Family Video

Family Video was in founded in 1978 in Springfield, Illinois as the Video Movie Club. The idea came about when??Midstates Appliance and Supply Company, owned by Charles Hoogland, found itself stuck with an excess of video movies as a result of being a distributor...

Family Video was in founded in 1978 in Springfield, Illinois as the Video Movie Club. The idea came about when??Midstates Appliance and Supply Company, owned by Charles Hoogland, found itself stuck with an excess of video movies as a result of being a distributor...

Family Video was in founded in 1978 in Springfield, Illinois as the Video Movie Club. The idea came about when??Midstates Appliance and Supply Company, owned by Charles Hoogland, found itself stuck with an excess of video movies as a result of being a distributor...

Family Video was in founded in 1978 in Springfield, Illinois as the Video Movie Club. The idea came about when??Midstates Appliance and Supply Company, owned by Charles Hoogland, found itself stuck with an excess of video movies as a result of being a distributor...

Introduced two years after rival Sony put the Betamax video recording system on the market in 1975, VHS became the accepted format for consumers by the mid-1980s.

Video recording had been around for a little over a decade when Sony introduced a home version of the technology called Betamax in 1975. Two years later, rival JVC introduced a competing format called VHS and the battle lines were drawn. In 1988, Sony...

Offering higher quality video and audio than its rivals, VHS and Betamax, LaserDisc was the first commercial optical disc storage when it was introduced in 1978. The format, however, never gained traction and was replaced by the smaller Digital Video Disc (DVD) in 2001.