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Article I believe is saying commercial pre-recorded VHS movies are collectible. Re: point 2, such tapes should not have a copy protection tab, so a properly functioning VCR should prevent this scenario. Just mentioning lest people get the impression VHS simply didn’t address this case. Cf. https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide/record...

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You just put tape on the corners and it's writable again

Which elevates the transgression from plausible simple mistake to premeditated destruction. There’s not an issue with the technology here, great grandparent commenter has an issue with bad human behavior (notwithstanding faulty cassette manufacturing and defective VCRs, of course).

This right here, my cousin worked at a video store which usually threw out cassettes not deemed working order and we took those and overwrote them with other newer movies. Was pretty awesome having 2 vhs on top of each other then pressing play and record and watch the movie and save it at the same time, the future was limitless at that point!

>Was pretty awesome having 2 vhs on top

2 VCRs on top of each other? Or are you trying to Kleenex the video tape system so that regardless if it was a tape or a machine, it's just VHS?

i cant remember the setup exactly but play the video on one vhs and record it with the other, i remember not all tv's supporting it sorry its quite some years ago :)

Sort of reminds me of the IT guy at my high school who was shipped a crate of AOL floppies (I guess to distribute to the kids) who just moved the tabs and slapped a new label on them when he needed one.

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