goodbye VHS
Posted in I like things, life on 10/27/2005 12:56 pm by sushiThanks to Joni’s suggestion I unloaded around fifty VHS tapes at Movie Trading Company yesterday. The store credit was enough to get me DVD copies of Labyrinth, Sin City, Ju-on, and The Grudge with only a small cost difference. I did keep a few tapes, of things that either don’t exist on DVD yet or things where the DVD release is the same quality of the VHS (in the case of My Neighbor Totoro).
A few of the tapes I sold are movies that I do want to eventually replace on DVD. I already bought Labyrinth, and there is a similar no-frills release of Dark Crystal that will do just fine. Unfortunately I found that the lone Last Unicorn release is a shoddy fullscreen transfer, and I probably would have been better off just keeping my VHS edition. I’m hoping the live-action remake next year may encourage a proper DVD release of the original. I also found some disturbing info about the current releases of the movie that have me hoping the remake will be kinder to Mr. Beagle.
10/10/2005 at 6:01 pm
The DVD transfer is not TOO terribly bad. The picture looks ok…my only problem is with the sound. I’d still pick a shoddy transfer to DVD over VHS any day! Maybe it’s because I work where I do, but I REALLY HATE VHS now!!
10/11/2005 at 8:14 am
Are you still working at Movie Trading Co? I can see how VHS would drive you crazy if that’s the case.
10/11/2005 at 9:35 am
haha yeah, I’m working at the one in Kennesaw. I just hate when people bring in boxes/bags/containers with 200-300 vhs, which seems to be happening a lot lately. I’m pretty sure that our store owns 70% of VHS in Cobb County!
10/11/2005 at 10:56 am
Eee. I felt bad enough bringing in 50.
10/12/2005 at 9:58 am
haha, don’t. If you think about it, our stores thrive on used merchandise & how do we get that merchandise? – by people bringing their stuff in. Also, our hours depend heavily on “buys”, so the more stuff we buy in, the more hours we get. We’re just all grumpy & lazy
10/15/2005 at 3:18 pm
Hey, I couldn’t comment on the appropriate post because commenting had already been disabled but I just wanted to thank you for posting the picture of me (destiny) and my friends (death, dream) from Dragon*con.
m/ (>
10/18/2005 at 9:28 am
You’re welcome!