pacific_mariners

I would have to say that VHS is about to disappear.

I normally go to my loval video store to rent movies and I was told that in December, they were going to an all DVD format.

The reason for that was that VHS wasn't renting as much as DVD's were and the fact that VHS tapes were costing twice as much to make and didn't have any of the special features that DVD's had.

You don't have to worry about rewinding DVD's and if you stop watching a DVD, you can just go back to that chapter selection and resume. You can't say that about VHS. If you accidentally rewind it, you have to fast forward, stop, and play just to see if you are at the section you stopped at.

It just makes sense. VHS is on the brink of extinction.

lois lane

As I read this article my daughter is reading over my shoulder and saying "bout time I hate VHS". I sigh in sadness because as I grew up VHS was way cool and Beta was totally uncool. I grew up on VHS and some of my favorite movies were watched over and over again on the ol' VCR.
I know its coming soon that VHS days are over but I can't seem to accept it. New ideas and change are hard for us old duffers.

SexyBrunette

The only VHS we have in our home is little kid movies. I don't think they really even make VHS anymore. They are just too easily ruined and so much more inconvient than DVD.

Plus the quality on DVD is so much better!

welchert

VHS has quality, but lacks the efficiency of the DVD. The use of VHS will wane until only a select few of VHS will remain. Reduced use of the VHS format is evident already.

kitkat86

For all intents and purposes, VHS is dead. I haven't seen any of the movies released for home distribution in the last couple months on VHS format. I think those of us who still have VHS tapes can put them beside our old audio cassettes.

Biyun

Stores are still selling VHS. I saw some recent movies the other day on sale for 3 for $10. People must still be buying them.

stewbacca

Yeah I've seen a few too. My girlfriend still uses her VCR quite a bit. She has a DVD player as well but some movies she still just has on VHS. So I imagine she'd probably still purchase as VHS tape if the movie wasn't available on DVD. Thats kinda a rare case though. But her VCR is still alive and kicking I guess.

rjpeters

I work for a major retailer, we do sell vhs still but we recently went down from selling probably 208 different movies to about 64 within the last couple of months. We do get some of the new releases as vhs but after they have come out on DVD, usually a couple of months after. I don't know how much longer we will carry movies as vhs. I do have quite a few vhs movies, that is the way we had all of our movies for a long time but they are gradually wearing out so we are gradually buying them as DVD's now as they wear out.

The one thing that I have noticed is that things that I once recorded on VHS on our old recorder I cannot now watch on our VHS p,ayer/recorder/DVD player. The sound doesn't work on it. It also doesn't work if we record on the one from one room to watch it in another room.

technt77

Now that's a bummer. I think about our wedding sitting on a shelf on a VHS tape. We haven't watched it for years and I'm wondering if it will work in our VCR. A person can take video tapes, though, to specialists that will create DVDs with those same videos. We did it for my dad for Christmas, and he loved the home video dvd's.

rjpeters

That is very true, plus a dvd would hold up much better and take up less room. I think too that they will be more likely to play in a dvd player without a problem than a vhs would be. We seem to have the most problem with the sound. You might be all right with your wedding though, since you had someone who knew what they were doing record it. We are just a bunch of amatures, that doesn't help the situation much.