Remember when we didn't care about 1080p and 4K? 4:3 and VHS was fucking comfy

>its a "youre friends hot mom flirts with you at the sleepover because youre the most handsom kid there but youre only 14" episode

member vhsssss member star warsssss member?

>life will never be that good ever again

I havnt cared about all that, was super psyched about dvds because special features and funny commentary. Now its all a shill fest instead of giving sweet info on the making of the movie and on set stories.

Off and on. I threw them some cash. I hope it's able to handle the attacks in time for Halloween free leech. Lost a HD with all of my CG content. Have to re-up.

It was an artful run on sentence.

Is that cuck still DDoSing? Why would he do that? What the fuck is his problem?

also how many servers does he have running? How can one man do so much damage?

>4:3
feh. Even on vhs I wanted widescreen.

I don't understand what you're trying to say.

People cared about audio and visual quality back then. The only difference was the technology.

And you can invite friends to your house and watch movies now. I do from time to time.

And it's cheaper to get movies now, thanks torrents.

Straight up, I don't get what you're trying to say here beyond "gee I miss being a kid."

No I don't. Even as a small child I knew that the quality of VHS was far inferior to what you got in theaters.

Okay Einstein it's not like that was some great big secret.
Are you proud of your little discovery? Did your parents call you their little child prodigy for that, big guy?

>great big secret.
Apparently it was to OP, who was happy with his shitty low res 4:3 VHS.

Do you know what store that is?
It's clearly a photo from Willennium+7 at the earliest, but I don't think anywhere but a charity store would stock VHS in such volume.

yeah i remember the time when the world was overflowing with fun movies i hadnt watched yet.

Still don't care about 4K.

>remember when we didn't care about 1080p and 4K?

Don't worry, user. There are still some non autistic people in the world.

>vhs was comfy

I'm not nostalgic enough to ever believe that

>tracking
>rewinding movies

It was shit

>4:3
>1/3 of the movie frame is chopped
:/
watching the romero trilogy with friends was awesome

You must be autistic. For normal people good childhood memories are comfy.

Rewinding took like five minutes and it never bothered me. I usually did it immediately after the movie was done and I had to use the toilet or find something to eat.

What was shit was fast-forwarding through all the commercials and trailers.

Literally Netflix

>mfw i was 13 and got my older brother to rent caligula one weekend when my mom wasn't home

At the time i had never even seen any porn other than my dad's playboys.

Plenty of DVDs don't even allow you to skip over the trailers these days. It's complete madness.

doesn't even remotely replicate the experience

This is how you spot someone born after 1995.

5 minutes? Not even that. Maybe 2.

What/who is CG ?

>Playboy

Did people actually masturbate to those? Most of the material in porn mags comes down to "yep, she's got a pretty nice body" and it ends there. It never accomplishes that blood rush that makes your dick blow up in less than 15 seconds.

> The closest feeling I have to being a kid going to the big independent video store that was located in a refurbished old house and spending an hour or so browsing the tightly packed shelves

Yeah, there was a place just like that here in Memphis.
They closed shop last year.

>tfw i'm fucking old
Ftfy

It did before you become desensitized by dick in pussy porn.

>that video store smell

I got hit with that smell somewhere recently - obviously not a video store - and got hit with a major nostalgia boner.

>VHS
Except you have to rewind the damn thing, or you want to watch certain scene and end up never find it.

That's some shit I never got either. How can a man even get hard when there's a naked man in the video? Who gets off to a guy pounding some chick? Even more retarded is when girls moan and wail as loud as possible when masturbating. It's not hot. It's just annoying. Feminine grunting and subduing the moans is way hotter.

You have shit taste in porn, cuck.

Took 2-3 minutes; tops.

I guess. I'm just a man who isn't into dicks and retards.

yeah what's with all these people finding sex arousing? They must be retarded or something.

Who the fuck gets off to other people having sex? I'll take women with attractive bodies.

>you can never go back

>Who the fuck gets off to other people having sex?

The overwhelming majority of humanity by all measurements.

No, it was comfy because you were young

I guess I just have really specific porn standards. I'd rather be having sex than watching it.

You know that you can jerk off to porn right? You don't have to just sit there and watch.

