VHS has been gone for a few years now. Videocassettes have met the fate of an old surviving technology, which can no longer meet the current confused demands. But if you have this corpse in the basement, don’t throw it away just yet!
The last VHS player left the Funai factory in 2016, but VHS players have been on the decline since the late 1990s. At that time, DVDs began to flood the market, and sent-in cassettes in many homes (including ours) began to sit idle, covered in the relentless dust of ages past. Because, let’s face it, the cassettes did not abound with any quality of image, sound, not infrequently the tape was damaged and from time to time it was necessary to rape the recorder with a tool. In addition, they took up a lot of space, and overall it was clear that VHS tapes would go to scrap.
And yet, in 2024, the movie blockbuster Alien: Romulus will be released on VHS after many years. I wouldn’t discuss the quality of the film in any way (I’d rather), but it is part of the 45-year anniversary of the release of the first film, Alien. The film will be in an adequate ratio of 4:3 and will also receive a nice stylish and period cover. The release will be on December 3rd, but we don’t know how many this limited edition will be and how much it will actually cost. It is purely a collector’s item for the biggest retro fans. But still, those were good times when we were watching a movie that had been copied multiple times, with grainy streaks flying across it and dubbed by one person. It just doesn’t fade from memory.
Source: pctuning.cz
