dvd box sets became available. I collect network prints on 16mm film of some 50s and 60s tv shows. Great fun to watch, especially the shows with cast-spots (where the commercial is either part of the show, or features the cast of the show)
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Post by Steven Flavell on Oct 23, 2014 11:44:16 GMT
I work in a charity shop and aside from the fact that VHS tapes just don't sell any more, they take up an awful lot of room. If you have a shelf that will hold 10 VHS tapes or 30 DVD's which is most likely to sell? That's how I have to look at it. Am I using that space correctly with things that will make money or just filling it with unmovable stock on the off chance? That said, any old home recorded material I will check if the tapes look old enough. Currently going through a tape with some old film on with continuity and an ad for RadioTimes leading into the first screening of the first episode of Yes, Prime Minister on BBC2. Nothing too Earth shattering but nice to have. If I hadn't been there that day the tapes would have gone in the bin. As for vinyl, we don't sell it due to lack of space. Most of what comes in is again unsalable stuff. However, I will put out anything I think does have a market. A mis-pressed copy of With The Beatles for example.
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Post by Nick Cooper on Oct 23, 2014 12:34:30 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. The British Heart Foundation definitely takes VCRs, as they sell them in the large furniture/homeware stores. Whenever I pass my local one, I always check to see what they have, and have picked up a couple of Pansonic S-VHS machines for £15-20 each. There's usually three or four standard VHs decks at any given time, but the stock obviously cycles fairly frequently, so there is clearly still a demand.
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Post by John Green on Oct 23, 2014 16:39:01 GMT
There were charity shops I traveled to because they sold VHS tapes.Since they don't sell them anymore,I no longer bother,which means the shops don't sell me any DVDs,books,or trouser-presses either.
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Post by Rob Moss on Oct 23, 2014 16:45:31 GMT
Did you buy a lot of trouser presses, John..?
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Post by markboulton on Oct 23, 2014 17:20:19 GMT
There was a charity shop in Kensington who used to have hundreds of 78s stacked up against the wall... I was slowly, but surely, bagging a few here and there as money permitted. Didn't go for a couple of months, then when I last went in... ALL GONE. Also nowhere to be found was the rack where all the 50s Jazz LPs used to be. I asked the lady in there where all these things had gone to, and of course you know what's coming next... Totally mystified look, with "we've never had anything like that that I'm aware of".
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Post by markboulton on Oct 23, 2014 17:26:47 GMT
I did manage to get a few Decca Stereo 60s LPs, stickered with "Deleted Record... Return to Library" from another charity shop nearby though! One with a test pressing label too! Plus a stack of late 50s/early 60s EMI stereo LPs for 50p each from a shop in Marlow. Sounds like a great shop, but the reason I got them for that price is because the lady in the shop just saw them as "those old things". They were mint. Absolutely mint. stereo. 1958-62. 50p each. She was middle aged too. This is the problem. No value is attached to old media at all in charity shops. Which means these days they mostly just chuck it out.
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Post by Richard Marple on Oct 23, 2014 19:59:10 GMT
Either that or charity shops price them well over the price they should be. I guess they had a price guide but assumed the mint price was for all examples, or looked on ebay for an idea of a price.
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Post by John Green on Oct 23, 2014 20:29:52 GMT
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Post by markboulton on Oct 24, 2014 16:39:04 GMT
Can't have too much of a good thing! But how do you find room for all the toilets?!
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