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DVD rentals surpassed VHS rentals in the US in 2003, surprising some industry officials. By 2006, most major film
studios stopped releasing new movie titles in VHS format, opting for DVD-only releases. VHS recorders and blank
tapes are still being sold in major stores worldwide. As an acknowledgment of VHS popularity, in 2009 Panasonic has
announced the world's first dual deck VHS-Blu-ray player. Many leading retailers have stopped selling pre-recorded
movies on VHS, although VHS pre-recorded cassettes are still popular with many collectors, mainly because there are
thousands of titles that are still unavailable on DVD or other newer formats. In developing countries, VHS is still
a major medium to distribute home video. (1)
Here at Margarita's Video Store, we have thousands of titles available on VHS, we are one of the few stores on the
internet still offering new VHS Movies available for sale. Our VHS movie categories include Action/Adventure, Horror,
Disney, Drama, Comedy, Family, Musicals and Sci-fi and Fantasy. Choose Margarita's Video Store to be your VHS and
DVD Movie Superstore for your movie collecting needs.
Some interesting VHS Movie tidbits:
In the 1987 film Spaceballs, a library of VHS tapes is browsed for a copy of the film, which is in a process called
"instant cassettes" ("They're in stores before the movie is finished!") by Lord Dark Helmet to discover the location
of the heroes. They then fast forward through earlier parts of the tape (which include the traditional FBI warning
displayed at the very beginning of the tape), then upon witnessing themselves at that exact moment in time, go into
a ridiculous and redundant question-and-answer session on "Now" before fast forwarding to finding the heroes' location. (1)
The 2008 film Be Kind Rewind concerns a video rental store employee (Mos Def) who finds that his friend (Jack Black)
has accidentally wiped all the video cassettes in the store (which is losing business due to its obsolete format),
and they resort to acting out the films in front of a video camera to avoid disappointing customers. The film features
many references to the format, and even includes a VHS tape on one of the posters. (1)
The plot of the 2002 film The Ring, (Ringu in Japan), revolved around a homemade VHS tape that, when watched,
would kill anyone seven days later. (1)
In the 1983 film Videodrome, the main character Max Renn suffers a body mutation where his chest turns into
an entrance to VHS tapes, which control him to do tasks such as kill people. (1)
(1) From Wikipedia, the free encylopedia
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