Do you even have a working VHS player? The rubber pinch rollers degrade after a few years.
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We had those, too, until the last tape recorder in the family died. We tried to get rid of them, but not even the thrift store took them anymore. And that was many years ago.
Are those poen tapes? Sticky VHS are messy....
No. If they are meaningful to you, keep them. If you're worried about the data failure of them, just watch them once every 10 years and it should renew the magnetic stuff on them.
I work in a place with a lot of old technology and the general consensus is that magnetic media needs to go through the motions every 10 years to stay healthy.
but we have had success accessing 25+ year old media. so there's no scientific line about how long that stuff should survive.
I do subscribe to the 10 year access rule because not all media was created equal.
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