Video Classics
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Video Classics was one of the first major Home Video
Distributors in Australia.
Between 1979 and 1984, Video Classics was one of the leading names in Australian home video and claimed to have "Australia's largest range of quality video movies".
At first the different video formats that Video Classics advertised they duplicated was definitive of the formats on the market at the time, which included VHS
, Betamax
, Phillips
, Grundig and U-matic
, whether or not they actually duplicated onto any formats other than VHS or Beta is questionable though, By 1981 their advertising had reduced the list to just VHS and Beta.
Video Classics both rented their tapes and sold them with Prices that started at $69.95 (which was lowered to $49.95 by 1981) for sale, or rental prices being $9.90 overnight, $14.90 per week and $40 for three tapes per month.
In Addition to their own library of tapes, Video Classics also distributed tapes for other video
labels including The Nostalgia Merchant, Sports World Cinema, VCL, Media
, Electric Blue, Wizard Video, Movies at Midnight, and Filmways.
Video Classics floated on the stock exchange for $1.15 million, but crashed spectacularly in 1984 leading to the companies demise.
Home video
Home video is a blanket term used for pre-recorded media that is either sold or rented/hired for home cinema entertainment. The term originates from the VHS/Betamax era but has carried over into current optical disc formats like DVD and Blu-ray Disc and, to a lesser extent, into methods of digital...
Distributors in Australia.
Between 1979 and 1984, Video Classics was one of the leading names in Australian home video and claimed to have "Australia's largest range of quality video movies".
At first the different video formats that Video Classics advertised they duplicated was definitive of the formats on the market at the time, which included VHS
VHS
The Video Home System is a consumer-level analog recording videocassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan ....
, Betamax
Betamax
Betamax was a consumer-level analog videocassette magnetic tape recording format developed by Sony, released on May 10, 1975. The cassettes contain -wide videotape in a design similar to the earlier, professional wide, U-matic format...
, Phillips
Video 2000
Video 2000 was a consumer videocassette recorder system and analog recording videocassette standard developed by Philips and Grundig to compete with JVC's VHS and Sony's Betamax video technologies...
, Grundig and U-matic
U-matic
U-matic is an analog recording videocassette format first shown by Sony in prototype in October 1969, and introduced to the market in September 1971. It was among the first video formats to contain the videotape inside a cassette, as opposed to the various Reel-to-Reel or open-reel formats of the...
, whether or not they actually duplicated onto any formats other than VHS or Beta is questionable though, By 1981 their advertising had reduced the list to just VHS and Beta.
Video Classics both rented their tapes and sold them with Prices that started at $69.95 (which was lowered to $49.95 by 1981) for sale, or rental prices being $9.90 overnight, $14.90 per week and $40 for three tapes per month.
In Addition to their own library of tapes, Video Classics also distributed tapes for other video
labels including The Nostalgia Merchant, Sports World Cinema, VCL, Media
Media Home Entertainment
Media Home Entertainment Inc. was a home video company headquartered in Culver City, California, originally established in 1978 by filmmaker Charles Band....
, Electric Blue, Wizard Video, Movies at Midnight, and Filmways.
Video Classics floated on the stock exchange for $1.15 million, but crashed spectacularly in 1984 leading to the companies demise.