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15 hours ago, Just Jack said:

The first video rental "place" (it was Rite Aid pharmacy) only carried VHS, and only one copy of each movie. 

 

 

YES!!! The very first time I ever did this with my parents was at the Southgate Plaza Rite Aid. You had to ask the employee if they had a certain movie, and they were behind the counter in clear white-opaque cases.

8 hours ago, /dev/null said:

 

Or that special catalog they kept under the counter you had to be over 18 to browse

 

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On 4/13/2020 at 5:56 PM, Royale with Cheese said:

For the 90's kids....scrambled porn.

 

 

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It was always a bit of a disappointment when the picture finally came round and it was just a bloke with a beard enjoying eating a banana. 

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On 4/13/2020 at 9:20 PM, JR in Pittsburgh said:

I remember when this was huge for a quick minute. 
 

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Funny, saw this in the Mixed-ish show the other night!

On 4/15/2020 at 11:25 PM, JR in Pittsburgh said:


guy I used to work with went all in on Beta. He got the state of the art Betamax player for like $1000 when it came out!

 

speaking of, anyone remember going to the video store and you could get the VHS on the shelf or the Beta right behind it? 

Well, I went all in on a circuit city product called DIVX...it was a DVD player, but while you "bought" the DVD for like $3.99 vs $20 for a regular one, you paid like $1.99 each time you watched the movie. I was convinced it was gunna be huge.

 

But this was the really the first product killed by a viral protest on the new fangled internet thingy! Movie snobs hated it!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX

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1 hour ago, plenzmd1 said:

Funny, saw this in the Mixed-ish show the other night!

Well, I went all in on a circuit city product called DIVX...it was a DVD player, but while you "bought" the DVD for like $3.99 vs $20 for a regular one, you paid like $1.99 each time you watched the movie. I was convinced it was gunna be huge.

 

But this was the really the first product killed by a viral protest on the new fangled internet thingy! Movie snobs hated it!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIVX


just reading up on this now, I only faintly remembered DIVX and had no idea regarding the backlash. The technology seems overly complicated! 

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They still make a safe version of Creepy Crawlers with a Thingmaker, but back in the 60’s it was basically a hot plate with bottles of chemical mix. My friend had a Superman mold so we could lay wire in it and make bendable superheroes.

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44 minutes ago, PastaJoe said:

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They still make a safe version of Creepy Crawlers with a Thingmaker, but back in the 60’s it was basically a hot plate with bottles of chemical mix. My friend had a Superman mold so we could lay wire in it and make bendable superheroes.

A later development of this was 'Incredible Edibles'.  The finished product was able to be eaten.  I think 'Santa' (Dad) brought it, but mother intercepted it to 'put it away' for use 'some other time'.  Like the Kenner 'Mold Master' from a previous Christmas, the children of the house never saw it again.

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