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Wait, T2: Judgement Day cost $99 dollars on VHS back in the '90s?
Posted on 8/29/17 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 8/29/17 at 3:57 pm
here's a blockbuster ad from when it was first advertised for VHS. there's no way this movie cost that much back then...
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by the way, robert patrick kinda made it an intense commercial.
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by the way, robert patrick kinda made it an intense commercial.
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Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:01 pm to finchmeister08
Looks like hey were advertising a package deal with like t-shirts, posters, and shite.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:11 pm to finchmeister08
All VHS cost what the video rental places had to pay for it...
While they got their money back through rentals, you didn't.
Movies didn't fully become affordable to the masses until the early 90's.
While they got their money back through rentals, you didn't.
Movies didn't fully become affordable to the masses until the early 90's.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:11 pm to finchmeister08
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Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:13 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
And that's on sale.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:14 pm to finchmeister08
$90 to $100 for a first release of a popular movie on VHS wasn't uncommon. The next year, McDonald's did their "$7.95 for any Indiana Jones movie" promotion and the public realized that they were paying way too much for films on VHS.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:20 pm to finchmeister08
Sometimes VHS would cost that much. I remember asking the local video store once why they only had a couple VHS for certain new releases. They said they costed something crazy like that.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:28 pm to Josh Fenderman
This was listed as $80 released in 1984 with Hi-Fi sound.
And as mentioned, Disney ruined it for all the other companies when they started reducing the prices of all their VHS tapes.
The Standard price was $80 plus whatever taxes. Usually total price was $89.95.
Robin Hood by Disney was released in 1984 as $80 and then a year later they reduced the price to $30.
Same thing with Pinocchio in 1986.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:33 pm to finchmeister08
I remember seeing Child's Play for like 80 bucks.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:35 pm to finchmeister08
The less common films would always cost around $80 to $100, but the mass produced films from some years like Top Gun, Batman, etc. were around $20 to $25 at Wal Mart in the late 80's-early 90's.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:39 pm to Bankshot
Top Gun had a famous $3 price reduction because it included a :60 Diet Pepsi commercial. You could get it for $26.95.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:48 pm to finchmeister08
Well, vhs, betamax, and laser disc player used to cost major $$$, likewise all home alliances in their early years. VHS was no different, hell, it could be at least a year after a movie left the theater before it was released for purchase and rental.
Too bad, home and car savings technologies didn't go thru the same price lowering process that home entertainment did.
Too bad, home and car savings technologies didn't go thru the same price lowering process that home entertainment did.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 4:58 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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Top Gun had a famous $3 price reduction because it included a :60 Diet Pepsi commercial. You could get it for $26.95.
I remember my copy of Last Crusade from 1990 having a Diet Coke commercial. The cassette price was around $25.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 5:02 pm to smkspy
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Well, vhs, betamax, and laser disc player used to cost major $$$
I bought an SVHS VCR for $1000. (I was working for a company that used SVHS, so it wasn't a total extravagance.) I still have it hooked up to my TV.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 6:44 pm to finchmeister08
My Dad had a video rental store in the 80's. New releases were over 100.00 then. Even the crappy "Good Times" movies were 80-90.00. He had a contract with a supplier who provided the movies and VCR's and they split the revenue 50/50. We would only get one copy of a new release and had a waiting list to rent them. This is when Stand By Me, Cobra, Raw Deal etc came out. Those are the ones I remember being in highest demand anyway.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 6:59 pm to Bama Shadow
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He had a contract with a supplier who provided the movies and VCR's and they split the revenue 50/50. We would only get one copy of a new release and had a waiting list to rent them. This is when Stand By Me, Cobra, Raw Deal etc came out. Those are the ones I remember being in highest demand anyway.
Yeah...this is was before Blockbuster, etc. Mom and Pop were all the video rental stores...and they'd have ONE copy of a movie and you'd have to call to reserve it the day before...for popular movies, there was a waiting list and then they'd call you when it was your turn like a week later.
If you lost their movie or never returned it - that was $100 down the drain.
BTW, supposedly the first movie to be commercially available on VHS in the United States was The Devil in Miss Jones at $95 a tape in 1977 (which would be like paying $400 for a porno today.)
And with inflation a 1977 VCR cost $4,500 in today's dollars.
Posted on 8/29/17 at 7:07 pm to finchmeister08
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there's no way this movie cost that much back then...
12 Terminator 2 Cassettes + 3 Drop Dead Fred cassettes = T-15 Prepack
Posted on 8/29/17 at 7:24 pm to finchmeister08
What a terrible time. Now I can just stream whatever I want for free whenever I want
Posted on 8/29/17 at 8:23 pm to StripedSaint
What the hell would I do with 12 copies of T2? 
Much less 3 copies of Drop Dead Fred?
Much less 3 copies of Drop Dead Fred?
Posted on 8/29/17 at 8:45 pm to finchmeister08
VCRs and cable TV were luxury items for the wealthy. Even an atari 2600 was equivalent to $800 today.
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