I've never been in one. My dad says they claimed you didn't return the videos you dropped in the night return box and tried to bill you for them so if that's what they did then I guess nobody will ever miss them. I don't have anything that can play tapes in my house.
If that applied to me it would be the movie itself that would form the main part of the memory, so watching a specific movie on DVD now would bring back the same memories because it's that particular movie. It's like music being part of my memories. If a specific album I bought on vinyl when I was 15 has special memories for me, those memories still come back to me when I play the CD of that album on my computer. It's the content of the disc that triggers the memories. It's the same with movies, whether they are on VHS or DVD.
I could understand taping the first Ghostbusters, but not Ghostbusters II.
Strange because Ghostbusters II was from 1989 and probably not released on home video until 1990. I wonder who was still using Beta in the 90's. Probably some old person.
I bought hundreds of VHS videos in the 1990s and I still have most of them. I don't need to rent them. Since 2004 I've been collecting DVDs and there are several shops where I can buy those cheap. Once again, I don't need to rent them. I'd much rather buy them and watch a specific movie on whatever specific date I want to watch it.
I miss trecking through various record, cd, dvd and vhs stores. I used to enjoy flipping through the album covers and even the vhs covers. Walking into a store like Best Buy today gives me a cold feeling. it is like walking through a sterile environment devoid of any soul. Just a bunch of robot like people in there with sales personel who have trouble spelling the simplest of words, most of them with their heads down staring at a screen and doing anything but their job.
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