Posted by jack the lad on 10/09/05 03:46

I would imagine they would be ok, as long as they are inside their covers
and also boxed up to keep dust away from the vhs ones ,even though they are
in tape covers the dust can still get to the vhs tapes know what I mean so
box them up too.
"dubbah" <delshannon@rock.com> wrote in message
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> FAQmeister wrote:
>> "dubbah" <delshannon@rock.com> wrote in message
>> news:1128017907.000250.69560@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com
>> >> Temperature extremes are very bad for tape. Much less so for DVDs.
>> >>
>> >> Not to mention the high humidity in many basements.
>> >
>> > Understood. Most of these tapes date a few years back to the late
>> > Eighties. Short term storage in the basement is then all right? Say,
>> > two to three months?
>>
>> I wouldn't.
>
> I have had to move boxes with vhs tapes and dvds into the storage
> room to make it easy for me to get my apartment organized, this is the
> sole reason. Many vhs tapes are still in my apartment and I will
> eventually need to bring them all together somehow in my apartment,
> the countless vhs tapes I have accumulated from my old place and
> had to bring them where I have lived for a few years. Your feedback
> is well appreciated, though. I have the vhs tapes in jackets and
> will eventually have all in jackets.
>

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