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Post by EyewitnessTV on Nov 19, 2018 4:20:33 GMT 10
A somewhat random thread but could prove interesting. Also, seeing as there’s a couple of existing VHS-related threads already recently started, why not? This in mainly inspired because I’m currently going through (ever so slowly) my own extensive collection of old VHS tapes to properly convert/digitise for future use and safekeeping. To start, if you wish you could answer with the dates of when the content was originally recorded on the tape (say if it is a home-recorded TV recordings, in which you should get able to get a close enough timeframe off the commercials shown, station idents aired etc. etc.). I'm not necessarily talking about the age of the actual movie itself for home VHS releases, but rather when the tape was originally manufactured. Pretty much most commercially released VHS tapes should have a copyright date somewhere on it or on the boxart packaging (if you’ve still got it that is, considering the age it may be long thrown out or damaged), and it is usually found on the back near the video company’s logo. If you need hints this may be useful.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Nov 19, 2018 18:08:00 GMT 10
I'm not exactly sure of the age of the tapes themselves (most of them don't have cases), but I do know that the oldest recording in my collection dates back to 1990. Unfortunately, it has nothing worth salvaging, because the entire tape is of the 1990 MTV Knebworth concert (interestingly enough, the concert was broadcast on Nine/WIN) and my Dad didn't record the commercial breaks.  A few other tapes I own: 1994 - An episode of Australia's Funniest Home Videos 1994 - 5-minutes worth of commercials. 1995 - Music documentary 1995 - End of movie & "Australia Television News" opener.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2018 18:23:55 GMT 10
Some of my oldest VHS recordings I own:
1981:
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Post by SharksFan99 on Nov 23, 2018 22:39:29 GMT 10
Some of the oldest VHS recordings I have converted (my Dad owns these tapes):
A 1987 commercial promoting a ZZ Top concert at the Sydney Entertainment Centre
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Nov 26, 2018 23:27:44 GMT 10
I'm not exactly sure of the age of the tapes themselves (most of them don't have cases), but I do know that the oldest recording in my collection dates back to 1990. Unfortunately, it has nothing worth salvaging, because the entire tape is of the 1990 MTV Knebworth concert (interestingly enough, the concert was broadcast on Nine/WIN) and my Dad didn't record the commercial breaks. A few other tapes I own: 1994 - An episode of Australia's Funniest Home Videos 1994 - 5-minutes worth of commercials. 1995 - Music documentary 1995 - End of movie & "Australia Television News" opener. That’s fine.  I wonder why he edited out the ad-breaks on that?! Seems a little odd.  I'm still in the process of going through loads of boxes, but so far I’ve found tapes with cartoons and a few movies bought that date back to the mid 1980s. Recorded content, the earliest so far is a 1990 recording with quite a bit of TasTV content on it.  @zampakid has some pretty old stuff of course!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 23:22:24 GMT 10
I wonder why he edited out the ad-breaks on that?! Probably because he just wanted to watch the concert in the future without any commercials and the thought of a media enthusiast son being interested in watching the content in 20-30 years time most likely wasn't on his mind? I reckon lots of people would've skipped the ad breaks on VHS recordings back in the day, because quality VHS tape wasn't cheap back in the 1980s and 1990s! As for what would be oldest recorded content I've found on VHS over the years... Yep, Sydney television news promos were very different in 1985 to the ones we have these days! On the other end of the scale, probably the most recent content I've ever found on VHS tape were some recordings from January 2013 - mainly included news coverage of bushfires/heatwave around that time IIRC.
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Post by SharksFan99 on Nov 29, 2018 19:29:01 GMT 10
Probably because he just wanted to watch the concert in the future without any commercials and the thought of a media enthusiast son being interested in watching the content in 20-30 years time most likely wasn't on his mind? I reckon lots of people would've skipped the ad breaks on VHS recordings back in the day, because quality VHS tape wasn't cheap back in the 1980s and 1990s! That's true. If only we all had the benefit of hindsight. There's many things which I wish I had of recorded at the time of the broadcast. Although the absence of all of the commercial breaks is disappointing, the coverage of the 1990 MTV Knebworth concert was still quite interesting to come across. Here is a snippet of the coverage featuring a much-younger looking Richard Wilkins. The kids in the video would all have to be in their Late 30s or Early 40s now! 
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Nov 30, 2018 15:35:26 GMT 10
I wonder why he edited out the ad-breaks on that?! Probably because he just wanted to watch the concert in the future without any commercials and the thought of a media enthusiast son being interested in watching the content in 20-30 years time most likely wasn't on his mind? I reckon lots of people would've skipped the ad breaks on VHS recordings back in the day Hmm..I guess. If it were me I don’t think I would’ve bother; too much effort involved at the time! Interesting that you say that, because out of the many hundreds of old famiily tapes dating back to the early 90s (plus a few late 80s recordings I found days ago), I have only come across a couple that have had the ads taken out of them, with the rest still intact. I must be relatively lucky in that respect then.
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Post by EyewitnessTV on Nov 30, 2018 15:36:52 GMT 10
That's true. If only we all had the benefit of hindsight. There's many things which I wish I had of recorded at the time of the broadcast. Although the absence of all of the commercial breaks is disappointing, the coverage of the 1990 MTV Knebworth concert was still quite interesting to come across. Here is a snippet of the coverage featuring a much-younger looking Richard Wilkins. The kids in the video would all have to be inv their Late 30s or Early 40s now! Curious, what was the total length of the tape?
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Post by SharksFan99 on Nov 30, 2018 15:56:25 GMT 10
Curious, what was the total length of the tape? I think the recording of the Knebworth concert goes for at least a couple of hours, if i'm not mistaken. It's the only recording on the tape. The tape itself probably supports up to 3-hours worth of recordings.
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I wonder why he edited out the ad-breaks on that?! Seems a little odd. 
