I never bought any of the Columbia VHS tapes, mainly because in 1987, I had taped most of the shorts off of TBS. This was during a period when TBS was showing the shorts in [mostly] chronological order, something I've never seen during any other TV presentation of the films before or since. I was later tempted to buy some of the Columbia tapes [mainly to get the small handful of shorts I hadn't taped], but never did, probably due to what I considered poor-value-for-the-money. I still have my homemade VHS tapes, and will own them as long as working VCRs are still available. I obviously love my Stooges DVDs, but it's nice to occasionally [IE once every ten years or so!] go back and re-live what it was like when we had no choice but to watch old, faded, scratchy, spliced prints of the shorts. Watching those every now and then serves as a reminder how wonderful the restored prints on the DVDs are, something we may eventually take for granted [or do already!]