VHS lives! -- in video shops in Queens, NY

[Ash Ketchum]

What does Ash Ketchum have in common with the senior citizen immigrant clientele of a handful of video rental shops in Queens, New York? They all love VHS!

This article in today's New York Times discusses the VHS holdouts in this community:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/nyregion/for-some-new-york-immigrants-vhs-is-king-for-movie-rentals.html?_r=1&hpw


As someone who routinely watches movies recorded 20-odd years ago on VHS, I especially liked this line:

A few store owners said some of their videocassette clients believed that tapes were more durable than DVDs.
:D

[Doc Moonlight]

I'd be more impressed if they stocked beta tapes.

[Mister Peepers]

People didn't talk about VHS rot like we do with DVDs that sometimes die after a few years. Never had that happen with VHS.

[critterdvd]

That article made me nostalgic, maybe I'll watch "Saturday the 14th" tonight (one of the few VHS I have left).

[shadokitty]

Makes me wish I still had my VCR.

[Alan Smithee]

Nice- I've rescued a few boxes of thrown-out VHS tapes in my neighborhood. I can't stand to see any media go into the landfill. Have these people heard of D-VHS though? It was out BEFORE HD-DVD!

[Todd B.]

People didn't talk about VHS rot like we do with DVDs that sometimes die after a few years. Never had that happen with VHS.
No, but you get magnetic print-through after a while. It's also susceptible to mold.

[Ish Kabbible]

Still have a VCR and a bunch of my original videotapes. Just played a tape I recorded off TV in 1979.
Looks just the same as it did 33 years ago