{"id":11717,"date":"2021-10-27T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T18:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11717"},"modified":"2021-11-07T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T18:55:07","slug":"vhs-wins-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/10\/27\/vhs-wins-again\/","title":{"rendered":"VHS Wins Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/20\/style\/vhs-tapes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-44c26f63\">Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-summary\">Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0Hannah Selinger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2021\/02\/21\/fashion\/00VHS\/00VHS-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The last VCR, according to Dave Rodriguez, 33, a digital repository librarian at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla., was produced in 2016, by the Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape itself may be immortal. Today, a robust marketplace exists, both virtually and in real life, for this ephemera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Instagram, sellers tout videos for sale, like the 2003 Jerry Bruckheimer film \u201cKangaroo Jack,\u201d a comedy involving a beauty salon owner \u2014 played by Jerry O\u2019Connell \u2014 and a kangaroo.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mistavhs\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Asking price? $190<\/a>. (Mr. O\u2019Connell commented on the post from his personal account, writing, \u201cHold steady. Price seems fair. It is a Classic.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If $190 feels outrageous for a film about a kangaroo accidentally coming into money, consider the price of a limited-edition copy of the 1989 Disney film \u201cThe Little Mermaid,\u201d which is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/700730500\/little-mermaid-black-diamond-banned\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">listed on Etsy for $45,000<\/a>. The cover art for this hard-to-find copy is said to contain a male anatomical part drawn into a sea castle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is, it turns out, much demand for these old VHS tapes, price tags notwithstanding, and despite post-2006 advancements in technology. Driving the passionate collection of this form of media is the belief that VHS offers something that other types of media cannot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/20\/style\/vhs-tapes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Who Is Still Buying VHS Tapes? Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor. By\u00a0Hannah Selinger The last VCR, according to Dave Rodriguez, 33, a digital repository librarian at Florida State University in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}