VHS had the coolest artwork

I'm curious to know if you didn't have flip over a Laserdisc and there was an Laser Disc Player/Recorder
I wonder if they would put VHS out of business.

Maybe if the prices came down.

Just a standard LaserDisc film, from what I've read, usually averaged around $39.99 and special editions that had more special features than usual could run around $100.
 
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That's awesome Horror movie cover! Sadly most of the time the movie it self sucked

I'm curious to know if you didn't have flip over a Laserdisc and there was an Laser Disc Player/Recorder
I wonder if they would put VHS out of business.


Well DVD came along and phased out VHS. But yes. Laser Disc was supposed to but it was expensive and never really caught on except for video buffs but was more successful than say HDVHS.

I think they had the right Idea though.
More than anything I liked the LP sized jackets.


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Absolutely. I loved trying to pick a ninja movie based on how cool their uniform and jump kick looked on the cover. I was too young to rent rated R videos, but i remember looking at the covers and vowing that I would watch them all after i turned 18. Ha, i remember seeing some of those movies years later on cable when i was an adult and they were fucking terrible.

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These kids have it good. I remember spending like 30 mins trying to download a nude image on dial up. I also stole porn mags and it was hard to get them.
Dial up brings back memories. Brb spending a day to download a 3MB file. Then 90% through, it fails because someone on the house decided to pick up the phone or someone called in
 
VHS covers along with old school video game covers from the 80's and 90's were the best. It seems like every movie and game coming out now has a super lazy photoshop cover with little to no imagination.
 
Yeah, and man, Blockbuster sucked. It was such a boring, sterile thing that removed everything that was cool about video stores. Even grocery stores often had cool video stores attached to them.
Blockbuster at one point had Playboy videos in addition to a variety of straight to video B movies with gratuitous nudity.
 
How the fuck do those still exist?

I went to one I used to go to back in the early to Mid 2000s told the person working there I couldn't believe
you still open and she that people preferred getting them cause of the viruses they got from the internet.
 
I went to one I used to go to back in the early to Mid 2000s told the person working there I couldn't believe
you still open and she that people preferred getting them cause of the viruses they got from the internet.
So once this generation of old people dies off those stores are gone
 
Absolutely. I loved trying to pick a ninja movie based on how cool their uniform and jump kick looked on the cover. I was too young to rent rated R videos, but i remember looking at the covers and vowing that I would watch them all after i turned 18. Ha, i remember seeing some of those movies years later on cable when i was an adult and they were fucking terrible.

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I do like this cover.
 
Makes me miss the video store .


Funny, my wife and I were talking about this yesterday. Often I'd meet her from the train station, walk back to my place and would pick up a couple of videos to watch over the weekend...the place is now a coffee shop...good times.
 
Strangely it seems like the only Video Stores up and running around my area is Adult.
It comforts me knowing that when technology takes all of our jobs away, jizz mopping will be safe and have a place in this world.
 
The movie store I went to almost 3 times a week every single week since I was 8 just closed down. My dad was friends with the owner so I always got free movies. It hurts a little inside every time I pass by the now signless/borded up building.
They may have been able to stay in business if you didn't get so many free movies.
 
I'd always be hanging round the rental shops and shit as a kid while my parents went shopping for whatever. My Dad has never believed in renting, so I was never allowed to actually rent anything, but I'd just look at box covers wondering how awesome it'd be to watch that shit. I also grew up in Germany, and no one taught me German, so I couldn't even read anything on the boxes (Thinking about it now it probably explains why my Dad wouldn't rent them for me). It was all about the pics bro

The one that scared me the most was Robocop because the German box had this shit on the back of it

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When I was a kid, there was a mom & pop video store called Movie Time. It was great. They had video games you could rent too, including some of the more obscure ones like Bill Lambear’s Combat Basketball. Then, Hollywood Video moves into the same strip mall and put them out of business. And everyone thought Hollywood video was the big bad villain until a couple years later when Blockbuster bought them out and took over their store.
 
It amazes me how fast video quality has evolved. Color RS-170/NTSC lasted from 1953 - 2008 --- 55yrs!!! My family got a BETAMAX (it was much better than VHS) in 1982. I didn't get a DVD player until 1997 IIRC.

By 2008 over the air TV was 1080i. I bought a condo for work and didn't have cable. I ended up watching the 2009 super bowl with a small antenna and I remember being stunned by the quality of OTA 1080i. I was like, "shit, who needs cable/satellite?".

Now in less than 10yrs, we have 4k blu ray and streaming.

Cliffs:

NTSC (525i) - 55yrs
DVD (480p) - 10 yrs
OTA (1080i/720p) - 8yrs
Blu ray (1080p) - 5yrs
4k (2160p) - 5 yrs
 
I'd always be hanging round the rental shops and shit as a kid while my parents went shopping for whatever. My Dad has never believed in renting, so I was never allowed to actually rent anything, but I'd just look at box covers wondering how awesome it'd be to watch that shit. I also grew up in Germany, and no one taught me German, so I couldn't even read anything on the boxes (Thinking about it now it probably explains why my Dad wouldn't rent them for me). It was all about the pics bro

The one that scared me the most was Robocop because the German box had this shit on the back of it

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Cover art was amazing on VHS, but the still shoots in the back also made films look more interisting that they were.

Horror films were the big winners of the format.
 
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Video games have pretty awesome box art too.

Especially compared to the graphics (and how bad some games were).

How coukd you say no to Marvek based games with great art done by superstar artists.

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