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Circuit City Phases Out VHS

Posted by timothy on from the we-join-this-plummet-already-in-progress dept.

Rashan writes: "Video Business Online is reporting that Circuit City is becoming the first of the mass merchants to state its intent to discontinue sales of the aging video format."

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  1. Keep in mind by joeflies · · Score: 5, Informative

    that this article is about phasing out pre-recorded VHS tapes. It doesn't say that it will phase out VCRs.

  2. Re:Forcing the market change by radish · · Score: 5, Informative

    It happened with audio cassettes (vinyl was killed)

    Really? That's strange. I could have sworn that last time I was in the Virgin Megastore in central London they dedicated at least 10% of their total floorspace (including CD/DVD/games etc) to vinyl. I must have been imagining it.

    Note to the unwise - vinyl sales are on the up, they have been for 5 years. At least 50% of the major single releases each week are available on vinyl. 100% of dance oriented ones are. The vast majority of dance music (the biggest selling sector in europe) is ONLY available on vinyl.

    And turntables regularly out-do guitars in the annual christmas gift surveys :-)

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  3. Re:Forcing the market change by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, dance music and vinyl are always entwined because of how dance music is DJed. Yes, dance music is much more popular in Europe than here in the states. Yes, vinyl sales are up over the last 5 years.

    Now the bad part:
    Vinyl sales are down 90% from 1989 and probably much more from 1979, but I can't find good numbers pre-1989.

    If you were to walk in to any major chain store in the US and ask where they kept the LPs, they would look at you like you were from another planet.

    -B

  4. Re:WTF by athakur999 · · Score: 3, Informative
    I think you missed this bit:
    Circuit City will continue to carry blank VHS tape and VCRs, he added.

    There only appear to be getting rid of pre-recorded ones, and I say more power to them.

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  5. Re:I would think that this is about time by slaker · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try WantedList for NetFlix-like porno-rental of over 10,000 titles.

    I'm not affliated in any way, other than as a happy customer.

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  6. Article title misleading.... by nedron · · Score: 3, Informative
    The title for this article is patently misleading, as CC is phasing out the sale of pre-recorded video tapes, not the VHS format in general. They will continue to carry blank media and decks.

    It makes sense to phase out the pre-recorded VHS items since the primary pre-recorded rental/sale market is obviously tilting to DVD.

    It would make no sense to phase out VHS hardware or blank tapes since those are still (and will be for the foreseeable future) the primary means of recording material in the consumer space.

    In fact, CC has started carrying blank D-VHS tape. I don't know that they carry the decks yet, but there's always Best Buy for that.

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  7. No reasonable way? by ColGraff · · Score: 3, Informative

    So I guess video capture cards, like the ATI TV Wonder series, are all useless. Silly me.

    Seriously, spend $50 on a tv wonder VE, connect your VCR to that, you're in business. Perfectly reasonable.

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