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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 side art. (It’s the same on either side)

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

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!

Local video store Beyond Video in Baltimore rents tapes out. My first trip there I noticed both of my selections had a mold problem so I finally pulled the trigger on Vhs Is Life's machine. Gonna keep volunteering to save their tapes

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?

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.

Looking to sell for $70

Super stoked to watch Flashfire!

Slowly collecting the Faerie Tale Theatre series!!!
I'm working on getting some new covers (the two that are ripped were bought totally separate from each other lol)
I was born in 2002 but my mom showed them to me as a kid and I've been obsessed my whole life.
One of the very first tapes I grabbed that started my collection was from when I visited my great grandma's house before she died. It was a tape she recorded of Thumbelina airing on television!

I've had a PV-661 for around 25 years. Purchased it new after my old VCR and used my saved summer work money to buy it. I could've used the main living room. I have more of a taste for horror, and to this day the man cannot waitch anything that requires any semblance of suspension of disbelief. Still works fine. My Hisense TV won't do a 4:3 aspect ratio, so I have to live with it until I by next TV. I hate this damn Hisense for so many reasons. I should've taken it back the week we got it.

That aside, the PV-661 has nothing I can complain about except for he fact that some dickhead roommate I had while going through my divorce made it disappear. Or my ex-wife's completely untrained dog destroyed it, and she discarded evidence. Most likely scenario. No remote.

Friday AM something i had called dibs on like several months back is finally declared surplus and heads for garbageb. Luckily I hadput a post in on there saying l would use the machine if it were deemed unneeded.

Panny Ag-W1. With a remote. Was to make dupes of work videos from Europe to provide access to those to the customer Likely less than 600 uses. Made in Japan.

Both bring enough on eBay to worry about the hassle. The worldwide model brings a very decent chunk of change. If I keep the AG-W1 I'll keep the PV661 as my backup machine or in the bedroom on the other tv.

If I sell the AG-my wife has her old vcr packed away and if still on could be used as the backup to our PV. The other great thing is only snagged the Sanyo mono machine. 3rd backup at worst.
An I better off keeping the PV or should I cash in on the OC.

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

Random $1 thrift pull. Anyone seen this one?

I'm gonna crack this open at some point but wanted to share before I do. Love the Bill Sienkiewicz art on the trading card and the Pizza Hut branding on the mini comic on the back is kind of neat. I like seeing promotional material on tapes like this. I have a Wayne's World from Mc.Donalds and a Night Of The Living Dead from Blockbuster too, and I just kind of find it fun.

I normally don’t purchase VHS tapes anymore but when it is the only way to watch it, I have to buy it. Part of Janus films partnership with Home Vision Cinema, this was released for the first in the US on VHS in 1999, and was slated to have a criterion DVD release but never came to be. It’s not a perfect movie but still entertaining and a solid sophomore feature from Kurys

So I’m not really a VHS collector, cause at the end of the day, I prefer Blu-ray and h-ing my d’s and all that. However, I do love a good nostalgics trailer, as well as being a sucker for a clamshell case. I already have a few banger tapes leftover from my childhood, and decided I’d buy the odd VHS tape here and there if it “speaks to me”. And well, this is my first purchase. What does this say about my future “collection”? 😅