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re: What do you remember about going to the movie rental store?
Posted on 5/2/17 at 2:32 pm to dallastiger55
Posted on 5/2/17 at 2:32 pm to dallastiger55
I remember renting a lot of Godzilla and Jackie Chan tapes, and one random low budget movie called Escape From Wildcat Canyon.
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Posted on 5/2/17 at 2:51 pm to Jor Jor The Dinosaur
Finding a place with $2 Tuesdays who had every Bond movie (all 15 at the time, plus Casino Royale).
Posted on 5/2/17 at 2:51 pm to MorbidTheClown
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Anyone remember the first movie they rented? Should this be a spinoff thread?
Predator 2.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 3:05 pm to dallastiger55
We did not get a VCR until summer of 1991. We had HBO,Cinemax,Showtime for as long as I could remember but for some reason we waited on the VCR. That summer I rode my bike to the video store every day to check out all those movies I longed to watch growing up. That was back when mom and pops stores would rent shite like Faces of Death to 12 year olds 
Posted on 5/2/17 at 3:22 pm to Dam Guide
Posted on 5/2/17 at 3:24 pm to dallastiger55
I miss picking out early 1980" straight to video horror movies based on which ones had the funniest looking box.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 3:25 pm to CocomoLSU
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Well this thread went from being awesome to total shite. Nice work, fellas.
Why are you blaming me? I stuck to the topic. I didn't describe the smell or anything because marijuasweatbooze isn't a real word.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 3:31 pm to ThuperThumpin
we had a vcr way back in 1980. I remember we also had a VHS camera and part of the VCR detached from the player and went into a bag and was used as the recording device for the camera. I remeber my dad saying the camera and VCR cost like $2000 in 1980.
My uncle owned two small video stores in Baton Rouge so when we visited we always left with a dozen or so movies he was taking off the shelves, while I'm sure my dad got some movies from behind the curtain.
I also remember him saying VHS rental tapes were like $150-200 each and were different than consumer sale tapes.
My uncle owned two small video stores in Baton Rouge so when we visited we always left with a dozen or so movies he was taking off the shelves, while I'm sure my dad got some movies from behind the curtain.
I also remember him saying VHS rental tapes were like $150-200 each and were different than consumer sale tapes.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 3:46 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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I don't think he made it till Netflix streaming put the final nail in the business model.
Yeah, they closed down a good bit before the Netflix boom IIRC.
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Finding a place with $2 Tuesdays who had every Bond movie (all 15 at the time, plus Casino Royale).
That's one of my memories from college. My roommate and I would always hit up Blockbusters on Siegen when they had sales. We bought a TON of movies from them on the (relative) cheap.
Also, I remember growing up my buddy and his parents had movie channels and a VCR. And they had a wall/shelf full to the hilt of movies. They had them all catalogged and shite, and it was awesome. I remember they made us a tape with Harry and the Hendersons, Dirty Dancing, and something else on it. And I watched it incessantly and thought it was cool as hell that I owned those movies (and got them for free).
Posted on 5/2/17 at 3:50 pm to dallastiger55
it made watching movies at home a much bigger deal. i miss it.
i also loved browsing the stacks with a date after dinner, knowing full well we weren't about to watch any of the movie we decided on.
i also loved browsing the stacks with a date after dinner, knowing full well we weren't about to watch any of the movie we decided on.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:04 pm to MorbidTheClown
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The mom and pop places got pushed out by the boxbusters and hollywoods. was kind of sad because the service at the mom and pop places was way better.
The mom and pops just had to make adjustments to their business models.
The Blockbuster and Hollywoods could never compete with my dads store's selections. Im not talking about new releases but everything else. People came there because you could get that obscure movie from 30 years ago along with the new release your kid wanted.
He also was very lenient with late fees. They were pretty much nonexistent unless you were an a-hole and had a message on your account to never let late fees slide.
A big swing over to the store also was the ticketmaster outlet. That got hoards of people in the store, although we made very little from the actual ticket sales.
