Get your VCR’s ready, Alien Romulus to be released on VHS! :-D

‘Alien: Romulus’ To Get VHS Release In Honor Of Original ‘Alien’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers/2024/10/21/alien-romulus-to-get-vhs-release-in-honor-of-original-alien/

Please remember, be kind, rewind!

In other news apparently vinyl is popular again.

What no Betamax or Lazer disc?

I’m out…..

The VHS is obviously a gimmick  (although doing the full screen pan and scan thing is an interesting retro exercise so they’ve done more than just put a copy of the film on tape) but what’s actually quite quaint in that article is that its also being release on DVD.

Sad fact #79.

I have a VCR player in the attic,along some old home movies on tape that I (still) haven’t moved to digital ( annoyed – procrastinator emoji).

what’s actually quite quaint in that article is that its also being release on DVD.

As an avid cinephile I still buy Blu Rays (a lot of them) but it does amaze me that DVDs are still produced, and people still buy them.

Gah! I just got rid of our old 12in telly/VCR combo in the summer! Although my FIL’s Betamax and reel to reel tape deck are still up in the loft. Maybe I can jury rig something like Mr T would do in the A-Team? Now where did I put my welder….?

As for dvds, kids love them, well my two do. They’re more tactile and they get to physically own their favourite films. Streaming is all well and good but not so good when you don’t have a good internet connection.

As for dvds, kids love them, well my two do.

I’m all for physical media – see the other thread a while back about films you can’t find on streaming services – certain films get bound up in rights issues which prevent them being available for streaming and old physical releases are the only way you can watch them. (I would much rather own early physical releases than re-jiggered and rehashed re-cuts of movies too –  If I was going to buy them I’d rather buy the original releases the early  Star Wars films than any of the retro-CGI ones with distracting meaningless background prat-falls going on too)

But I’m surprised theres still a market for DVD as opposed to Blu-ray

They’re more tactile and they get to physically own their favourite films.

A young colleague of mine hunts down vinyl copies of her favourite music even through she doesnt own a record player 🙂

Another thing to note about HD physical media vs streaming is that a high-bit-rate 1080p Blu Ray is going to have a better picture quality than a Netflix 4K stream, let alone a 4K UHD disc. If you’re into home cinema then physical media is still the way to go.

I have a VCR player in the attic,

I have a combined VHS/DVD player attached to our main TV in the living room – mainly used for DVDs though.

I remember first seeing a bit of Alien at the Bristol Hi-fi show on VHS, I was too young to see it at the cinema :-(.

If I remember rightly alien was an expensive video to own and any other films which was why we had so many hire shops.

What no Betamax or Lazer disc?

I’m out…..

Ahh, but the soundtrack will be released on minidisc.

I’m surprised anywhere has the ability to produce a significant number of pre-recorded VHS tapes. Maybe they’re still used for some odd purpose, like pagers and the NHS?

It’s well mad how they duplicated vhs tapes.

https://www.otari.com/support/vintage/t710/index.html

Will people never learn? Don’t release the alien.

*leans face over 2ft pulsating eggsack*

If I remember rightly alien was an expensive video to own and any other films which was why we had so many hire shops.

I don’t think thats anything specific to Alien. When home video players were launched  movies werent initially licensed for private ownership. At the time it came Aliens came  out there weren’t really any movies sold for home ownership The tapes the hire shops had were on a different license and cost a lot because the cassette was effectively  a license permitted them hire the  movie studio’s IP for profit, Tapes marketed for home ownership came later, and are a different kind of license (you don’t ‘own’ a movie if you buy it on physical media, you’re buying a license to view it and the tape/disk is just the media that allows you to use that license) at a lower price but they were a different ‘package’ and price and license  to the ones rental stores had. A video rental store would be prohibited from renting out retail copies.

What actually caused that shift was kids – movies were only originally supplied on a rental basis becuase it was assumed people wouldn’t buy a copy of a movie that they’d only want to watch once. What drove home sales was the realisation that kids would happily watch the same film over and over and it was Disney that lead the move to sell direct to the public.