And like any other living thing, mould needs to eat to survive. Storing your VHS tapes in a high humidity area will soon bring mould. This is not surprising because mould can find it’s way on any surface where water or moisture is present. Mould will build up on the surface and on the edges of VHS tapes. Moisture builds up over many years and mould soon appears. This often occurs if you store your tapes poorly. VHS and many other video or audio tapes can suffer badly from tape decay. VHS Tape Decay May Destroy Your Videos If You Don’t Act Swiftly And there were even more companies producing VHS tapes with probably the most popular VHS tape manufacturer was BASF. These companies included JVC, Sony, Panasonic, Teac and Samsung. These were often VHS players, recorders and cameras. Some of the largest manufacturers in the world made VHS machines. This is not only true for Australian families with their own precious family memories, but also a lot of Australian historical content held be the National Archives of Australia. Michelle Arrow from the Sydney Morning Herald recently referred to VHS and the home VCR writing in an article, “There’s no back-up copy’: Australian treasures are on the brink of destruction”. Some of these tapes can be 30 years or older. That means there are countless homes that have old family movies on VHS. Most homes had a VHS player in the 1990s and early 2000s, so it was easy to share videos with family and friends. Many family videos, weddings and birthday parties of Australian families used the VHS format. And many homes had 2 or 3 VCR’s to play all sorts of videos at home. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Garry Maddox recently wrote, in the early part of the 21st century, it’s believed nearly 90% of Aussie households had a video cassette recorder (VCR). VHS was the most popular format in the days’ someone would go to a video store or a video library like Blockbuster to rent the latest films for watching at home.

But it wasn’t until the 1990s that Australian families would extensively adopt the format for recording and viewing videos. VHS is short for Video Home System, developed by JVC in or about the 1970s.

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