What should I do with these VHS Tapes?

When I lost my house last year I had well over 130 VHS tapes. , what I did was go through each one and kept all the ones that were of my children's special events, like reconciliation, and communions. The rest I took over to my church and donated them to anyone who would want them. There was a large assortment of cartoons, horror and comedy. The way I saw it is that I would probably never see them again, and or own a VCR again, so I just gave them to people who would want them. What they do thereafter is okay by me as I probably would have discarded them at some point. If you have the space I suppose you can just save them, if you like but if you don't then offer them to people who will want them and still own the VCR's some people still do. I did have a few favorites in there also, I just could not afford storage and did not have anyone who could store for me along side a full house of many other things.

Do you want to keep them? Maybe you can find a store that can convert them into dvds for you and then after that you maybe can pawn the tapes or something to get a little extra cash out of it.

You can still get VHS players. My daughter bought one in November. It was a DVD player Plus a VHS Player so her husband could tape football and hockey games. She got it at Wal-mart. I had a friend convert some home movies from VHS to DVDs too.So it can be done. According to him the problem with converting most movie is that most blank DVDs only hold about 1 and 1/2 hours.

The trouble I found was that my old VHS tape player had bad heads or something and the playback was all jerky and with white bars across the screen. I also think some of the old tapes had degraded and the picture quality was poor. If it was just a film or a TV program then that is not a problem as you can get all of those. My problem was that some tapes were of weddings and home movies which we wanted to copy. I bought a Panasonic VHS/DVD/hard drive recording machine to record TV programs but also to convert old VHS tapes and this it does really well once you have learned the quirks. It only works with DVD+R discs and then only with some top brands. You really could do with having a PhD in IT to make sense of the manual but after a while I got it to work. What was a bit disappointing was the poor quality of the VHS recordings compared to modern digital cameras but still some of the movies were still priceless.

I think I've seen some shops that convert VHS into CD or DVD. If you're near MetroManila, I think there are shops that do that. For movie VHS tapes, it's okay because they are reproduced in CD and DVD. But, for VHS (and even Beta tapes, remember those?) that were shot at home, they really need to be well taken care of and converted to CD or DVD format as they contain precious memories. If you can't find the shops, better keep the VHS tapes. You know, today's junk is tomorrow's precious antiques.

Hello LK, You have options sell it to a scrap yard but it will just cost little amount per kilo or you can convert it to cd/dvd that will cost you too much. You can go to Recto or ask a photograph and video coverage store if they are offering this kind of services, i think Kodak offers this kind of services. Happy posting

I used to watch videos on VHS tape when I was a kid, that was back in 80s where CDs and DVD has not existed yet. I still kept only few VHS tapes, mostly from my university days where I got a project that involves recording and we have present it to the lecturer and students. I don't want to throw these tapes although I don't have VHS player anymore.

Hi Letran, Well, I just got rid of a big box of VHS tapes that I had stored in my closet. I don't have a VCR and When I moved in to this place last year, I could not bring myself to toss them. Some were some very good movies but still...I don't see myself investing in a VCR any time soon. My grandson has a VCR still so I gave him the ones that I thought he might like. The rest I brought to a consignment shop. If they sell, I'll get a few bucks. If not then they donate them which is better than throwing them in the trash. I did the same with my cassettes and let me tell you that broke my heart...I had a HUGE collection of them but truth is that I no longer have a cassette player and I doubt I will so the only point in holding onto all that beloved music is for it to collect dust on the shelf. So ya..I parted with it. That was the toughest...it was my music but truthfully what good is it if you aren't going to enjoy it?

Believe it or not there are some people that still use a VCR. Check around in your area there might be a place that will buy them. Donate them. My sister had a bunch of VHS Disney movies. She had them put on CD. You could do that. THere is a proper way to dispose of them. I would contact you city government and find out if there's a place who could use them or if its okay to dispose of them. I would put them on CD. Good luck. dl

HI LetranKnight I wuld hang onto them as in time they will be collectors itms and meantime look into getting a converter so you could change them into cds of a DVD. good luck . I rally loved both of those Air Force on1 and Executiv e Decision.

I am no clinger. Whenever there are stuffs on my possession which are no longer of use I either give out to friends who may be in need of them or just junk them and let the scavengers benefit from them if ever. So there are no more VHS tapes in my possession. I can't forever keep them in my drawer just gathering dust so I would rather let other people make use of them in whatever way. I gave them out to interested friends. Now my drawer is free from any VHS. Not even one could be found.

My kids still have a large amount of vhs tapes. The majority of them are Disney movies, and I just won't sell them. We have sold a lot of tapes/dvd's over the last few summers, but these disney ones are classics. We have a dvd/vhs player so we can still use both types of movies. We will have to take good care of it, so we will be able to continue to watch these movies. Pretty soon, dvd's will be obsolete after blu-ray takes over everything.

A few years ago I asked for a VHS & DVD player combined for a Christmas present! I had quite a few VHS tapes that I still wanted to watch. One was a tape of my wedding etc. It was almost impossible to find anything but DVD's to rent. I say rent, because I never buy a tape. I don't like to watch the same movies over and over. With a machine that plays both I can watch either. Until something new comes out and then I am stuck again.

become a collector of antiques and become a hobby and maybe it will be expensive item in your child's future

Whatever you do, don't get rid of them. A lot of the vhs movies are considered collectables. You can go and look online and see which ones are worth a lot or not and sell them. Some actually go for a lot, just have to look around to see who is willing to pay for them. I am hoping that many of my disney movies are worth a lot, because I plan on selling them since I have purchased them on dvd and blue ray. So, the ones that are in really good shape, hold on to. The ones that isn't in to good of shape, you can always check your public library to see if they will take them. If not donate them to goodwill, and get a tax write off.

There was a VHS/ DVD recorder. I believe they would convert a VHS into a DVD. I still have my VCR and a back up one too. I still have more VHS than DVDs! Suggestion. Ask your local library. My library take donations of VHSanmd they sell them at their booksale!

when we were in manila, my brother-in-law gave 2 VHS tapes to Zayzay. those are of Power Ranger movies. but have it brought here in Cebu even though we have no VHS player. we had asked someone from Bulacan to convert them to CDs but they asked about 500 pesos for its conversion to we refused. if that was the case, i am sure we can also find someone here to convert them but we still have to look for it. we just need some free time to look for. i hope we can find it soon.

I still have vhs tapes too. My vcr is barely used so im keeping them. And watching them as if time has not changed. Why throw them out while i can still watch them? I just bought my vcr around the time dvd's were becoming more popular. I now buy dvd's but if i happen to see a good movie at a garage sale for $1. or less im getting it.

There are VHS converters out there. I still play my VHS tapes because I have a VHS player and a VHS player on my television. Since I don't watch television shows, I play my DVDs and VHS movies.

hi, i have also VHS tapes,but my mother want me to keep that, even we are now using a modern DVD player.