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VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia
It wasn’t just about mould.
This spooked my parents sufficiently that they’d consign any tapes exhibiting the fuzz to ewaste; I guess they didn’t think it was worth attempting to clean them. I have vivid memories of buying computer parts at Sim Lim Square before hearing a siren and the deafening clattering of roller doors as the pirate CD stores shut them before a raid. Put yourself in the shoes of a video watcher in the 1990s: why bother fussing around with recording from TV onto expensive VHS tape, when you could buy it on VCD for a few Singapore dollars, or Malaysian ringgit across the Tuas Second Link?
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