🎬 Film

Rentals, cinema trips and the tape you had to rewind before returning.

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1980s 1983

Sony's superior video format lost the war to VHS, leaving a small number of very smug and very stranded households.

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1980s 1984

Friday night, a wall of big plastic cases, and the film you actually wanted already out.

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1990s 1993

Blank E-180s with three films on them and a label that had been crossed out four times.

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1990s 1995

The ritual of choosing a film as a family, which took forty minutes and ended in a compromise nobody wanted.

🎬 Film🏬 Shops & High Street

2000s 2002

Joining a video shop was a small administrative event involving a utility bill.

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2010s 2012

Netflix launched its UK streaming service in January 2012 at £5.99 a month, with a famously thin catalogue.

🎬 Film📟 Tech & Gadgets

2010s 2013

Blockbuster UK went into administration for the second time in 2013 and closed every remaining store.

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2010s 2014

DVD vending machines appeared in supermarket foyers just as streaming made the entire category pointless.

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