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| burningdoom:
--- Quote from: turf on February 23, 2018, 09:10:21 am --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on February 22, 2018, 06:15:03 pm ---I think people are moving to other collections, too. I sure has as hell have been seeing a surge of collectors in the horror & VHS stuff. That stuff used to be plentiful like retro gaming was in the early 2000s. It's starting to dry up out there. And my VHS collecting group on Facebook has practically doubled in size in the last year. --- End quote --- A ton of people that are/were into retro games went that route. It was cheap and fun to do. Look out Betamax. Folks will be coming for you. I think it's fun for people to collect stuff. If they have an interest in it, it doesn't matter what it is. --- End quote --- Betamax is already rare and expensive. Try to find a cheap, working betamax player, you can't. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on February 23, 2018, 01:52:26 pm --- --- Quote from: turf on February 23, 2018, 09:10:21 am --- --- Quote from: burningdoom on February 22, 2018, 06:15:03 pm ---I think people are moving to other collections, too. I sure has as hell have been seeing a surge of collectors in the horror & VHS stuff. That stuff used to be plentiful like retro gaming was in the early 2000s. It's starting to dry up out there. And my VHS collecting group on Facebook has practically doubled in size in the last year. --- End quote --- A ton of people that are/were into retro games went that route. It was cheap and fun to do. Look out Betamax. Folks will be coming for you. I think it's fun for people to collect stuff. If they have an interest in it, it doesn't matter what it is. --- End quote --- Betamax is already rare and expensive. Try to find a cheap, working betamax player, you can't. --- End quote --- I'm pretty sure that people who have been in this hobby for a long time have already found that cheap beta max player for their tapes including the both of you unless ofcourse your just starting to collect for it thanks to other people the reason for it being big. If the last part is the reason that one starts to collect for it because it is wanted by others and starting to have value It's a pretty dum reason in my opinion. For long time collectors I see little reason to complain at least for the beta max players you should have a high end one by now if it was that plentifull not to mention to actually begin and appreciate the hobby unless your collecting vhs already. except ofcourse if your doing it for the thrill of finding something valuable for cheap, than again that's not a solid reason in my opinion. It is obviously a shame for the more rare horror tapes though since obviously those were harder to find but a beta max player without it you can't even start with the hobby except the collecting part as far as movies go. There are also high end vhs players wich are desirable but I guess It's a bit more easy since regular non high end vhs players are plentifull. |
| burningdoom:
Betamax and VHS are 2 different formats. Most movie collectors have a DVD and Blu-Ray Player. Many have a VCR (VHS). Not everyone has a betmax player. It didn't have a long shelf life. It lost the format war with VHS like HD-DVD did to Blu-Ray. So it's harder to find them since so many less of them were produced, and they are from the early 80s, so many of those, even, aren't working anymore. |
| sworddude:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on February 23, 2018, 10:56:43 pm ---Betamax and VHS are 2 different formats. Most movie collectors have a DVD and Blu-Ray Player. Many have a VCR (VHS). Not everyone has a betmax player. It didn't have a long shelf life. It lost the format war with VHS like HD-DVD did to Blu-Ray. So it's harder to find them since so many less of them were produced, and they are from the early 80s, so many of those, even, aren't working anymore. --- End quote --- I do know they are 2 different formats. Beta max a bit higher quality but less time for a movie compared to vhs. That being said if stuff is that plentyfull and cheap in the past why does one still not have a beta max player. Unless ofcourse it was always hard to find and not to cheap especially the last part being the reason why one never got a betamax player to begin with even in the past. If it isn´t super cheap I can imagine people holding off waiting for a cheap one having bad luck that it has become hyped and even more sought after expensive than it was before. Obviously with vhs you could already enjoy the hobby, beta max is just slightly higher quality with different beta max tapes but if you really were dedicated and wanted a beta max player even back in the day in my personal opinion one should have already foud one years ago if you were in that hobby for years before it was hyped. Also I´m pretty sure that more dedicated vhs betmax collectors will focus more on the old stuff and way less on blue ray and dvd if not ignore it. Obviously there are some who are a jack of all trades but many dvd blue ray collectors do not collect and enjoy vhs beta max and vice versa. |
| scraph4ppy:
I wish I could look at games at my Goodwill.... Anyways I had a very long post typed up about how LRGs weren't going to be collectible but having typed it out, I think I was wrong. They will be collectible, but not in the way that normal console games are. Instead they will be in the same manner that PC games are. A complete collection will be nearly impossible to get a hold of (seriously, with how low these print runs are, a complete set of LRG Vita games is going to be harder to find than a complete set of NES or PS2 games is,) and few people will try. But there will be lots of interest from certain people in getting a hold of certain titles, and the games will retain value until the day that no one cares about physical media anymore. The only thing is, LRG's offerings will not be considered in the same way that any other company's will, and most collectors will have them off in a side bar along with NFRS games, demo disks, special editions, beta hardware, etc. and the think nothing of the fact that their otherwise complete collection does not contain copies of them. Perhaps they will redefine the default collection to be "sold in retail stores" or something else like that to exclude them or perhaps everyone will just get together and decide that forced scarcity is ridiculous from the stand-point of collecting childhood memories, especially when as a child you wouldn't have been buying from LRG anyway. |
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