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Breakout Ep. 9: RIP VHS

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As the last video recorder rolls off the production line, we get all sentimental about the humble VHS videotape – sharing our memories, our histories and, for some people, distaste towards the 40-year old format.

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Mentioned in the podcast
  • BBC News: Japan ‘to stop making VCR machines’
  • EngineerGuy: How Sony’s Betamax lost to JVC’s VHS Cassette Recorder
  • A Drop To Drink & The Stop-Motion Adventures of Pony (coming soon)
  • Techmoan – Retro-Tech: When HD Movies came out on VHS
  • BBC Academy – Digitizing the BBC Archive
  • Doctor Who Missing Episodes
  • IMDb: Masters of Menace
  • Stan VHS – The modern movies and series adapted on good old VHS Tapes
  • Dude Bro Party Massacre III
  • ‘Trashing’ the Academy : Jeffery Scourse
  • The Amstrad Double Decker VHS Recorder

    • Both ‘A Drop To Drink’ and the stop motion adventures of Pony will be online soon.

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