>different people have different tastes

WOOOOAH Cuhrazyyyy bud

My point
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Your head.

>I have autism!

>inability to see different points of view
>n-no you're the one with autism

>cheap as shit but so awesome
Did you ever rent anything from Blockbuster? Those prices were stupid especially if you incurred a late fee.

>inability to see different points of view

Proof?

>>That's some shit I never got either. How can a man even get hard when there's a naked man in the video? Who gets off to a guy pounding some chick? Even more retarded is when girls moan and wail as loud as possible when masturbating. It's not hot. It's just annoying. Feminine grunting and subduing the moans is way hotter.

You can't see someone else's point of view, autist. You can only see your own and understand that other people have different ones.

It existed.

reminder that this are the last 50 blockbusters on the US

My dad was a firm backer of betamax
have to say, the quality WAS better, but as a kid, that didn't concern me. I just wanted new films.

My family had one summer where we were redoing the entire kitchen. We wound up moving a portion of the countertop on a cabinet piece into the living room along with the refrigerator, but there was still a lot of order-in/takeout and whatnot.

So we'd have indoor picnics in the living room most nights; ordering pizza and renting old black and white monster movies like Them!, The Mummy, Frankenstein, and so on.

>most handsome kid there

Y-yeah...

Video stores were great, but I'll never get over the death of this fucking place

I know a few people in Alaska that still regularly go to the Blockbusters for some reason. I wonder what's keeping them open.

>Had a video(rental)store in the center of my town
>Almost every friday we'd go there with the family
>Later without them
>Every other week you'd bump into friends
>Always derail from just renting a movie and end up talking about cool movies with the clerk
>Act like you didn't know the adult section was where you walked pass, everybody always acted casual like they didn't know
>Hang out by the Horror section being 'aw' struck with how spoopy the covers were to me as a kid
>Different friends ended up working there, even more comfy
>Even rented a couple of games
>Bought my Star Wars OT VHS there before Lucas raped them in '99

Good times, will be remembered

Texas WTF!

they go for the "blockbuster and chill"

>You will never be able to buy Criterion releases and action figures of horror movie monsters in the same physical location again

>not setting up a CRT/VCR combo
>not walking into your local thrift store to buy VHS's for $1 each

it's like you guys don't like films

L-lewd

>mfw there 18 year olds on Cred Forums who have never watched a VHS before

>That one rental store who had a pizza joint next door
>They had a little window in the wall between the two where you could order pizza while looking for movies to rent

Good times. Had several video rental stores in my town, and some of them also rented out NES consoles with games.

Did other kids stack and use VHS boxes as building blocks for hotwheels tracks foundation?

>being nostalgic over a shitty system that requires you to go there to search for a movie that may or may not be there, watch it and get spoiled because some asshole didn't rewind and then go there again or else get arrested and thrown in prison because lol american laws
Just how shitty is your life?

>mfw there are 30 years olds who have never had a job or a naked girl in front of them and their proudest accomplishment is having watched old shitty movies in old shitty technology

Why the fuck are you even on this board
Cred Forums and film don't work if you have 0 sense of immersion
When a guy is fucking a girl, you imagine being the guy pounding her or you focus on the chick.
If you can't do this, you're most likely a closeted homosexual who gets annoyed because you're thinking more about the guy then the woman.
Also since we're on the chan, you probably have autism

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>2016
>not having a vhs collection

post your collections

>photo from 10 years ago
>capeshit being advertised
when will it end, lads?

>12 yrs old
>corner shop near home rented VHS
>would go in and spend aaaaaages looking
>woman behind counter laughs and says i can never make up my mind
>"here, try this user"
>Ghoulies 2 - Certificate 15
>"b...but i'm not 15"
>"I won't tell if you don't"

That became my favourite video store.

>i just like the artwork and how the picture and sound just seems....warmer

>Still don't care about 4K
nobody fucking does. they tried doing the technology upgrade too soon this time. bluray is starting to become fairly standard now since the players are so cheap, but nobody is going to upgrade to 4K anytime soon.

