A lot of people collect LaserDisc. Only morons collect VHS and think either of the two formats are in any way whatsoever superior to Blu-ray.
Laser Disc is still Analog just like VHS though, only a slightly higher fidelity in playback and it's susceptible to
laser rot at that due to the epoxy used in the biding of the discs that don't bode well over time with the fibers of what makes up the actual disc itself, if left in not "ideal" storage and not taken care of properly. VHS has a similar problem with it degrading over time due to the emultion being slowly taken off the actual tape onto the VHS Player heads, which is why I don't intend to watch and re-watch my VHS movies and anime again and again and again and again and again... it's something that gets viewed twice a year if that. I can't speak for anyone else who
collects VHS, so maybe those people are doing it to be "hipsters" or really think it's superior to Bluray. I don't think it's superior, but it's what I prefer. It's nice to know I'm a moron though.
Nice man,i remember when bgc was first released on vhs $30.00+ to for each tape ouch.Which was allot to buy anime in the 90's if i remember right.Recently the bubblegum crisis ova was released on bluray.Still given it's price i'm fine with just having the dvd release.
Yeah, the prices of anime (especially anime) were insane back in the day. When VHS was the format a regular tape was $21.55 after sales tax here in Texas, anime was indeed the $30.00 asking price for ONE damn episode. In 2015 most people don't want that old ass format and that's great for people like me who prefer the format to everything else. Stuff that was $25 - $35.00 a piece I get for $1.00USD. Sometimes you can get stuff for as cheap as .50cents a tape. I've literally gone into a place and spent $60.00 and came out with 89 VHS tapes. Currently my personal Retro Roost/Game Room (AREA 99) looks like a Video Rental store from the late 1980s or mid 1990s, and I'm damn near running out of space to be honest. For me DVD and Bluray is for TV Shows, VHS is for movies up till the last "official" release from Hollywood in 2005 which was the movie
A History of Violence. ---I've toyed with the idea of doing DVD to VHS (with a video stabilizer go-between to deal with Macrovision and differing polarities that make the playback image go dark or too bright and stuff) of current films like DRIVE, RAMBO 4 complete with customized inserts for clam shell VHS cases, but have yet to do it. I'm concentrating on AHL (Analog Hero Limited) releases on cassette tapes with custom semi-pro J-Cards instead, and I've got a waiting list six pages back in a notebook of people wanting copies, but I won't charge for it since I don't have the rights to the music, it's something I do in my spare time for Analog Heroes (what I call us eccentric Analog people who aren't "Digital" much).
This is my current setup that I LOVE and everyone can keep their Flatscreen HDTVs. But that's just me.
Yeah, one thing I don't miss is the cost of anime VHS tapes back in the 90s. I had like a handful and would rent/dub stuff from Blockbuster if they got something new, it wasn't until college when I discovered swap clubs and stuff like that.
Props on that Urusei Yatsura collection, that is a huge number of VHS. AnimEigo brought over some awesome titles back then. I actually just backed their Kickstarter remaster of Otaku no Video on Bluray.
Thanks.
I got lucky on the Urusei Yatsura collection there. There's a store here in SATX
that WAS selling VHS (the owner is going to sit on the product again for about 5 years before selling again, he knows his clientele and the market and VHS Collecting is picking up steam, it won't ever be like collecting Vinyl but it's picking up momentum and stuff I'm getting for no more than $2.00 will be $10.00 a tape in about 5 to 6 years, rare stuff Oop that's $50.00 to $80.00 will be $100+ in that time as well), had picked up a collection from someone's private collection which was the TV series Volumes 1 - 19 all the OVAs and all the Movies. Animiego only released 25 Volumes on VHS of the TV series (no idea if that was the complete run or not but I think it was), so I only need 6 tapes to be complete, saw that and got that whole bundle for $115.00USD. Each tape was $30.00 back in the day, so that was a fucking steal for me. My Record of Lodoss War collections were donated/given to me and in mint condition for the most part. I'm the guy everyone knows still likes VHS, so a lot just give shit away and I cherry pick what I need and sell and or donate to others getting into collecting VHS.