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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. Edison Cylinders by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...also dead.

  2. remember tapes? by alta · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I used to type the programs out of the little spiral book into my comodore. Then I'd type some command to save, and push record on the tape deck.

    Oh yeah,
    Load "*",8,1

    I never new really what that meant, but i knew the result was I could get a list of all the programs on the disk, and then i could run defender! Or Zork!

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