If the internet didn't exist , and if a show is unavailable in a country, what will you do (1 Viewer)

DisneySwan1990 · Apr 15, 2014

If the internet, steaming, and video torrents did not exist today, and if a certain show your curious to watch is unavailable in your country what will you do?I, for one, will pick up an American dish, have somebody set it up, and wait for the show to air. Cuz i'm a person from Toronto, Canada, and this happens to me all the time, becuz we do not have enough high-profile and popular American cable networks (e.g. Fuse, Oxygen, Centric, The Hub, etc.) and that's why i'm planning to aquire it once I get my own private house.What are your picks, people?

Steve Berger · Apr 15, 2014

A friend had friends overseas. They recorded shows on their Betamax and mailed it over to us. We would do likewise for them. Used videotapes could be mailed at very cheap "book" postage rates.

Ejanss · Apr 15, 2014

Back when the Internet was just being invented, the first proto US/Japanese anime fans made a science out of how to trade, copy, and mail VHS's overseas.
Nowadays, we have the Internet, so "If" is pretty much academic.

Aaron Silverman · Apr 16, 2014

Yeah, I remember passing around amateur-subbed VHS anime copies and watching them at conventions. What a treat when some highly anticipated title (like Nausicaa) showed up!

Stan · Apr 16, 2014

Steve Berger said:
A friend had friends overseas. They recorded shows on their Betamax and mailed it over to us. We would do likewise for them. Used videotapes could be mailed at very cheap "book" postage rates.

Almost a carbon copy of my experience, but the tapes only went one way. From me to relatives living in Rome, Italy for about five years. I visited a few times and TV was dreadful at that time (early '90s). No wonder they were dying to get anything from the US.
They were VHS tapes. Sadly I went Betamax at first, but was obviously outnumbered. Ended up tossing my Betamax machine in my apartment's dumpster as it became terribly obsolete.

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