
Tapes would skip and get scratched, but that was part of their charm. There’s no arguing that the modern way is more convenient than its predecessors, but there’s something nostalgic about having to rewind your VHS every time you want to watch a movie. The bulky, cumbersome mechanics of video tapes would eventually be replaced by DVDs, which would then be swapped for Blu-rays, which would ultimately be eschewed in favor of internet-based streaming. Two decades after the first Independence Day invasion, Earth is faced with a new extra-Solar threat.

With Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Jessie T. Introduced in the late 1970s, the VHS grew in popularity throughout the ’80s - becoming a mainstay in most American households by the ’90s. Independence Day: Resurgence: Directed by Roland Emmerich. And while every household’s taste in movies varied, odds are if you lived through the 1990s, you had a certain roster of popular films in your video library. Rather than having to wait for something interesting to roll around on cable, you could watch any movie - on demand - so long as you had it on VHS.

While video tapes have become all but obsolete in today’s streaming culture, there was a time when they were a huge part of home entertainment.
