Free to a good home

So it looks like Blu-ray is winning the HD format wars. You know what? I don't care. When people start giving HD disks away with cereal and the next format is being pushed - then I will care because I won't be able to use anything else. Well that might be an exaggeration. I am a bit interested because it really means my collection of old VHS tapes is becoming remarkably redundant. I can't even lend them to people because "oh we don't have our VCR plugged in any more". To be honest, I never watch them anyway either. Nor can I ever see them having the kind of retro chic that vinyl records have (I still have mine).

So it is time to do another pruning of my collection. Last time I did it, about 3 years ago, I got rid of a hundred or so tapes and had no trouble finding people who would take them off my hands. Now I'm not so sure. Does anybody want a bunch of old VHS tapes?

Actually there might not be so many this time. You see I'm having a problem sorting out what to throw out. They all have stuff on them. Last time it was easy - just get rid of all the old Star Trek & B5 tapes. But now it comes down to a case by case deal. Now there are easy ones where I have the piece of video in another format or I know that I'll never want to see it again. At the other end are things that I know I want to see again and can't get anywhere else - these I'll keep for conversion and even watch a few while I'm doing this exercise. But then, in the middle, there are a whole bunch of "I might want to watch these again". That is by far the biggest pile. I need more resolve because I sure need the shelf space.