>he collects dead media
tippity toppest of keks, friendo

I member, hey member chewbacca

>tfw no mention of Chewbacca Mask Lady in the new Plinkett review

bunch of hack frauds 2bh

Having to fiddle with shit to make it work has a certain charm to it, even if it's as simple as letting fast forwarding a tape a specific amount before pressing play. It's an acquired taste, and not one everyone can acquire, but it's there. It's the reason people buy and build old computers or do the same with old cars or use Linux-- you know you had a hand in getting it working and you know everything continuing to work depends on you on some level.

mad you're missing out on superior technology?

You mean being a kid was comfy.

Sounds like good times user.

your mom sucking my dick is good times

>not calling ahead and checking if there's a specific movie you want
>not rewinding before you watch
>implying taking the movie back is an actual problem
confirmed for either too young to understand how this worked, or shitty bait
3/10 got me to reply

who are you quoting?

>Anchorage and El Paso
These two cities stuck in the 90s it's like pottery

>tfw one of the first dvds I saw was Matrix

>scart

I love that shit
I hardly have any, but they're boxed up too deeply in the storage pile, only found a homerecorded tape of Queen(musicvideo's) and Thunderbirds

I did find out I still own a Discman for some reason..

Commentary is now reserved for purchased Blu-ray only. The rental discs usually don't have shit.

I cared. If I rented a full-screen release by accident, I would drive back to the fucking store and get the widescreen.

kek, AK, IN, KY, ND, OR, SD, TX... it reads like a guide to the most white trash parts of America!

>buy Akira
>talk to clerk about anime
>he rummages through the back
>get to take home an original cell printing of Tetsuo on his bike

I think this was the movie they used to really push DVDs as being worth the investment. Original edition came with all sorts of easter eggs and commentary stuff.

I remember watching it a bunch of times in theater, telling my aunt about it and she mailed me a copy but the fucker overheated my shitbox E-machines computer.

>"gee I miss being a kid."
That's all these stupid threads are about
Bunch of whingey fucks who hate growing up. Muh sweeter times, muh innocence! Get over it already.

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>it reads like a guide to the most white trash parts of America
I take it you've never been to any of those states.

cool racism

you guys are fucking faggots

BLOOHOOHOO I HAV NO TIEM

>visiting mom
>there still a video store in my home town

Legit thinking about going there and getting 7 horror movies (they have a deal) that I haven't seen.

explain

I was always the most attractive of my friends but I'm also only 5'3 so I was invisible to girls

driving my grandparents to bankruptcy forcing them to buy me $30 anime DVD's every week with only about 50 mins of content on them...

>triggered by a picture of vhs tapes
>calls others faggots

lol

>being so far up your ass that you boast about collecting useless pieces of dead media
>surprised when somebody insults you

Ugh VHS isn't a SUBSTITUTE for modern, superior forms of media or your magical download files, its just an alternate way to watch old movies that are sometimes hard to find.

Why is this so hard for all the faggots in here to understand? NO one's arguing its superior or that it doesn't look like shit....some people collect civil war memorabilia and old stamps so who fucking cares...Plus tapes are like 50cents at Goodwill why not partake once and again if you like movies?

And if people wanna come on Cred Forums and reminisce about being a kid going to a video store why shouldn't they? Its a fine place for it. Is a thread like this interrupting the regular flow of old memes and lame Stranger Things critiques I mean holy shit god forbid people can civilly discuss movies here...

I have around 100 VHS tapes, but they are in boxes.

if it's useless dead media, then why do you care?

you sound jealous

You can still buy physical media surely?

there's literally no reason for them to be this triggered by some old format, especially as common as vhs is

nice telly

I collect vinyl so I cant really afford to collect two types of vintage media.

not even close jesus fucking christ you faggot

check goodwill, tapes usually go for $0.50 to $1.00. some thrift stores suck though and barely have any, but my local goodwill has 2 huge shelves full of them so you can always find at least 1 cool thing

have another!

If its anything like charity shop vinyl its just Christmas films and easy listening compilations.

>WAH I MISS WHEN THINGS WERE SIMPLE AND I DIDN'T HAVE TO THINK OR KNOW ABOUT ANYTHING

tfw tired of dragging the rest of humanity kicking and screaming into the future

the futures gonna suck tho brah

i had a nice childhood

oh look it's the scart fag again kys my man

>not watching with 100mhz smooth filter, 200% noise reduction, brightness set to Adaptive, Black Levels set to High, all through SCART

kys my man

Kek the future sucks because you can't grow up. There is an inherent "suckness" to every point in time, faglord. Thinking that this point in time is any worse than another is retarded.

