Variety Declares VHS Dead

An anonymous reader writes "Variety has written an obituary for the VHS format only 3 years after it was surpassed in popularity by the DVD." While VHS is hardly the format of choice these days, there are still many, many home movies and other favorite recordings and commercial releases floating around in VHS. How long until VHS players themselves go the way of the 8-track player?

hey, wait a minute!

[yagu]

From the /. summary:

How long until VHS players themselves go the way of the 8-track player?

Did I miss the memo? Is there some danger around the 8-track and availability. Please... ... ... click

... ..., someone tell me this isn't so! Have I invested all this money on all these artists and their tapes... ... ...click

for naught? Sigh.

Re:Edison Cylinders

[LurkerXXX]

Bah, They Might Be Giants recorded I Can Hear You [polytropos.org] on one of them. It's still a great format. ;)

This is shocking news

[palindromic]

To have this following so closely on the heels of last weeks "Variety declares that poop comes from butts" ? Variety truly is the son of Man.

Re:hey, wait a minute!

[kabz]

What is this infernal light I see before me?

Will no-one rid me of this flashing clock?

Re:More like the cassette than 8-track.

[that this is not und]

But then again, I don't understand why people spend $1200+ on a television, or $300 on a video card for their computer.

These days, people spend $300 on a video card so that six months later they can replace it and wire the little fan from it onto an old USB cable and make a USB fan to blow cool air at them when they're playing whatever FPS is in vogue.

No problem!

[mogrify]

That's okay, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD are dead too [slashdot.org]. Oh, and WoW is lame [slashdot.org].

C'mon, kids!!! What'll die next? The Zune? The PS3? The PS2? The PS1? The PS4? The Dreamcast? CompactFlash? The mouse? Vista? Slackware? XP? Caldera? Slashdot? Digg? MSDN? Web 2.0? Web 1.0? Internet2? Token Ring? IPv6? Episodic gaming? Non-episodic gaming? In-game ads? The PowerPC? Cell? Core duo? Core trio? Earth? Caprica? The Death Star? SCO? Novell? Red Hat? Sony? IE? Firefox? IceWeasel? The Pirate Bay? Mmmm. Okay, I'm bored. Continue below if you wish.

Re:the real question

[Linker3000]

Coming soon I believe - I have a VHS promo video somewhere round here...

Re:More like the cassette than 8-track.

[Kyokugenryu]

You say this as if there's something wrong with it.

Re:VHS can never die, at least until...

[Anonymous Coward]

TrisexualPuppy has made a habit of stealing other people's posts and posting them as his/her/its own. On at least one occasion, they have taken multiple posts made by other people and tried to combine them in an effort to produce "originality".

Given their disrespect for other people's intellectual property, I suspect they're some sort of RIAA official.

Re:The real answer

[cheater512]

You can get faster electricity? Why didnt anyone tell me?

Re:the real question

[Da_Weasel]

VHS has been dead for at least 5 years. I distinctly remember having to explain the totally foreign concept of rewinding a tape so you could watch it again to my oldest daughter when she was almost 6 (5 years ago). After she finally understood why the tape retained it's state she simply replied "That's dumb!". I heard the VCR gasp, then it reached for its chest, and collapsed to the ground clinching its heart in its hand. It's clock flashed twelve faster. I leaned closer to hear what the VCR was mouthing to me. "B be be kind, rewind..." And then it's clock flashed no more...

Re:Consider the source... if you can understand th

[scaryice]

and yet you read slashdot

Re:Don't worry

[tokenhillbilly]

So, in lawyer school didn't they teach you that "completely and creatively wrong" means the same thing as sarcastic?

Ahhh, 8 tracks - good for at least 30 plays

[gondwannabe]

Dude, 8 tracks.

No offense to the late Bill Lear, but how long did he really think that an 'endless' 2 mil sliver of acetate could make that torturous hairpin loop without getting stretched into distortion?

It's '67, and I'm not sure what's scarier - bad Acid or riding in my buddies old chevy with the Association singing 'aaaannnnndddd thhheeeennnn aaaalllloooonnnnggggg coommmmmmessssss Marrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyy'