but tons of people still have plenty of VHS they want to see so they still get used
They still have usable data on them? They were magnetic and one weak point was cross-magnetizitation on the reel, causing ghost images. What was that defect called again? And the magnetizitation holds 30 years otherwise?
Piwix@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Depends on storage conditions and age but I just digitized my family VHS tapes from 96 to 08 and they were all still in great shape having been stored inside and left alone. Older tapes might be having trouble around now
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
I remember some old Disnay VHS about 15 20 years ago, wasn’t fun with all the ghosting and crosstalking.