In their latest letter to the editors, Ongo Gablogian has given his definitive appeal to the VHS cult.
don’t know when the last VCR to be made was rolled out of the factory. I don’t know in which country it was made nor which country it was headed for. I don’t know what brand it was. I do not care.
But I do know this, the VCR is dead. No more VCRs are being made. No longer are VCR+DVDR combo machines being manufactured. There are no more VCR+TV combos either. No more portable VCR for your van to keep the kids busy in the backseat.
This is a public service announcement to all of those folks who still own VHS TAPES: your tapes’ days are numbered. Not by mold, not by the tape losing its ability to hold video recordings. But by your VCR, its rubber bands, its capacitors and its power supply.
This is your wake up call. Your chance to preserve your VHS tapes onto new media. Onto DVD, hard drive, youtube, archive.org, anything. The VCR wars have started. The price for used VCRs on ebay and amazon are going up. Now is the time to raid garage sales and ask to buy their VCR...
This is also a public service announcement for the losers who think its fun and cool to release a VHS tape of a movie. Please stop. Print posters or stickers instead. Make empty VHS boxes for people who want to display boxes. Please do laserdisc sized covers as well, as those are nice to display.
Not to mention the losers spending $50 on a new VHS release. Please stop buying these.
Stop this right now. It is a dead low quality format, it is not coming back. Stop with the nostalgia. Go buy beanie babies or something.
LET VHS DIE.
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I respect it. Even as an owner of VHS, it's a format that needs to die and the only thing we'll truly lose for its extinction is the number of glorious TV rips and not-on-DVD films that will be lost forever