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/ny....html?_r=1&hpw


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

Doc Moonlight

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

The Man with the Golden Doujinshi

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!

TheBang

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