Retroman839
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Great selection here ☺️👍
What other hobbies ???
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Is it just me or do we all miss going to the video shop on a Saturday night and picking a video to watch ??
To much choice now a day !!
Great collection mate,
Dave.
I miss Blockbusters, but earlier than that miss the small local shops that used to have videos. Never forget when we ‘hired’ our first VHS player from Visionhire. I can remember renting Conan, Airplane, Romancing the Stone (for mum!) and Terminator.
After 3 channels for years and Hammer Horror being the most racy stuff I’d ever seen it was a revalation.
Then ‘round my mates house he’d got Xtro and The Burning. We were probably 12 years old or thereabouts!
These films blew my mind and been a massive fan of horror ever since.
Also there’s the stunning artwork of early VHS releases. A bit like arcade art -
It really drew you in and I remember seeing all the covers displayed in shops and wondering what the hell the films were like!
It’s just pure nostalgia for me. Also I still enjoy watching a grainy print of something like Frankenhooker or The Burning… even though I could see them in 4k now. Just seems to suit certain films as well.
Frankenhooker
I saw the bluray in CEX but they want stoopid money for many ones like that, never seen itIt was brilliant down our local OFF Licence, they had extension on side with VHS Rentals, they hired out Players for weekends too, looking at all the boxes was magic times, made it really special when you rented some films, not anymore when you can watch anything anytime without leaving house
Not sure I could watch many movies on VHS now unless I had a big CRT or rear projection TV, proper old school one but watching Friday 13th on Bluray ruined the effects like throat cut scene, can see too much detail now and see rubber skin where you couldn't on VHS so some things are better on older equipment, DVD is ok too as it's still a bit grainy
CMYKhazi-Dan
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We used to take a hand-written note from my mate's mum to Video Addicts (our local independent) for permission to rent out Predator and Robocop VHS when we were 12 – good times – ED-209 shooting the shit out of that guy has never been beaten since!
Used to do it for her cigarettes too
Good Times
I've probably told this story many time before 😭
Used to do it for her cigarettes too
Good Times
I've probably told this story many time before 😭
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Just looking for a film to watch in my list
Looking at Urban Explorer and this was on google
What is the #1 scariest movie ever?
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According to a scientific study, Sinister (2012) is considered the scariest movie ever made. The study, conducted by MoneySuperMarket, measured heart rate changes while viewers watched various horror films and found that Sinister induced the highest average heart rate increase, resulting in a "Scare Score" of 96 out of 100. While Sinister may be considered the scariest by some, it's important to remember that scariness is subjective
Gotta say when I first watched Sinister I thought this is the best scary films in a very long time, Elm Street was awesome when you first watched it
Looking at Urban Explorer and this was on google
What is the #1 scariest movie ever?
AI Overview
According to a scientific study, Sinister (2012) is considered the scariest movie ever made. The study, conducted by MoneySuperMarket, measured heart rate changes while viewers watched various horror films and found that Sinister induced the highest average heart rate increase, resulting in a "Scare Score" of 96 out of 100. While Sinister may be considered the scariest by some, it's important to remember that scariness is subjective
Gotta say when I first watched Sinister I thought this is the best scary films in a very long time, Elm Street was awesome when you first watched itI’ve got a nice Panasonic player running through a scart to hdmi converter hooked up to modern tv. Plays films nicely in 4:3 aspect ratio. The grain and blur helps with the old 70’s and 80’s films a lot.Frankenhooker
It was brilliant down our local OFF Licence, they had extension on side with VHS Rentals, they hired out Players for weekends too, looking at all the boxes was magic times, made it really special when you rented some films, not anymore when you can watch anything anytime without leaving house
Not sure I could watch many movies on VHS now unless I had a big CRT or rear projection TV, proper old school one but watching Friday 13th on Bluray ruined the effects like throat cut scene, can see too much detail now and see rubber skin where you couldn't on VHS so some things are better on older equipment, DVD is ok too as it's still a bit grainy
We used to take a hand-written note from my mate's mum to Video Addicts (our local independent) for permission to rent out Predator and Robocop VHS when we were 12 – good times – ED-209 shooting the shit out of that guy has never been beaten since!
Used to do it for her cigarettes too
Good Times
I've probably told this story many time before 😭
Ed 209 still makes me shits my pants even today !
Dave.
Remembee the Ed 209 scene in the cinema. It was incredible. Mind you the whole film was just revelatory when it came out. That and Predator in the same year. 🎥💥🤟We used to take a hand-written note from my mate's mum to Video Addicts (our local independent) for permission to rent out Predator and Robocop VHS when we were 12 – good times – ED-209 shooting the shit out of that guy has never been beaten since!
Used to do it for her cigarettes too
Good Times
I've probably told this story many time before 😭
I have a very fond memory regarding VHS.
