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In Reply to: OLD VHS TAPES: What to Know! posted by Frank2001 on August 22, 2001 at 20:05:51:
There are tapes here from the 80's, not played for 10 years which come out recording better than new. Nearly all are Maxell & TDK. As for BASF, I had to throw out the last one yesterday & it was only about 5 years old.However I concede that care is needed in storage temperatures but have not yet found the winding/rewinding bit necessary. Has anyone?
John
Follow Ups:
Greetings John C. and Thanx,You are right about TDK's and Maxell's from the 80's. The ones that I have from as far back as 1983 do seem to be holding up well. And most of my Scotch's, BASF's, Memorex's and some others also seem OK, although with them it is a tape-to-tape thing.
But it is the Ampex 189's (ALL-Gray) and Ampex Rainbow-on-a-Black Box from the 80's that are all dying on me. You can ONLY play them back on any Sharp VCR that uses the Mid-Drive Assembly, but that too is a tape-to-tape thing. The Sharp is amazingly tolerant with most of the Ampex tapes. However, some Ampex Tapes wouldn't play/wind at all in the Sharp, so it was bye-bye for them.
I have many Ampex's that are going to be trashed because the deterioration they are experiencing. I will be able to transfer some stuff to modern tapes, but a lot of other things are now irretrievably lost.
Thanx-A-Lot and Enjoy,
Frank
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I'd sware that it was buried several pages back by now!
Thanx-A-Lot and Enjoy,
Frank
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