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| adkindo wrote: | | VicXLakers wrote: | Bought my first VCR for $1199 back in 1979...still have it up on a shelf somewhere...still works
Still have dozen of old videos...some with commercials  |
was it top loading....I recall the first one I ever saw in the early 80's was top loading...my grandmother had it.....it set on top of the giant 25" "floor model" television right beside the little black "home box office" box!
anyone else recall the little box that tv providers gave you for HBO service....it just had 1 single switch on it.....either TV or HBO......or the floor model tv encased wood to look like a piece of furniture. |
oh yeah...top loader with the long pause/play cord
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| adkindo wrote: | | VicXLakers wrote: | Bought my first VCR for $1199 back in 1979...still have it up on a shelf somewhere...still works
Still have dozen of old videos...some with commercials |
was it top loading....I recall the first one I ever saw in the early 80's was top loading...my grandmother had it.....it set on top of the giant 25" "floor model" television right beside the little black "home box office" box!
anyone else recall the little box that tv providers gave you for HBO service....it just had 1 single switch on it.....either TV or HBO......or the floor model tv encased wood to look like a piece of furniture. |
Is this where "it's not TV, it's HBO" came from? Also now wondering if Digiornio ripped this off. |
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| loslakersss wrote: | | adkindo wrote: | | VicXLakers wrote: | Bought my first VCR for $1199 back in 1979...still have it up on a shelf somewhere...still works
Still have dozen of old videos...some with commercials |
was it top loading....I recall the first one I ever saw in the early 80's was top loading...my grandmother had it.....it set on top of the giant 25" "floor model" television right beside the little black "home box office" box!
anyone else recall the little box that tv providers gave you for HBO service....it just had 1 single switch on it.....either TV or HBO......or the floor model tv encased wood to look like a piece of furniture. |
Is this where "it's not TV, it's HBO" came from? Also now wondering if Digiornio ripped this off. |
it looked something like this....
https://i.imgur.com/gSYuVf8.jpg
if you did not have one, you got....
https://i.imgur.com/i0HQfHa.gif
while I was looking for those images....came across another classic in late 80's/early 90's...the VCR Plus! Allowed you to easily program your VCR!
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/812rhLKtL%2BL._SY606_.jpg
never could figure out if the name was VCR Plus or VCR Plus Plus... |
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| lakersken80 wrote: | | adkindo wrote: | a couple more somewhat related....our first VCR....guessing around 1985ish.....had a remote control but was corded.....and the cord was only like 3-4 feet.
....would hate when I would go to rent a movie, and they had the BetaMax version in stock, but no the VHS!
....anyone recall when Video Rental places charged a membership fee just to be able to rent movies? The first place we rented from when I was a kid, it required a membership fee of $99 a year! |
Had the same VCR....that thing weighed a ton. The remote was pointless since you had to sit close to the VCR so you might as well leave the remote detached.
Also we had a TV where you had to get up to physically change the channels. |
that is why as kids we use to set in the floor right in front of the television...we were our parents human remote control.  |
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| adkindo wrote: | | loslakersss wrote: | | adkindo wrote: | | VicXLakers wrote: | Bought my first VCR for $1199 back in 1979...still have it up on a shelf somewhere...still works
Still have dozen of old videos...some with commercials |
was it top loading....I recall the first one I ever saw in the early 80's was top loading...my grandmother had it.....it set on top of the giant 25" "floor model" television right beside the little black "home box office" box!
anyone else recall the little box that tv providers gave you for HBO service....it just had 1 single switch on it.....either TV or HBO......or the floor model tv encased wood to look like a piece of furniture. |
Is this where "it's not TV, it's HBO" came from? Also now wondering if Digiornio ripped this off. |
if you did not have one, you got....
