Re:A Cartrivision Player TV
by jandrese on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @08:11PM
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It makes no sense. Rentals are already time limited so making them unable to be rewound is just plain consumer hostile. It’s not hard to see why the format died so quickly.
Even if it had caught on there would no doubt be a grey market for those red tape rewinders.
Re:A Cartrivision Player TV
by 1-more on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:30AM
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Yep. But there wasn't a good model for home movies yet! Elsewhere I saw that the rewind machine had a counter and the store would be billed for each movie viewing. So they had the streaming payment structure in the tape era!
Even if it had caught on there would no doubt be a grey market for those red tape rewinders.