ASPartOfMe wrote:
BirdInFlight wrote:
As someone whose childhood and teens took place in a time where if you wanted to see a movie in the comfort of home, all you had was what three channels broadcast and the "newest" film was at least five years old....VHS and VCR players/recorders revolutionized my life!!
While I now prefer the superior quality of newer formats, thank you dear old VHS for that early miracle of when "home video" was new to us all. Rest in peace!
I still have a VCR and some old tapes. I never use it or them but I kind of want to keep them around.
And those movies on the few channels on TV were full of commercials which we have gone back to. They were heavily censorsed and sliced and diced to fit time constraints. When videos first came out there were no commercials and no blockbuster stores. Just your friendly local video store with not only the hit movies but the wierd and yes "adult" videos behind the curtain in the back.
Also, there were the old Video Disks as well, but they died out in the mid-80's as VHS became more affordable. When I started to see the first consumer VHS decks appear @ 1976/77, they sold for about $1,000, which was a hefty sum back in those days.
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15 Aug 2016, 1:52 am