https://i.imgur.com/i0HQfHa.gif
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kinda remember as a youngster "listening" to playboy or spice with that screen on the tv, imagining...........wait, did i just admit that?! forget what i just said! ......typed! |
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| VicXLakers wrote: | | non-player zealot wrote: | | DaMuleRules wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | DaMuleRules wrote: | | My favorite Blockbuster memory: many years ago I was dating a woman and she borrowed an adult movie from me. One evening in a rush to return a movie she had rented from Blockbuster, she threw a VHS in the Blockbuster case and dropped it in the return slot. Then she got home to discover that the tape she ejected from her VCR was not the Blockbuster tape, but the tape she borrowed from me. So she took that back to the Blockbuster and lurked until she saw one of the clerks restock the case on the shelf. Then she slyly swapped the two cassettes without getting caught. |
title of movie? |
It was “Honey Bunch” or something like that. Every so often when we were out and saw an awkward moment she’d just look at me and say “Honey Bunch” with a nod and a wink. |
This was back in the Hairy Era. |
cut the search in half...was Ron Jeremy in it?  |
No, I do recall that Raquel Darrian was though.
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| adkindo wrote: | | DaMuleRules wrote: | | My favorite Blockbuster memory: many years ago I was dating a woman and she borrowed an adult movie from me. One evening in a rush to return a movie she had rented from Blockbuster, she threw a VHS in the Blockbuster case and dropped it in the return slot. Then she got home to discover that the tape she ejected from her VCR was not the Blockbuster tape, but the tape she borrowed from me. So she took that back to the Blockbuster and lurked until she saw one of the clerks restock the case on the shelf. Then she slyly swapped the two cassettes without getting caught. |
at least it was not one you two made at home and starred in..... |
We shot on mini-DV 
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You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
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| LonzoLegend2 wrote: | | Bastards wouldn't even hire me after what I thought was a nice albeit brief interview with a store manager whereas any other retail chain would have..GOOD RIDDANCE glad Redbox and Netflix put NutBuster out of business. |
Tell us how you really feel . |
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| microbe obliterator wrote: | | adkindo wrote: | | loslakersss wrote: | | adkindo wrote: | | VicXLakers wrote: | Bought my first VCR for $1199 back in 1979...still have it up on a shelf somewhere...still works
Still have dozen of old videos...some with commercials |
was it top loading....I recall the first one I ever saw in the early 80's was top loading...my grandmother had it.....it set on top of the giant 25" "floor model" television right beside the little black "home box office" box!
anyone else recall the little box that tv providers gave you for HBO service....it just had 1 single switch on it.....either TV or HBO......or the floor model tv encased wood to look like a piece of furniture. |
Is this where "it's not TV, it's HBO" came from? Also now wondering if Digiornio ripped this off. |
if you did not have one, you got....
https://i.imgur.com/i0HQfHa.gif
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kinda remember as a youngster "listening" to playboy or spice with that screen on the tv, imagining...........wait, did i just admit that?! forget what i just said! ......typed! |
Lol it's all good bro...I think a lot of us here did that...man this thread takes me back. |
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| I was too cool for VHS. I’m was a laserdisc guy. Some Blockbusters rented them, though. |
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| Aeneas Hunter wrote: | | I was too cool for VHS. I’m was a laserdisc guy. Some Blockbusters rented them, though. |
A format that should have taken off, yet didn't.
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He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
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Jason Isbell
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fwiw the first time I saw a naked woman was when I walked into the "ADULTS ONLY" section at the Wherehouse as a 6-year-old. They had the original VHS jackets on display...the ones with muffrage and strudel on the front.
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| Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | fwiw the first time I saw a naked woman was when I walked into the "ADULTS ONLY" section at the Wherehouse as a 6-year-old. They had the original VHS jackets on display...the ones with muffrage and strudel on the front. |
And thus is how fetishes are born.
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You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
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Jason Isbell
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| VicXLakers wrote: |
oh yeah...top loader with the long pause/play cord |
To think I felt bad for bringing up the subject of porn, and then you go making it all dirty.
