Im torn. On one hand yes everything is available digitally. On the other I like having hard copies and not thinking about backing up 3 hard drives and random hard drive failure and managing an even larger library on a computer…its nice just to have the media exist. And what happens when our ability to own media disappears (which looks to be a very real possibility).

They do take up space. I may keep the ones I really like and get rid of others.

I easily have over 300. Along with dvds, but im keeping those.

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    Of course not. The bigger problem is that VHS, like most magnetic analog media, decays. Most of those tapes have likely lost a ton of fidelity compared to when they were new and they’ll only get worse.
    I wouldn’t scrap them but I’d also consider archiving tapes without current digital copies to DVD’s or video files.

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      This is the way.

      If I had VHS tapes, it’s what I would do. I even know a single place in my city that could do it, but they would probably reject the job for copyrighted stuff, sadly but understandably.

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    7 days ago

    Before you do that, I would like to point out I donated the entire TNG collection, and later found out it could have been sold for over a thousand.

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    Of course. VHS is unwatchable on a modern TV. It wasn’t great back in the day on old CRT televisions to begin with. VHS is half the resolution of SDTV. Add to that the quality loss due to age and you basically have a pile of worthless plastic.

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        I don’t even watch 1080p content if I can help it. 4k dolby vision and atmos please.

        Note that watching that kind of content on a tiny analog CRT is a much better experience than watching it on a modern display with discrete pixels.