2002

Got Ringu on a dupe vhs in the early days of VHS with video quality was so bad I'm surprised I didn't die a week after watching it. The new blu ray was a revelation though

Yes. The general movie watching public didn't really know fuck all about the internet yet.

Yes, internet didn't exist yet in 2002

Yes it did but regular people didn't use it much yet.

wtf meant I got a ringu vhs dupe in the early days of ebay

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Not what he said you retarded fucking zoomer. Let me spell it out for you since you hadn't even been conceived at the time: for the vast majority of the general populace in the early 2000's the internet was inaccessible.

I'm actually very grateful that boomers have destroyed the planet beyond recognition so that you zoomers are doomed to only wait for the end. You should all be bulldozed into a mass grave.

Absolutely.

There was a time where shooting a movie digitally was considered an extremely cost prohibitive process. Digital SLR cameras as we know them didn't come onto the market until 1999 for Nikon and 2001 for Canon. Even albums were often recorded on tape rather than digitally at the time.

Zoomers are so cringeworthy holy fuck

Yeah that's about the time. The last film released on VHS in the US was A History of Violence in 2005. I think size and features were the main reasons... DVDs had menus, bonus features, chapter skipping, etc. And they were compact so you could fit 2 DVD cases on a shelf that would regularly occupy 1 VHS.

Piracy was also the other HUGE factor. You could theoretically pirate movies off the internet and put them on VHS if you wanted but it was difficult and time consuming, meanwhile with DVD you could burn a downloaded copy onto a disc in minutes.

As for why Blu-Ray didn't take off I think the format war between it and HDDVD burned a lot of people, combined with that BD is A/V upgrade only and zero feature upgrades made people hesitant to buy. I also worked at an electronics store shortly after BD was the winner, and untold amounts of retards would say Blu-Ray was pointless because "old movies weren't shot in HD"

The PS2 having a DVD function was the real death knell of the VHS.

that shit was so good, being able to watch kino in my room instead of the living room was dope

Man the early 2000's were so based. Internet was still the wild west. Life still had energy. I remember seeing The Ring opening night. I was "seeing" this slut at the time. Before the movie we fucked in her car and I came in her surprisingly tight pussy so hard my balls hurt.

Precious memories.

>I can't grasp the idea that technology is constantly evolving
Are zoomers really like this?

>technology is constantly evolving
Coroner will fix this

Less than 20% of the population had internet in 2000.
So yeah, it was like that.

yes and i miss that

i got broadband somewhere in 2001, there were very few normies on the internet back then. the few that did mostly used it for ICQ and later MSN.

i remember one of the first things i downloaded with my sick 50 kbps was this frag movie
youtube.com/watch?v=KKdKC4ogpCk

>meanwhile with DVD you could burn a downloaded copy onto a disc in minutes

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FUCK PHONE FAGGOTS

I'm not including the horrendous download times, I meant once you had the film you could burn off tons of copies.

>tfw you will never go to your friend's house whose mom had binders filled with the newest pirated films burned on cheap horrible quality DVDs ever again

Films take fucking forever to burn to DVD you liar

Takes 10 fucking minutes compare that to hooking up a VHS deck to your PC and having it record your screen while the entire 2hr movie plays.

If you want to copy the .avi file to the disc as a data disc maybe, but if you wanted to make a disc that would play in a DVD player it'd take like 3 hours to render.