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Variety.com posts obituary for VHS

post #1 of 13
11/21/06 at 8:11am
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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
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post #2 of 13
11/21/06 at 10:10am

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Start scaling back DVD, and promote HD!
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post #3 of 13
11/21/06 at 11:00am

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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.
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post #4 of 13
11/21/06 at 11:19am

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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?
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post #5 of 13
11/21/06 at 11:54am

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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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post #6 of 13
11/21/06 at 12:37pm

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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?
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post #7 of 13
11/21/06 at 12:51pm

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that article was funny. there are so many movies though released on dvd that still aren't on dvd.
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post #8 of 13
11/21/06 at 3:40pm

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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.
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post #9 of 13
11/21/06 at 7:48pm

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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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post #10 of 13
11/21/06 at 10:07pm

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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?
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post #11 of 13
11/22/06 at 7:31am

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Originally Posted by Yumbo
Start scaling back DVD, and promote HD!
Yeah, which HD? Until the format war ends, no scaling back of DVD will occur. Right now HD is entirely marginal -- doing simultaneous HD & DVD releases for all new discs would be a good second step (after ending the format war).

As for VHS, it was an inferior format not worth mourning.

Ted
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post #12 of 13
11/22/06 at 8:18am

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Originally Posted by Ray_R
I think he meant VHS for the former?

lol...sorry. thats what i meant. there are so many films on vhs that still haven't been released on dvd.
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post #13 of 13
11/22/06 at 11:31am

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VHS? I remember that! My grandpa told me all about it. VHS is what they used to use back in the twentieth century, before they had laserdiscs.
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