Shocked me to come across this one. It’s on the top PC shelf for now.

A little bit for every season, but very happy with the spooky hits. Clerks The animated series finishes off my Kevin Smith collection so that's pretty neat. Freddy got Fingered is the blue Blockbuster tape. I think the Death Row Uncut is a bootleg, theres an "fbi" warning label sticker, but the title is written in crayon above it lol.

Stoked about Spirited Away and that copy of IT is a former rental encased in the plastic.

Before we start, I’m English so apologies if I use digitising instead of digitizing.

So this is a bit of a story but anyhow here we go:

I’ve recently started doing some digitising for people and like most starters I bought a 30 quid USB thingymabob off Amazon before deciding it wasn’t worth the shipping fee let alone the price.

Thus I did what any tight Yorkshire man who had been wronged out of 30 pounds would do and set about trying to build a new system that wouldn’t break the bank.

I kept the same VHS which is a Sony DVD/VHS combo I’ve had from being a youngster. Reading up I found out you needed a TBC so whilst bored in some meeting at work I set about looking for a DVD player that would handle this for me. Research suggested a Panasonic EH-50 was good and I found one for £35. I still needed a capture device but one was about to appear like a hero from the scrap yard of equipment in my office.

The story goes a bit off topic here but stick with me.

Alongside the VHS I was doing some miniDV tapes for someone but I couldn’t get hold of a FireWire cable and the only camera I could get was a Sony HDV mini cam which had HDMI out.

“Buzzin” I thought as the deadline doomed. I grabbed a Camlink 4K from work and plugged it in and set a tape going and went to the pub.

Imagine my dismay to discover upon my return that the cam link hadn’t accepted the miniDV format and I had a lot of wiggly lines. I had to wait til morning to check as the beer had taken hold and I wasn’t sure if I was drunk or nothing was working. It turned out the resolution was too low or too high for it. Probably too low but I was hungover and can’t remember.

Anyhow I set about upon trying to work out how I could get a signal from my camera into my Camlink. Being the hoarder I am I dug out my old Bose AV centre which had been languishing in a cupboard, and lo and behold it worked. it took the feed from the camera and spat it out in a 1080 format the Camlink could accept.

Back to VHS.

Not wanting to purchase any more equipment I decided to use this for VHS too.

So now my setup is as shown.

I go S video out of the VCR into the DVD player. This then goes component out into the Bose AV-35. That then upscales the 576i to a 1080p feed that the Camlink takes.

It’s a bit shonky, it’s not pretty but it works!

I thought you’d all like this story of scraping bits of equipment together and the fact I got to tell my wife “I told you so” as I was pulling old boxes of equipment out that she told me to bin!

Was about to give up looking for the day.
One thing annoys me about this collection though, Fists of Fury came out in ‘71, Chinese Connection in ‘72, but here they have Chinese Connection first in the order for the box art. (It’s the same on either side)

Is there a reason for it or did they just screw up?

Bought a vcr at a garage sale a few weeks back for $3. Lady said she had a bunch of scary movies at her house and took my number down. Was not expecting all this.

Think I picked up a factory sealed copy of Spiderman!!!

I think this may be a factory sealed copy of Spiderman! It is in super nice condition and still has the bottom sticker!! I took off the plastic wrap just before taking a picture.

Looking to sell for $70

Saw someone make a post about what the rarest tape you own was, so I’d thought I do something similar but with boxsets instead.

For me, it’s the “Kirby: Right Back at Ya! - The Kirby Collection” released by Funimation Entertainment and 4KiDs Home Video. It features three volumes that were previously released between 2002-2003, bundled in all one set. A DVD Version of the collection exists and is more common online.

I got it back in 2023 for $90 (see image 7); it only appeared once before the same year and after I bought this set, it never appeared anywhere online ever again.

Out of the three volumes, A Dark & Stormy Knight is the hardest to come by of all the releases. It rarely appears online for sale on its own.

Future releases from Funimation and 4KiDs Home Video were DVD exclusives only, which makes these releases on tape more valuable than the normal DVD releases.

This is considered the Holy Grail of Kirby Merchandise that I have besides the 2009 Sanei Dedede Plush. He unfortunately doesn’t have a hammer.

I have the Boxset with my other KRBAY Physical Media Collection as of the moment and have more that I’ve been hunting down online that’s coming later. (see image 8).

I made a post regarding this set before a few years ago, but I didn’t see anyone talk about it as much then.

Anything special happening here or is this just different makes of the same movie ?

Feels like the Crash (2004) of the 90s, Ex Marine inspires students to put in some effort in their studies. Movie felt more like an after school special. They even had to play Coolio a few times throughout to keep you engaged. Your thoughts on this movie?

alot of solid pickups on a Thursday morning, friend who was there at opening scored creature from black lagoon VHS for 25 cents.

I know a lot of people say you should just manually clean your VCR, but in my case, that's not really practical. My VCR is built into a large, 23" or so Panasonic tv along with a radio. The VCR functions, and audio sounds great, but the picture is virtually unwatchable. (The photos are via laserdisc)

So do you have a specific kind of cleaning tape you'd recommend? Thanks in advance!

Super stoked to watch Flashfire!

Random $1 thrift pull. Anyone seen this one?

It takes the tape, but stops about 5-10secs after starting and the image goes fuzzy white lines all over and then just stops the movie.

So as the title says I am trying to figure out how many different variations of the original Gremlins VHS were released. I am only talking about US released NTSC versions for the sake of this post.

So far for the original Box there is (Possibly 1985). There is also the issue of two tone tape vs all black tape not sure if that matters.

No UPC
UPC on SIDE
UPC on Left Rear
UPC on Center Rear

Later there was: (Possibly 1999)
White Warner Brothers Slipcover
White Warner Brothers Clamshell

Also I am trying to figure out in what order were they released.

This is why I always check every photo in Marketplace ads. 🎃

Using one of my old Dragon Ball tapes for testing. Looking forward to digitizing some of my mom's home videos but is this the best quality I can get? I know it looks really good here but my mom's tapes are especially low quality and I was wondering if there was a special cable I could get online that I never knew about for a clearer picture.

Knowing that there are so many tapes out there in hot, humid evironments, stored incorectly, etc. Just curious how long into the future these tapes will last before their material degrades beyond use.