Degrading Quality of VCR tapes

[BlondeBrownHead]

Back in 1994 I traded wrestling tapes left and right and pretty soon had a great collection of Joshi tapes. Like any other abnormal person with an addictive personality I moved onto other addictions of collecting stuff ect....
So it is now 2004 and I picked up a dvd recorder to transfer some of those great tapes and I find my addiction for Joshi growing again BUT to my dismay some of my former excellent quality tapes now resemble fair quality.
Picture that was once flawless now has light to severe flagging(the pictures wiggles). I was wondering if anybody else had similair experiences?
I can't say I kept them at room temp the entire time but for the majority of the summer the AC was on so it's not as if there was major humidity to inflict evil upon them...then again maybe people I traded with used cheap blanks...I dunno...

[Supah Indy]

Hmm, have youy tried cleaning your VCR? You can find a cleaning tape at most stores. But if the tape is dirty you may want to pick up one of these: http://www.datadev.com/easycdduplication/p4790.html

Hope this helps