The trailers playing in the background while you’re picking what to rent out
I spend longer trying to find a film on streaming services than I did going up and back from Xtra-vision with a film for Saturday and cartoons for Sunday morning.
Same Day Returns £1
Ah the oul plastic card.
What was the special offer? 3 movies for two nights for £3:50 or something.
The panic to rewind them and return them before the 6pm deadline
People might like the necessity of Netflix and streaming services.
Though the problem is that they cost MORE electric to d/l.
Another is that while we dislike adverts. The trailers we sat through were part of the experience. Everyone remembers the jingle from Disney movies.
And having a physical object to hold, push, touch and press is so much more satisfying than scrolling through menu’s. Are you still watching? [BUFFERING] , 10 euro more on your monthly subscription. Sign up to SamLGTV/sung to get access. Forgot your password? GL I guess.
But you just wanted to watch Dr Dolittle.
Friday night, 3 movies, pick n mix, bag of Maltesers bottle of coke – that’ll be 47€ please.
I remember my dad would ring them to see if a movie was in and the absolute disappointment if someone had rented it for not one but TWO nights …
Also remember you could rent a video recorder if you didn’t own one but there was a way to set it up that if you had one and rented one you could record the movie you had rented onto a blank tape … Great memories 😊
I’m a country boy we got our videos out of the back of a transit, the transit man also was rural Irelands most relied upon link to adult content, interestingly a good portion of irishmen were more likely to see foreign boobies rather than Irish boobs… as Irish boobs weren’t installed until after the euro came in
Going in on a Friday in anticipation to rent out a new release you’ve been waiting for ages to come out.
Seeing dozens of the new release video boxes displayed behind the counter and your heart sinking, knowing they are all probably rented out for the weekend. So having to browse and taking a chance to pick out something else you’ve never heard of, or go for a few old classics you’ll enjoy anyway.
Damn, I miss those days.
Hanging around the counter at 8pm keeping an eye out to see if someone returns the film you want.
I have this cool idea to revive this kind of thing. If only there was a dragon’s den or a shark tank around town lol
I miss the smell
I can smell this memory.
Sadly what speed up their demise was they were over priced towards the end (could just pay 5-10 euro more and bloody own the DVD) and charging full price if u were late and rescission hit and downloading was becoming popular
Similar memory, but it was Chartbusters during the early 00s.
Remember how good the smell of popcorn was. It also tasted amazing. I wish they’d bring one back somewhere so we can all just go every once in a while
Still have a tenner on my xtra vision account 🙁
Did crazy 12 hour shifts in one of these back in the day.
Saw the birth of DVD rental – Armageddon, Enemy of the State & You’ve Got Mail were the first.
Getting 100 copies of something (Titanic iirc) and having people rush in panicked to get it only to point to a shelf of said copies and smirk
Regulars that would come in and ask you to recommend something as they liked the last one you did. Earwiggers listening and then picking same.
Opening the drop box hoping there wasn’t something yuck in there.
Crazies that would freak out at 6pm if the film they reserved was not back yet. Time for it to be back was 7.30pm
Watching all kinds of shite and playing the “let’s see how fast this film gets rented if I put it on the screen” game. Got some doozies rented that way.
Massive rush between 7 & 10.30pm and then a big clean up ready for next day returns. Bank holidays were particularly exhausting.
Smelling like polish & popcorn going home
Having the lols with some brilliant people
I remember me and my brother noticed if you said you forgot your card they’d just ask for the name and the address. But literally everyone had an xtra-vision card, so if you knew anyone’s name and address you could just give their details and rent a computer game and then keep it so we did that a lot. Simpler times, and we were scum, simpler times were the best kind of times for scum, so we had a lot of computer games.
Love the nostalgia but I prefer how it is now. I get to see way more movies now than I did back then.
