Goodbye VHS. Thanks to all the wonderful memories.
We here at Geekzkrieg agree that it’s finally official – VHS IS DEAD. With the last major US VHS company finally closing shop, this old jurassic video medium is finally laid to rest.
“It’s dead, this is it, this is the last Christmas, without a doubt,” Distribution Video Audio co-owner Ryan Kugler told the L.A. Times. “I was the last one buying VHS and the last one selling it, and I’m done. Anything left in the warehouse we’ll just give away or throw away.”
VHS was a wildly popular format back in the 80s. The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard developed by Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) and launched in Europe/Asia in September 1976 (U.S. launch was June 1977), with The Young Teacher being the first movie to be released and A History of Violence, released on home video in 2006, being the last in the North American market.
With the advent of cheaper (and clearer) mediums like DVD, VHS is destined to pass into extinction.
Such is the story of tech dinosaurs.
Source: Ars Technica
