Last VHS Distributor Hits Eject
The Los Angeles Times reports that Palm Harbor, Florida, based Distribution Video Audio Inc. has delivered its final shipment of retail movies on VHS, signifying the end of major American commercial home video distribution on the VHS format.
Source: Ain’t It Cool News
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It had to happen sooner or later.
People are leaving tape for optical disc recording and TiVO/DVR devices. I only keep my VHS player now to watch programs not released on DVD and as soon as I get a stabilizer I’m transferring all those programs to DVD ASAP.
I myself occasionally record things off TV on a DVD Recorder with a hard drive and haven’t recorded anything on VHS for several years now. I haven’t bought blank VHS tapes for close to five years I think…
The technology may be obsolete as far as prerecorded movies are concerned but stragglers will still use blank tapes to record programs for a few years yet.
My VHS collection is something similar: titles that are largely out of print or television programming that isn’t available on DVD (i.e. ‘The Wonder Years’). That and pure sentimentality… having the original home video release of classic animated films is a burgeoning hobby I’m hoping to grow.