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Anonymous /a/279941666#279946693
6/24/2025, 7:45:50 PM
>>279941666
>>Exchanging subbed VHS tapes via people you meet on UseNet is not that much more inconvenient than modern day streaming. People just shudder at the idea because there is an introversion crisis in this country.
As someone who actually did this and distributed a lot, this is very, very false. Laughably false. I don't even know where to start. I'll just give you two scenarios I dealt with personally:
1. One thing that people who have never dealt with tapes a lot misjudge is how inconvenient it was to keep track of your current progress in a series. If you were actually copying tapes, you couldn't just push stop and pick up later, since the tape would either be at the end or rewound if you actually copied it for someone else. You had to either remember your progress or scan through a tape to find it. And God help you if the sub group just paused for a few months on a series, as was common.
2. They were physically difficult to deal with and costly, starting with the buying (TDK, Fuji, or Maxell Gold here, no cheap brands like RCA except in a pinch). What does a modern streaming sub cost -- like $12/month? In late 90s, that inflated money (about $6 then) would get you one good 3-or-4 pack of decent blank tapes. So 12 or 16 episodes, unless you wanted to go cheap and record in EP mode.
And then you had to pack and pay to get them to their recipient. Sometimes this worked well -- sometimes it didn't. I cannot tell you the absolute visceral pain I felt when I finally received my Escaflowne SVHS masters from UPS and they were literally crushed. I mean the tire marks were still on the package.
I could go on. So yes, pushing a few buttons is actually much more convenient.