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MathUser
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Free Offer (pay for shipping only): Star Wars Trilogy Definitive Laserdisc collection
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31-Aug-2016, 1:36 PM

VHS used to be expensive as heck too. Read what it says in the Star Trek 2 wikipedia article:

“Paramount released The Wrath of Khan on VHS and Beta in 1983. The studio sold the VHS for $39.95, $40 below contemporary movie cassette prices. It needed to sell 60,000 tapes to make the film as profitable as other tapes, but sold 120,000. The successful experiment was credited with instigating more competitive VHS pricing, an increase in the adoption of increasingly cheaper VHS players, and an industry-wide move away from rentals to sales as the bulk of videotape revenue.”

That means it cost 80 dollars. Man, I’m glad I didn’t live in those times.