Greig Brennan has been collecting movie paraphernalia all his life and has a room dedicated to his hobby.

As the song goes, video killed the radio star.

But video was later killed off by DVDs and blu-rays - although not, it seems, at Greig Brennan's house.

The 51-year-old has been collecting VHS tapes since he was a child and now has a room dedicated to them, as well as a collection of movie posters, comic books, and surprisingly, 500 blu-ray discs.

"I've just got a lot of stuff that I love in here," he said.

Between 200 and 300 video tapes line the walls, sorted into production companies: Warner Brothers, CBS Fox, Premier.

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Brennan, who works as a caregiver, said he had always enjoyed going to the movies as a child, and the love of film had stayed with him.

"I guess I've never grown up and held onto it," he said.

VHS and Blu-ray may be complete opposites, but Brennan said they each had an attraction for him.

With Blu-ray it's the high quality for the big screen, while with VHS, it's the novelty of a forgotten format.

Brennan has four VHS players and recently brought another one from Trade Me.

He also has a machine to play Beta, the tape format that came out at the same time at VHS but in the end was less popular.

The collection has been built up over the years and Brennan said he found the videos by trawling through the closing down sales of long gone video shops or scouring the web.

He also put up a number of adverts around New Plymouth, asking for people to drag out their videos from the back of the garage.

There are so many movies in his collection, Brennan said he couldn't pick a favourite and couldn't remember how he got most of them.

Among them, he has a copy of Bad Taste, the film that took Peter Jackson to stardom, signed by the entire cast.

His favourite themes are horror, action and sci-fi, and he is currently looking for a copy Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

"I've got 1 and 3," he said. "It's a bit frustraiting."

If you have a video that you think Greig might be interested in, his email is greigmature@gmail.com.