TheDailyWoo - 891 (12/9/14) Death of VHS Generation

0:02 welcome everyone Adam the woo here happy

0:02 Tuesday I'm in a parking lot sitting in

0:04 my van you could probably hear the

0:05 engine rumbling and you could probably

0:08 hear the

0:09 vent protruding past you and just giving

0:13 me a nice christening cool feeling not

0:16 cool enough to run the AC I'm in Florida

0:18 and it is starting to get a little

0:20 cooler it's not hot enough to run the AC

0:23 but it's not cold enough to turn the

0:26 vent or the heater on or the AC off

0:28 together so what's the next best thing

0:30 we do

0:32 v n

0:35 vent I don't know why I mentioned that

0:38 it's my second channel daily blog

0:40 channel it's the daily woo go

0:52 what today's Vlog is called the

0:52 death the VHS generation I'm sitting in

0:56 this parking lot because this place has

0:58 a special memory for me late 90s end of

1:01 the year 2000 for about 2 years

1:04 part-time about 20 hours a week I worked

1:08 at a video store right there it's called

1:11 video Center it was located between the

1:14 optical outlet and a Mexican place I'm

1:16 going to show you that right now there

1:18 was three

1:24 storefronts so where the yellow sign is

1:24 and where the blue sign is is now a

1:26 Spanish Church

1:28 sign and that white white sign right

1:32 there that was video

1:36 Center there's the sign

1:44 there and you can see where it says

1:44 restaurant for

1:45 sale that was where we put this the

1:47 weekly and the daily ads right on that

1:51 sign we would try to draw in people from

1:54 Highway 192 right here

2:05 all the cars passing by tried to bring

2:05 them in saying come into US rent

2:10 yourself a gawky piece of plastic with

2:14 some tape in it you put it in a machine

2:16 that you connect to your television and

2:18 you can bring the creation of a director

2:22 some acting skills of a fantastic

2:24 Academy award-winning actor or a

2:27 producers money dream that he has

2:30 combined his heart and soul donated

2:33 money into this creation on film you

2:36 don't have to go to a movie theater to

2:38 see it you don't have to get in your car

2:40 even though you do got to come rent the

2:41 video first but you don't have to pile

2:43 your family in the car and go to a movie

2:46 theater and sit there with a bunch of

2:48 screaming kids and pay prices of

2:51 overpriced popcorn no you can actually

2:55 do this from the privacy of your own

2:58 home

3:00 mind blown the VHS

3:08 generation had begun have I already done

3:08 the intro I think I have I'm going to do

3:09 it again because this is a very dramatic

3:11 moment it's my second channel daily blog

3:13 channel

3:14 it's the death of the DHS generation not

3:18 the DHS very hard to say V when you have

3:22 a fist

3:24 smashed into your oh that hurts a little

3:27 bit it's a daily woo

3:30 I'm a little

3:32 excited because this is a

3:34 very heartfelt subject for me and I've

3:39 been sipping on this massive caffeinated

3:41 beverage I'm about halfway done I have

3:43 the caffeine flowing through my bones

3:46 throwing through my bones right

3:53 now late

3:53 80s actually let's progress a little bit

3:55 back mid 80s was a fantastic time period

3:59 for entertainment

4:00 the

4:01 VHS was an Amazing

4:05 Creation it was probably the first real

4:08 plateau of entertainment goodness that

4:10 you could bring into your home there was

4:11 the betamax VHS and betamax combed back

4:15 and forth this is VHS this is the beta

4:17 we're fighting we're fighting we're

4:18 fighting beta withered away and VHS was

4:22 number one they took over mid 80s the

4:26 VHS was The prominent entertainment

4:29 source for most people unless they just

4:32 watch regular television but if you

4:34 wanted to take it a step further and you

4:36 wanted to watch movies 80s movies I am

4:40 an ' 80s kid I love movies if you want

4:43 to talk trivia about movies come to me

4:46 and I'm not talking about post 1999 2000

4:50 I'm talking about pre Century overturn

4:54 especially the 80s I have probably seen

4:56 99% of every 80s movie not just once or

5:00 twice some of them I've seen 10 15 20

5:02 times if you ever watched my Adam the

5:04 woo Channel which hopefully you guys

5:06 subscribe to that one as well as this

5:08 one you will notice that I do a lot of

5:10 80s filming locations because those

5:13 places have a very special place in my

5:15 heart not only because of the era I was

5:18 grown up in but also because of places

5:20 like this VHS video cassette tapes the

5:26 VCR in the mid 80s when I was growing up

5:29 in the pan handle of Florida I would go

5:31 to school all work all week my parents

