Good questions. However, quite a lot of it is stuff we'll watch again, and the cost of a VCR, it turns out, would cover replacing 4 to 6 tapes ... out of about 150. Most of those are movies etc. we're going to want to pull out again. I've already discovered that some of them appear to be available only as region 2 discs. And that doesn't even start counting all the Babylon 5 episodes -- which I can get on DVD, and eventually intend to, but at last count I think it'll cost me a couple of hundred bucks.
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