I rememeber being a kid and my mom buying me a hotwheels in the Tesco in the supermarket everytime we rented one and getting me chocolet in the near by dunnes stores
This kinda like when u went to cex played a game until u completed it then you could trade it for another wan back when the 360 and ps3 was around miss it
I can smell that picture
This was the best. Was lucky enough to do this with my first 2 kids. Bring them to xtra vision pick a movie and snacks. Genuinely made for a Saturday night either the kids. My dad did it with me and I got a chance to do it either some of mine. Cherished memories forever.
I’ve got the nostalgia but I don’t miss it
In America they have one Blockbuster left in a city called Bend near enough to where I moved. We should bring back just one Xtravision somewhere in Ireland.
We used to be a country, a proper country
Arse ticklers faggots fan club
Sligo town bad both extra vision and video city beside each other, video city took way more browsing as they didn’t have the fancy displays extravision had but fuck me you found some belters of films in there. Had decent aul horror and international film sections with some pretty obscure stuff in there. Dirt cheap to rent from both as well. Ah, good times. I love streaming as much as the next person but it almost seems too easy and the artform of film seems to have reduced in stature somewhat as a result.
Snapped my frenulum shagging my ex in an xtravision store room. Never saw blood like it. Fun times the next morning cleaning everything before the manager came back on the Monday morning.
i miss the smell and the vibe of xtra vision.. so many memories that I still dream about
One thing I always noticed is that Irish people have this kind of boner for all things 80s and 90s, can anyone give any kind of insight as to why? Is it just because of the impact of father Ted? Like so much Irish TV loves that ‘crappy’ aesthetic. Even hardy bucks did it. And that comedy show from a few years back, forget the name, something like ‘Donal and Sheila’, but different names, and it was pretty funny. This sub is largely the same. Yeah I get that the demographic largely has nostalgia for those days but something tells me that’s not the whole story
One time I found a newly released Xbox game in the sales bin for like 10 quid, the problem being that the disc was scratched to fuck so it was unplayable. I bought it and the next day I returned to rent a copy of the same game, swapped the discs I was still dumb enough to go back to the shop after returning the rental and surprisingly I wasn’t bared or fined.
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Was a great job in my student years.
The trailers playing in the background while you’re picking what to rent out
I spend longer trying to find a film on streaming services than I did going up and back from Xtra-vision with a film for Saturday and cartoons for Sunday morning.
Same Day Returns £1
Ah the oul plastic card.
What was the special offer? 3 movies for two nights for £3:50 or something.
The panic to rewind them and return them before the 6pm deadline
People might like the necessity of Netflix and streaming services.
Though the problem is that they cost MORE electric to d/l.
Another is that while we dislike adverts. The trailers we sat through were part of the experience. Everyone remembers the jingle from Disney movies.
And having a physical object to hold, push, touch and press is so much more satisfying than scrolling through menu’s. Are you still watching? [BUFFERING] , 10 euro more on your monthly subscription. Sign up to SamLGTV/sung to get access. Forgot your password? GL I guess.
But you just wanted to watch Dr Dolittle.
Friday night, 3 movies, pick n mix, bag of Maltesers bottle of coke – that’ll be 47€ please.
I remember my dad would ring them to see if a movie was in and the absolute disappointment if someone had rented it for not one but TWO nights …
Also remember you could rent a video recorder if you didn’t own one but there was a way to set it up that if you had one and rented one you could record the movie you had rented onto a blank tape … Great memories 😊
I’m a country boy we got our videos out of the back of a transit, the transit man also was rural Irelands most relied upon link to adult content, interestingly a good portion of irishmen were more likely to see foreign boobies rather than Irish boobs… as Irish boobs weren’t installed until after the euro came in
Going in on a Friday in anticipation to rent out a new release you’ve been waiting for ages to come out.
Seeing dozens of the new release video boxes displayed behind the counter and your heart sinking, knowing they are all probably rented out for the weekend. So having to browse and taking a chance to pick out something else you’ve never heard of, or go for a few old classics you’ll enjoy anyway.
Damn, I miss those days.
Hanging around the counter at 8pm keeping an eye out to see if someone returns the film you want.