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| Aeneas Hunter wrote: | | I was too cool for VHS. I’m was a laserdisc guy. Some Blockbusters rented them, though. |
surprised they had the shelf space....those things were large from what I recall. |
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | Aeneas Hunter wrote: | | I was too cool for VHS. I’m was a laserdisc guy. Some Blockbusters rented them, though. |
A format that should have taken off, yet didn't. |
If DVDs hadn’t come along, they might have. They were marketed to upscale consumers (i.e., people like me who were willing to pay more). You couldn’t record something on a blank laserdisc like you could with VHS, and that was a big deal back in the day. As it played out, laserdisc users like me basically funded digital conversion of movies and introduced people to letterbox format (which was the biggest attraction to me). Then digital letterbox versions got marketed to the masses through DVDs. Before that, I used to amaze people by running something like the original Star Wars or 2001 on laserdisc, with wide screen format and digital sound. As a movie industry guy, I’m sure you appreciate this. I got to fully enjoy the fruits of your hard work. |
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| adkindo wrote: | | Aeneas Hunter wrote: | | I was too cool for VHS. I’m was a laserdisc guy. Some Blockbusters rented them, though. |
surprised they had the shelf space....those things were large from what I recall. |
They were the same size as vinyl LPs. Some Blockbusters had racks just like what you would have found in a record shop back in the day. The selection was typically limited, though. Most of us bought our laserdiscs, which is why it was so much more expensive. At the time, I considered it to be worth the money. Now I have about 100 laserdiscs joining my vinyl LPs as dust collectors. |
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I was in Japan in the eighties and had an early laser disc player (paid a bloody fortune, but I had about eight grand in audio video gear), but the dvd quickly killed it.
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I used Laserdiscs mostly for concert films like Clapton 24 Nights/Unplugged, CSN, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin ...things I watched over and over 
Still have them up in the closet...my oldest son hasn't gotten to that format yet. He has my amp, receiver and turntable and most my vinyl already |
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | fwiw the first time I saw a naked woman was when I walked into the "ADULTS ONLY" section at the Wherehouse as a 6-year-old. They had the original VHS jackets on display...the ones with muffrage and strudel on the front. |
And thus is how fetishes are born. |
There had better be an adult section if there is only one left in the USA.
As someone who actually rented (ahem) an adult video there back in the day, that was awkward as hell. You were trying to mix that one in with Top Gun and Breakfast Club and (bleep).
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| LakerLanny wrote: | | DaMuleRules wrote: | | Huey Lewis & The News wrote: | | fwiw the first time I saw a naked woman was when I walked into the "ADULTS ONLY" section at the Wherehouse as a 6-year-old. They had the original VHS jackets on display...the ones with muffrage and strudel on the front. |
And thus is how fetishes are born. |
There had better be an adult section if there is only one left in the USA.
As someone who actually rented (ahem) an adult video there back in the day, that was awkward as hell. You were trying to mix that one in with Top Gun and Breakfast Club and (bleep). |
My wife would make the selections while I ran herd on ours boys dazzling them with the games and candy...checkout was tricky  |
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| VicXLakers wrote: | I used Laserdiscs mostly for concert films like Clapton 24 Nights/Unplugged, CSN, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin ...things I watched over and over
Still have them up in the closet...my oldest son hasn't gotten to that format yet. He has my amp, receiver and turntable and most my vinyl already |
I remember back in the day when my dad, who was a huge audiophile, upgraded his equipment from top to bottom and gave me his old setup as my first. I was the only one of my friends with a full high end system. Needless to say my buddies and I spent a lot of time "chilling" and cranking our favorite albums.
Still have my old vinyl, but haven't made the leap back yet.
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You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
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In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | VicXLakers wrote: | I used Laserdiscs mostly for concert films like Clapton 24 Nights/Unplugged, CSN, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin ...things I watched over and over
Still have them up in the closet...my oldest son hasn't gotten to that format yet. He has my amp, receiver and turntable and most my vinyl already |
I remember back in the day when my dad, who was a huge audiophile, upgraded his equipment from top to bottom and gave me his old setup as my first. I was the only one of my friends with a full high end system. Needless to say my buddies and I spent a lot of time "chilling" and cranking our favorite albums.
Still have my old vinyl, but haven't made the leap back yet. |
I don't think vinyl will ever go away. It's still the richest/fullest sounding medium, be it physical or digital, by far. Also the nostalgia/collectible element is very strong. |
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| LakerLanny wrote: |
As someone who actually rented (ahem) an adult video there back in the day, that was awkward as hell. You were trying to mix that one in with Top Gun and Breakfast Club and (bleep). |
lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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