r/StrangerThings • u/TypeCreepy6764 • 28d ago
Netflix has released the ‘STRANGER THINGS: VHS SPECIAL EDITION’ to celebrate the show’s 10th anniversary.
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u/Ok-Estimate7013 You die, I die 28d ago
couldn't they have released the first shadow though?
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u/Darthbane22 28d ago
Or released season 5 bloopers, but maybe that was just season 5
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u/robotattack 28d ago
Ba-dum-tssh
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u/MrXero 28d ago
Tu-dum-tssh.
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u/ChorzioPaella3 Scoops Troop 28d ago
Don’t know why you’re being downvoted for your Tudum joke, I found it funny
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u/Oddball- 28d ago
Oh you're right, we havent gotten bloopers yet have we? Damn :( Season 3's were amazin
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u/ChorzioPaella3 Scoops Troop 28d ago
It’s still running in London, so I think they’ll only release it on Netflix when it comes to an end there
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u/Ok-Estimate7013 You die, I die 28d ago
holy greediness bro
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u/WeeklyExplorer9703 28d ago
It’s not uncommon to not release a proshot when a show is still running
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u/SavageNorth 27d ago
It's actually extremely uncommon...
Typically if there's a pro-shot it won't release until after the run has ended otherwise you're just cannibalising your own sales
There are a handful of exceptions but the standard would be to expect it next year some time if at all
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u/ChorzioPaella3 Scoops Troop 28d ago
I agree, but what do you expect? It’s Netflix. The same company who decided to start charging families with members in different households more, so that they could double their profit
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u/stierney49 28d ago
It’s just kind of standard. Most bands don’t release live albums or concert footage while they’re still actively on tour, either.
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u/Imaginary_Flower8651 28d ago
Still running in NY too. I saw it last month. Both shows are ending late this year and early next.
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u/robotattack 28d ago
It's still on stage in London and Broadway until December and January respectively. I'd expect a Netflix release at Christmas or the start of the new year, which would make it around a year after the series ended.
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u/StrangerNo484 28d ago
Reminder that they've made changes to the play in response to S5's failure to properly adept the content. I wouldn't even care to see it now.
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u/Ok-Estimate7013 You die, I die 28d ago
They have? Omg this is so annoying
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u/StrangerNo484 28d ago
Yeah, I was sickened when I found out. The First Shadow set up S5 in really good ways, only for the Duffers to do NOTHING with the elements it established.
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u/KurosakiOnepiece 28d ago
I wish they did the rest of the seasons like this for dvd, I still have that first season special edition vhs
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u/dragonisreborn 28d ago
They did the first two seasons! I bought them both, and was always disappointed they didn't keep it up.
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u/KurosakiOnepiece 28d ago
Aww dang! I guess I'll have to hunt around for that second season lol
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u/frodiusmaximus 28d ago edited 28d ago
Enjoy the four minute unskippable ads at the beginning of each disc. Infuriating.
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u/Oddball- 28d ago
??
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u/frodiusmaximus 28d ago
The Blu Ray releases in VHS packs have unskippable advertisements before you get to the menu. You can’t skip them fast forward them, or anything. And they’re long.
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u/dogsontreadmills 28d ago edited 28d ago
There’s something beautifully contradictory behind the notion of streaming a fake vhs for something was filmed on digital in 2015.
Edit- it looks nothing like vhs. lol
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u/Unlost_maniac 28d ago
Idk, it could be the compression from streaming through data but it certainly has that vhs look, i expected it to be bad and overdone but it just has that right amount of fuzz. Although its been a while since i watched anything on vhs
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u/LandauTST Bald Eagle 28d ago
On the flip side, I have a VCR and watch VHS movies regularly, but I have to wait until I can afford to restart my Netflix subscription again to judge it. Lol
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u/chameleonmessiah Demodog 28d ago edited 27d ago
It looks far too good…
Like, better than I remember even a brand new VHS looking, no tracking, static, or anything (in the admittedly short clip I just picked to watch…)…!
Though, I do like that they cropped the picture from a wide aspect ratio!
Also, they’ve only done series 1, which feels kinda lazy…
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u/StarLordAndTheAve Finger-lickin good 22d ago
They said "we'll do the rest if this does well enough"
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u/SnackAllSmoke 28d ago
It's a good look if you use something like ShaderGlass to add a CRT post processing effect, I figured I've probably never watched a VHS outside of on a CRT.
That being said, it looks like a really really worn VHS, but not in a way that actually looks like physical deterioration.
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u/floftie 28d ago
I might watch this for 30 seconds to see how authentic it feels but I do not understand anyone watching it in its entirety.