I have this cool idea to revive this kind of thing. If only there was a dragon’s den or a shark tank around town lol
I miss the smell
I can smell this memory.
Sadly what speed up their demise was they were over priced towards the end (could just pay 5-10 euro more and bloody own the DVD) and charging full price if u were late and rescission hit and downloading was becoming popular
Similar memory, but it was Chartbusters during the early 00s.
Remember how good the smell of popcorn was. It also tasted amazing. I wish they’d bring one back somewhere so we can all just go every once in a while
Still have a tenner on my xtra vision account 🙁
Did crazy 12 hour shifts in one of these back in the day.
Saw the birth of DVD rental – Armageddon, Enemy of the State & You’ve Got Mail were the first.
Getting 100 copies of something (Titanic iirc) and having people rush in panicked to get it only to point to a shelf of said copies and smirk
Regulars that would come in and ask you to recommend something as they liked the last one you did. Earwiggers listening and then picking same.
Opening the drop box hoping there wasn’t something yuck in there.
Crazies that would freak out at 6pm if the film they reserved was not back yet. Time for it to be back was 7.30pm
Watching all kinds of shite and playing the “let’s see how fast this film gets rented if I put it on the screen” game. Got some doozies rented that way.
Massive rush between 7 & 10.30pm and then a big clean up ready for next day returns. Bank holidays were particularly exhausting.
Smelling like polish & popcorn going home
Having the lols with some brilliant people
I remember me and my brother noticed if you said you forgot your card they’d just ask for the name and the address. But literally everyone had an xtra-vision card, so if you knew anyone’s name and address you could just give their details and rent a computer game and then keep it so we did that a lot. Simpler times, and we were scum, simpler times were the best kind of times for scum, so we had a lot of computer games.
Love the nostalgia but I prefer how it is now. I get to see way more movies now than I did back then.
I rememeber being a kid and my mom buying me a hotwheels in the Tesco in the supermarket everytime we rented one and getting me chocolet in the near by dunnes stores
This kinda like when u went to cex played a game until u completed it then you could trade it for another wan back when the 360 and ps3 was around miss it
I can smell that picture
This was the best. Was lucky enough to do this with my first 2 kids. Bring them to xtra vision pick a movie and snacks. Genuinely made for a Saturday night either the kids. My dad did it with me and I got a chance to do it either some of mine. Cherished memories forever.
I’ve got the nostalgia but I don’t miss it
In America they have one Blockbuster left in a city called Bend near enough to where I moved. We should bring back just one Xtravision somewhere in Ireland.
We used to be a country, a proper country
Arse ticklers faggots fan club
Sligo town bad both extra vision and video city beside each other, video city took way more browsing as they didn’t have the fancy displays extravision had but fuck me you found some belters of films in there. Had decent aul horror and international film sections with some pretty obscure stuff in there. Dirt cheap to rent from both as well. Ah, good times. I love streaming as much as the next person but it almost seems too easy and the artform of film seems to have reduced in stature somewhat as a result.
Snapped my frenulum shagging my ex in an xtravision store room. Never saw blood like it. Fun times the next morning cleaning everything before the manager came back on the Monday morning.
i miss the smell and the vibe of xtra vision.. so many memories that I still dream about
One thing I always noticed is that Irish people have this kind of boner for all things 80s and 90s, can anyone give any kind of insight as to why? Is it just because of the impact of father Ted? Like so much Irish TV loves that ‘crappy’ aesthetic. Even hardy bucks did it. And that comedy show from a few years back, forget the name, something like ‘Donal and Sheila’, but different names, and it was pretty funny. This sub is largely the same. Yeah I get that the demographic largely has nostalgia for those days but something tells me that’s not the whole story
One time I found a newly released Xbox game in the sales bin for like 10 quid, the problem being that the disc was scratched to fuck so it was unplayable. I bought it and the next day I returned to rent a copy of the same game, swapped the discs I was still dumb enough to go back to the shop after returning the rental and surprisingly I wasn’t bared or fined.