Variety Runs VHS Obit

By: News Editor
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2006
Source: Variety

Variety has run an obituary for VHS tapes. Per their story... "After a long illness, the groundbreaking home-entertainment format VHS has died of natural causes in the United States. The format was 30 years old. No services are planned."

Per the announcement Variety notes, "VHS is survived by a child, DVD, and by Tivo, VOD and DirecTV. It was preceded in death by Betamax, Divx, mini-discs and laserdiscs."

The tongue-in-cheek article goes on to state, "The format flourished until DVDs launched in 1997. After a fruitful career, VHS tapes started to retire from center stage in 2003 when DVDs became more popular for the first time."

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Comments/Responses

fft5305 • Nov 16, 2006, 09:44am •

Rest in Peace, VHS. I will always look back on you with fondness in my heart.

monkeyfoot • Nov 16, 2006, 10:53am •

It lives in my house, for the moment. It's still hard to loan someone a copy of somthing you recorded unless you can hand them a tape. But if file-sharing between DVRs and other players works well. , it'll go in the storage closet like my audio cassette recorders.

muchdrama • Nov 16, 2006, 01:42pm •

No services planned? Damn. That's one cold family.

phillipej • Nov 16, 2006, 05:19pm •

Recently, I made a friend copy of an show episode that's a favorite of ours (she missed it). I handed her the VHS tape, and she told me she didn't own a player. It was then that I knew VHS was dead. Where it exists now, it's only a zombie roaming around like something out of a "...Living Dead" movie.

I also recently noticed that our cat had died.

Dazzler • Nov 17, 2006, 06:50am •

They should do an obit for cinescape.com.

mckracken • Nov 17, 2006, 01:51pm •

whats a VHS?
mini--- disk? whoah.
you can write a heartfelt Obit for the Zip Disks/Drives and Jazz Drives too... nobody uses that tech anymore.

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