5:33 would work all week and on the weekends

5:36 we would rent a video cassette recorder

5:39 why am I holding my hand this way

5:41 because it was in the shape of a

5:42 suitcase a plastic suitcase you would

5:46 rent from a store like

5:53 that you would pay 10 or 15 bucks for 2

5:53 or three days to rent this gawy machine

5:55 known as a VCR we were not rich we did

5:58 not have the money to go buy

6:00 a VCR so we had to rent them from a

6:02 video store that's right believe it or

6:04 not you could actually rent a vcr and

6:07 then we would rent eight or 10 movies

6:08 for the weekend watch two or three every

6:11 night and this went on for probably

6:13 about a

6:14 year and I watched a lot of 80s movies I

6:18 was an 8s movie afficionado

6:21 self-proclaimed a nerd if you will and

6:25 that developed my passion for film

6:28 making for

6:30 creativity and for the love of 80s film

6:33 making the acting the style the

6:36 cheesiness everything about 80s when it

6:39 comes to film making I'm a huge fan of

6:42 and it all started because of the VHS

6:45 the guy that owned this video store when

6:46 I started working here as a child I

6:49 always wanted to work in a video store

6:51 it was my dream kind of like a bucket

6:52 list I will work in a video store that

6:55 has VHS one day and I fulfilled that

6:58 dream I wouldn't call a dream it was

7:00 just something I wanted to do when I

7:02 worked here I didn't really make that

7:03 much money it was a part-time job on top

7:05 of my full-time job I think I made

7:07 minimum wage but I did it kind of as a

7:10 labor of

7:16 love because I loved movies this is

7:16 before the internet they used to have

7:18 this thing called I think it was called

7:20 the movie Hound it was a huge book that

7:23 came out every year when I would work in

7:25 the video store I would flip through it

7:28 and I would sit there and read

7:30 all of the different actors and what

7:32 they had been in who directed things

7:34 this is preim IMDb Internet Movie

7:37 Database on the internet there was no

7:40 internet you had to do this manually

7:42 with a book so between customers working

7:44 in the video store so I had that passion

7:47 as a child from the 80s then about 13 14

7:50 years later moved here to Central

7:54 Florida and worked in that video store

7:58 so I took my 80s not and I honed it kind

8:01 of like a Jedi would and that movie

8:03 Hound book was kind of like my yoda if

8:06 you will so I know a little bit about

8:10 80s movies the guy that owned this

8:13 business video

8:19 Center he was very passionate about not

8:19 switching over to the DVD generation he

8:23 went on Long spiels Long rants he did

8:28 never ever wanted switch over to

8:30 DVDs and he was correct in his

8:33 assumption because a lot of video stores

8:35 sold off their VHS inventory switched

8:38 over to DVDs and we all know what

8:40 happened to all those DVD rental stores

8:44 they rarely exist sometimes in small

8:46 towns you find a few video stores still

8:49 open but most of them are closed red box

8:51 is about all we have left and now people

8:54 download stuff or there's Netflix

8:56 everything is done online so he was

8:58 correct in assuming if I get rid of my

9:00 video cassettes and I buy DVDs what'll

9:03 happen five years later he was a

9:07 genius his place would have eventually

9:10 closed anyway he saw the writing on the

9:18 wall the place would have closed either

9:18 way it's closed now it would have closed

9:21 if he would have switched to DVDs he

9:22 actually saved a lot of money not having

9:24 to switch over to DVDs because

9:26 eventually it was inevitable that video

9:29 stores would be a thing of the

9:33 past but there are a lot of memories of

9:37 VHS generation back then it's kind of

9:40 similar to records versus CDs versus

9:43 digital downloads when you rented a

9:45 movie you were all in

9:47 110% there was none of this super

9:50 rewinding you could rewind but it wasn't

9:52 like skipping scenes on a remote you can

9:55 with a DVD you could fast forward or

9:58 rewind but you couldn't skip to the next

10:00 scene so it was a little bit different

10:01 when you put the movie in you were

10:03 dedicated to watching that movie plus

10:07 some of you who are my age or a little

10:08 older remember when you went to the

10:10 video store and you walked in you were

10:12 greeted with this Cornucopia of awesome

10:16 cardboard boxes blaring out at you watch

10:19 me watch me watch me and if you had a

10:22 certain video store that you loved you

10:24 knew where everything was because you

10:27 spent hours inside

10:30 this particular store you would walk in

