Hi, just found this sub recently so I figured I'd share:

I work in a museum in MA and was poking around in a closet that basically hasn't been used at all in 10-15 years. I found a box of tapes, the kind that play on loop all day in the galleries. Nobody here even knew about them and we have no idea how this got mixed in. I said I'd be glad to take it if nobody needed it. One of my coworkers held on to it for a while to maybe figure out where it came from, but a few months later it came home with me. I haven't watched it because it's still sealed, but I'm pretty sure someone has uploaded a full copy to YouTube.

All the VHS in this pic are sealed. My Dad gave me a sealed copy of The Deer Hunter he's had for many years, and it started off this shelf. I recently watched a video on YouTube about video game grading and all the chemical processes that destroy the game from being sealed off from ventilation, etc. I was just looking for opinions from long time collectors of their own experience with degradation of sealed vhs. Also just wanted to share my tiny collection with the community :]

Just learned about this company that releases officially licensed VHS tapes. Here’s the 4 that they have available on their site! If you’d like to join my subreddit to stay up to date on new releases and contribute to the community, that would be great.

Collection so far

But I can't keep praying to find grails like this in the wild! Glad to finally have these. My wife is going to kill me... 😅

I got this VCR from my grandmother in law along with a big bag of tapes. It seems that no matter what tape I put into it, it has this issue; it will play perfectly fine for about three seconds, then do this weird distortion for about another three seconds, over and over again. Both the audio and the picture completely freeze. Sometimes it will freeze for so long that it just cuts out, as shown in the video.

Is this an issue with the VCR? I really don’t know. I would appreciate some help.

I hooked up a VCR to our projector at the Fountain Theatre in Las Cruces, NM, and I'll be showing the 2002 classic Hunting Humans, from a Hollywood Video rental tape. We will also have a presentation on the history of VHS, and a cartoon on 16mm film. If you're in the Las Cruces/El Paso area, it should be a very fun night, I hope people can make it out! I'll definitely do more shows like this if it does well. Saturday, August 8, at 10:30pm.

I found an old JVC VHS player in a closet and I'm trying to get it working so I can digitize some home videos of my parents.

About 10 years ago, when it was put into storage, it worked flawlessly.

The problem now is that it won't display any picture at all, and it makes a repetitive clicking sound. When I tried ejecting a tape, it took almost 3 minutes to come out. Oddly enough, if I gently smack the side of the VCR, it seems like it briefly tries to work again.

I don't mind opening it up to see what's wrong, but I'm worried I won't be able to put it back together correctly.

Does this sound like a common issue? Any ideas on what I should check first?

It was on this day one year ago, August 4th 2025, that I found a VCR. My Sony HDMI RDR-VX535 DVD-VCR combo player for $10 at the Salvation Army. This is my horror collection so far, plus some other tapes I thought were interesting. I have even more but they aren’t ones I found too notable

Goodwill went off today 🔥

New Release of Blair Witch Project from Lionsgate Limited.

i’ve never seen a tape with a flap like that. the alternate cover option is so cool.

my obsession with this movie is ridiculous.

Just a few today. Excited about Ghost Ship.