VHS, every mention
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every year anyone David Rosenthal 13Ben Gilbert 4Michael Ovitz 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where VHS comes up
Disney: The Renaissance and the Empire · Acquired
- ▶ 38:52 David Rosenthal You know, VHS exists now.
- ▶ 39:03 David Rosenthal Michael has to convene the whole Disney family and get their approval to release Pinocchio as the first of the classics that they're gonna put on VHS here in 1985.
- ▶ 39:31 David Rosenthal Of VHS of Pinocchio.
- ▶ 40:00 David Rosenthal Does thirty-four million in box office revenue, and then they put out the VHS home video.
- ▶ 40:42 David Rosenthal Losing VHS tapes.
- ▶ 40:59 David Rosenthal I had read that Disney was keeping like between 17 to 20 dollars a pop in profits per VHS tape that they were selling, because I think they had so much leverage over the retailers.
- ▶ 41:52 David Rosenthal Aladdin sells thirty million VHS tapes in 1993.
- ▶ 42:03 David Rosenthal And then The Lion King eclipses it in 1995 when it comes out on VHS with thirty-two million units.
- ▶ 42:09 David Rosenthal The best-selling VHS of all time period in history ever.
SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired
- ▶ 55:16 David Rosenthal You know, went the way of, uh, VHS, which we'll get to in a minute when DVDs came out.
- ▶ 59:54 David Rosenthal VHS is, it was the competing format that they lost to, which we'll get to in a minute.
- ▶ 1:04:53 Ben Gilbert I mean, at the end of the day, I, in the nineties grew up recording television on my VHS, my, my, I think my Sony VHS cassette player video, you know, VCR.
- ▶ 1:05:41 David Rosenthal So MCA starts working with the VHS format, which was made by
- ▶ 1:06:15 Ben Gilbert I didn't know this when we interviewed Michael through this relationship about developing the VHS format and then offering their content exclusively in VHS that MCA Universal had a preexisting relationship of collaboration with Matsushita.
- ▶ 1:06:45 David Rosenthal I wonder if them essentially anointing VHS and Metsusta as the winners was enough to drag the whole industry.
- ▶ 1:06:54 Ben Gilbert Okay, so Sony lost Betamax versus VHS.
- ▶ 1:20:54 Ben Gilbert Our family TV was a Trinitron, multiple family camcorders of going from the VHS version of it down to a, they had some other tape, did some kind of DV
CAA (with Michael Ovitz) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:24:41 Michael Ovitz Morita came to see me and wanted to buy, get into owning content because he was upset that Betamax, which was a superior technology to VHS, was losing to VHS.