The death of VHS is coming very shortly.

[CBright7831 0]

Revenge On DVD Only

 

Posted By Philip on August 29, 2005

From Videobusiness.com:

 

20th Century Fox and LucasFilm will release Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith, expected to be one of the season’s top sellers, on DVD only. Star Wars will be the first major new release to skip VHS, some say a move that is unsurprising because of its heavy DVD audience.

 

Distribution sources said recent Star Wars releases have seen heavy VHS returns from retailers unable to sell off the tapes. LucasFilm and Fox declined to comment other than to confirm that there would be no VHS version.

 

Read the full story here.

 

Thanks to Arkbear for the link.

 

Although I don't want to turn this into a ROTS discussion, I just wanted to say this is big step. I'm taking bets that VHS will be gone two years from now. I feel sorry for all of you with just VCR's now.

 

Discuss.

[Ravenbomb 0]

bah. DVDs are just a fad. Magnetic tape is where it's AT

[Guest El Satanico]

I'm stocking up on VHS tapes.

 

You "oooooh look at my shiny disc" digital snobs can kiss my ass when your digital overlords fail you and I'm in magnetic tape heaven.

[Eclipse 0]

I still prefer VHS to record and stuff. I don't know if there is such thing that allows to you to record live show onto a DVD yet, and if there is, it's probably TOO EXPENSIVE.

[Guest El Satanico]

DVD Recorders are down to top of the line consumer VCR range now. They aren't down to the $79.99 and under at wal-mart range yet, but won't be much longer.

 

Friend of mine bought one for $99.99, last Christmas.

[Dangerous A 0]

Magnetic tapes 0wn your faces!!

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Bah. Let me know when they get rid of full-frame DVDs forever then I'll be happy...

[Slayer 0]

Just wait until the giant electro-magnetic storm hits, then you tapeophiles will be sorry

[Dr. Zaius 0]

There are still people who do not own DVD players?

 

Do these people lack indoor plumbing as well?

[KingPK 0]

There are also people still on dial-up connections.

 

VHS has been on life support for a couple of years now, as DVDs are just as cheap (or even cheaper) than most VHS titles. The only tapes I've got are my MST3K episodes and a couple of movies. I don't know how much TiVo is, but that also seems to be the new choice for people to record programs instead of buying tapes.

[Guest El Satanico]

There are still people who do not own DVD players? Do these people lack indoor plumbing as well?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Those people have them, because Wal-Mart sells one for less than $40.

 

 

By the way, those less than $40 players are the best DVD players I've owned. Those little bastards play everything.

 

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp...3A62055%3A95987

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

I went looking for a VHS tape to record the PRIDE show on Sunday. LOTC came along. It was pretty late, but I figured something would be open. Walmart wasn't, the Superstore wasn't, so I went to Blockbuster.

 

I look around and I don't see any tapes. Odd. They usually carry them. So I ask one of the employee-chicks that works there.

 

"Excuse me, but I'm looking for blank tapes"

 

*brief puzzled look from the girl*

 

"To record shows with"

 

Her: "OH, you mean like a blank cd?"

 

"Yeeeah."

 

"I dunno. Lemme see."

 

...yeah, she didn't help me much after that. So I went to the convenience store next door. They had it. Blockbuster - Video Store - doesn't have blank videos. Some convenience store - blank videos.

[Slayer 0]

Okay, the whole region coding bullshit is one of the few things VHS has over DVD

[razazteca 0]

Try converting a PAL version of The Feebles to NTSC tape.

[Ravenbomb 0]

get a DVD decrypter (it's free), and you can just copy the Region Whatever DVD to your computer and change the region. Then just burn it to a blank DVD, and you've got a Region 1 or 0 DVD

[dubq 0]

Not to mention, most DVD players have "hacks" built into them so you can reach the system menu and change it to play all regions.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Older people don't have DVD players. A lot of them don't even know what a DVD player is.

 

 

Myself, I still use VHS more than DVD.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

I like the irony of Episode III snubbing VHS when Episode I snubbed DVD on its initial release.

[The Mandarin 0]

DVD Recorder owns your house.

 

My Panasonic can record a program and watch another. That's multi-tasking at its greatest.

[Kahran Ramsus 0]

There are also people still on dial-up connections.

 

High-speed connections aren't available everywhere, especially in rural areas. DVDs can be used anywhere.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

There are still people who do not own DVD players? Do these people lack indoor plumbing as well?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Those people have them, because Wal-Mart sells one for less than $40.

