VHS was based
why are there blacks in the store?
>>219666542I never saw a black person working in a VHS store. I thought your picture was AI for a moment.
on what
>>219666542I would never rent from a store that employed blacks.
vhs was garbage. dvd really mogged it.
Beta was superior but the porn industry shut it down do to higher costs.
>>219666562Back before Blockbuster there were all kinds of weird mom & pop video rentals. Like vape shops are now, but also in the back of random normal stores.
>>219667784Yeah, I was there, and I never saw black people working them, ever, at all.One video store right by my grandma's was in someones house/garage (literal car garage) business.
>>219667784There was a non-chain grocery store in my upstate NY town that had a video and game rental section in the corner. It wasn't a separate store, you could bring milk to browse NES games. They came in a case with a big third party sticker that tried to sum up the games controls and plot/goal. I was renting RPGs and trying other people's save files.
>physically degrading mediaNo
>>219666752It was more of a game changer when it came out. Probably hard to imagine if you weren't around in 1980.
>>219667820yes there were, you just grew up in some flyover shithole lmao retard
>>219667784AND WE LIKED IT
>>219666542>ooo massa you have good taste!
>>219666562>/tv/ thread about literally anything always immediately devolves into an argument about black people
>>219666542No it wasnt. People never rewound them and niggers somehow got dirt on the tape and youd have to get your VRC fixed
>>219666542>not a dvd in sightAll my life we'd think "if I can only invent a time machine, I'd play the lottery and get rich," not realizing all we'd do is go back to this and stay there.
>>219666752it has a warmer sound.
>>219666542For me, it's The Best of John Belushi.
>>219680090Really makes you think
VHS stands for Visual High Stereo
>>219666542It was a time when people tried to help you instead of sabotage you.Those customers were thinking some form of 'what amazing new thing did hollywood make for me to enjoy'. Today, its closer to 'what are those cunts scheming this time'The tech changing may be involved but its not root cause of decline.
>We have such sights to show you!
>>219685655The 400 Blows?
>>219685531yeah I know, it certainly wasn't your mindset changing to become bitter and cynical, we can rule that out
>>219685655Pretty insane how the internet made taboo things like this completely irrelevant. Now kids can look up hardcore porn or Mexican cartel decapitations in the privacy of their own bedrooms.
>>219685655don't come in! I'm not done yet!
>>219685655I wonder how expansive the selections were back in those days. Any photos behind the curtains?
>>219685655kino and room always smelled a little weird
>>219666559>>219666562f&spbpop captured history imprecisely>>219666752here's the thing: we all went nuts over dvd, but it was in error. we didn't know how good we had it with vhs. the psychological impact of analog media can't be studied scientifically but it is real and anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is jewish or a liar
>>219667784My favorite were the chinese/korean ones. Chubby grandmas, stores always smelling like cabbage, but you'd get unlabeled black spine anime bootlegs, back before anime became mainstreamI'll never be able to communicate how much of a golden age that was. cable television toonamishit ruined the anime experience. used to take roadtrips with the boys, we'd drive hours to get to a city with a big enough chinatown that we could find some imports and bootlegs.
