Polaroid Film Archive

  • Record sales, down. Game sales, down. Video sales, down. VHS sales… up?

    Record sales, down. Game sales, down. Video sales, down. VHS sales… up?

    I assumed that VHS tapes had gone the route of Polaroid film and were continuing to be phased out of existence. I must have been too hasty, because according to the Entertainment Retailer’s Association, videocassette sales in Britain have more than doubled in the past year. In the grand scheme of home entertainment, these numbers are [...]

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  • jWIN licenses Polaroid name, prepares to market

    jWIN licenses Polaroid name, prepares to market

    So you've got a company without an all-that-recognizable name, and you really want to ramp it up. What do you do? Well, if you're jWIN you buy some street cred by striking up a deal with Polaroid, making your products have a connection with a legacy of creativity and innovation that you had nothing to do with.

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  • Fun Polaroid Simulator Will Waste Many Hours

    Fun Polaroid Simulator Will Waste Many Hours

    The Polaroid is dead. It was killed by the digital camera, which obviated the Polaroid’s headline feature — instant photos — by making them even more instant, and even better, by making them free. Which is a shame, as the Polaroid had another appeal. The photos it produced had a certain look to them, a vignetted, [...]

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