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Originally Posted by eddyw78
For me back in the 90’s Vipco was better than nothing as I didn’t have Laserdisc and most of these films had been pretty much unavailable since the early 80’s. I’m not saying I enjoyed seeing them cut but it did give me a taster and as soon as got my first DVD player in 2000 and modded it to region free I would have never considered buying a Vipco release if not just because they were most likely cut but because the transfers were mostly abysmal VHS rips. They did give us Shogun Assassin and Shock Waves (which of course I double dipped with later on) which were the first time I had seen either of these.
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Yes it was a very dark time for the UK collector from 1985 until the late 90's. When Pioneer introduced Laserdisc players that could play US discs and Panasonic introduced VHS players that played NTSC tapes around 1990 it was a breath of fresh air although it required deep pockets.
The arrival of dvd was a revolution and not long after the nemesis of UK fans James Ferman got kicked out of the BBFC although it took several years for the UK to start to come into line with elsewhere in the world. Of course by the time they did, it no longer mattered