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[Chaos Theorist]

That doesn't excuse it from being a a big ball of autism burning like a star. If harmless and inoffensive stuff were ineligible as a topic, 90% of this website would be gone.

I have an (unironically) autistic relative who's fixated on VHS tapes even though they're mostly before his time. I remember once he spent a good 20 minutes talking about a time where he wanted to buy a VHS of a TMNT ripoff that he saw in a thrift store but didn't because he doesn't even own a VCR.

Just because something is autistic it doesnt make it intrinsically bad

 

[Big Nasty]

Even if you disregard the "Black Diamond" bullshit, a lot of the highest-priced VHS tapes up on auction sites are kids' stuff, but mostly really obscure and bizarre releases, such as the norwegian dub of Police Academy: The Animated Series for example.

 

[Trilby]

Guys like this are autistic, though. A lot of people in the VHS community are collectors by nature, which doesn't lend itself to necessary social interaction, but neither does it lend itself to autism.

Reminded of a pal I know out there who was big into silent cartoons to the point of becoming the ultimate collector of them. He managed to do a lot to preserve a lost section of animation history thanks to the day she was watching those PD VHS tapes.
http://www.tommyjose.com

People believed in that Black Diamond shit, didn't they?

I bet! Those tapes are crap compared to how these movies look now!

Even if you disregard the "Black Diamond" bullshit, a lot of the highest-priced VHS tapes up on auction sites are kids' stuff, but mostly really obscure and bizarre releases, such as the norwegian dub of Police Academy: The Animated Series for example.

Sometimes foreign releases can go for those prices if there's certain elements or things unseen elsewhere. Like the tape of Plague Dogs I picked up from the UK that was a pre-cert release and featured scenes that were cut from the US release (what became kown as the "Director's Cut" when the film got released in two versions on DVD in Australia).

 

[Caesare]

that's fools gold compared to my Atlantis the Lost Empire VHS tape, it has the case and everything

Do people really pay money for this drivel?

 

[Jungle Princess]

Guys like this are autistic, though. A lot of people in the VHS community are collectors by nature, which doesn't lend itself to necessary social interaction, but neither does it lend itself to autism.



People believed in that Black Diamond shit, didn't they?

What do you mean by Black Diamond?

 

[Trilby]

What do you mean by Black Diamond?

It's these tapes.

 

[CWCchange]

VHS tapes suck and I'm glad they were replaced with DVDs.

For recording, they are shit. The same with CDs for music during transition period in the late 1990s from cassette tapes, and computer files from floppy disks in the mid-2000s. Thank God for MP3 players and flash memory.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

What do you mean by Black Diamond?

A while back there was a lot of bullshit on the Internet about how Disney tapes with a black diamond logo on the spine, of the kind you would have seen in the 90s, were incredibly valuable and worth a lot of money. (I think Chris-chan fell for this as well.)

They are not. They are so common, in fact, that I once went to a thrift store and found no less than eight of them in one place.

 

[Big Nasty]

One release of The Little Mermaid was withdrawn because it had an ornament on the cover that looked like a dick. A used copy of that might be worth 100 bucks or so, thats the only "rare" Disney Home Video tape.

 

[CWCchange]

^I see plenty of those in thrift stores, too.

 

[Trilby]

^I see plenty of those in thrift stores, too.

I was going to mention that, my Salvation Army always gets 'em!

 

[Big Nasty]

The "Black Diamond" craze exists beacause there has been at least one recorded instance of a Beauty and the Beast tape sold for a ridiculously high sum on EBay. It may have been a result of a bidding war between two exceptional individuals. It may also have been a case of money laundering.

 

[Trilby]

The "Black Diamond" craze exists beacause there has been at least one recorded instance of a Beauty and the Beast tape sold for a ridiculously high sum on EBay. It may have been a result of a bidding war between two exceptional individuals. It may also have been a case of money laundering.

Whatever the case, it unleashed a BEAST in itself.

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

One release of The Little Mermaid was withdrawn because it had an ornament on the cover that looked like a dick. A used copy of that might be worth 100 bucks or so, thats the only "rare" Disney Home Video tape.

Unless it's from the 80s, but that's another story.

 

[Skeletor]

I can see 30-somethings collecting these for nostalgia value. No clue what would attract teenagers to VHS sperging.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

I can see 30-somethings collecting these for nostalgia value. No clue what would attract teenagers to VHS sperging.

Maybe they just want to be cool or something I guess.

Spoiler: But we all know the real answer here

Like always, it's :autism:

 

[Daisuke Jigen]

I can see 30-somethings collecting these for nostalgia value. No clue what would attract teenagers to VHS sperging.

Yeah. I'll admit, VHS really has a nostalgic factor for me that I kinda miss and I sorta like that gritty condition. But beyond that, it was pretty shit. I'm not likely to have a collection of tapes unless they're of movies not on DVD/BD that I'm trying to do a digital transfer/clean up for.

 

[northstar747]

Back in the late 90's early 2000s I collected betamax and oddball vhs movies the cheapness of DVD made my collection trash,

later I wanted to move some home videos and researchedo how to ripe them. Turns out a good video deck is basically a unicorn and it's just a bunch of gearheads trading back and forth on ebay.

 

[The Decimator]

Can anyone else understand what this guy is saying?

 

[Steamboat_Bill]

Can anyone else understand what this guy is saying?

"I am a faggot who thinks destroying preschool tapes is edgy."