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VHS Tape, 30, Dies Of Lonliness


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VHS, 30, dies of loneliness

After a long illness, the groundbreaking home-entertainment format VHS has died of natural causes in the United States. The format was 30 years old. No services are planned.

The format had been expected to survive until January, but high-def formats and next-generation vidgame consoles hastened its final decline.

Read more at Variety

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Like the record player, there'll always be a niche market for tapes and VHS players. There better be...I've got thousands of movies, TV shows and ballgames on a few thousand VHS home-recorded tapes I've accumulated since 1984.

right mate....i`m just about to convert a pile of VHS cassettes (some of them made by my dad.. :) ) into digital media format....i had to go and buy a bloody second hand VHS recorder to do it AFTER my missus threw our old one out!!... :glare:

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two words: planned obsolescence.

capitalist fuckers. i love my VHS tapes, brought a coupla hundred to DE and now here. i believe amazon.uk still sells them but now i only buy DVDs.

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