Mexicans living in border cities go to Blockbuster. I think the owner is Mexican.

Addison?

I was aware of HDTV as far back as the early 90s. Probably 1991 was the earliest time I encountered it.

However, at that time it was a far off dream. When I asked adults about it they dismissed it as a gimmick, but looking back I know they didn't have the slightest clue what they were talking about.

I started caring about resolution when I began emulating N64 games in the early 2000s, strangely.

Eh, for every cool thing I remember from the 90s there were 5 things that were shit.

I wouldn't want to go back, unless time travel vacations become a thing.

Man I miss VHS, I think I have a handful of VHS tapes and a working player somewhere in the house, might try and watch a film if I can find an old TV to buy.

>tfw downloading 40gb remuxes or 20gb encodes from hdbits.org
Any patricians here

when you had a cheap mom who'd never buy you movies but she'd always cave once in awhile

>download 40gb remux
>it looks literally the same as a 16gb rip

not worth your time unless you're watching it on a 90" screen

Eh I have a 50' so it's worth it imo

I feel as though I need to clear some things up about why Blockbuster Video is closing, and why they went chapter 11 in the first place a few years ago

>Blockbuster Video used to be owned by a Jew owned company named Viacom
>Viacom are money-grubbing whores
>Viacom buys all of blockbuster's rentals and merch with loans, instead of profits
>every year use profit to pay off loans, take out new loans to buy new merchandise
>blockbuster decides to split from viacom because they are tyrants
>viacom takes all of blockbuster's profits from that year, but does not pay off the loans
>the loans were taken out under blockbuster's name, not viacom's, so the loans technically belong to blockbuster
>viacom does not tell this to blockbuster corporate
>when blockbuster finds out, there is already a shit ton of interest, and viacom has all of their profits
>desperately try every quarter to pay off loans
>1 mil loan becomes 3 mil then 5 mil, finally tens of millions of dollars are owed
>go chapter 11, file for bankruptcy
>Dish network buys Blockbuster Video, because they want to use the iconic Blockbuster Video logo to sell tv subscriptions, plus wants brick and mortar stores to sell tv subscriptions
>closes unprofitable stores that were still around after chapter 11 closings
>has 300 locations left
>all are profitable
>blockbuster is profitable as a whole again, especially in the North East
>fast forward 2 years to 2013
>Dish decides to go exclusively to streaming
>considers selling BBV
>no fewer than 3 companies are interested in buying
>but Dish wants to keep Blockbuster logo for streaming service, cant do that if they sell the company
>decide to liquidate stores, put 3000 people out of work, all over the rights to a logo
>tell employees they are being laid off AFTER telling the news networks

Blockbuster's problem was it was owned by two shitty Jew owned corporations.

I've heard that IMAX 3d is much better than Real 3D. Anyone else agree or disagree? Doctor Strange will be my first IMAX 3D movie and I'm wondering what I'm in for.

Goddamn it, fucking why. Fuck.

Brentley?

all this new shit is made to keep you buying TVs regularly

back with VHS we had TV's for 10 years + and didn't have a dick measuring contest about who had better pixels

You imagine that it's your dick you fucking dummy. Unless you have a baby dick. That probably ruins the immersion.

Bought a copy if Videodrome there. Shit was cash.

>rent 1 snes game
>rent 1 vhs
>pepperoni pizza and crazy bread from little caesar's (pre bankruptcy/hot n ready reform)
>every friday night 1992 to 1996

how do i into scart?

>ywn go to Hollywood Video again
>ywn dream about being able to rent and play N64 games
>you will never rent baby kid movies like Barney and Power Rangers and make your mommy watch them with you because you never really had any friends
>ywn wear your tan corduroy jacket, blue jean overalls, and Nikes sneakers on a crisp autumn day during recess
>ywn be a 6-9 year old in the 90's, blissfully unaware of the creeping Orwellian nightmare rearing it's head ever so slowly until it's too late.

You don't belong here

I thought I was the only one who did this

>falling for the streaming jew