Quick Question - What does box cut into clamshell with regard to vhs?
04-04-05, 06:53 PM
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Quick Question - What does box cut into clamshell mean in regard to vhs?
I know this is a dvd forum but on amazon i was looking at a vhs movie to buy and it said box cut into clamshell. What exactly does this mean, alot of people write that about their tapes. Thanks for the help.
04-04-05, 07:42 PM
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I'm just going to guess that it means the original cardboard box was cut so it could be placed in one of those hard plastic snap-shut style VHS cases. I picked up a few used VHS from a rental store a couple years go and the cut did that. Similar to the way some places take apart snappers and cut them to fit into keep cases.
I don't know for sure though, I just believe that the internet should only be used to give ill-informed assumptions stated as facts
I don't know for sure though, I just believe that the internet should only be used to give ill-informed assumptions stated as facts
04-04-05, 10:19 PM
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A number of years ago I worked at a rental chain that was bought out and the new company did that box cutting thing, took a long time to convert the whole store. I didn't like doing it either....
04-05-05, 07:55 AM
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Clamshells are the plastic snap cases. Old VHS lingo, you know, Old Tyme. Just like "Display Box" (the big oversized boxes that have a plastic VHS bed in them that they apparently still use for "adult" movie)
