How many of you have watched your home made family videos?

[Bob Kontak]

I've been schlepping mine around for years.

Maybe right after a trip somewhere back in the 90's and maybe two or three searches for a specific thing across 20 years.

Converted half of them to DVD's and still have not really watched.

Not such a good investment.

[JavaBrewer]

Yep fell victim to that trend as well. Went through 2 different video cameras & formats and have those tapes in a cardboard box in the attic somewhere. I went through the expense to have several converted to DVD but lost that and don't have a DVD player anymore. My parents generated a bunch home movies and slides but the projectors for both are long gone and I sat on that media for 5 years before I tossed it all. Over the years of my kids growing up we spent a small fortune on VHS/DVD movies and PS2-3 games and I have already dropped them off at Goodwill.

I think with digital media now the return on investment will be better, though we generally don't delete the hundreds of trip photos from our library which makes finding the one you like/want to share difficult. Yeah I know about albums and favorite tags...just never find the time to do it.

[oldE]

Because I dug out our old collection of Disney VHS movies for our granddaughter, one afternoon I popped in an old home movie casette. It turned out to be Christmas from 29 years ago. That was a blast from the past.
Now I think I'll dig through some more.
Best
Les

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Thanks for posting this thread (it's not coronavirus at least).

I'd say it is great you have these. It's not a waste. My grandmother's memory has been reduced to one or two pictures, which my daughter will never understand. Look- a black and white picture of an old person.

These VCR/DVD tapes are the next generation of storing memories. You'll never watch them. I won't either, but some descendent will. This will progress until my grandmother is essentially a futurama head in a jar, talking about oleo, hanging her laundry out to dry with the underwear on the inner perimeter of the yard (surrounded by bedsheets so the neighbors couldn't see it), planting in her garden, while gramps, dad, and the uncles all sat in lawn chairs discussing Indy 500, the oil crisis, and the impending USSR invasion, as the clothes flapped in the warm breeze. Malboro reds, polyester, and Budweiser all the way.

Good times! I wish I had it on VCR!

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

..talking about oleo....

Now that made me laugh. Yep.

Color change hair-do's in the kitchen stinking it up big time, for example.

Way before VHS but still within 8MM/ Super8 film window.

[URY914]

We had all my daughters growing up videos transfers to a flash drive and gave her a copy. She loved watching herself as a little one.

[A930Rocket]

Ours were on super 8 tape. No audio.

With our kids it was vhs and digital pix. Unfortunately, we lost quite a few due to improper back ups.

[rusnak]

When I was a kid, we used to make Friday nights "home movie nights". Dad would get out the projector and screen, and we would watch and laugh at home movies from when my older brother and sister were little. Dad had a ton of short 5 minute movies with no sound. They had me and my little sister almost a generation apart from my older brother and sister, so it was like watching Laurel and Hardy, lol. I thought it was great. Then when we got old enough to go out, we did pizza or miniature golf. Then Dad got tired of all that crap and I learned how to drive.....

[Bill Douglas]

In the 80's I had a Sony CCD-V50 Which was video-8.

Jeeze, I loved that camera.

Sadly my sister has all the family videos in her possession. She's more deadly than coronavirus so I'm guessing I'll never see them again.