They also call VCRs, VHS players, and it bothers me.
Are they not interchangeable terms? Always thought so.
But who calls them that? They were always called VCRs, nobody called them VHS players. Hell, most people didn’t even call them VHS tapes, it was just a tape or video, Betamax tapes were Beta, nobody got confused. It just sounds stupid.
What really cracks me up was when I had a young guy correct me from saying VCR to VHS player. That’s just wrong.