{"id":741,"date":"2009-11-16T22:06:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T02:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2009-11-16T22:06:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T02:06:01","slug":"vhs-erasing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"VHS Erasing Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/95999793@N00\/4110401437\/\" title=\"VHS Erasing by RolandJuno, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2743\/4110401437_6f954da2a5.jpg\" width=\"300\" alt=\"VHS Erasing\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve been cleaning house lately.  One thing on the chopping block was my massive collection of VHS tapes that I&#8217;ve accumulated over the years.  Since they&#8217;ve been stashed in the basement and I haven&#8217;t needed anything from the collection in several years, I decided it was time to part with it.<\/p>\n<p>But, as with any media, you should wipe it first.  Sure, I could use a bulk eraser (which I have access to).  The problem is they are not 100% effective. You get a sine-wave affect on picture clarity usually.   Plus they make an unholy sound when running, tend to smell from the heat and cause chew up electricity rapidly.  I also read that big magnets from speakers are effective.<\/p>\n<p>But the only way to be 100% sure is to stripe them.  So I&#8217;ve acquired a few VHS decks (they&#8217;re not hard to find, look under &#8220;Good Will&#8221; as they are currently overrun with them, having been kicked out of the living room by DVD&#8211; don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;re next DVD).  The decks will now serve to erase my whole collection.  And they&#8217;ll most likely never play another tape again when it&#8217;s through.<\/p>\n<p>After that, maybe to the Good Will, or maybe I&#8217;ll glue them together into a chair.  If it&#8217;s worth doing, it&#8217;s worth overdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been cleaning house lately. One thing on the chopping block was my massive collection of VHS tapes that I&#8217;ve accumulated over the years. Since they&#8217;ve been stashed in the basement and I haven&#8217;t needed anything from the collection in several years, I decided it was time to part with it. But, as with any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosrhythm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}