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Is there a cult following for VHS?
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Author:  ertoili [ 12 Dec 2016, 09:08 ]
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thank you...that explains why Tomb raider Bluray is almost DVD quality
Author:  samaron [ 13 May 2017, 23:49 ]
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Got a nice lot of b-movies on VHS on Friday. All are 'murican tapes. Not common to run across that here in Norway. A couple appear not to be available on DVD/BD either. Regardless, some great additions to my movie collection. Don't have any of these. Probably should get a better overview of what's available on modern formats or laserdisc for potential upgrades in the future.

The favorites in this lot has to be The Refrigerator and Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. Seriously.... killer refrigerator? Anti-drug video for kids? I smell some good cheese here!

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Author:  forper [ 14 May 2017, 01:20 ]
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Great great stuff. Wow, Garfield standing next to a smurf and baby Kermit, wildest dreams do come true! Are they actually animated together in the show?
Author:  Guest [ 14 May 2017, 11:32 ]
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samaron wrote:
Got a nice lot of b-movies on VHS on Friday. All are 'murican tapes. Not common to run across that here in Norway. A couple appear not to be available on DVD/BD either. Regardless, some great additions to my movie collection. Don't have any of these. Probably should get a better overview of what's available on modern formats or laserdisc for potential upgrades in the future.

The favorites in this lot has to be The Refrigerator and Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue. Seriously.... killer refrigerator? Anti-drug video for kids? I smell some good cheese here!

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let me know how Prime Risk was?
Good or bad?
Is that a juvenile movie similar to Wargames?
Author:  samaron [ 14 May 2017, 12:05 ]
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Yep. All sorts of well known cartoon characters are animated together in this one. Disney, Looney Tunes, muppets, ninja turtles, you name it. Introduction with the first Bush with a speech telling you to stay away from drugs and alcohol. The production was funded by McDonalds.

Prime Risk is a computer hacking movie from the 80s as far as I understand. Some teenagers hack ATMs to get money or something, but end up getting caught up in something much more serious. They run into some guys with much more sinister intents. As the tag line says "It makes War Games kid stuff."

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Author:  tasuke [ 23 May 2017, 16:39 ]
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after years of keeping an eye out for one, i finally... -FINALLY- netted an NOS original hard-case mid/late 80's MAXELL RX-PRO T120;

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beside my 1984/1987 TDK HD PRO/HD-X PRO, i'll finally have examples of the very top grade of VHS blank offered by both of the two Japanese magnetic media juggernauts,
-two of the very best VHS blanks they had ever produced- both from their firms' mid/late-1980's production era...
Author:  forper [ 27 May 2017, 11:01 ]
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Beautiful. Any Maxell tapes were the best back in the 90s. We knew this because of fansub groups at the time. They would charge extra for Maxell.

1996, 4 eps of Orguss TV fansubbed on a Maxell = happiness.
Author:  tasuke [ 27 May 2017, 16:00 ]
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four of the very best VHS Blanks, from the two top names in Magnetic A/V media;

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Author:  forper [ 28 May 2017, 00:36 ]
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Wow, check out that gold sticker on the bottom Maxell. Cool stuff.

It's interesting they were marketed for professionals but surely actual professionals (TV stations, archivists etc) would have been using at least S-VHS/Betacam etc.

I know the build, packaging and feel of the tapes, as well as the picture/sound/durability was actually better on pro tapes, always made in Japan using the best, but was the marketing for "pro" VHS tapes actually as I suspect directed at high-end consumers? Did professionals actually use these?
Author:  tasuke [ 28 May 2017, 15:40 ]
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Nah, i'm fairly sure Pro studios of the day stuck pretty exclusively by BETACAM and such, for the most part at least.

all these luxury "PRO" type VHS blanks were pretty squarely marketed towards what SONY ended up coining the "Prosumer"
the more demanding,discerning, well-heeled breed of professionally-minded consumers of A/V products
that the TOTL VHS/S-VHS/BETA/ED-BETA "Editing" kitchen-sink decks of the mid/late-1980's were intended to appeal towards...
Author:  tasuke [ 11 Nov 2017, 16:36 ]
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two versions of the limited 1st edition red-cassette-shelled THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER;

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Author:  forper [ 12 Nov 2017, 09:29 ]
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tasuke wrote:
Nah, i'm fairly sure Pro studios of the day stuck pretty exclusively by BETACAM and such, for the most part at least.

all these luxury "PRO" type VHS blanks were pretty squarely marketed towards what SONY ended up coining the "Prosumer"
the more demanding,discerning, well-heeled breed of professionally-minded consumers of A/V products
that the TOTL VHS/S-VHS/BETA/ED-BETA "Editing" kitchen-sink decks of the mid/late-1980's were intended to appeal towards...


I see, thanks for this reply I didn't see it before
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