What do you do with old VHS tapes?

[drivesafe]

What do you do with old VHS tapes, I have 200 to 300 old VHS cassette tapes, not the pre recorded type, just old TV shows and what ever.

Do you you just throw them out or is there some way of recycling them.

Note, I probably have 20 new VHS tapes that have never been used if someone wants them.

[Grizzly_Adams]

I've got a similar problem. I have a stack of old movies and TV series that I had in VHS format and I've since replaced with DVD's.

I didn't want to throw them out because they were working movies etc., so now they're just sitting around at home taking up space

[SuperMono]

Generally they get put in a cupboard somewhere and ignored for a few years.
Our daughter drags out the odd one every now and then, fires up the old player and sits around with a few friends laughing.

[Tote]

I Have a cupboard full of tapes for one of these
that I found in the shearing shed at our farm.
The sad bit is that I still remember how to do a head change on one. The stuff you learn in your apprenticeship stays in your head for a long time....

Regards,
Tote

[UncleHo]

I have a very good VHS tape of the 50th anniversary of the Normanby Landings, which I would like copied to DVD but it is copyrighted,and I don't know anybody with the tech knowhow to do it.

cheers

[Eevo]

use them to wrap peoples cars up with

put a few together and use them as a snatch straps

[rb30gtr]

What is a VHS? Is that like one of those old data storage disc thingos, think they were called CD's...



Seriously though, Planet Ark will recycle them.

[Debacle]

I have a very good VHS tape of the 50th anniversary of the Normanby Landings, which I would like copied to DVD but it is copyrighted,and I don't know anybody with the tech knowhow to do it.

cheers

You should be able to connect a vhs player to a computer with a video capture card, very cheap on ebay. Can't see why copyright would be a problem, unless it is in some weird format that the card won't recognize.

[Mick_Marsh]

I have a very good VHS tape of the 50th anniversary of the Normanby Landings, which I would like copied to DVD but it is copyrighted,and I don't know anybody with the tech knowhow to do it.

cheers

Saw this in the adds up the top.
VIDEO TO DVD, DVD TO VIDEO, Film to DVD, Records to CD, VHS to DVD, VCR to DVD, Tape to DVD

[uninformed]

yeah, but I want to know who has still got BETA