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Should VHS be killed off?

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pcman2002b

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I was just looking around at movies today and noticed that they still are releasing new movies on VHS.

As a recording format for the home, its great: versatile, easy, and cheap. However quality for new movies blows (when compared to DVD).

Here is my question do you think the movie industry should kill VHS as a new release and stick solely to DVD. It would then force consumers who still
believe in VHS to buy players, and start purchasing DVDs. This would mean an influx of money to DVD player companies. Also since they would be focusing
on DVDs alone the price might (but I doubt it) come down on them.
 
As long as people keep buying a product, it will be continued to be manufactured.

Forcing people into a format has never worked without severe repurcussions. Let the consumers decide when things should be phased out. Give it about 2-3 more years and I bet you'll hardly see any more new VHS releases.

It happened with cassettes vs. CDs, and this is no different.
 
Oh, Hell NO!

Dude, I've got like a dozen or so porno VHS tapes from the mid 1980's...how the hell am I supposed to watch those good old tapes, where not a single woman had any plastic imbedded in her body without a VCR?

Pshhh, get real!!! 😛
 
Originally posted by: Kalvin00
Hell no! You can't store TiVo on a shelf, or record to DVD for less than $300.
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You didn't read through my whole thing. I said as a new release format. Keep VHS blanks and recorders on market because of how easy and cheap they are!
 
no


theres still a huge installed base so that means $$$ for the movie industry, and most of them do not make dvd players
 
no...wait til you have kids...VHS is great cause they can handle them without worryin about fingerprints/breaking that kind of thing...all the kids movies are on VHS
 
Originally posted by: rudeguy5757
no...wait til you have kids...VHS is great cause they can handle them without worryin about fingerprints/breaking that kind of thing...all the kids movies are on VHS
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Good Point! We rent DVDs from a local chain and every 2 discs we get look like somebody sneezed on them, wiped them off with a brillo pad then held them with reflective part down in palm as tightly as possible. One of our older players can't stand scratched DVDs it jumbles the screen and goes nuts.
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Oh, Hell NO!

Dude, I've got like a dozen or so porno VHS tapes from the mid 1980's...how the hell am I supposed to watch those good old tapes, where not a single woman had any plastic imbedded in her body without a VCR?

Pshhh, get real!!! 😛
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LOL.🙂

What he said.
 
VHS was a fairly reliable, decent looking, and successful format. But its day has come, Bush should give VHS 48 hours, then kill it.
 
Nope, I can't afford a DVD player and teh discs cost more than those old cassettes. Although, if we all used Beta to begin with DVD wouldn't be very popular.
 
Originally posted by: HappyPuppy
On my middle of the road TV, movies played from VHS and DVD look and sound the same.
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Well, if I were you, I'd take that TV and stick it in the middle of the road and head to bestbuy for a new one.
 
not the blanks. i use em to record tv shows on timer. no cheaper solution. dvdrs don't hold much, and are expensive as hell. vhs cassettes are ugly but if i want to tape a show.. ugly and cheap is better then missing the show. tivo = limited storage space.
 
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