This forum is run for the community the answers you get to your questions are not just for you there, for other people that might be in the same position.
There are 190 thousand members on this forum and the help and advice given here belongs to them all. Not to mention the thousand of unique visitors that pop in on a day to day basis.
Dave
From a readers' Q and A column in TV GUIDE: "If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"