Variety.com posts obituary for VHS

MatthewA · 11-21-2006, 10:11 AM

I don't know if this has any bearing on anything, but I thought it was worth mentioning:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...l?cs=1&s=h&p=0

Yumbo · 11-21-2006, 12:10 PM

Start scaling back DVD, and promote HD!

Jerome Grate · 11-21-2006, 01:00 PM

Wow, according to the article, studios stopped making VHS tapes of their movies, if that's true, then VHS has met it's demise. Sad, I still use it when I miss Saturday cartoons and record them for the kids. Will still use it until I get a cheap DVD recorder.

SilverWook · 11-21-2006, 01:19 PM

I was on a long train trip recently, and Amtrak still uses VHS to show movies in the sightseeing/snack car at night. One of the movies was X-Men III. I was able to see the cassette before they started, and it was legit. (But equivalent to a toned down tv edit of the film.) What do the airlines use these days?

Lord Dalek · 11-21-2006, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by SilverWook

I was on a long train trip recently, and Amtrak still uses VHS to show movies in the sightseeing/snack car at night. One of the movies was X-Men III. I was able to see the cassette before they started, and it was legit. (But equivalent to a toned down tv edit of the film.) What do the airlines use these days?

Depends, on the last couple of Delta flights I took they appered to use dvd on the newer planes and VHS on the older ones.

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Jesse Skeen · 11-21-2006, 02:37 PM

I'm still trying to find out what the very last major-studio movie release on VHS was so I can buy a copy. I'm sure blank tapes will be available for a few more decades, seeing as how you could still get blank Beta tapes til a couple years ago and there's still plenty of unsold ones out there, though I don't know what you would want to record on them.

I've wondered about DVDs used on airplanes, are they coded for region 7 or 8?

Corey · 11-21-2006, 02:51 PM

that article was funny. there are so many movies though released on dvd that still aren't on dvd.

SilverWook · 11-21-2006, 05:40 PM

My local Walmart still had a VHS rack up until a few months ago. Suncoast still seems to have a small selection way in the back. I actually have bought Beta tape at Fry's recently.

walter o · 11-21-2006, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Corey

there are so many movies though released on dvd that still aren't on dvd.

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Ray_R · 11-22-2006, 12:07 AM

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Originally Posted by walter o

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Originally Posted by Corey

that article was funny. there are so many movies though released on dvd that still aren't on dvd.

I think he meant VHS for the former?