Requiem for VHS
The last major VHS supplier in the US is finally calling it quits:
“It’s dead, this is it, this is the last Christmas, without a doubt,” Distribution Video Audio co-owner Ryan Kugler told the L.A. Times. “I was the last one buying VHS and the last one selling it, and I’m done. Anything left in the warehouse we’ll just give away or throw away.”
And he’s even so bold to predict the same for DVD (in lieu of Blu-ray):
“The DVD will be obsolete in three or four years, no doubt about it. Everything will be Blu-ray,”
I don’t know about DVD being replaced by the much maligned Blu-ray (HD DVD, we hardly knew ye) but I sure do know that VHS already died a long time ago because of the proliferation of side walk stalls selling bootleg discs and of course the infamous, bosdibididibidi.
Link to article via ArsTechnica
PS
So, got anything on Betamax?
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Would you believe I do?
December 24th, 2008 at 8:54 am
But do you have a betamax player that still works? Fun times…
December 29th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Been out and away… but I actually do… Don’t like to use it since its so old, it only outputs in RF vs composite – a real pain to install and use with modern TVs…