Tag: vhs
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Collecting Movies and The Slow Death of Blu-ray
Digital is killing the Blu-ray star, so Craig Silliphant admits to some serious hoarding issues and laments the end of physical movie formats and collecting. I hope I’m in a safe place when I admit this, because it’s really hard for me. I’ve tried to hide it, tried to pretend it’s not true, but in…
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Eulogy for the Video Store
On November 9th, 2013, the last corporate owned Blockbuster Video in America closed its doors, which had already occurred in 2011 in Canada. As of December 16th, 2013, Blockbuster in Britain followed them in going quietly into the night. The other big Canadian chain, Rogers Video, rebranded and stopped renting movies on April 16th, 2012. …