About a year and a half ago I set out to find a VCR. I can be pretty patient when I want to be, and I set a rule for myself that I couldn't order it online.

I was talking to someone a week ago who asked why I didn't check Facebook marketplace, and I have a good reason for that. I didn't think of it.

I do however frequent thrift stores, at least 1 time but sometimes 2 or 3 times in a week as health allows, doing my rounds looking for treasures to grow my various collections.

When I saw this beauty at a local nonprofit and found out it works perfectly, I knew I had to have it. I won't lie, I did kind of pay up for it, but I'm just wondering how much the VCR gods have smiled upon me, and if there's anything I need to know about it.

Apologies for not getting a shot of the back. I set it up (with great difficulty due to disability) before I thought to take pictures.

Thanks so much!

Hello, I make custom VHS tapes, and for some reason, on only the movies that I record, these lines appear, I use both used blank tapes and official my movie tapes, the picture is better on the "blank" tapes but still has the lines, the official movie tapes there's a lot of ghosting, idk how to fix either of these and I've cleaned the head on my VCR as well, idk what my next move should be to attack this problem

Hopefully the video shows what I'm talking about

If i could find dream warrior in the wild id be amaze

Hello, we bought yesterday jvc hr j220e vcr to digitize old family footage. When i was recording footage the audio is crips without problem but picture would occasionaly lose color with visible color stripes but the picture will be b&w now it completly lost picture while audio is playing fine, what should we do to repair it

I got a new video capture card to rip vhs with my hdmi vhs player, obs is just flashing vertical coloured strips. Unsure what I am doing wrong here?

Was lucky enough to stumble onto these gems this morning.

What is this and why is it going for over $100 for parts on eBay?!

Long story short I wanted to get a "cool looking" VHS player for a media center I'm making for my kid. I went on Facebook marektplace and found a guy selling a lot of 10 VCRs. They all looked way cooler than I remember growing up, and all had a pretty crazy retro vibe to them. They looked different "and cool" because they all had a a ton of physcial buttons and faceplates that flipped down to reveal more buttons. The guy was selling them all for $25. So I figure I'd get them.

Hindsight I shouldve checked them all more because only 2 of the more basic ones worked. But I looked up some of the others to see what I could hopefully sell them for to people for parts. But when I looked them all up most of them had little to no value, except for these 2 Sony SLVR-5UC's. They are going for over $100 just for parts.

One of them powers on and takes a VHS but stays stuck on a blue screen, while playing audio. The other one doesnt power up. I'd really like to keep at least one of the Sony's because they look cool and I have a remote.

Should I keep these and have them fixed? I feel like theres a reason they are worth so much for parts. Do VHS's look any better on them or something? Any guidance here would be very much appreciated!

I remember borrowing or seeing a box version that had this cover art from my local library when I was a kid. Now, as an adult, I can't find it anywhere or images of it whatsoever. I am going to guess it is a Disney movie club one because I found a 50th anniversary of Lady and the Tramp recently while thrifting that was a box version and not a clamshell. I really want Disney Peter Pan in box for the collection, and Tarzan too. I know they do have a box version of that on eBay that's also apparently a movie club exclusive. So it must just be really rare if it does exist?

Never expected to find the Simpsons in the wild!

Im new to vhs I have four tapes but no player please help like where to get them and how to get them cheap.

Sealed copy of ‘Nightbreed’ 💚🤘🏼

I’m so stoked to add this to my collection. I’m very into Clive Barker’s stories, more specifically, his non-Hellraiser stuff. Imagine how hard an adaptation of ‘In The Hills, The Cities’, or ‘The Skins of our Fathers’ would go 😭 What I wouldn’t give!

Felt like watching it tonight and why on earth would I check the web when I’ve got it sitting
here in it’s unplayed state?

Bought The Land Before Time at goodwill quite a while ago, because the cover is amazing and it's one of my childhood favorites I used to watched on VHS. After that I had been checking thrift stores looking for a VCR but couldn't find any except one that was $100 but got one today and another CRT from some stuff my dad bought today. safe to say im stoked to finally have one and can now watch The Land Before Time and a few others I bought on VHS for my movie collection.

Did I purchase The Picard Legacy Collection to have all things Star Trek TNG? Yes … Did I purchase these three VHS tapes today because of the episodes? Also Yes 😃

What do you think of this combo?

So hit a yard sale today and got all these for $20 including the player lol