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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 250 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.
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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| BASF |
T130, Yellow, 'Extra Quality.' They stuffed a little extra tape in to this guy. Not many T-130s really. |
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| BASF |
T130, Black, 'Super High Grade.' |
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| BASF |
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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| BASF |
T160, Red, 'Extra Quality'. |
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| Brand |
Comment |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| Maxell |
Standard Grade T120. There are a TON of these out there. |
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Comment |
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| Memorex |
High Grade Video Cassette. |
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| Memorex |
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Comment |
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| 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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| 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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| RCA |
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Comment |
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| 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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Comment |
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| 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 |
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| 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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| Tozai |
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Comment |
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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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