I scored 32 sealed blank VHS tapes today for $32 from my local Value Village. Most of them were sold in sets of five for $4.99, but I kept finding more and more sets every time I checked the shelves in the office supplies area of the store and they were various brands including JVC, Maxell, RCA, and Memorex. :)

VHS was such a craptastic format. Back when it was basically all we had, I thought it couldn't get any worse until I bought a VHS-C camcorder. Literally it's only advantage was it's small size. 8mm should have been the clear winner at the time but the compatibility with the VHS VCRs was almost certainly the only reason these things sold in any numbers. Camcorders in general were very expensive toys in those days.

I actually have TWO of these Maxell adapters (mine are light grey colored ones unlike yours which is black). However, I also have the Panasonic one you showed which I actually use for archiving cuz unlike those generic Amazon "China Pride" motorized adapters, the Panasonic is heavy which I'm sure the generic ones are probably light as a feather. And no, the battery on mine isn't corroded much and I did clean it while I had the chance! For some reason, the Maxell ones (at least the ones that I have) are pretty light and as such, it doesn't go in the VCR all the way sometimes. Hence why I go for the Panasonic. Knock on wood, I haven't had a tape snapping problem.😄👌

Epic tutorial here my friend and thank you.

6:25 Also I thought I was the only one that did that when I was young, but mine was only the full tapes, luckily I left the small tapes alone haha🤣🤣🤣🤣

Looks like the qwick and cleaned. My family never used this format. I got waaay tooo many VHS 📼. Some of the interesting ones in the collection: --Instruction video how to use windows '95. --Somebodys home video of there Hawaiian vacation. (Gee thanks. Now i don't hafta spend 💸 to go there and make a home video) --Some couples wedding. (guess they got divorced since they wanted to sell the tape) The groom had a 5 gallon bucket of bird seed dumped on him. --Some vhs of a Skype meeting of kmart managers and corporate people talking business. --a copy of behind the green door that looks like some wife got ahold of it decades ago and recorded over a soap opera onto the tape. Wife wasn't gonna let husband looky at that! Part of the tape is chewed up. Too funny.

7:50 - Oh, that's how it works. For some reason, I was thinking since it's non-motorized, you had to somehow manually tension the tape into the leads yourself 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️. So relieved that isn't the case!

Thats pretty cool. I did not know that battery-less VHS-C adapters existed, and I was a child of the 80s. I had the Panasonic you showed us, that one never failed for me, maybe I didn't use it enough? Gotta love the HiFi man on your Maxell adapter, enjoying his high volume sound, I am reminded of that from some early ad from my childhood, where was that? Was it really Maxell?

I have an original VHS-C adaptor that's been stored with all the VHS-C tapes my parents have held onto. Do you think it would still work if I load the VHS-C and then take the battery out? I tried playing and none of the 3-4 VHS-C tapes are playing properly. The video is almost impossible to make out. But playing normal VHS tapes is fine.

1:18 looks like someone else does too lol. "Maxwell" is actually a knockoff of Maxell, and Cassette Comeback has reviewed "Maxwell" audio cassettes in addition to real Maxell ones haha.

Do you know if can i record on the vhs-c tape with this method?

might have missed it, but can you rewind these once they are in the VHS player?