The dagger for the mom and pops and blockbusters was the movie availability on your couch.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:07 pm to Napoleon
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I also remember him saying VHS rental tapes were like $150-200 each and were different than consumer sale tapes
The consumer tapes were still really expensive upon first release I believe. I think they were around $100.00 for new releases.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:10 pm to ThuperThumpin
yea some were over $100. some were around $15 or $20.
ill have to ask my dad what was the deal with the prices back then
ill have to ask my dad what was the deal with the prices back then
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:11 pm to PhilipMarlowe
Video store and chill
My high school days would have been much simpler in either the VHS or Netflix eras. I always got stuck with the DVD menu music looping in the background, too busy to mute or turn it off.
My high school days would have been much simpler in either the VHS or Netflix eras. I always got stuck with the DVD menu music looping in the background, too busy to mute or turn it off.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:11 pm to dallastiger55
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What do you remember about going to the movie rental store?
Working at one in college in the very early 90's. Worked at the Alfalfa Video Store in Lafayette in Time Plaza in Johnston Street which was next to Durel's Pet Store and back then, Golf Connection for anyone there back then.
Great job...if it wasn't for the fricking customers.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:12 pm to Napoleon
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I miss picking out early 1980" straight to video horror movies based on which ones had the funniest looking box.
Me too.
I loved this one. The box had a button and screech "Wanna Date"
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:13 pm to ThuperThumpin
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The consumer tapes were still really expensive upon first release I believe. I think they were around $100.00 for new releases.
There no consumer VHS tapes on the market early on...sure, there was the VCR but that was for blank tapes and taping your TV programming and renting commercial movies.
If you wanted to own a movie not taped from TV, you had to buy it from video rental places - they were the only ones getting them from the studios.
And you had to pay what the Video Rental place was paying...about $100 for a movie ($300 today).
Like I said, we had to pay $100 for Empire Strikes Back in 1983.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:37 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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There no consumer VHS tapes on the market early on...sure, there was the VCR but that was for blank tapes and taping your TV programming and renting commercial movies.
If you wanted to own a movie not taped from TV, you had to buy it from video rental places - they were the only ones getting them from the studios.
And you had to pay what the Video Rental place was paying...about $100 for a movie ($300 today).
Like I said, we had to pay $100 for Empire Strikes Back in 1983.
Correct. Customers would get pissed off when they'd lose a tape or...and this shite would happen a ton down here, leave that fricker on their car seat or dashboard and melt it to shreds, and then have to pay for it. Soon as we'd show them the bill for a new release movie back then, they'd lose their minds.
First tape I recall being released with a straight to consumer price tag was Keaton's Batman. Before then, yeah...could be close to $100.
One of my favorite things to do there was to go into the computer system and check to see which tapes made the most money. The model was actually tougher when tapes were so expensive as they'd have to be rented a good bit before they'd turn a profit. All for the porn tapes that is. We'd get those in batches, pay almost nothing for them, and rent them for more than a new release tape and they'd make a killing. Some of those had been purchased for pennies and had made over $1000 in rentals.
Also remember spending hours at the second counter near checkout either making dubs of tapes for customers (we'd make copies of personal tapes and charge them) or splicing tapes that got fricked up due to use.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:40 pm to Deactived
I worked for a VHS (and other tape formats) duplicating company at the start of the 90's. The main difference between "premium" and "bargain" VHS tapes was that the high end tapes were recorded on the actual cassettes, while the cheap tapes were recorded on huge reel to reel recorders and then cut as they were loaded into empty cassettes.
Sometimes we'd get a massive order from Polygram Records/Video or ESPN and we'd have to record on every machine available, so the quality of what you bought was really a crapshoot.
I'd see some of the videos for sale in stores, and the retail pricing for the same quality of tape ran the gamut.
Sometimes we'd get a massive order from Polygram Records/Video or ESPN and we'd have to record on every machine available, so the quality of what you bought was really a crapshoot.
I'd see some of the videos for sale in stores, and the retail pricing for the same quality of tape ran the gamut.
Posted on 5/2/17 at 4:47 pm to ThuperThumpin
That looks like a porno.
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