»The era of VHS tapes and VCRs is ending
The LA Times ran a story earlier this week about a big distributor of movies and TV shows dropping the VHS format.
Realistically, this doesn’t mean that VHS is dead — I’m sure VHS will continue to be used for things other than movies and TV shows. But if the LA Times article is true, if this LA company is really the last distributor of VHS tapes, then that’s a significant step towards VHS completely going away.
Here at SnapStream, we often see our customers replacing very old VHS tape and VCR setups with the SnapStream Server so we have lots of photographs of VHS tapes. Here are a few… in memory of VHS:
The City of Houston’s old VCR and VHS setup
The Plano Police Department’s VHS tape and VCR setup
VHS tape dubbing station at a law enforcement agency
VHS tapes — lots of ‘em — at a law enforcement agency
VCRs at a media company in Washington DC
VHS tapes (at a media company in Washington DC)
TVs and VCRs at a congressional office
February 11th, 2009 at 4:30 am
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February 20th, 2009 at 3:15 am
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February 25th, 2009 at 4:48 am
[...] The era of VHS tapes and VCRs is ending (December 26, 2008): Rakesh shows off a collection of photographs of lots of old VHS tapes, VCRs, and finally, some more tapes [...]