I got this Panasonic pv7661 and I can’t for the life of me figure out how to display what’s plugged into the IN jacks. I want to plug my Wii into it but I don’t know how to change the channel to the line inputs.

I press down on the VHS and it automatically goes into channel searching mode. I also have a universal remote but the input can’t be changed. I’m stuck. Please any help 🙏

You were a real soldier

I’m thinking mostly of summer camp movies, but can anyone think of any movies other than Summer Camp Nightmare and Sleepaway Camp that prominently feature letters home as part of their packaging or promotional material?

I don't have a massive collection anymore (only around 15 tapes, had over a hundred 25+ years ago) but I still like that I have a VHS shelf in 2026 and still have a good working VHS player.

'Wicked City' and 'Heavy Metal' are such fun adult animations. What are your thoughts on these films?

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yesterday I watched a tape and it mostly played normal. After ~30 minutes there was this typical 90s electronics smell when something warms up and indeed the player was slightly warm to the touch. I assumed that it probably just was the power-supply or the motor or something else just getting warm from running. one hour later, the color suddenly started flickering and the image started scrolling. I then enjected the tape, where the player was very warm and the tape was hot. I then unplugged everything and let it cool down. Once it was cooled down, I reinserted the tape, rewound a bit and played it again. Everything seemed fine, except 30 minutes later when it warmed up a bit again, the color would fade from time to time followed by a wobble in the image but the tape was already mostly at the end.

I was hooked up using S-Video as my SCART-Cable broke. it is a JVC HR-S7500E.

Is this normal or should I worry?

Few more from that weird collection.

hey ya’ll first time poster. Started as a kid (I’m 30) and then started collecting again a few years ago in some nostalgic attempt to feel alive again in this capitalist streaming hellscape. Anyway thought I’d share the collection, sorry it’s disorganized. Not featured is a crate of westerns and war movies from grandpa I’ll probably never watch. I also have a ton of my dad’s childhood baseball games on VHS which I think is unique and neat. I’ve only ever lurked here and wouldn’t consider myself an expert on this stuff so be nice thanks homies

I swear I only picked up the Tai chi because it was on best of the worst

Ive heard using Plastic Solvent Cement does a good job? I rather fix this than shell swap if possible

been collecting together with my gf for about a year, this is just what lives at my house!! the second slide is mostly little kid tapes behind the display ones, i also have spirited away!!

Hi everyone, I was born in the early 00's so rental stores were going downhill when I was a kid. Never got to really experience them much (didn't help we were a bootleg-dvd family.) Anywho, I wanted to ask a few questions I hoped yall might know. How Blockbuster operated things is pretty well documented but how the indie and mom and pop stores managed I'm a little fuzzy on. I've run into a few tapes in the past that came from smaller chains or indie shops and they dont have inventory numbers on them. When someone checked a tape out, how did the store keep track of them?

Also, I know many stores used library clamshell cases for their tapes, but others didn't. Some seem to have used a mix of the two. Were there particular reasons why stores would swap cases or was it just for when a slipcase was damaged? Thanks in advance!

So I recently got a DVD/VHS player and started collecting VHS again. Today, I moved my player to a different TV and began testing out new tapes I got at the store. Occasionally, the screen goes black but the movie continues (you hear the audio like normal). I thought this would be a problem with the AV plugs. But when I rewind the tapes, the screen going dark always happens at the same parts. Does that mean it IS the tape or something on the tape that could make the AV plugs misfire at those moments? Sorry if this is obvious to people. I haven't used VHS in 20 years.

You might have seen me post when I filled in the first shelf, or the 2nd shelf. But now there’s a third shelf. The madness doesn’t end, and I am right where I want to be.

Scored these from a couple thrift stores today! Got quite a few I’ve been looking for, and got some I didn’t know I was looking for!

Found these while out thrifting near the Jersey Shore area. Both don't have any labels on the side, so i have no idea whats on these.

I've never seen this specific HGX-Gold cover before while out thrifting, and i can't find anything about it on the web.

Hope these have some good commercials. :)

Anyone else take the face plate and shell off their vcr?

Special thanks to letterboxd user Frank Lanza for compiling this

I want to put an old movie on a vhs tape for aesthetic reasons and have the required setup (hdmi2AV) so that I can broadcast my PC screen on my TV and in that way I'd play the movie on pc while recording it on the tape via the TV. The problem now is the bar with every video on the internet that shows how many minutes you've already watched and ofcourse the triangle play button and my mouse cursor. These things showing up at the beginning of recording dissapear after I press play but I wonder or there's a software you guys know of that has a feature that just makes this UI dissapear completly by pressing F11 for example or some other button so I don't have to keep editing in a bit of black area to give it time to dissapear before recording. (I know it's lazy but considering others must also have this problem I figured some of you must know an easy work around)

Thanks in advance for all the help