Private company
VidAmerica
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American media company (1979–1992)
VidAmerica was a home video distributor established in 1979 as a subsidiary of Video Corporation of America and headquartered in New York City, New York. It was set up to pioneer the concept of renting videocassettes through mail, which led to failure where each week, tapes kept disappearing somewhere in the postal system, much to the chagrin of VidAmerica executives as they considered stamping the packages a "nuclear waste" before giving up on long-distance retail.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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VidAmerica was a home video distributor established in 1979 as a subsidiary of Video Corporation of America and headquartered in New York City, New York. It was set up to pioneer the concept of renting videocassettes through mail, which led to failure where each week, tapes kept disappearing somewhere in the postal system, much to the chagrin of VidAmerica executives as they considered stamping the packages a "nuclear waste" before giving up on long-distance retail.2
Products and brands
- VHS
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Timeline
Links
- WikipediaVidAmerica
- WikidataQ24204289
Sources
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- 1WikidataVidAmerica on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaVidAmerica on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsVidAmerica logo by Logopedia, Non-free logo