Like a few of you have mentioned nostalgia plays a big part in why I still like VHS. Cover art and the specific cuts of films in some cases too. Also how stuff like the soundtrack gets changed for some DVD releases. Sometimes the film is cut on DVD like in the case of
A Nightmare On Elm Street 5 and VHS is the only uncut version of the film available locally. Weirdly enough the VHS edition is sometimes a lot superior to the DVD releases of some titles. The Roadshow Home Video tape of
Mother's Day for instance looks much better than the washed out DVD release.
There's just a lot of history behind them for me. I hate how bland video stores are these days. All of them have the exact same shit. It used to be cool hitting a few different ones and discovering something from their back catalogue that only they had.
Digital has it's faults particularly in how easily damaged the format is. It would take a lot to totally fuck up a tape (like all the idiots that played tapes through their piece of shit player) but slight damage on a disc makes it Un-watchable where as a tape would just have a jump or some static.
Been awhile since I watched a tape (I mainly watch avi and divx because the price is right :D) but I picked up a really nice player recently and have been meaning to dig out some stuff and do a solely VHS review site.
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Originally Posted by Ferox13
Weird I just stumbled upon this photo:
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The
Cannibal Apocalypse and
Nightmares In A Damaged Brain tapes are pretty cool Ferox! I've always preferred that cover of Cannibal Apocalypse over the one we got over here:
Schizo is the heavily edited version of
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain. Video Classics brought out an uncut version too titled
Nightmare which has slightly longer dialogue scenes than most uncut prints. I've never come across it in the flesh and it fetches quite high prices.
Just cleared out a good third of my tapes and tidied up my shelf a bit... was going to take a pic but my camera just ran out of battery after taking the above pic. Will post one at some point.