R.I.P., VHS.

I think my Dad bought one of the first VHS players out there, back in the late 1970s when I was a little kid.  It had a remote that wasn't even wireless: it had a cable attached to it!  And the tape went in the top, where the tape transport system popped up.  Still, I loved it. 

My Dad also bought one of the first CD players, which cost something like $500 or $600 (it was as big as a large DVD player and the CD cases came in these long boxex), but he didn't get the first DVD player.  I was waiting for that tech since 1994 with a release in 1997 (I couldn't get one until the prices dropped a bit in late 1998).

Anyway, though I thought VHS was already dead, it's now pretty much dying.  And guess what?  Movie downloads may overtake DVDs and Blu-ray!

Posted at 07:36AM Dec 30, 2008 by Heath McKnight in Inform  |  Comments[0]