I can remember when I was in class 1 in primary school I learned to write my name on the back of a drawing for the first time. I told my mum when she picked me up and we then went to the shop in the village that rented VHS tapes and I chose a 'SuperTed' VHS and signed for it myself.
Happy memories 🥰
I can remember when I was in class 1 in primary school I learned to write my name on the back of a drawing for the first time. I told my mum when she picked me up and we then went to the shop in the village that rented VHS tapes and I chose a 'SuperTed' VHS and signed for it myself.
Happy memories 🥰
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1987 was pretty awesome for films
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Retroman839
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I nearly picked up a super ted anual the other day …
Retroman839
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My mate .
He had a vcr unite that for some reason allowed him to copy vide to vídeo when the anti piracy was implemented ..
The big film at that time was
Commando , People were trying normal vhs to vhs to Copy but it would no longer work ..
But his vídeo recorder did work still.
So he could rent & copy.
Down the road was the main pirates the house was full!!!!
a shadowy guy would turn up in a small van And he would
Start revealing what he had this week …. It was nuts .. the excitement was fever pitch ..
We used to say “. Come on then let’s go inside and watch something.” But they didn’t want to , they wanted to ply outside ,, We had spectrum too at their house …. Kick start!
I think it had the course creator!
Loved that !
Then we would watch a film ..
I was too young to even sit and watch a movie .. but I could get the atmosphere when everyone was all sitting down like at the cinima
Commando would be like £150 to buy round that time
Pirates paid like £20 + a video
From shady man
Then sell copy’s for like minimum £10 each
I remeber Batman & T2 was the last pirates I think I watched.
I remeber £60 being the cost for a copy of Batman
He had a vcr unite that for some reason allowed him to copy vide to vídeo when the anti piracy was implemented ..
The big film at that time was
Commando , People were trying normal vhs to vhs to Copy but it would no longer work ..
But his vídeo recorder did work still.
So he could rent & copy.
Down the road was the main pirates the house was full!!!!
a shadowy guy would turn up in a small van And he would
Start revealing what he had this week …. It was nuts .. the excitement was fever pitch ..
We used to say “. Come on then let’s go inside and watch something.” But they didn’t want to , they wanted to ply outside ,, We had spectrum too at their house …. Kick start!
I think it had the course creator!
Loved that !
Then we would watch a film ..
I was too young to even sit and watch a movie .. but I could get the atmosphere when everyone was all sitting down like at the cinima
Commando would be like £150 to buy round that time
Pirates paid like £20 + a video
From shady man
Then sell copy’s for like minimum £10 each
I remeber Batman & T2 was the last pirates I think I watched.
I remeber £60 being the cost for a copy of Batman
Some lovely pre certs there. I remember both postal and travelling to Amsterdam to pick up some of the midnight video releases. I had a lot of the horror stuff and managed to get all of the lemon popsicles ! The Burning and absurd where a couple of favourites, I never did find a last house on the left, so we'll do e with that. Rarest one I had was probably the Australian release of men behind the sun. During some moves a lot of my crappie stuff oxidised and had to be thrown away. Most horror stuff I sold a while back. I seem to have lost absurd .
Do you remember how bad the pirate version of et wasat the time. I had a macrovision box, and swapped atari st releases for pirate videos , so was self funding. Pirate videos was at the time only way to get the Disney films which tended to have Arabic looking subtitles . I did have time copied copy of mikey which was banned, original too.
Retroman839
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When you waiting for a new release date
“Is that the pirate van man on the hill ?”
“Is that the pirate van man on the hill ?”
I was working in TV repair workshop and guy I was working with was telling me how good all the latest films were like Robocop and Predator, I then saw Panasonic Hi-Fi Stereo one come in and that changed my Movie experience when I bought one, Got satellite TV in 1989 so i record all the latest movies in Stereo sound which was awesome, The Wraith and The Gate on one tape, probably still got the notebook I did as i labeled all the tapes with numbers, had about 100 so wrote in notebook whats on each tape in pencil.
still have a few 80's Panasonic players which are all Hi-Fi sound ones and do have some VHS tapes of old 80s stuff not on DVD and have one connected to Panasonic Projector
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Retroman839
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Awesome like the laserdisc
Pioneer wide screen and projector was a game changer ..
I have stock from pioneer uk when it closed still with obi
I jus tv took jap import animation and starwars trilogy ,
The box set jap animation manga sets are as you would imagine from Japan ..
Things of beauty
I remeber buying a pioneer 1750 laser disc player with my student loan , happy days. First films were texas chainsaw massacre, on the line of fire and star was 4 to 6. The newer vhs dvd recorders which had hdmi are still a good player, think mine is a pioneer or Panasonic , my dad has loads of them !
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My wife despises original robocop wtf?...im gonna have to have words!