Watch it on a 13-inch TV/VCR combo for the true "dentist office waiting room" experience.
A Time Capsule of Tears and Tube TVs: Revisiting Finding Nemo on VHS vhs finding nemo
Let’s be honest: VHS was not kind to widescreen cinema. This is the dreaded "Pan & Scan" version (fullscreen 4:3). You lose about 40% of the image. Remember the beautiful shot of the jellyfish forest? On VHS, you’re mostly looking at Marlin’s fin while the horror to his right is cropped out. Also, fast-forwarding to find the "Just keep swimming" scene requires the patience of Dory herself. Watch it on a 13-inch TV/VCR combo for
Is it the best way to watch Finding Nemo ? Absolutely not. You’d be a clownfish to choose this over Blu-ray. But if you find a sealed copy at a thrift store, buy it. It’s a perfect artifact of 2003: a time when you had to rewind a fish, and "Mine! Mine! Mine!" didn't buffer. You lose about 40% of the image