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Dead Formats Society

@deadformatsociety.bsky.social
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Digital Media? I hardly know her! Laserdisc, VHS, BetaMax, and a CRT. That's how I get down. Sometimes I talk about old video games. I love my Trans, Queer, and BIPOC homies, so bigots can fuck right off.

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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 1h
I found a Japanese VHS of the Dragonball Z feature "Lord Slug" at the thrift store.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Watched "Blood: The Last Vampire" with some friends at my studio. Amazed by how many of them had never seen it. Projectors are so legit.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have an itch to watch Cowboy Bebop. Time to bid on a DVD box set.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I want to watch Tank Girl, but I don't own Tank Girl on any format. I'm positively ashamed of myself.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some will say that these are inferior experiences, but I would argue that these are god-tier ports of games that have no business running in any capacity on these consoles in the first place. Also, PS2 Half-Life has mouse and keyboard support 😎
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Monday is usually movie night, but I decided I was gonna lay in bed and binge watch this under-appreciated classic.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
OMFG! I just won an auction for this incredibly rare DVD, and it was crazy cheap. This anthology anime OAV contains a segment that I saw as a child and then I spent like 20 years convinced I had imagined it.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I was running out of room on my shelf, so I pulled about 90 films to make room. None of the decisions were hard.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This TV just took the top spot on my CRT wishlist. The RCA Colortrak Space Saver
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I'm recording the 5 episode pilot of Duck Tales onto VHS. AFAIK, it was only ever released on one DVD set, and it was in volume 2 for some reason. A cherished childhood watch. Anyway, it was a pain in the ass to set up my Trinitron as a second monitor with the correct aspect ratio.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Guess what I'm watching.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Gonna make a little entertainment center for my little Panasonic CT-5511 Electrotune.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I was at the thrift store and found a sealed copy of Beaches on VHS and the soundtrack on cassette tape! Once or twice a year, I buy a bottle of wine and drunkenly mourn the death of Barbara Hershey while Bette Midler sings "Wind Beneath My Wings" It is literally the gayest thing I do.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
My new bedside setup. I'm enjoying this WAY more than I thought I would.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Am I the only one who thinks Donatello is black?
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Found some absolute treasures on Good Squid and decided to splurge a little. Highlights are Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Cops, The Living Skeleton, The War In Space, and Liquid Sky. If you're looking for cheap import Laserdiscs, Good Squid is probably the best you're gonna find on the web.
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Skoot "FUCK THE POLICE" Galico @fatcatspeedshop.com · 16/03/2026
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
You owe it to yourself to watch Thumb Wars on a tiny little CRT. I absolutely love this shit.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I've got movies to watch on my new tiny TV.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
FOUND ONE! My childhood sick day TV! The Panasonic CT-5511 Electrotune is such a fantastic little set, and I got this one CHEAP! I'm very happy... now I just need to find a matching Panasonic portable VCR.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
What are you watching tonight?
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
RIP Sam Neill I must prepare a movie Marathon. Jurassic Park Event Horizon Memoirs of an Invisible Man Bicentennial Man In the Mouth of Madness The Hunt for Red October There's so much to watch.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Share a GIF/vid from a TV show! 📺 🖤
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
JACKPOT! Local thrift had some excellent choices. Plenty of double features, Planet of the Apes collection, and a grip of Kiss, Crüe, and Leppard tapes... also Naked Lunch. $1.50 each was impossible to resist.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I need to record Dredd on VHS.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Started collecting CDs again. Haven't bought one since 2004 (my Chemical Romance, Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge) As if I didn't already have enough trouble finding places to store physical media 🙃
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Standard Issue Computing @standardissuecomputing.blog · 01/07/2026
Dude with his DVD pile, content
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Cherish your physical media. Suits don't want you to own anything you pay for.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
MAIL CALL! Got Tampopo this morning on Laserdisc. A comedic "Ramen Western" about food, sex, and life. RIP Juzo Itami.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Holy Fuck! Walt Goggins is in Shanghai Noon!?
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A nice score from the local thrift.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Currently window shopping for a copy of Cannibal Holocaust on lasersisc. Not the most I've ever spent, but it's certainly not cheap.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Organized the Laserdisc collection. I will never have any business making fun of people who collect vinyl.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
While searching for my childhood sick day TV, I found another CRT to add near the top of my wishlist. The Panasonic CT-101 1.5" portable color television.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Homegirl at the local thrift knows what I'm into and saves tapes and Laserdiscs for me.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I know what I'm doing this weekend.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
LOGGING ON
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
On the drive home from feeding my sister's chickens, I happened upon this forlorn Magnavox RS1960, abandoned in a gravel turnout. I couldn't leave it there.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Found at the local thrift store for $1.50 As crazy as it sounds, I've never actually seen this movie with the English dub... and it's honestly not bad.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I was shopping for tapes at the Goodwill, and this super nice lady asked me if I actually watched movies on tape. I told her that I do, and she's giving me her whole collection. This is the first batch. She's just happy that they're going to someone who actually enjoys them.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I'm watching Spy Hard, and just noticed that Pat Morita plays a gay waiter in one of the scenes.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I happened upon this laserdisc copy of Cyclone Z (Dragons Forever) at Game Shop Downstairs in San Jose, CA. It's gonna be fun to watch a movie in Chinese with Japanese subtitles.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I have found one of my Holy Grails! This laserdisc has eluded me for almost a year, and I got it shockingly cheap. I absolutely love Strange Brew, and I now own this movie in every available format.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Found another Laserdisc player! $40 at the local thrift. No remote, and the display doesn't light up, but it plays great, and the auto-reverse works flawlessly. Gotta open it up and clean/grease the rails and repair/replace the bad display.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Today's cubicle movies. Detect a theme?
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Hot take: There are only 3 good Bruce Willis movies: Die Hard 5th Element Death Becomes Her
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
I would expect nothing less.
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
THRIFT SCORE!!!
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
I absconded with my father's disused and long-broken Pioneer LD-S1 and fixed it. Works WAY better than my shitty Sony MDP-333 and has a warm nostalgia because it's the machine I watched movies on as a kid (also, my dad got it as a present from Steve Wosniak)
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Dead Formats Society @deadformatsociety.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Now I DEFINITELY need a Betamax player.
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