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One of (if not) my first purchases from Amazon was the first season of The X-Files on DVD because it was about $100 instead of the $150 MSRP that I would have paid at Suncoast. It was a great deal at the time. :)

I remember working summers in high school and unironically thinking "Man, one more paycheck and I'll be able to buy a laserdisc!"

Same deal as VHS- nostalgia for people who are stuck in the 80's.

The simplest explanation is nostalgia. VHS reminds people of when they were younger and the "good old days" of the 1980's, etc. Personally, I have very fond memories of browsing the aisles of video stores but I have no interest in getting tapes again. I still have a functional VCR and some tapes...

From what I've seen, it's mostly stuck-in-the-past horror movie fans that have reembraced VHS.

I've had very few discs fail but at the same time, I'm not thinking they're going to last me to the grave either. Hopefully, that's a number of decades from now. :)

When I applied for a job at an independent video store, they asked me to name 5 movies with Robin Williams as a test of my movie knowledge. When I got a job at Blockbuster, they didn't ask anything like that. They just wanted a human who could scan a bar code and take money.

I still buy CDs but don't make mix 'tapes'. Probably 95% of those CD purchases are specialty label soundtracks though.

Yeah, it's a milestone in sci-fi.

I bet plenty of silent movie fans said the same thing in the 1940's and 50's. As time moves on, other than the biggest titles, nearly all movies will be forgotten. In 100 years, how many movies from the 20th century do you think will still be watched? It's the same with books or art- a few...

I was a kid in the 80's and early 90's and feel that that early 'cable era' was the best time to watch TV because there was options to watch a good amount of new and old TV shows/movies but not so many that you could never keep up with everything. It was also a time when black and white shows...