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Reports of VHS's Death Highly Exaggerated
aicrules writes "What does it take to ensure that a technology choice will remain relevant and available to the general public? Well, being sold by Wal-Mart is certainly pretty high on that list. According to a CNN/Money article, Wal-Mart Stores will continue to sell VHS tapes for as long as its customers want them. With Best Buy, Circuit City, and Target all dropping sales of the VHS medium, how long can VHS hold out? What is the major reason for people still sticking with VHS?"
What is the major reason for people still sticking with VHS?
It looks nice in the back of their horse-drawn buggy?
"This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has got to go." -- Oscar Wilde on his deathbed
saying my dvd player is always flashing 12:00 just doesn't sound right.
What is the major reason for people still sticking with VHS?
Pornography, of course.
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"What is the major reason for people still sticking with VHS?"
;-)
Easy, it gives me warmer, deeper, and groovier playback on my vintage VHS machine, compared to the over-produced, sterile playback of a DVD.
Say all you want, but I can just see and hear the difference, the resonance, the WARMTH. I just love tubes.
VHS is dying.
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
It's where your kids keep the toast they didn't want to eat just yet.
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...is because Han shoots first like I remember! ;)
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Because with VHS tapes you can 'Re-record, not fade away'
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Want to share it with a friend, no probl...
Oh, right.
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I've vaguely heard of VHS... isn't it a bit like Tivo?
Read reviews of shopping cart software
I dip into rec.audiophile every once in awhile to watch them blather on about burning in their digital optical cables...
KeS
Ever try "scratching" on a cd. It's just not the same.
Good Lord, if "No Rocketman" is the best argument against DVDs, then DVDs win. ;-)
Jesus! What's the matter with VHS? Tom Hanks used them to tie a damn raft together. He woulda died without em. Long live VHS
"Simplify, simplify, simplify!" Thoreau
Is giving up on iclod city the same as deciding that it's a shit game?
To confirm you're not a script, please piss in my ear.
but isn't [porn] what the internet is for???
... and God help the guy who caught his unit on a centerfold staple.)
You may be too young to remember, but old farts such as myself used to watch porn on tape because there was no internet.
Hell, I remember before tape, pornography was actually printed on paper.
How we survived that dark age, I don't know. (Wait, yes I do -- a vigorous program of masturbation while closely scrutinizing the slick delights of Miss November
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blather on about burning in their digital optical cables...
Is that before or after they've determined the optimum direction for each such cable?
What is the major reason for people still sticking with VHS?
Perhaps it's a conspiracy propagated by the all powerful automatic tape rewinder industry.
We'll just have to hold off another 6 months until we can get the cheep korean "Sorny" knock-off with a macrovision copy protect function that doesn't work due to, er, "Poor QA". Yeah, that's it, "Poor QA".
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
yeah and what if you want to pop in Mulholland drive just to watch one specific scene. (lets say, for the sake of argument, the lesbian sex scene). With VHS tape you have to rewind the whole movie to find it. But what if you need to see that scene RIGHT NOW, or the moment is ruined. Well then you are screwed.