Video Home System Shutdown!

I'm pretty sure that one of you folks may not know what the heck is a VHS. On the other hand, most of you guys from the 20th Century (last century) do remember them, including myself!

To imagine how technology keeps getting better and better over the past years or decades. This even includes the technology for viewing pleasure. The way how we used to have VHS (Video Home System) back in the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, and in the early-to-middle-of 2000s! The way how we have cassettes for home videos and even movies, including smaller cassettes for popular music. However, like how all things progressed, while VHS was running, there were small introductions of better elements like DVDs (since 1996 for home videos) and Blu-Ray (Sony started since October 2000 and got bigger in the Summer of 2006), which they became very dominant. This is what put VHS out of commission by the time in 2006 (with the "History of Violence" as the last Hollywood movie to be in a VHS) and production ceased in 2008. Since VHS got started in 1976 in Japan (which was introduced to the USA in 1977, a year later). That would mean that the reign of VHS only lasted for 32 years. When VHS disappeared, we end up having another milestone in viewing pleasure, which is "MEDIA STREAMING" (actually since early 1920s, but progressed in late 1980s trhough 1990s, and taking a bigger peak in 2015 or 2016).

But that makes me want to ask.....

Who here STILL owns something like a VCR (VideoCassete Recorder), television boxes (before flat screens came in), a combo television unit (Whether a TV/VCR combo, TV/DVD combo, or even a TV/VCR/DVD combo), and or some old cassettes (whether home video, video movie, or music)?

I see most of you do!

Even though DVDS and streaming sure seem a lot better, there ARE reasons why those things appeal to some a lot of people, regardless of them taking a lot of space and get easily ruined.  There are reasons why folks, including myself, love and enjoy VHS. Reasons that include supposed nostaglic worth, the way how easy it is to record things, the fact that certain kinds of media still has VHS format in use, there are videos that possess personal events of one's life, or there are those who are enthusiastic collectors of VHS releases. And besides, and again, there are people out there who still have those in one's household.

Plus, there are some special editions of movies today that take in some promotional sales on making VHS movies like a 2012 American anthology horror film, entitled "V/H/S", the sequel of that film in 2013 ("V/H/S/2"), and a 2009 Ti West horror movie that takes in a homage to horror films (from 70s and 80s), "THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL").

Well, other than that, I had a habit of drawing something about that!



We see Archimedes has possessed something like a TV/VCR combo and some video tapes. Nancy doesn't see why they are still around. But you guys know something like those are now artifacts of previous technology of viewing pleasure. For Xavier, he really misses those days of VHS before they become obsolete!

Care for me to RECORD that again? XD


Note: That TV/VCR unit is modeled after an old Memorex Model. No. MVT2135B (Series E) that was manufactured from Thailand on March 2002. I possess it still, in the hopes of finding tapes from our garage.


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7:19 AM Tuesday, April 18th, 2017

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