Binging movies wasn’t much of a thing back then; I can’t remember a single time when I wanted to immediately put another video in after just finishing one. Plus it took like 5 minutes to rewind one - I’d usually run to the bathroom and grab a snack and it’d be done by the time I got back. It wasn’t any longer than a commercial break, and we were all used to that back then. I remember I once mowed the lawn 5 minutes at a time during commercial breaks because I didn’t want to miss the show I was watching, haha!
VHS cassettes were also relatively fragile and decay on use (technically so do vinyl records but they are more forgiving).
Humans are also really good at ignoring minor flaws in audio, while visual noise and low graphic resolution is much harder to ignore (though CRT messed up the image in one of the best ways possible for the human brain to fill the gaps).
Was, “Be kind, rewind” really that much of a hassle?
Yes. So much so they made completely seperate machines to rewind vhs tapes so your one vcr could continue to do other things at the same time.
Binging movies wasn’t much of a thing back then; I can’t remember a single time when I wanted to immediately put another video in after just finishing one. Plus it took like 5 minutes to rewind one - I’d usually run to the bathroom and grab a snack and it’d be done by the time I got back. It wasn’t any longer than a commercial break, and we were all used to that back then. I remember I once mowed the lawn 5 minutes at a time during commercial breaks because I didn’t want to miss the show I was watching, haha!
And how many people actually bought one? Not us, I can tell you that much.
We had one that looked like a corvette.
Aside from rental places and the like, no one.
Evrryone in my family had one. Grandma had 2 cause i watched a lot
My grandparents had one, it made an awful screeching sound
VHS cassettes were also relatively fragile and decay on use (technically so do vinyl records but they are more forgiving). Humans are also really good at ignoring minor flaws in audio, while visual noise and low graphic resolution is much harder to ignore (though CRT messed up the image in one of the best ways possible for the human brain to fill the gaps).
It was tedious and time consuming.
Hitting a button on a device and waiting (gasp!) more than 30 seconds was so tedious!?
… no wonder people constantly pay greedy fucks like Elon than take five seconds to think about … anything.