Great offer My beloved VHS video collection

djwellis

djwellis

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I love VHS so very much...
As a technology, it is far superior to DVD!



Exciting features of VHS over DVD;
  • You can fast-forward through trailers and government warnings!
  • When you eject the "video" and play it in another day, it'll be in the same place as before! (very good for watching a TV series!)
  • If you scratch the VHS "video", you can still play it!
As you can see, Videos are an infinitely superior technology to DVDs and they'll surely take over the world market one-day. None of this new, fancy "blu-ray" crap, VHS!


For the uninitiated, a VHS video looks like this - http://43u.co.uk/?i=4l


I have a load of films, TV series-es, etc. Unfortunately I've recently replaced them all with netflix/iplayer and other such fads :P


If anyone is interested in clearing a load of space from my house, then they're for you!
Films/TV too numerous to list - but if you want them you have to take them all!!!!!!!!


Cost;
1 packet of corn-flakes & a curly-wurly
 
Darren

Darren

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Beta max was superior unless you wanted to rent a film to watch :) i remember Video Stafford opening on the Wolverhampton road in the early eighties, £10 would rent you a video player and two free films for five days back when m ost people could not afford to buy a recorder, they had two rooms one for Betamax and one for VHS films.
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Darren said:
Beta max was superior unless you wanted to rent a film to watch :) i remember Video Stafford opening on the Wolverhampton road in the early eighties, £10 would rent you a video player and two free films for five days back when m ost people could not afford to buy a recorder, they had two rooms one for Betamax and one for VHS films.
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As I recall they also had a third room (well actually a filing cabinet) full of 'specialist' videos.

Or so I'm told...
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Was that the one near the roundabout, kind of where PC world is now? I seem to remember a video rental shop with a small off license in the back, they had some weird lager with a chilli in it!
 
Darren

Darren

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Yes that's the one it was a shame it closed especially since there special collection of films were still £3 even in the nineties so i was told.
 
Darren

Darren

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I was 15 when it opened so it would of been 1982 i remember me and a mate painting the function room at the Wagon and Horses pub to get some money (£15 each) so we could rent a recorder for the week, the first two films we watched were Nightmares in a damaged brain and the exterminator, good family entertainment :).
 
Moby Dick

Moby Dick

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proactive said:
As I recall they also had a third room (well actually a filing cabinet) full of 'specialist' videos.

Or so I'm told...
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Funnily enough I too was 'cough' told of such items.... Very engaging.....

We used to have a guy from Great Haywood in a cortina estate come on a Sunday afternoon with a boot full of bread trays filled with said videos. 50p for the weeks hire.as kids we could choose one film if we had been good.....
 
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