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Do you miss VHS rental stores?

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Posted - October 20, 2016

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  • 46117
    They were certainly convenient if not totally overpriced.
      October 20, 2016 3:13 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    haha
    never ever rented a VHS tape
    Never ever rented a DVD movie either
    So I have nothing to miss
      October 20, 2016 5:12 PM MDT
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  • 5451
    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.
      October 21, 2016 9:25 AM MDT
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  • Blockbuster was famous for that. 
      October 22, 2016 11:38 AM MDT
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  • 17596
    Not really but the memory of renting videos is part of the memory of rearing my children, so I remember it fondly.
      October 21, 2016 1:11 PM MDT
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  • 2148
    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.
      October 22, 2016 12:56 AM MDT
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  • I understand both ways. 
      October 22, 2016 5:58 AM MDT
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  • Andy, it's more the thrill of the hunt, and what treasures you may find. 
      October 22, 2016 6:46 AM MDT
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  • 1523
    Yeah
      October 21, 2016 2:51 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    VHS certainly had its effect on life.

      October 22, 2016 12:45 AM MDT
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  • That's Beta!!!!!!!!

    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.
      October 22, 2016 5:58 AM MDT
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  • Bez

    2148
    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.
      October 22, 2016 12:51 AM MDT
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  • I do, kind of. I always loved going in and hunting for a few good movies for the weekend. 
      October 22, 2016 6:47 AM MDT
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  • 152
    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.
      October 22, 2016 7:10 AM MDT
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