My dad still has a sort of working VHS. And because charity shops tend to give away video tapes for free he has a massive collection of films and TV shows that wobble and flicker when you watch them, and take an age to rewind to the start.
Were VHS £100 back in the 80s? Page 5
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ September 15 2013, 12:54 PM BSTIt was insane, considering 80 quid then would be about 300 now.
The film companies, Warner Bros, Columbia etc. quite honestly ran it all like a mafia cartel, that's what it was!
You have to remember though that in the 1980s once a film had finished it's cinema run it could conceivably be years before you'd get a chance to see it on TV, so renting it on VHS was the only way you could watch it.
It's incredible to believe now that it was 3 years between the original Star Wars films, I still remember the excitement of waiting 3 years between 1980 and 1983 to find out if Darth Vader really was Luke's father.
Nowadays people (myself included) won't even wait 7 days to watch a serial, we want it all at once on a box set.