Joe
November 14th, 2005, 06:53 PM
This may sound like a dumb question, and maybe it is, and maybe this isn't the right forum for it, but here goes:
How do you tell if a new movie is available on VHS (videotape)? The reason I ask is that I always used to look up films in the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB),
and they'd have a chart about whether the movie was available (from Amazon.com) on DVD, VHS or CD (Soundtrack), in the US, Canada, the UK, etc.
But I have seen movies at my local BlockBuster where they have 15 copies on DVD and one or two copies on VHS. For example, "The Interpreter." Yet if you look that up on IMDB, the Amazon chart shows it available in the US on DVD only--the VHS logo is greyed-out.
So, is there any easy way to check on VHS availability of new movies?
One reason I ask is that I was at a preview showing of Robert Greenwald's "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" this weekend. They showed it on DVD, and the DVD was flawed and "froze" at least three different times during the showing. They would have been a lot better off if they had the film on videotape for group-showing purposes.
How do you tell if a new movie is available on VHS (videotape)? The reason I ask is that I always used to look up films in the Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB),
and they'd have a chart about whether the movie was available (from Amazon.com) on DVD, VHS or CD (Soundtrack), in the US, Canada, the UK, etc.
But I have seen movies at my local BlockBuster where they have 15 copies on DVD and one or two copies on VHS. For example, "The Interpreter." Yet if you look that up on IMDB, the Amazon chart shows it available in the US on DVD only--the VHS logo is greyed-out.
So, is there any easy way to check on VHS availability of new movies?
One reason I ask is that I was at a preview showing of Robert Greenwald's "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" this weekend. They showed it on DVD, and the DVD was flawed and "froze" at least three different times during the showing. They would have been a lot better off if they had the film on videotape for group-showing purposes.