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Old 18-01-2015, 20:48
Gordon_bennet
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I got the idea for this from another site.

I would be interested to find out, has anyone on here ever ended up accidently taping over a priceless VHS recording or had a favourite recording taped over?

I recently brought a batch of old vhs tapes from Ebay and was rather gutted to discover that they once contained shows such as Neighbours, Home and Away, Shortland Street and A Country Practice but had been wiped over with modern day sports and reality TV programmes. An occasional episode of these did appear at the end of the tapes when the newer recording stopped.

I also used to collect a series of cartoon tapes called "Cartoons R Fun". These tapes were produced cheaply and didn't have the tapes removed and in a few instances I brought second hand copies of these tapes which turned out to be part recorded over.
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Old 18-01-2015, 21:01
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I accidentally taped over a recording of a few cartoons (some Disney ones) shown in the 80's/90'son ITV, I'm sure one was at Christmas maybe in '89 - its more the rare intro and continuity that made me want to keep it
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Old 18-01-2015, 21:04
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Not entirely sure what your question is ? A VHS tape will always contain the original recorded content unless you record over the top of it. When you do a erase head removes the existing recording before the recording head creates the new recording.

Say you recorded a 2hr programme and then rewound the tape to the beginning and recorded a 1 hr programme. After the recording the last hour of the previous programme will still be there. More advanced vcrs were capable of recording over a section of an existing recording (A crude form of editing). This required a so called flying erase head to provide a seamless insert.

A faulty erase head will produce a sort of composited image of the original and newer recordings.
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Old 18-01-2015, 21:30
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I had a vhs recording of 1984, the Rudolph Cartier bbc play from 1954-bbc2 had repeated it in 1986, and it was never out on prerecorded tape or dvd ( it is now, this month actually) so I was annoyed to find that had gone, replaced with some soap opera guff by the other half. Grrrr!
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Old 18-01-2015, 22:13
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I got the idea for this from another site.

I would be interested to find out, has anyone on here ever ended up accidently taping over a priceless VHS recording or had a favourite recording taped over?
The BBC?
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Old 19-01-2015, 18:31
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When we first had a VCR (Grundig 2x4, Video2000 format) and the tapes were expensive (VHS were expensive too at the time) ie. over £10 each, I tried to use them more economically. Recording a concert, I live edited out the audience applause, or so I thought. Only as the pause key was also the restart key, it got out of sync and I actually paused recording during all the songs. Doh!
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Old 19-01-2015, 19:04
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You bought used VHS tapes from ebay?!
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Old 19-01-2015, 20:05
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When I was about 3, my parents had taped some Pingu episodes off the TV for me to watch. One day dad taped over some of them with an episode of Corrie or something and I was crying for ages. They went all the way to Germany to buy Pingu videos to replace the ones they had taped over! We still have the tapes and they often bring up that when talking about programmes they've taped
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