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Originally Posted by hereandelsewhere
Hello! Anyone have any camcorder recording experience with these? Kodak is obviously a renowned name in the photography world but not too familiar with what their VHS tapes were like.
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Yes, many, both for personal use back in the early/mid 90s, and from converting videos for others in past decades.
Kodak had
- slight color reproduction issues
- chronic magnetic dropout issues (poor tape grade)
- often (but not always) moderate grain
It was blah. Many were worse, many were better.
I don't believe Kodak actually made anything for video, and simply licensed out their brand name. It may have even been used to sell cast-off graded tapes from other manufacturers unwilling to sully their own name (or cast-off buyers reselling it, unbeknownst to the manufacturer). That happened a lot in the blank media world, both with tape and optical.
The only thing a Kodak VHS tape is good for is some sort of nostalgia, demonstrating of this "old" tech, or even just for the shell. I bought a large stack of TDK tapes 5-10 years ago, simply for the purpose of discarding the tape, and keep shells for restoration needs. We have this amusing photo of our (now passed) cat playing with an unspooled tape at home.