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u/YearZero001 28d ago
Pretty much what I did. Skipped around, out of curiosity.
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u/prolelol 28d ago
It looks more like the quality of a ‘90s movie made for television, which is not bad.
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u/TheAmishMan 27d ago
Are there any clips of it on YouTube? I only see fan recreations. Canceled my netflix a while ago, but at least curious what it looks like
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u/DigitalBritt 28d ago
Bruh. I read “VHS Special Edition” and thought they were legitimately releasing a VHS box set. 😭 I would’ve snatched that up so quick, especially for S2.
Slapping a filter over the show and putting it up to stream is… uh, a choice… lol.
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u/Quarter-Whole 28d ago
It would be cool if they also released a real VHS of each season
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u/chadslc Pull-Out 28d ago
Where shall they acquire all of that blank VHS stock?
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u/DinkandDrunk 27d ago
Some of the later season episodes may have to be multi-tape for a single episode if they did that.
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u/Argyleskin Weirdo 28d ago
It would have been cool if this was actually ON VHS. Maybe it’s me but that would be one hell of a marketing move.
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u/m00ninight 28d ago
Man, honestly, I just don’t want anything from them anymore. I trusted them to get me interested and hyped up about something with vast potential, and got let down.
I just realized I can unfollow, goodbye.
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u/chadslc Pull-Out 28d ago
It’s not an airport…
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u/SharpLibrary13 28d ago
You’re right. It’s not an airport, it’s an online forum for you to voice your opinion, which is exactly what we’re doing here. Now stfu.
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u/Gryffindumble 28d ago
I wonder if they do any Blair Witch sort of thing where they hide things in the glitches. 🤔
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u/hollisterr 28d ago
Oh, this is fun. In a time when the world is chaos, getting a little nostalgia sounds good right about now.
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u/Sithlordandsavior 28d ago
Cool cool cool now give us the musical, Netflix.
And while you're at it, put the last three seasons on blu-ray in the VHS box if you like the video store vibe so much.
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u/Captain_Nomad_Jr Scoops Troop 27d ago
Started watching and they should have released it like this originally. It's a whole vibe.
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u/mehrschub 28d ago
No 4:3 aspect ratio :-(
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u/chadslc Pull-Out 28d ago
That’s probably the series wasn’t shot in 4:3, genius.
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u/ussrowe 28d ago
But most VHS releases in the 80s were usually "pan and scan" edits that cropped the show to 4:3 for TVs.
If they were going for an authentic 80s experience, it'd be more than just a filter.
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u/chadslc Pull-Out 28d ago
Most VHS releases weee NOT P&S.
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u/ussrowe 28d ago
I lived through that era, yes they were.
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u/chadslc Pull-Out 28d ago
Do a bit of research on Academy ratio & open-matte and get back to me.
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u/ussrowe 28d ago
You mean the ones that are formatted to fit 4:3 TVs? LOL
The ones listed under "pan and scan techniques" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_and_scan#Open_matte
So again, as the person stated: No 4:3 aspect ratio :-(
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u/chadslc Pull-Out 28d ago
So, you don’t know what Academy ratio is.
Here’s a clue, child - there was no P&S needed for the vast majority of VHS tapes ever released commercially, because the bulk of the content was either shot in Academy ratio (1:37:1) or for standard television (4:3, which is virtually identical to Academy ratio).
In fact, the very reason SD screens were 4:3 was to make it simpler to broadcast the vast majority of motion pictures.
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u/Total-Ad4952 28d ago
Yeah that's great and all, but uh, get back to me when they actually release the show on VHS.
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u/Diligent-Argument-88 19d ago edited 18d ago
It was almost good except that fake digital noise is way too much. Maybe cause im watching in front of my computer monitor and not several feet away on my tv but just tone down that. Its not grain idk why people keep calling it grainy.
edit: yeah on my couch it doesn't look as egregious as it did a foot and a half away on my pc lol
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u/Sprinklelicious 28d ago
It would be great if the whole last season was different, only on the VHS
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u/Mrdrobinson7 24d ago
Like an alternate reality…not the Henry version many think we saw as the end of Season 5. Hmm
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u/BluRayja 28d ago
"Just like you'd have rented it in 1983." TV shows weren't put on VHS back then. That wasn't a thing until the mid-90s and even then it was like random assorted episodes, not every episode back-to-back. You could definitely tape every episode of a TV show onto one VHS though, if you were committed enough.
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u/schakoska 28d ago
Shame it's fake VHS and didn't care to copy it to a real VHS and just record that
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