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Post #60005

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Bossk
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1995 VHS
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Date created
17-Aug-2004, 4:57 AM
Well, that's also because the widescreen VHS from 1995 were in such low production. Very few people then realized what the difference was. Plus, as I recall, the widescreen were pulled off the shelves nearly a year before the pan and scan were. I got my copy at a Media Play in Rockford, IL. And the friend that picked them up for me (I didn't own a car at the time and he lived in that area) told me the clerk there said they were to pull the copies off the shelves a couple days later so I got mine just in time. The P&S copies kept selling for a year afterwards. The copy I got was like one of only three or four they had in stock while the P&S was all over the place. Also, you had to go to specialty video stores to get the widescreen. The P&S could be purchased everywhere. Almost literally. Hence why buying copies of the widescreen 95 VHS is so damned expensive.