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I think my aunt owned a few movies on laserdisc. Was that the thing that looked like a record, but played a movie?

Neither
We went with VHS

Nope, VHS was already the dominate make by the time my family bought a VCR in the early 80's. I remember laserdisk coming out and movies cost like $100 each not to mention there was something about it all that seemed flash in the pan to me so never bothered.

My folks had a betamax

I grew up on VHS, but many years later, after DVD had come and nearly gone, I starting collecting Laserdiscs. They are awesome to have like a big album if it's in good shape, simply for the display aspect of it. My collection is still young, but I have Star Wars Trilogy, Dragonslayer, Dark Crystal, and Princess Bride.

We had a betamax and then got a vhs a few years later, which ended up okay because they was no copy protection when copying to beta. So we would just record everything onto beta and the quality didn't suffer at all.

Never had any Betamax, only Laserdisc. Which was really awesome! It'a almost DVD quality and has Dolby Surround sound. My dad has quite a lot of Laserdisc movies back then. Terminator 2, Star Wars, Aliens, Robocop, Superman IV, Batman Returns, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Die Hard, etd. Good stuffs.

The only annoying thing about Laserdisc is that movies usually came in both sides of the disc, so you have to get up and flip it mid-film.

Oh hell no!

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