Comments on: VHS finally dies a death – how long until DVD does the same?

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By: Kelly Edmonds

Kelly Edmonds — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:31:50 +0000

I have a conundrum for you… I was trying to back up a movie to DVD that I had recorded from TV to VHS several years ago, merely because I can not find it available anywhere on DVD, and I mean anywhere, regardless of the region code. But when I try to copy it using my Combo unit (DVD recorder/VHS recorder), I get the same error I have gotten when trying to make a back up copy of a video from my personal library… Any ideas why this happens… I started with a blank VHS tape that I purchased at a Target or Walmart or K-Mart… recorded it from TV.

By: GasWeasel

GasWeasel — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 14:21:14 +0000

Old tapes will play if banged up, yes, however if they have been played in dirty players, or if your player is a little dirty, the tape is likely to wrap around your heads and require a sacrifice of either the tape or the player to remove it.

All tech has its ups and downs, and I think the move from VHS to DVD has eliminated more downs than it has created, and definately created more ups than it has lost. Don’t sugar coat your memories of VHS now that it’s on its way out the door. They were crappy compared to DVD in terms of convenience, quality and price.

DVD will be around a long time, eventually to be slowly supplanted by BluRay. DVD will likely not be ushered out the door until the successor to BluRay starts to become mainstream. There’s almost always an overlap of two formats available for cutting edge folks and hangers back. Think EP/LPs of various speeds, 8 Track, Cassette, CD, digital download. At least two of those were in mainstream at any given time, but one was usually on its way out at any given time, as well.

By: eeun

eeun — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:28:56 +0000

VHS tapes are…brittle?

How could anyone write that in the same article that discusses DVD and blu-ray discs without the meaning being purely sarcastic?

And to end the article with “Almost as sad as the people still using it” just smacks of immature Starbucks-sipping techno-elitism, and pretty much invalidates anything useful said earlier in the article.

By: Daniel Selby

Daniel Selby — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:17:38 +0000

8 Tracks tapes were made from the mid 1960′s to the mid 1980′s. I’d say 20 years is a long while, FractalZone.

By: Daniel Selby

Daniel Selby — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 02:08:57 +0000

Actually VHS was not the first unit on the market that people used to record TV programs off the air. Back in summer of 1972 my parents bought a unit at Wards called Cartrivision and it allowed reording off the air and with a B&W camera.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:32:56 +0000

I need to record 8-hour-long events; VHS EP is still the most convenient way to do that, as far as I can see.

By: Jon Skeet

Jon Skeet — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:11:16 +0000

@Ralph: If it takes you *three minutes* to start to watch a DVD, then you should really get a better DVD player. Heaven forbid you should ever want to start to watch something other than where you left off last time, too…

(Plenty of other points can be countered too, but that was the most ridiculous one. Really, three minutes?)

By: DaveBG

DaveBG — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:47:13 +0000

“the DVD will be obsolete in three or four years, no doubt about it. Everything will be Blu-ray.”

LMAO

The delusions of these guys is a great source of amusement.

DVD will be around for many many years to come and I can see no serious reason why it will not see off Blu-ray.