Guides

Some of these are genuinely useful. Some are not. We trust you to tell the difference.

• How to Collect VHS in 2026The dead-format collector's field manual: where the cheap tapes hide and how to bag them for a song.
• Is Your Tape Actually Worth Anything?An honest look at what makes a tape valuable, and why yours probably isn't.
• How to Store and Care for Your TapesKeep your collection alive: upright, cool, dry, dark, rewound, and nowhere near a magnet.
• Buying a VCR in 2026Nobody makes them anymore, so here is how to find a working one and not get burned.
• VHS Formats and Speeds, ExplainedSP, LP, EP, PAL, NTSC, S-VHS, VHS-C, and one respectful nod to Betamax.
• Digitise Your Home Movies Before They FadeTape decays and every play wears it. Rescue the irreplaceable stuff now, not later.
• Is Die Hard a Christmas Movie? A Definitive RulingThe tribunal has convened. The verdict is in. It is Christmas.
• How to Build a Retro CornerA CRT, a VCR, a crate of tapes, warm lamplight, and one non-negotiable dinosaur.
• How to Explain a VCR to a ChildA survival guide for the exact moment a small person tries to swipe a videotape.
• A Field Guide to Video Shop Employees, 1985 to 2005A taxonomy of a now-extinct species, observed in its natural fluorescent habitat.
• What Your Favourite Tape Says About YouA completely unscientific reading of your soul, by genre. For entertainment only.
• Why We Refuse to Acknowledge DVDA manifesto of principled denial. The disc does not exist. We will not be discussing it further.