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Who remembers video rental outlets?

My high school used LaserDiscs during health class.

I would once again like to reiterate that I am turning 27 this year and I graduated high school in 2013 (I graduated about a month before I turned 17).

So like I don't know what that says about the quality of my high school but we were watching C. Everett Koop talking to us about STDs on LD.
 
Ayy, I kind of went to one called Blockbuster in Australia, it selled DVDs of Movies and TV Shows, plus Games on the Wii and DS. It was really fun but a bit short lived, it closed down a few years ago ^^
 
I loved going to Blockbuster. I was young and the fact that there was a “movie store” really fascinated me lol

I think I still have VHS tapes somewhere. I had a VHS camcorder when I was in elementary/middle school. I saved up and bought it myself.
 
Luca said:
I loved going to Blockbuster. I was young and the fact that there was a “movie store” really fascinated me lol

I think I still have VHS tapes somewhere. I had a VHS camcorder when I was in elementary/middle school. I saved up and bought it myself.
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Aww that's really nice :3 I wasn't alive when VHS was around but it seems cool as!
 
I still kept all my VHS tapes until I moved out of state when I already had a nice collection of DVDs.

I made someone's day when I put all those tapes into a box and just left it by the side of my property. It was gone in less than a half hour. Sure beat dumpster-diving...lol.
 
Most of my videotapes were sold for basically pennies back when I was around 13-14 years old.

Kind of regret doing that now, if I'm being honest. I should've gone through my collection to pick out the tapes I wanted to keep and the ones I was OK with selling instead of just selling them all at once at a flea market.

I basically kept the majority of my videotapes in a big box in the den (it wasn't a huge collection, I was literally a child, but it was still probably around 30-40-ish tapes I had) and they were all sold off.

All that survived were the tapes that weren't in the big box, which means my collection nowadays is just a few scattered Thomas & Friends tapes (awesome), I'm pretty sure Toy Story and Toy Story 2, a Sesame Street tape, a Richard Scarry tape, and a few Barney tapes.

I mean we do also got a few other things like a sealed copy of Saving Private Ryan on VHS, some video about Apollo 11, and a handful of possibly blank tapes but the previously mentioned ones are the ones left that were mine as a kid, y'know?

Incidentally I should hook up the VCR again to see if those blank tapes actually are blank or not.
 
Princess Viola said:
Most of my videotapes were sold for basically pennies back when I was around 13-14 years old.

Kind of regret doing that now, if I'm being honest.
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Odds are that you'd probably get tired of watching a video tape on an old CRT for just a few minutes.

When you consider how good the picture is on a widescreen 1080p tv set...there's simply no comparison. No room for nostalgia any more than using an old computer for very long. Something I have, but find that I use it less and less each year. It was lightning fast in 2003, but in 2023 not so much...lol.

I still recall transferring a VHS tape to DVD as I didn't want to lose it, but oh my what a horrible picture it was over a 1080p tv set. A movie I can find on YouTube, though it isn't a good copy either...lol.
 
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One of my earliest memories was a video store in the village. The building has had multiple companies use it, and none did very well. Eventually it was turned into a house. We picked some Looney Tunes compilation videos when the company shut down. In later years, one of the 2 village grocery stores ended up doing DVD rental. I used to enjoy browsing it.

I remember the room of the old video store being quite smokey. The VHS cases were oversized and black plastic. Unlike the smaller, clear or frosted plastic cases I was used to. I remember enjoying opening the cases and smelling them. They had this wonderful smokey scent to them.

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Blockbuster and Hollywood rentals were close to home and it was fun going there to look, rent and even buy VHS tapes.
I had a collection of them I made on the VCR from the TV of movies and series.
That's all over now. I even liked the square CRT screen more than the wide screen.
The first wide screen TV I ever bought I thought was so ugly and the stretched out
picture was not appealing.
Old fashioned me. :rolleyes:
 
LadyS said:
And don't forget... who forgot to do this...confess!!! :p
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We also can't forget the scammers creating this....
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Watching a movie was more of an event then. Having to go to the video rental store and wander around looking at video covers. And the social aspect, people hanging out at the video store, playing pinball. Hoping that special girl you liked so much would show up while you were there. :) Now I push a button and have access to thousands of movies on my tv. So it's not an event like it used to be.

My sister was older than me so she would rent movies I was not allowed to watch. So naturally I always managed to watch those movies somehow, sneaking around. Telling a kid he's not allowed to watch a movie, that just makes him more set on watching it.
 
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Yeshuasdaughter said:
Yes! If you watch the pilot and first few episodes of any classic sitcom, it always seems a little wonky, like the writers and actors are trying to find their footing, and establish just who the characters are, and what works for the actors.

Later on, you find the episodes that everyone remembers.
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That's true, but I think there is one exception, "Married... With Children" started off great and just continued to be great. :D I have that show on DVD, it's still one of the funniest things ever.
 
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Luca said:
I loved going to Blockbuster. I was young and the fact that there was a “movie store” really fascinated me lol

I think I still have VHS tapes somewhere. I had a VHS camcorder when I was in elementary/middle school. I saved up and bought it myself.
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I still have a VHS camcorder and a functioning VCR player from, what, the 1980s? I loaned the VCR player to a friend so she can download and save all her videos of her children from 35 years ago. I plan to retrieve it when she is finished.

My husband has so much old, obsolete technology stored in the garage that we could start a museum. There are a couple of record turntables that still work, speakers, and some of those gigantic boxy computers and monitors that came in black and white Holstein cow cardboard boxes in the early 1990s. Maybe the computers were from Dell? No telling what else he has squirreled away out there.
 
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When my friend's wife thinks he's starting to get out of line she threatens to tidy his shed up for him. :)
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Genuis! I can envision it now:

Me: "Honey, I threw out those old electronic thingies in the garage that you never use."

Him: makes strangulation noises, turns bright red, starts twitching and passes out.
 
For any gamers here:

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I dont know how rentals were in other countries, but in the US at least these things were found in most rental stores. The games always came in these cases, or things that looked really similar.

I've got a whole bunch of these things lying around somewhere. We used to go to rental outlets all the time, it was like a special weekly ritual... the others would rent some movie or other, I'd rent a game or two, often the same games a great many times (after all, some games were just hard to find at stores). Eventually, I ended up just buying those outright, complete with the cases, when those stores were shutting down. So I've got a lot of these cases, and a lot of games (generally NES or SNES) that have stickers on them from a variety of rental stores.
 
I never had a TV, so I didn't try to rent movies until players came in computers. I remember going to the store with a visiting friend, and realizing that it should be her choice. When Netflix came out, I had a free trial, but they didn't carry ANY of the selections favoured by Whole Earth Review.
 
We rented at the gas station, before the rental chains came to town. It was fun and I was happy renting a lot of the same favorites over and over.
 
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