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If anyone has old personal tapes kicking around, get them converted into digital format while you can. VHS is an analog format, and has no forward error correction like CDs and DVDs do, so if your tape starts deteriorating the effects will show immediately.
Same thing happens to MiniDV. It's a digital format but it uses tape media, so it's prone to dropouts as the tape deterioriates. I had to use special software that detects dropouts and repeatedly replays that section to try to recover valid data. These tapes were in storage for only 5 or 7 years.
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