Hi Tyler,
I still have an old Panasonic VHS player here that I bought brand new from JB HI FI I reckon around 1998 sometime. These days it just sits here displaying the time, although it's still connected to this computer with the TV capture card from years ago when I was uploading old VHS stuff onto youtube. It's great as I can just chuck a tape in and watch it on this computer, and capture anything from that tape and put it onto youtube.
Speaking of Betamax tapes, I also did years ago purchase a Sony Betamax player and a box of old tapes from a guy on ebay as I was planning to go through them and upload any old tv ads I found onto youtube. For one reason or another I never got around to doing it and the player and all the tapes have been sitting in the shed for many years now.
Cheers!