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Tango0121 Jul 2016 2:42 p.m. PST

…Cease Production This Month.

"The final nail in the coffin of VHS has arrived. In other news, some people were still using VHS! Per Mental Floss (via ScreenCrush), the last remaining Japanese company to manufacture VCRs, Funai Electric, has announced that it will make its final VCR units this month, bringing an end to the first widespread home video format.

The first VCR ("Videocassette recorder" for you young ‘uns) to use VHS was released in 1976, and it enjoyed immense success throughout the 80s and 90s, until the superior DVD format came along. It seems so long ago now, but VHS was controversial upon first release,as the major movie studios went so far as to try to claim copyright violation for the transference of feature films to home video. Eventually the film industry embraced the home video market, resulting in the Blockbuster boon and many a home movie marathons throughout my childhood via the fuzzy, subpar, but somewhat comforting format known as VHS…"
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zoneofcontrol21 Jul 2016 3:35 p.m. PST

Gosh darn it! Next thing you know they will take away my 8-Track Tape player next.

Mithmee21 Jul 2016 4:02 p.m. PST

I gave both of these up years ago.

Though still waiting for the Hologram room (I.E. the one from Star Trek)

That has lots of potential.

Bunkermeister Supporting Member of TMP21 Jul 2016 9:38 p.m. PST

I purchased three VHS about 10 years ago, and I still have two brand new in the box and the other still works. MRS Bunkermeister and I probably still have 250 VHS tapes.

I have been gradually replacing them with DVD and BluRay but still a long way to go. Some will probably never be replaced either because they are not worth spending the money on a new format or may never be released on a newer format.

At 60 I can't imagine every switching to a format beyond BluRay. I do like owning movies because I am not at the whim of those who schedule NetFlix or other services. I also like not having someone edit my movie when it becomes politically incorrect.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

boy wundyr x22 Jul 2016 8:46 a.m. PST

I still have some good stuff on VHS too, including some home movies that I better get transferred over (and buy one more VHS player for luck). I agree with you Mike, I like having the stuff on hand, both because I don't trust the whims of others and because they don't have any special features on Netflix.

Personal logo piper909 Supporting Member of TMP22 Jul 2016 11:26 p.m. PST

Damn, I will always have hundreds of VHS tapes, stuff I taped off TV for thirty years that isn't available in any other format or I can't afford to replace. (If you think this is pathetic, I also have scores of Betamax tapes for similar reasons -- I bought a Betamax machine before I reluctantly surrendered to the VHS format.)

There are still LOTS of commercial films and music and other stuff released on VHS that is NOT available on DVD and may never be. So I have to keep all these extinct formats around and viewable somehow, until I have the time and resources to digitalize them. I resent the way manufacturers lead consumers around by the nose, forcing them to reinvest in hardware and playback media every decade, and casting a lot of content into limbo each time these changes occur. It's a racket. I'm personally done with it after this -- I only want to holds onto my current library and buy new DVds for another few decades, then I won't care anymore. But I'm not going to re-buy anything again, and I hate seeing worthwhile content disappear. Stuff falls through the cracks with each shift.

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