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Zorba wants to keep track of all the known Home VHS covers and his progress in collecting them.
The end goal is to memorialize all these beautiful sleeve arts from a more civilized age. I have started by searching the web for unique finds and gathering a screenshot, to see what is out there. over 250 so far! I then plan to physically obtain as many as I can and upload some cleaner scans of all sides of the box. However, as you can guess, with over 300 to find thats a few bucks, so that part will take some time. Check back if you like to see if I have found any more.
If you think this looks a little familiar, it does. Mostly, I don't know HTML, so it looks like every other kid's geocities list page from 1999. But also, it looks a lot like this other VHS museum which is super cool to see
FALLINSIDEAHOLE
I came across that one by coincidence actually, right as I had the idea to start this virtual museum of sorts. It was serendipitous, I suppose.
I scrounged various shopping sites and other such web things, and found reference images of as many individual sleeves as I could. I put all those in a basic gallery because its glorious to look at them all together.
Here is a link to the Reference Gallery GALLERY
And below begins the collection of scans. If I have physically have the sleeve, I have added that image in the Scan column. Right-click the scan image and get that full res. I will probably have to stretch this to multiple pages if/when I start to get too many high-res images all jammed in here. If I do that I will probably separate them based on Brand name. I don't necessarily have a ton of technical input on the tapes themselves, as I was too busy watching TMNT back in 1990 to be interested in cataloging plastic shells with spools inside them, but, it's fun to write a little about them anyways. To be 'complete' here, I'd like to obtain a sealed version of as many as possible, as that means I can yoink the unused label stickers as well.
BASF Collection
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| BASF |
T120, Chrome, 'Extra Quality.' Because you don't want to be short on quality, they put a little extra in on this one. |
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| BASF |
T120, Dark Gray, 'Extra Quality.' Fantastic Colors, even. |
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| BASF |
T120, Dark Gray, 'Extra Quality.' Fantastic Colors, but maybe a Canadian version, with the French on it. |
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T130, Yellow, 'Extra Quality.' They stuffed a little extra tape in to this guy. Not many T-130s really. |
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T130, Black, 'Super High Grade.' |
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T160, Red, 'Chrome, Extra Quality'. I am guessing the 'Chrome' is a variation in quality but I'm not sure exactly what it means. |
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T160, Red, 'Extra Quality'. |
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| Brand |
Comment |
Label |
Sleeve |
| Fuji |
T120 HQ. High Quality. Solid white/red/green/grey barring. |
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| Fuji |
T120. Super HG. Perfect for Stereo? The gold makes it classy. |
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| Fuji |
T120 HQ. High Quality. Newer packaging. |
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Comment |
Label |
Sleeve |
| Kodak |
T120 High Grade. Classic Yellow/Black with some gold stripes for class. I think my source sleeve got some sun on the spine. |
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| Kodak |
T120 High Grade. Kolorkin promotion variant. These guys creep me out in a cute way, I think. I wonder how many are still around. Also, this one has the same label sheet as the usual T120 HS. |
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| Brand |
Comment |
Label |
Sleeve |
| Maxell |
GX Silver T120, High Quality, Blue Remote Image. newest variant (I think). |
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| Maxell |
GX Silver T120, Silver with Black/Green coloring. Older variant. |
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| Maxell |
HGX Black T120, Translucent. Sometimes you need Excellent Image and Sound. The bronze on the label sheet is pretty suave. |
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| Maxell |
HGX Gold T120 |
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| Maxell |
Standard Grade T120. There are a TON of these out there. Maxell was the big dog in tapes, probably because of that guy who got blasted by his stereo. That and they just made good tape. |
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| Maxell |
XL Hifi |
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Comment |
Label |
Sleeve |
| Memorex |
High Grade Video Cassette. |
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| Memorex |
Another High Standard. |
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| Brand |
Comment |
Label |
Sleeve |
| Polaroid |
Supercolor Video Cassette. T120. Everyday recording. Newer variant I think, with the tighter rainbow bars. It feels weird that they put the Polaroid logo on the bottom, not the top, on this one. |
