Anyone remember VHS double cassette films?

[Rhood]

The good ole days when movies were too epic to fit on 1 tape.
I bet when you were a kid at the rental store, you thought you were getting 2 movies for the price of 1

 

[High Test With da Best]

Of course!

IIRC the highest quality playback speed gave you 2 hours per tape, mid was 4 hours and lowest was 6 hours. It was a noticeable difference too

 

[High Test With da Best]

Was it "super play, long play and extra-long play"? Wow, been a while since I've thought about that

 

[EndlessCritic]

titanic?

 

[SSgt Dickweed]

Wait, what?

 

[lsa]

" bet when you were a kid at the rental store, you thought you were getting 2 movies for the price of 1"

you be wrong,,,,

 

[666]

I remember music cassette tapes having an A and B side, video games having 2 discs. Not old enough for that though.

 

[ICHEERTHEBULL]

Was it "super play, long play and extra-long play"? Wow, been a while since I've thought about that

It was just long play if you wanted to double up here. A lot of players didn’t have it so commercial tapes never really used it. Plus the quality aspect. I used to be a tape trader and I think only one person ever wanted LP, everyone else just went with two tapes.

I seem to remember heat being just one tape though, maybe that version had extra long trailers or something

 

[Chad R. Thundercock]

Wait, what?

That was a nasty post by you.

 

[TheChance]

Yup. Had Braveheart, Scarface, and The Good The bad and The Ugly on double cassettes

 

[Zer]

The worst was when video games came on multiple discs or floppies

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

The good ole days when movies were too epic to fit on 1 tape.
I bet when you were a kid at the rental store, you thought you were getting 2 movies for the price of 1

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Damn I remember them. But it seems eons ago now. lol

 

[blaseblase]

Several of the Disney VCR releases came in two video cassettes.

 

[Van Daz]

If you know, you know

Good old Beta. We had the below Betamax machine for years & ended up getting a VHS machine years later. Beta was better quality. The machine below that we had cost over $1000 back in the early 80s & had an infra red remote. Remember watching big trouble in little china, empire strikes back & such movies on Beta. Was easy to hire as the popular movies on VHS may have all been out, but not Beta:

 

[Sobek]

Fuck I miss being a kid in the 80s.

Maybe I should go and hang spitfires and messerschmidts from my ceiling by fishing line in simulated dog fights again...

 

[Jesus X]

The good ole days when movies were too epic to fit on 1 tape.
I bet when you were a kid at the rental store, you thought you were getting 2 movies for the price of 1

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[Flower2dPeople]

 

[Kung Fu Kowboy]

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Hell yeah. Of the movies we owned only a few were double cassettes, namely the Godfather and Titanic. We rented several more that were double, such as the Ten Commandments, Wyatt Earp, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I agree with @ICHEERTHEBULL ‘s recollection about Heat only being on one tape as my oldest brother owned it and I’m sure it was a single tape.

I also agree with @lsa when he says you would be wrong to think that as kids it was like getting two movies for the price of one because from the perspective of a child they were almost always boring movies made for grownups that kids never wanted to watch in the first place.

 

[zapataxiv]

The worst was when video games came on multiple discs or floppies



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I remember playing riven and thinking the next disc was when the shooting stuff would begin