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Entrepreneurially-inclined analog aficionados are becoming more and more abundant in this perpetually expanding world of VHS collector culture. We currently exist in a head-spinning kind of mini-universe where the voracious hunger for non-stop video bliss spills out upon always active online forums such as Horror VHS Collectors Unite! and VHS Misfits Ironfist VHS Bliss replete with a whirlwind of liking, commenting, and personal messaging, inevitably leading to the buying, trading and selling of our favorite format. It’s a no-holds barred kind of place, where love for your fellow Videovore is prominent, but not promised. There’s always a slight chance that...

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Saskatoon-based video rental shop Videonomicon is still going VHStrong. Over the past year totally radical Tapeheads Tyler Baptist and Jon Vaughn have been supplying a groovy selection of take-home slabs for their fellow rewind-inclined locals, and now they’re starting to serve up some fresh VHS for the magnetic masses with their video vindicating Videonomicon brand. Unleashing two titles last summer via analog means with the never-before-seen road comedy RYAN’S BABE and the cult horror comedy RUNAWAY NIGHTMARE (both available now!), Videonomicon is rewind ready to invade your VCR once again with their upcoming analog edition of the surrealistic indie horror...

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From the depths of the deepest, dingiest Goodwills and dusty second-hand shops, yet another VHS-centric gadget has been uncovered! It’s the VCR VOICE from the Voice Powered Technology Company! This obscure rewind-inclined creation was yanked from oblivion by none other than my radical Videovore homie Matt Ridgeway! He was groovy enough to send me some images of this bad boy (which you’ll see below), and thanks to the world weird web, we’re able to view the full paid advertisement video and get down with the mind-blowing magnetic magic programmer that will revolutionize your rewind times, man! Well, it was supposed...

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With the effusive internet expansion of VHS collector culture and general analog era appreciation gaining ground in the name of nostalgia, full-blown books are simply bound to happen. Exemplary analog-oriented printed editions have come in the form of the academic yet accessible Videoland along with the fun, culturally informative VHS Ate My Brain, both of which celebrate the video era in entirely different yet absolutely essential ways. Enter Noel Mellor’s love letter to the wonders of the video era entitled Adventures in VHS. While also producing a podcast of the same name to build the VHSteam, Manchester, UK based writer...

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Groovy New Year Greetings, my fellow Videovores! Here’s hoping you all had a most merry magnetic holiday season filled with groovy gifts, good tidings and radical rewind times with those you hold dear. And as all you analog maniacs might expect we’re ready to fill you in on how to ring in the new rewind times right with a recently released slab of fresh VHS from the video vindicating crew known as VHShitfest! Anti-digital mastermind Dan Kinem and the one and only Dabeedoo have just unleashed a most mind-melting slab of shot-on-video sci-fi / kung-fu insanity entitled Lazarus the Legend...

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