Retrogaming is being emulated on the video game side, vinyls are back on the music market, and now VHS is starting to (re)be talked about on the video side!
At the end of the 1970s, the JVC group offered a new video format, VHS (for Video Home System). Quickly, this analog recording standard on magnetic tape will experience great success, with the possibility of recording programs on TV, but also of watching numerous films at home… provided you have a sacrosanct video recorder.
Don’t throw away your old VHS!
Also, while vinyl is making a comeback in terms of music, and our old 8/16-bit video games are being snapped up on the video game market, this good old VHS is making a comeback in the age of Netflix and other Disney+. Like a LaserDisc, many appreciate this “ charm of the old », especially on a cathode TV. Some are already taking advantage of this to sniff out a good deal. Necessarily…
Already in 2022, the Heritage Auctions platform indicated that it had sold a video cassette of the film Back to the Future, having belonged to the actor Tom Wilson (who plays Biff Tannen), at the price of 75,000 dollars.
At the time, a VHS of Goonies had also been sold for $50,000, compared to $32,000 for a VHS of the Sea teethand $23,750 for Ghostbusters.
Sealed VHS, a new trend among collectors
Surreal prices, as is often the case with auction platforms, but we must admit that the VHS madness is starting to gain momentum. On sales platforms, prices for VHS are increasing, with some of them being displayed (and sold) for several hundred dollars.
As is the case with retrogaming, there are certain films and genres in particular that are actively sought after. The classics of the 80s/90s are in the sights of collectors, as is the horror genre of the time.
According to Heritage Auctionsif VHS collectors have always existed, “ interest in sealed VHS has grown in ways few could have imagined ” these last years.
Source : THM
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