VHS kino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA7 gvhwC9RI https

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>>84182188
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA7gvhwC9RI
is it a promo for video renters??

>>84182263
i guess they had to market to video stores so they would carry the film? idk

>>84182188

Fuck I remember this cheesy kind of shit playing in VHS stores and videogame rental places.

Pretty sure I have a vague memory of something like this, an ad for the shooter arcade Terminator game.

>>84182769
That was pretty common. Rental copies were a small fortune for the chains to buy each versus what you paid at an actual store. Some times released well before a retail release. Some times never getting an actual retail release. I remember a few movies going for a few hundred each way back when because it had been Rental only.

Nowadays no one seems to care anymore. Those Redboxes get filled with store bought copies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbG4NnYtSKQ&t=21s

Fuck me. Remember when big blockbusters actually felt special?

I do get nostalgic over trailer reels on rented VHS.

>>84183297
Very few people even bought VHS copies at the time. Collectors who wanted their own movie collection usually went for LD.

VHS was almost exclusively rental based market until the mid-late 90s. It was only with DVDs that the market shifted and people were expected to own their own movies. Prices dropped from $60-$90 a tape to $20.

>>84182188
>$99.95 suggested retail

The fuck? I remember Disney movies and summer blockbusters being 30-40 at most

>>84184203
i guess piracy or bootleging were good for something

>>84184203
This isn't for home use

A video store would buy a tape for $99.95 along with a legal license to rent the tape out

You could just buy a regular shelf copy and rent it out if you're a mom and pop in Nebraska but if you were Blockbuster that would get your ass sued into oblivion

>>84182188
>Robert Patrick does the whole video in-character as the T1000
I want the 90s back

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>>84184203

There was special pricing offered on certian huge blockbosters.

Top gun was the first VHS movie released that was meant ot be owned by consumers. It retailed for $27.99 at a time when literally all otehr VHS were $90. The long awaited VHS release of ET soon followed for $24.99 (it took years for it to be released and it was a big deal when it finally happened).

Otherwise most moveis were still $80-$90.

Amusingly Disney was a leader in this with their late 80's "bring Disney home for good" campaign where their movies were released for the very low price of $29.99. This is amusing because now Disney has the highest priced BDs and won't let retailers put them on sale without permission.

Outside of blockbusters and disney, most VHS tapes were still to expensive to own at the time.

>>84183297
Completely unrelated, but as a yurofag, can you explain redboxes to me? What is the incentive to return the movies you get from one?

>>84184557
They need a credit card number to check it out. You don't return it within 17 days, you get an automatic $25 charge.

>>84184597
Ah ok, thanks. Is there any reason to use it instead of a streaming service?

>>84184669
If you're 76 years old and don't know how to work an Internet tube or if you're black and don't understand why paying $1 with the thread of a future $25 charge is a bad deal

>>84182188
wait, I can pause and rewind to rewatch my favorite scene?

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>>84183729
>Hellraiser thermos
ahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>84183920
i miss that warm, yet stern voice yelling at me to watch these movies

>>84184797
I still masturbate to that scene

>>84184954
REWIND REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>84185120
>kinyo tape rewinder
>kino

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>>84185306

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srjsOQcnWtg

>>84184669
It's trivial to get free rental codes for Redbox so for brand-new releases I'll get the BR there, rip it, then return it. Now I've got a nice BR rip for my server without the hassle of pirating or actually paying for the disc.