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The Holidaze are off and rewind runnin’, Tapeheads, and to kick off all of end of year analog excitement, we offer up some exclusive news from Lunchmeat Land that’s sure to get you and your trusty VCR in the Holiday VHSpirit! The announcement comes from the video vindicating dudes over at Magnetic Magic Rentals and Forever Bogus as they have slapped together a mighty righteous yuletide high-five and created a most excellent and very merry Christmas mixtape loaded with video era nostalgia including classic TV specials, obscure Holiday flicks, merry music videos, bodacious bumpers, and of course, tons of classic...

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Autumn has officially arrived, my fellow Tapeheads, and to ring in the annual excitement, we’re here to serve up another anti-digitally delicious analog announcement apt to make your Halloween film festivities twice as VHSweet! This time we offer some exclusive fresh VHS news from the video vindicators over at Magnetic Magic Rentals. They’ve cooked up two rewind radical Limited Edition tape treats for this Halloween season, jam-packed with an abundance of all things spooky and sticky-sweet, made ready to arrive before the Samhain and turn your VCR into a full-on party. A TOTALLY BOGUS HALLOWEEN sittin' pretty on the shelf....

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If you’re a regular VHSubscriber here in Lunchmeat Land, you’re probably familiar with the efforts of Yale University’s David Gary and Aaron Pratt: the analog enthusiasts that helped to collect nearly 3000 VHS tapes and video era related material to preserve for posterity in the Yale University Library. If you haven’t heard about that, you can get all caught up with the exclusive in-depth Lunchmeat interview RIGHT HERE, Tapeheads! Now Yale is leading the way of official VHS preservation once again with another painstaking project for posterity: the digitization of nearly 2000 VHS tapes that have been collected since the...

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The majority of Videovores know the wild well. It’s an often inconsistent yet unfailingly enjoyable journey of scouring through myriad second-hand shops, dirt malls and Goodwill stores accompanied by hours of attacking and stacking endless mounds of magnetic magic, all in search of that radical rewind-inclined rush, otherwise known in Lunchmeat Land as a VHScore. Though nowadays you’re apt to find redundant copies of that taunting Titanic two-tape set and other random pieces of rewind refuse rather than a fantastic former rental copy of Alligator or a minty copy of Mankillers ,you can still VHSniff out a Media Home Entertainment...

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Hold on to your VCRs, Tapeheads, because this nugget of news just might make your heads spin at a revolutionary rate. Approximately 2,700 VHS tapes are currently being accounted for, cataloged and prepared for posterity at the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University. The work of Kaplanoff Librarian for American History David Gary and analog inspirator Aaron Pratt GRD ’16 has propelled Yale to become the first institution in the nation to consciously collect and preserve VHS tapes. This unprecedented official collection of unadulterated analog madness is set to reside in Yale’s realm of academic reference. With this implementation the...

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