Moldy VHS Tapes (And How To Effectively Clean Them)
Moldy VHS Tapes (And How To Clean Them) As much as I love VHS tapes, they have one major shortcoming: degradation. The sad truth about the videocassette is that it's a fragile beast, and no matter how rarely you play a tape or how well you try to preserve it, that tape will eventually reach the point of unplayability, whether it becomes worn out from repeated playback or is plainly and simply destroyed over time, just as all physical entities are over decades, centuries and longer. The topic of this post encompasses the latter form of VHS decay- gradual, natural destruction, and a particularly fiendish form of it, an acceleration of said destruction caused by certain environmental conditions that's as dastardly as it is disgusting. It's a happenstance which somewhat ironically brings about the death of media through the spread of life, yet one which can also be somewhat fought back against through proper techniques. *Gasp* THE HORROR! Hell, you read the title so you kno