OUR GOAL AT VHS WASTELAND IS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THE STRANGEST AND MOST HARD TO FIND VHS COVERS IN HISTORY. BUT WE CAN'T DO IT ALONE. BELOW IS A LIST OF THE GENEROUS MEN AND WOMEN WHO CONTRIBUTE VHS SCANS TO THE SITE. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BEING PART OF OUR TEAM, YOU CAN FIND INSTRUCTIONS AND TEMPLATE FILES HERE AND YOU CAN CONTACT JAMES GILKS BY CLICKING HERE. WE HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON.
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Hello and welcome to VHS Wasteland! VHS WASTELAND is your home for high resolution scans of rare, strange, and forgotten vhs covers. Each of these bizarre gems is scanned at 200 dpi. Our staff of over 40 contributors (and more added all the time) scans and posts between 15-30 new covers every day along with reviews, trailers and much more! So bookmark our homepage and check the site often! Simply click on the thumbnail of any vhs cover to download the full high res format. We'd also love submissions from you. If you have a vhs that is weird or rare, you can find info on what we are looking for here.
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OUR WISH LIST: Our wish list: we are always looking for new movie reviewers and vhs contributors to join our vhs wasteland team. If you have something strange or rare you, we would love to include it on the site. You would, of course, get full credit for your contribution and be added to our ever growing staff page. Some of the titles we are looking for right now include (but are in no way limited to) "dancing grannies" "bambi meets godzilla" and any kind of insane religious vhs. You can click here for instructions on how to scan and submit these covers or, if you are the coolest person ever and want us to promote the crap out of you (or your website) you can mail us the actual vhs tape to add to our collection. Either way, contact us for more info!
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FEBRUARY 20 2012 VHS COVER SCAN - CLICK FOR HIGH RES VERSION
SUPER DRAGON NINJA
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VAMPYRE CIRCUS
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NIGHT LIFE
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TWISTED NIGHTMARE
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ITS THE GIRL IN THE RED TRUCK CHARLIE BROWN
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KNOCKING AT HEAVENS DOOR
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THE SISTERHOOD
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JOANIE BARTELS SIMPLY MAGIC : THE SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
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BON JOVI : BREAKOUT
FEBRUARY 20 VHS TECHNICAL DETAILS : CASSETTE AND TAPE DESIGN
The VHS cassette is a 187 mm wide, 103 mm deep, 25 mm thick (7⅜" × 4" × 1") plastic clamshell held together with five Phillips head screws. The flip-up cover that protects the tape has a built-in latch with a push-in toggle on the right side (see bottom view image). The VHS cassette also includes an anti-despooling mechanism as seen in the top view, several plastic parts near front label end of the cassette between the two spools. The spool brakes are released by a push-in lever within a 6.35 mm (1/4") hole accessed from the bottom of the cassette, about 19.05 mm (3/4") in from the edge label. There is a clear tape leader at both ends of the tape to provide an optical auto-stop for the VCR transport mechanism. A light source is inserted into the cassette (through the circular hole in the center of the underside) when loaded in the VCR, and two photodiodes are located to the left and right sides of where the tape exits the cassette - when the clear tape reaches one of these, enough light will pass through the tape to the photodiode to trigger the stop function, or in more sophisticated machines it will start rewinding the cassette when the trailing end is detected. Early VCRs used an incandescent bulb as the light source, which regularly failed and caused the VCR to erroneously think that a cassette is loaded when empty, or would detect the blown bulb and stop functioning completely. Later designs use an infrared LED which had a much longer lifetime. The recording media is a 12.7 mm (½ inch) wide magnetic tape wound between two spools, allowing it to be slowly passed over the various playback and recording heads of the video cassette recorder. The tape speed is 3.335 cm/s for NTSC, 2.339 cm/s for PAL. As with almost all cassette-based videotape systems, VHS machines pull the tape from the cassette shell and wrap it around the head drum. VHS machines, in contrast to Betamax and Beta's predecessor U-matic, use an "M-loading" system, also known as M-lacing or omega wrap, where the tape is drawn out by two threading posts and wrapped around more than 180 degrees of the head drum (and also other tape transport components) in a shape roughly approximating the letter M.
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