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Nov 2, 2026
JoseHOST
It stuck with me forever so much that I can't remember who put it out.
JoseHOST
It might have been Vestron.
JoseHOST
Some boutique Blu-ray company put it out.
JoseHOST
I saw that motherfucker.
TrevorGUEST
And I imagine that'll be happening prior to Halloween here.
TrevorGUEST
But yeah, at the moment, our weekly episodes, we post weekly, are about the Vestron video collection.
TrevorGUEST
Vestron was a VHS distribution company that has a huge catalog of movies, really wildly varied stuff.
TrevorGUEST
So myself and my buddy Levi, who has a YouTube channel called Your Captain Speaking, we've been reviewing movies from that catalog.
TrevPANELIST
Yes, there were VHSs.
TrevPANELIST
I know Vestron put out a VHS of at least the Dracula one.
Kyle BirdHOST
It was Vestron.
Kyle BirdHOST
I was going to say there was a company logo at the beginning that is a company that is famous.
Lux EdwardsPANELIST
Yeah, I definitely watched a rip of the Vestron VHS.
Lux EdwardsPANELIST
It was VHS quality.
KevinPANELIST
Okay, because the Frankenstein had credits written in Italian or something, so I was like, what is going on here?
Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
In 1981, an HBO executive named Austin First buys the right to put the Time Life Film Library on tape.
Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
He sells those cassettes to rental stores from a company called Vestron in Stanford, Connecticut.
Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
The same year, a Los Angeles businessman named Noel Bloom starts Family Home Entertainment to do the same thing.
Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
In Los Angeles, the cousins Menachem Golan and Yoram Globus run Canon Films.
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Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
So he shifts and puts his money into Amtech, a company that makes radio tracking tags and drops the stores.
Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
And this is the beginning and end of Blockbuster Video.
Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
Austin First's Vestron in Stanford sold its tapes to rental stores, and those shops are gone.
Kevin Perez-AllenHOST
So in 1986, he sells Vestron's tape library and closes the company.
Chris HigginsGUEST
with Anthony Hickox and, uh, Zach Galligan and, uh, incredible.
Chris HigginsGUEST
Like it's on the Vestron release.
Chris HigginsGUEST
Anthony Hickox is a lot of fun to listen to.
Chris HigginsGUEST
Zach's a lot of fun to listen to, you know, shining example of a great director's commentary, but there's been plenty of times where I've thrown others on that I was excited about.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
company in America in 1991 and 1992.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
We ended up buying Vestron and several others, had over 3,000 titles.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
Ultimately, because of our issues, we needed to sell it off at the end when the partners came in.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
But nevertheless, you know, the home video was an incredible success for us.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
And so we bought this little video company and then bought another one and bought another one until we had, you know, we were the number four video distribution company in America in 1990, 1991 and 1992.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
We ended up buying Vestron and several others had over 3000 titles.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
Ultimately, because of our issues, we needed to sell it off at the end when the partners came in.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
But nevertheless, the home video was an incredible success for us.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
company in America in 1991 and 1992.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
We ended up buying Vestron and several others, had over 3,000 titles.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
Ultimately, because of our issues, we needed to sell it off at the end when the partners came in.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
But nevertheless, you know, the home video was an incredible success for us.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
company in America in 1991 and 1992.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
We ended up buying Vestron and several others, had over 3,000 titles.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
Ultimately, because of our issues, we needed to sell it off at the end when the partners came in.
Peter M. HoffmanGUEST
But nevertheless, you know, the home video was an incredible success for us.
Chris DePetrilloHOST
Yeah, there's two different.
Chris DePetrilloHOST
There's the regular Blu-ray release and then the Vestron collection one, which is the one that I got several years ago.
Chris the BrainHOST
Yeah, I feel like I need to add this to my collection.
Chris the BrainHOST
It's kind of like, wait a minute now.
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