2007 - The Death of VHS

[ragingfish]

Got this in my email today. Quite surprising!Quote »An era is ending, but a new one is here!Embrace the future with $150 off and 3 months of TiVo® service FREE*!Did you know...?•Many manufacturers have halted production on VCRs forever! 2006 will be the last year for VHS movie releases.This week in New York City, we'll bid a final farewell to video recording hassles forever as we lay the beloved VCR to rest. And for our beloved subscribers, TiVo® and Best Buy are making sure you can join us in spirit with the world's first, best, and easiest-to-use DVR.Bring your friends and let TiVo change their lives!I had no idea the industry set a date to kill off videocassettes.

[damronjr]

Quote, originally posted by ragingfish »Got this in my email today. Quite surprising!I had no idea the industry set a date to kill off videocassettes.No kidding, what if mine quits working! How the F am I going to play these 100+ VHS tapes that I have?!?

[GMJAP]

Quote, originally posted by damronjr »No kidding, what if mine quits working! How the F am I going to play these 100+ VHS tapes that I have?!?Ours died a few months ago. I haven't replaced it yet 'cause we don't use it that much, but I never considered I wouldn't be able to buy another one......There's always Ebay, I guess!

[zionzr2]

buy a few vhs machines now and stock pile them...buy a dvd recorder and let the transfers begin!!

[ColonelPanic]

That almost sounds like a scare tactic to make you go to Be$t buy and grab a TiVo. They run on Linux though, so I guess they're ok little machines. I have no use for one, I don't watch TV, ever... In fact, I'm contemplating just getting rid of my televisions. They're just taking up space and are completely useless/worthless to me. If I absotively have to have TV, I'll just use the TV card in the Linux box, which never happens either. Anyway...Hate to see VHS go. Oh well, it stunk anyway, for I am a firm believer that Betamax was far superior. Stupid Sony, screwed that one up... lol

[BOZACK]

And how many people have 8-tracks? In a year or two people won't be missing them.

[Mavrik]

Quote, originally posted by zionzr2 »buy a few vhs machines now and stock pile them...buy a dvd recorder and let the transfers begin!!Go to wal-mart and buy up 15 or so $29.95 VCR machines lol or what ever the sale price is now.

[BlueCrush]

VCR players and tapes will be around for decades. The are still cassette tapes and players around right? They are just going to stop releasing new movies on VHS.

[scherry2]

Quote, originally posted by ColonelPanic » I am a firm believer that Betamax was far superior.your probably the only one.I have an 8-track i'll sell ya.

[Mavrik]

my folks had a couple 8 track and record players... threw them out before Ebay was invented... that sucks.

[ColonelPanic]

As a kid, I had the bomb diggity stereo with turntable, cassette, and 8-track recorder! That was the shizzle! Literally!

[tnpartsguy]

I sold over 170 of my VHS movies lately. I have 150 left.I don't think they won't make any more VCR's, I just think they will make the combo unit's for a few more years.One problem though....a lot of movies that are on VHS aren't on DVD, and the studios don't plan to rerelease them on DVD; Example "Gran Prix" starring James Garner, isn't available on VHS, I've had it on order from Amazon for almost 2 years now, and about every 3 months they cancel my order saying the studio has decided not to rerelease it (I think they are waiting for ol' Jimbo to kick the bucket), and here's the kicker, the VHS version has CopyGuard on it......

[Toolman]

Yep time to transfer to dvd. We dont own any VCR tapes, all DVDs. I do own a VCR, but I havent figured out why. On a lighter note I have been buying Tool records lately. I do miss record players and the way they sound.

[kostby]

PEOPLE OF EARTH, ATTENTION: This means you have less than two years to learn to set that d*mn clock so it stops flashing 12:00! Now where IS that instruction booklet...

[ColonelPanic]

Yeah, the 12 o'clock flashers... YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED! My VCR, I just tune to my local PBS station and go through the menu, viola, auto clock set. Of course, I haven't done that in a while, and the power has been out umpteen times since. But I'm no 12 o'clock flasher, it just steadily displays - - : - - which is much more pleasant.

[GMJAP]

Quote, originally posted by kostby »PEOPLE OF EARTH, ATTENTION: This means you have less than two years to learn to set that d*mn clock so it stops flashing 12:00! Now where IS that instruction booklet... I was about to wonder aloud why VCRs all had clocks and DVDs didn't - then I realized VCRs have recording timers that need to know the time and DVD players don't give a crap what time it is....

[JustinVGT]

I don't even own a VCR. A year or two ago I thought about buying one to record TV shows when I wasn't home, but I ended up getting an ATI TV Wonder card with recorder on my desktop PC for $30 at Best Buy. This way I could also convert analog videos to digital on my PC. Now I have HD and digital cable and I have a nice HD DVR which is awesome. I watch TV on my schedule and skip all the commercials, I love it. I don't care about the VHS fading out. My first DVD player was my PS2 and it was the first my family saw. Since then, DVDs have completely taken over my collection.

[silver_vibe]

Analog T.V. broadcast is supposed to end Dec 31, 2006. Asside from existing movie collections, why would anyone want a VCR if there is no analog T.V.? Congress may change that date, but as far as I know they have not yet.

[ToolGuy]

Cool! Beta will make a come back!