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efhmc

(14,737 posts) Mon Feb 18, 2019, 02:36 PM Feb 2019

Any info on how to recycle old videos and cassette tapes?

Google does not really have any good answers. One answer is that Goodwill takes them. Makes no sense. Many/most of the tapes and videos are not usable.

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Any info on how to recycle old videos and cassette tapes? (Original Post) efhmc Feb 2019 OP

you'd be surprised how many have old VCRs out there... My friend brought VHS tapes to the yard sale hlthe2b Feb 2019 #1

Many have old movies recorded from TV. efhmc Feb 2019 #2

My brother still uses a VCR Rhiannon12866 Feb 2019 #3

truth be told, I still have one because I have professional educational videos in VHS format... hlthe2b Feb 2019 #4

I still have mine, too. Rhiannon12866 Feb 2019 #5

hlthe2b

(102,542 posts)

1. you'd be surprised how many have old VCRs out there... My friend brought VHS tapes to the yard sale

Reply to efhmc (Original post)

Mon Feb 18, 2019, 02:38 PM

Feb 2019

and they outsold the DVDs. Of course, she wasn't asking much for them...

I'm sure Goodwill goes through them to see if they work before they put them out for sale.

efhmc

(14,737 posts)

2. Many have old movies recorded from TV.

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 18, 2019, 03:03 PM

Feb 2019

The commercials on them are a hoot. Thanks for you response.

Rhiannon12866

(206,853 posts)

3. My brother still uses a VCR

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 19, 2019, 01:23 AM

Feb 2019

hlthe2b

(102,542 posts)

4. truth be told, I still have one because I have professional educational videos in VHS format...

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 19, 2019, 07:54 AM

Feb 2019

In all honesty, it isn't even hooked up to anything and hasn't been in years, but I still have it because there is nothing that "expires" in those types of videos and they were expensive.

I suppose I might hook it up down in the basement one of these days, watch them all and then decide to get rid of the whole lot, but I haven't done so yet.

Rhiannon12866

(206,853 posts)

5. I still have mine, too.

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 19, 2019, 08:38 AM

Feb 2019

I got it in 1984 I think and it cost me $312, if I remember, and it was pretty much the most expensive thing I'd ever bought before. I even got a free rental with it, I remember I chose the movie "Local Hero," which is still a good movie.

And my job was writing up the network TV listings for the newspapers, I was responsible for CBS and FOX (The Simpsons, not the cable channel) and they used to send me "screeners." I still have a lot of those, too. At this point they're either forgotten or they're "classic" TV. Well, except The Simpsons is still on.

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