I've still got a couple of hundred movies on VHS that I haven't replaced by DVD (plus a couple of hundred LDs).

I remember lugging my first huge bulkly VHS player from Tottenham Court Road in London to my house some 100 miles away.  To be honest I soon lost interest - the picture quality was never great, sound quality had much to be desired, so I think I only ever actually bought around 100 tapes.  I still keep a couple for display case purposes - but most are long gone.  DVDs on the other hand were/are great!  The difference between DVD and tape is HUGE.  Unlike many in these forums - I don't really think the same is true of HD-DVD/BluRAy and DVD with a good doubler.  Obviously there IS a difference - but it really isn't as huge as the marketing folks would like you to belive - ( I'll stress IMHO!! And of course I'll be jumping onto the winning format soon which looks like it'll be blu-Ray )

I had started a VHS collection in the late 80s but then bought a public domain title of "Metropolis" that had a title card totally out of focus and most of the film was so soft that I gave up in disgust. 

It was then that the friendly Manager of the Suncoast Pictures outlet where I bought the tape put me on to Laserdisc.  After some research and demos at a "LaserLand" in suburban Philly, PA I was hooked (from 1991 to 1999) at which point I sold my LD collection to a collector in the Pacific Northwest to then concentrate on DVD.

I'm about to purchase a Blu-Ray unit after loving my Tosh A35 from this past fall.

Sigh!  It never ends... 

I just bought a number of VHS tapes; since Tim Lucas' mammoth biography of Mario Bava came out, I've been on a project to watch all his movies or movies that he participated in, and there are about half a dozen that still haven't been released on DVD in any country, but did come out on VHS.  That would include the English language BLACK SABBATH (I know, it's a better movie in the Italian version but it's not the same without Boris Karloff's voice) and the US cut of DR GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS (which has less Franco & Ciccio and more Laura Antonelli, both of which are good things), as well as CONQUEST OF THE NORMANS and some other oddball titles.  I transferred them to DVD-R immediately, though, since I can't stand the idea of watching a videotape.  It did feel weird to be handling these things again.

I have over 600 videos and have replaced about 40 with dvds troulbe is new movies and dvds coming out not getting chance to replace videos - what i've done tho is created a new databases and added all teh DVDs of the videos i have that are on the DB about 205 are not on tthere but they are really old and got no chance of replacing them anyway but when i buy the dvd version can just add it to the collection knowin gthat all the infos already there and can delete it from the video list - hope that makes some sence - lol


EDIT - I forgot to mention these are all pre-recorded stuff - i have in addition to those about 1200 videos i've recordred - I have a room 24x14 with 18 book shelfs in there with them stacked on - and its also got a dehumidifier and coolling fan too - i like my movies

I never collected VHS.  We had maybe 20 pre-recorded.  Never did laserdiscs either.  My obsession started with DVD.

Before the addiction of DVD's I collected VHS tapes since the early 80th. I had about 500 tapes, mostly recorded films and series from (Pay-) TV. But after years of storing, the quality derceased rapidly. Some tapes from the early years did only contain snow and whooshing. I think this was a kind of "self erasing- effect". So I had to throw away about 95% of my entire collection 

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I jumped in when DVD's were still regularly $40.00 and you had to flip them half way through the movie.

You must mean laserdiscs, they were $40 and could only hold 30 or 60 minutes per side.

Nope he meant DVD, I remember the 'flippers' and still have a couple of them