[B]Thousands of unwanted videos are dumped on farmland... but the land owner faces having to pay the bill to clear them up[/B]
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[I]it belongs in a museum![/I]
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It was the Irish government.
As a person who loves watching films and having a collection of them, it's nuts to see VHS tapes thrown way. Especially since you can't get certain shit on DVD/Blu-Ray/Digital.
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I don't know why buy seeing that made me laugh, poor guy though.
I'll take some!
I would dump Star Trek Voyager VHS tapes as well. Into hell.
[QUOTE=megafat;40479005]As a person who loves watching films and having a collection of them, it's nuts to see VHS tapes thrown way. Especially since you can't get certain shit on DVD/Blu-Ray/Digital.[/QUOTE] end of evangelion I can't find that on any Digital site and Ebay wan't like $100 bucks for a DVD/VHS tape/Disk of it
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I know it's off topic but still sad to see all toughs movies being tossed like that
Maybe it was Blockbuster...
not the VHS tapes!
tapes (VHS, casette) are my hobby
I think I see a copy of Space Jam
Movie night!
3 videos for £1 is now the price it's going to take to remove them. :v:
no but I see a lot of star trek voyager
Voyagers a good show.
People are bashing it because they haven't actually tried to watch it on Netflix, I've been watching ALL star trek, and all of them are wonderful but, of course, they have their moments, but they're definitely a series that deserves its respect, all of them.
I was expecting a huge pile of Star Wars movies.
He should sell em on ebay or something, start the bidding at £1 anything from there on is going to be profit.
Why aren't these used as a building material
[QUOTE=Chrisordie;40479127]He should sell em on ebay or something, start the bidding at £1 anything from there on is going to be profit.[/QUOTE]
Because shipping 10k tapes is free.
[QUOTE=Scot;40479152]Because shipping 10k tapes is free.[/QUOTE]
Aye but whose gonna buy 10,000 tapes for a pound? Sell them for a pound each and bung on a few bob for P&P.
So many banana boxes.
I'm sure some of them are old/rare enough to be slightly valuable
Might find the lost copies of Heil Honey I'm Home
[QUOTE=Indyclone77;40479214]Might find the lost copies of Heil Honey I'm Home[/QUOTE]
I'd seriously love to see the other 7 episodes they supposedly made of that.
[QUOTE=Scot;40479123]I was expecting a huge pile of Star Wars movies.[/QUOTE]
The Special Editions I hope...
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His Youtube collection delivery went a bit awry.
[QUOTE=Eukos;40479530]The Special Editions I hope...
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Appears to have Star Trek: Voyager and Space 1999 amongst the piles.
Also, I feel kinda old for remembering when we used to watch video tapes. Always had to rewind them in the machine before you could watch them again, whereas nowadays rewinding is all digital and you don't have to faff around with resetting the magnetic tape reels if you wanna watch something from the start. And there was also that distinct grain effect on the older tapes.
Man, I remember when we used to tape things off the telly to watch later; that was a reel big thing back in the 90's, back before discs rose in popularity and affordability with the emergence of DVD. Nowadays you use your digibox to record what's on the telly, whereas back in the day there was all the faffing around with timings, since I don't think we had civilian mechanisms that could time when to start and stop the tape recording; TiVo's a digital hard-drive thing so it probably didn't work with tapes.
Oh, and also it sucks to be the farmer, having all those old magnetic tapes on their land and still having to pay to have them removed. Still, if they're in good condition, I'd assume they'd be worth selling on eBay, since there's always a collector's market for these kinds of things. I should know, it's my job, though it's mostly books rather than VHS.
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the original didn't even have that thing in it
[QUOTE=ironman17;40480829]Nowadays you use your digibox to record what's on the telly, whereas back in the day there was all the faffing around with timings, since I don't think we had civilian mechanisms that could time when to start and stop the tape recording; TiVo's a digital hard-drive thing so it probably didn't work with tapes.
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You could program your VCR to start and stop recording at certain times, but you'd have to make sure the tape was rewound, the VCR/TV was on the right channel, and that you inputted the start and stop times correctly. And you couldn't watch something else while it was happening, so it was kind of a last resort if you had to leave somewhere to set it to record while you were gone. 2 shows you watch on at the same time? You were pretty much out of luck unless you had a 2nd TV and VCR, which most people probably didn't.
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