 

 

By the way, those less than $40 players are the best DVD players I've owned. Those little bastards play everything.

 

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp...3A62055%3A95987

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

In Fort Erie ECW(Electronics Coalition of Walmart) the only model VCR we sell is 60 bucks. No fewer than 3 DVD players sell for 59.97 or less.

 

Fox, I'm told, will be no longer releasing new relaseses on tape as of January 2005. It could be MGM, not Fox.

 

Also, our DVD Recorders start at 149, making them plenty affordable, when you consider how many people had to have a DVD player when they first came plentiful and were 200 bucks.

[Guest El Satanico]

After checking, I found that Wal Mart has a DVD recorder for $99 and change, making them affordable for anyone that's not dirt poor.

[AndrewTS 0]

There are still people who do not own DVD players? Do these people lack indoor plumbing as well?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Those people have them, because Wal-Mart sells one for less than $40.

 

 

By the way, those less than $40 players are the best DVD players I've owned. Those little bastards play everything.

 

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp...3A62055%3A95987

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

I see it supports DVD-R and RW, but it's still US/Can region only, right?

 

What's the best value on a DVD player that plays DVD-R/RW and is region free?

[Kaertos 0]

So far my biggest problem with a DVD recorder is that the quality when recording (at least according to what I have read) more than an hour on a disk is just as bad as VHS. I'd rather stick with the cheaper VHS blanks until DVD recorders (ok, reasonably priced dvd recorders) can tape 4 hours on a side at high quality.

[Special K 0]

Whatever. Fuck Lucas for not releasing the original trilogy sans bullshit on DVD. He HAS to know that 1/10 of his fans like the changes.

 

So now you have to have the original trilogy on VHS and ROTS on DVD. Fun!

[starvenger 0]

I went looking for a VHS tape to record the PRIDE show on Sunday.  LOTC came along.  It was pretty late, but I figured something would be open.  Walmart wasn't, the Superstore wasn't, so I went to Blockbuster.

 

I look around and I don't see any tapes.  Odd.  They usually carry them.  So I ask one of the employee-chicks that works there.

 

"Excuse me, but I'm looking for blank tapes"

 

*brief puzzled look from the girl*

 

"To record shows with"

 

Her: "OH, you mean like a blank cd?"

 

"Yeeeah."

 

"I dunno.  Lemme see."

 

...yeah, she didn't help me much after that.  So I went to the convenience store next door.  They had it.  Blockbuster - Video Store - doesn't have blank videos.  Some convenience store - blank videos.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well, I'd hope that she was hot, at least...

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

There are still people who do not own DVD players? Do these people lack indoor plumbing as well?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Those people have them, because Wal-Mart sells one for less than $40.

 

 

By the way, those less than $40 players are the best DVD players I've owned. Those little bastards play everything.

 

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp...3A62055%3A95987

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

I see it supports DVD-R and RW, but it's still US/Can region only, right?

 

What's the best value on a DVD player that plays DVD-R/RW and is region free?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Non existent at the Fort Erie ECW, and presumably most Canadian ECW's.

 

We have a Diamond Vision that's region free, but doesn't read DVD R/RW's. It does read CD R/Rw's, however. Go figure.

 

We also have a few name brands that read a variety of formats, but all are region coded.

 

We suck.

[Guest El Satanico]

By the way, those less than $40 players are the best DVD players I've owned.  Those little bastards play everything.

 

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp...3A62055%3A95987

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

I see it supports DVD-R and RW, but it's still US/Can region only, right?

 

What's the best value on a DVD player that plays DVD-R/RW and is region free?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Actually there's a code that is suppose to make it region free. I haven't tried it myself.

[Jericholic82 0]

I have a dvd player that has a button ont he remote to switch from ntsc to pal, so does this mean I coul play PAL discs on them (or are PAL discs not region one?)

 

sorry for the stupid question but I dont know everything about dvds liek all you guys

 

 

anyhow I still have a VCR (it is a cheap 50 buck 4head stereo one from walmart) to watch my old vhs tapes (mainly my wrestling ones) annd to tape anything I might miss, plus taping wrestling :for instance I tape every RAW and Smackdown-and I haven't missed recording a show since 2003, (save for missing a part of shelton benjamin vs snitsky from the raw where Batista turned face cuz my cheapy vcr started malfunctioning on me)

 

plus sometimes Heat and Velocity, and Impact when it was on FSN

[brokentusk16 0]

Until the DVD recorder becomes affordable (meaning less that $100), I will gladly hang on to my VCR.