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Comment |
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Sleeve |
| RCA |
Standard Grade T120. The doggos make it more friendly and approachable than other brands, surely. |
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| RCA |
Standard Grade T120. The T130s little brother. This one shows some sun fading, you can see where the pricetag was on the front. |
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| RCA |
Standard Grade T130. I wonder if I can still win that VCR. |
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| Brand |
Comment |
Label |
Sleeve |
| Scotch |
High Standard T120. Scotch liked these orbs. This orb is over some kind of wavy bars. |
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| Scotch |
Every Day Quality T120. Sometimes you need to record every day, and that tape has to hold up. |
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Comment |
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| SONY |
T120vc. Big Red V. Lots of these out there, this one seems older. Pretty gnarly condition so hopefully I can find a fresher one. |
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| SONY |
Premium Grade T120 'VE'. Another V. |
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| SONY |
Premium Grade T120 'VF'. Lots of V. |
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| SONY |
ES T120. This looks like another standard 'for daily use' kind of quality. not sure what 'ES' means honestly. This also is the outer plastic wrapper which I felt I wanted to preserve, if I get another one I'll rip that one open to scan the actual sleeve. |
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| SONY |
ESB T120. This one is interesting to me, in that I first thought it was a duplicate of the ES T120 sleeve which I acquired earlier, but then you put them on the shelf side by side and see the differences,even through the ES T120 wrapping. The modulation noise per MHz graph is interesting as you don't usually see that on a consumer sleeve. |
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| SONY |
Premium Grade T160 'VL'. Another photographic reminder of how happy you could be if you were just watching more tape. |
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Comment |
Label |
Sleeve |
| TDK |
STD T120, High Quality. Large Red Triangle on a black background, with subtle red bars. Sound AND Color. Features 'Super Avilyn' like many TDKs. Probably an older variant This scan is a little beat up. |
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| TDK |
T120, High Standard. Pretty basic, white and red. Pretty old. |
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| TDK |
T120, AQ, Super Avilyn. TDK had 'Super Avilyn' and Sony had 'Dynamicron'. Need a fresh scan of this one. |
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| TDK |
T120RV. 6 hour variant.. |
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| TDK |
Extra High Grade E-HG. This one has a much better plastic wrap. |
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| TDK |
Extra High Grade E-HG. Wrapped. |
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Comment |
Label |
Sleeve |
| Tozai |
PREMIUM GRADE T120. There are a few variations on this theme. I wonder if it is 'Premium' in the same way that 'Premium' American lagers are... |
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| Tozai |
PREMIUM GRADE T120. Looks like a 90s update, 'Jazz' style. |
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Comment |
Label |
Sleeve |
| Gemini |
T120. Simple. No frills. Bold color choice. It's a little older, too, I wonder where it was sold at. Gemini sold a VHS Rewinder as well, which tells a lot about how much the VHS ruled the day, I think. Not only did you want a VCR (it could rewind), but a separate rewinder was 'needed' as well, to keep that tape rolling. Unlike Maxell et al, I don't think Gemini is still around. |
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| MGM |
Studio Grade T120. The gold foil on some of the lettering is hard to pick out from a scan. |
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| Treasury |
T120. Basic stuff, but at least it's High Grade. Interesting off-brand used by JcPenney in their Thrift Drug chain, Looks a little more rare than most. |
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| JCPenney? |
Super Vision T120. My guess is JCPenney, because the label insert is the exact same as the Treasury. |
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| Walmart |
T120. 'The' 6 hour tape. all those other T120s were playing around. I believe Wal-Mart is printed in tiny letters on the back somewhere.. |
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| Samsung |
High Grade T120. This one might be one of my favorites, its so loud. |
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| Signature 2000 |
T120. SR? Pretty. Boring. There was a camcorder branded this as well, and they sold it at Montgomery Ward. |
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