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Variety Declares VHS Dead

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dearly-beloved dept.

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?

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  1. Re:VHS can never die, at least until... by rjstanford · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't you think that you should wait more than 20 minutes before stealing other people's posts (not mine, but one I replied to) for Karma?

    Reference : http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=207016&cid=168 78422 @ 6:25pm

    And shame on you.

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  2. Re:More like the cassette than 8-track. by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sometimes it can resync, sometimes it can't.
    We have had programs showing up lasting -96 hours (or similar unrealistic figures) which were completely unusable.

    Mind you, this seems no different to the experience I have had with dvd-rw's.
    YMMV

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