Saluting the 15th Annual Video Store Day + “The Great Tape Swap”
To mark the 15th Annual Video Store Day, I’ve recorded a short nostalgia piece – “The Great Tape Swap” + a barbed blog on less than ideal trends in home video, Canada-wise.
To mark the 15th Annual Video Store Day, I’ve recorded a short nostalgia piece – “The Great Tape Swap” + a barbed blog on less than ideal trends in home video, Canada-wise.
Review of the Dwayne Johnson disaster entry SKYSCRAPER (2018) from Universal + thoughts on Video Store Day 8 and the Human Element that keeps the very creation of Physical Media alive.
Editor’s Blog featuring reflections on this past weekend’s Video Store Day, recent media coverage, and what may lie ahead if the concept doesn’t grow.
Editor’s Blog on Video Store Day V, coming this weekend. In this nostalgia piece, I look at the personal impact of getting cable TV in 1972, and Pay TV around 1986. Included: links to scans of vintage brochures.
In Post #2, I look at one of the gizmos designed to ensure maximum viewing pleasure from rented videotapes: the image stabilizer / aka video corrector / aka videotape stabilizer / that secret black box that could do a little bit more than advertised.
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