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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.
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.
As long as you have a VHS player it is fairly trivial to buy cheap composite or S-video capture devices on eBay and archive them yourself. Its gonna be slow with 300 tapes but it is doable.
Fair enough.
Could give you a reason to rewatch every VHS :)
Beware, in this way lies madness.
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File storage, please.
Those DVDs will not last as long as you think.