10:32 you knew every aisle you had your comedy

10:34 here you had your horror here you had

10:37 your drama here you had your kids

10:39 section over here you knew where

10:41 everything

10:43 was and the thing that was interesting

10:45 is you would start to rent the same

10:47 Movies 6 months later you knew what you

10:51 liked you couldn't afford to buy a video

10:53 cassette and look this up you're gonna

10:56 you're going to probably say that is no

10:57 way this is true but this is true when a

10:59 new video cassette would come out when

11:02 all there was was VHS you know what the

11:04 average retail price to buy a video

11:08 cassette was I'll give you a second to

11:09 think about it you think about

11:15 it

11:15 $89.99

11:17 $90 plus tax to buy a new

11:22 VHS so that's why the video rental

11:25 industry was so huge because no one or a

11:28 very small percentage of people had 990

11:30 bucks with tax $100 to buy a VHS so

11:35 people rented rentals were massive when

11:38 we moved to St Cloud in

11:40 1991 this is way before I worked here in

11:43 the late 90s there was like six or seven

11:46 video cassette rental places there's

11:49 zero now there's not one there were six

11:52 or seven then they were all super busy

11:55 super thriving you started to recognize

11:58 and be friends the other people that

12:00 were in the store looking around at the

12:02 boxes like you were you would read the

12:04 back of the boxes what is this movie

12:06 about you couldn't go watch the trailer

12:07 on YouTube you couldn't Google what it

12:10 was about all you had to go off of was

12:13 three sentences written on the back of

12:15 the box or who the actor was or what

12:20 fantastic image they projected to your

12:23 eyes on the front of that box man I love

12:28 VHS movie watching is not the same but

12:31 still fantastic a lot of great special

12:34 effects a lot of great movies out there

12:36 great actors great

12:38 directors but there is something to be

12:40 said for the80s and for the VHS

12:45 generation that no longer exists you can

12:48 still find video cassettes at thrift

12:49 stores garage sales occasionally and did

12:53 you also know that not every movie

12:56 that's available on VHS was transferred

12:59 over to DVDs sometimes you can find some

13:01 rare ones on VHS that are not on the

13:04 internet and you can't get on DVD or

13:07 can't get on Blu-ray or can't get on

13:10 Netflix and some of those are worth a

13:12 lot of money and a lot more than money

13:15 are worth a lot of things to people like

13:17 me and maybe you if you are an 80s nerd

13:20 like I am there's a lot of great movies

13:22 that I've never been put out on DVD and

13:25 one thing that was awesome about working

13:26 here at video Center in CMI the guy that

13:29 own this owned this store for 20 years

13:31 almost let's see it closed probably in

13:35 2003 is 2004 and he opened it probably

13:40 in 82 83 84 when VHS first started

13:43 coming out so yeah almost 20 years he

13:46 had all those old awesome early 80s

13:50 films I would take two or three home a

13:52 night he would allow me and the other

13:54 employees to take what we wanted home to

13:56 watch so I watched a lot of 80s movies I

13:59 used the gargantuan book it was called

14:02 movie Hound preim IMDb you just browse

14:06 through it did I already mention the

14:09 movie Hound I'm very flustered and

14:12 confused because a lot of memories are

14:14 coming back and a lot of the joy but I

14:16 would flip through IMDb I look up the

14:18 actors I would look up the directors and

14:20 I would hone my

14:21 skills of movie knowledge you want to

14:25 talk movie knowledge get a hold of me on

14:27 Facebook Twitter and Instagram or leave

14:30 some movie trivia from the 80s down

14:33 below I'm going to let you guys go I

14:35 know this is a little crazy a little

14:37 ranting a lot of lot of caffeine in this

14:40 Vlog but I very passionate about VHS if

14:43 you are a younger generation you

14:45 probably will not appreciate this Vlog

14:47 if you're my age or older and you share

14:51 the same passions about video cassettes

14:55 and not just the technology of them it

14:58 wasn't really about that

14:59 it was about the experience of going to

15:02 a video store as opposed to I'm just

15:05 going to download it that's all I'm

15:08 going to do or I'm just going to look up

15:09 the trailer on YouTube let's leave some

15:12 comments let's have some conversations

15:14 about the death of the VHS generation

15:18 I'll see you guys tomorrow have a great

15:19 day bye

TheDailyWoo - 891 (12/9/14) Death of VHS Generation

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