Bye Bye, VHS – The Last Distributor Gives Up the Ghost

Over the last few years anything I really wanted to have that was on VHS, I bought on DVD. As I bought the DVD I donated the VHS. Somethings are just too rare to find, and almost nothing is so important that I can’t give it up because I can’t tell you the last time I even watched a VHS.

As for how long retailers will hang onto blank VHS tapes, who knows. We still have brand new cassettes shipping.

Alright I gotta go drink some egg nog and pop in my Neil Diamond 8track.

I remember six years ago putting all of our VHS tapes, along with the player out on a table during a neighborhood yard sale. The table was conveniently located close to the garbage can, so I didn’t have to carry the unsold tapes too far.

There are a couple of homemade tapes that contain converted super-8 movies from my childhood still lurking around. Those have been converted to DVD, and even to DivX format though. I think I’m going to haul those out to the garbage right now.

Nooo.
We all know that sooner or later theyll stop selling the blank ones and I wont be able to use me VHS camcorder :(

well it looks like im going to have to finally get everything ripped to hard drives before my player finally dies.

its a shame really, i know of several people from the older generation who are genuinely afraid of moving onto a new format. at least DVD’s are far cheaper to buy, what is a shame is that DVD recorders haven’t been given the full amount of exposure that the VHS got, simply due to people not wanting to switch.

its sad really =[

In a ways, it is kinda sad to see VHS leave us, but at the same time, dvd’s are slowly going away because of online distribution and Blu-Ray disks. Converting them to dvd isn’t a bad idea, but the only problem is, for people that don’t have the money to do it them self’s, or the knowledge to do it, are out of luck.

I think someone should get a license from the people that make these independent films and cult films to convert them over and distribute them, to keep theme from disappearing in a fading memory.

This is why I still have a VHS machine! ;) I have aLOT of material still on VHS. Many of them shows I recorded from television back in the day. Some are movies. And some are home movies.

Only a fraction has actually been transferred, so far. My DVD recorder broke, so am needing a new one. Accepting donations. ;)

I’ve had to go back to recording TV from VHS. (I don’t have a DVR).

I have no idea how to transfer VHS to the computer….

I already can see the same post in the future saying that the last load of DVD Players have been shipped.
Ah, the techno-evolution. :D

We have around 200 VHS tapes at our house that still entertain us. I have been putting off on converting them but I better soon our VHS player is getting old and the tapes are to. It was only a matter of time before this happened and I normally only buy movies on DVD/Blue Ray now. It will take me a long time to convert those tapes I might invest in the DVD/Blue Ray versions of my favorites if they’re available.

I got rid of most of my VHS tapes a while ago. I have a few and I need to convert them ASAP.

Don’t forget people VCR’s are not going anywhere, so you can always go n buy a replacement player if your old one dies… I saw a VCR/DVD combo just yesterday at a large electronics store…. so although RETAIL VHS is dead, watching your VHS tapes for the next 10yrs+ will not be a problem… jusy BUY A NEW VCR if you have 200 or so tapes to convert, that will keep you in VHS heaven for yrs to come while you transfer to your HD (which would be better than DVD since Media Centers (divx etc) is the new ‘DVD’ anyway.

Good thing this disappointing news was announced on Christmas eve, otherwise I would be having a pretty bad Christmas day!

I still have some home movies that need converting. Good thing my dad learned how to work a DVD player yesterday, now he can play most major flicks for a few years.

Wow, thay was still making VHS tape till now, wow. I still have some VHS tape and player. Simple to record and easy to override.

So sad to see the times change. I still have Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” on Betamax and VHS. Don’t know if it is still viable (the Beta) but at least there were the memories, time to search out the DVD version.

Time to move on :(

Yea I’m Still trying to import all my vhs videos to my computer! Man its going to take long to burn all them on dvds

I’m not surprised. I can’t remember the last time I went to a store that had ANY VHS movies for sale. The only place I know you can get old movies, is pawn shops and video rental stores. VHS has been dead for a long time now.

I still watch VHS tapes. I just did today! I guess my dad will have to get rid of his old video camera that only uses VHS to record. Too bad we don’t have any money for a new one..

Well i still record onto VSH tapes.I have a lot of old TV shows and home movies on them. I have no clue how to put them on my computer so i could make them into DVD’s. We have DVD players but none of them record. I love new tech but hate to give up the old tech. I just went out and bought a VHS-DVD recorder; so now i need to transfer all the VHS tapes to DVD. Maybe i should have thought ahead sooner.

Yeah, my mom told me about this she got some VHS tapes for Christmas from one of my relatives we all told her she needs a DVR or something like that.

I got my DVD player a few years ago.

Interestingly it was about that time that my unused VHS recorder/Player died. (My ex-wife had stored it in the dingy basement.)

At the time I didn’t have many VHS tapes, except the “original” Star Wars movies that my ex had bought me for Christmas.

I gave her the Star Wars & other VHS tapes, and never looked back.

The quality of VHS Tape video is so bad that I can’t stand watching it. I don’t want to send my tapes to the landfill, so there still taking up good space. Till I figure out what to do with them. They will not be missed.

Videotape’s demise is sad to see but it eventually had to happen. Remember when VCR’s were first introduced? Wired remotes and manually tuning in television channels were all features back in those early days. It’s been interesting watching the technology evolve but now it’s all but dead.

The new king is DVD with the young prince, Blu-ray, waiting to take over the throne. But both of these formats may have a relatively short lifespan as we move toward digital distribution via the internet.

The King is dead. Long live the King.