I bought some vintage BBC cartoons from Ebay a while ago, “The Trapdoor” series Burke, Drut and Boney in Clay-mation.
My son loves them.
Loves them so much he’s fried the VHS player watching them and after tinkering with it for an hour or so last night I decided it needed to be on the patio more than it needed to be in the house :mad:
Now the question is do I buy another VHS player or just get everything I want from VHS re-mastered onto DVD ?
Easy answer - DVD and get a hard disk recorder for time-shifting.
Stick with the VHS - some absolute bargains in the second hand market at the moment from people selling on after making (illegal) copies of the originals to dvd. Of course if you buy the original then you are fine in copyright, they are not as the “backup” they now have is a backup of something they no longer own.
The only problem I’ve found with the cheaper VHS machines though is the noise of the motor, we went through five different ones, taking them back each time as we had to have the telly on so loud to watch a vid it woke the kids !!
DT.
Another vote for “buy another” 
£39 quid at Argos for a VHS recorder.
I’m glad I dont repair video recorders for a living, there wouldn’t be much trade.
Tesco have one at £34
They all pi$$ in the same pot m8, take em all down 