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Old 5th Aug 2018, 4:33 am   #16
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Default Re: New VHS video-rental shop opening!

Was that a national chain store supermarket?
- I haven't seen VHS tapes on sale in shops for a few years now, after Wilko / WH Smiths etc stopped selling Maxell (about the last major brand ones available) tapes. And even Poundland finally stopped selling their poor quality own-brand ones.
So it was a case of looking in charity shops, where you occasionally found new blanks or buying the pre-recorded ones at 10p (inc. a nice plastic box case) to tape over.
I do occasionally see them at Radio Rallies and the NVCF - Although strangely Betamax one are often more common and cheaper.
I've still got lots of VHS and a few older Betamax / V2000 / N1700 / N1500 machines and still occasionally record to VHS as it's much easier to edit bits from, even if it is all analogue in and out. And the parents still use VHS VCR's every day.
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