VHS is dead as a new-release format, but people will still be using them to tape TV shows for many more years. Unless companies just stop making new VCR's, I can't imagine John Q. Public totally embracing DVD recorders for awhile. Bear in mind that useless Pan & Scan Edition DVD's are still coming out, which should be obsolete by now-- apparently there are still enough people who "prefer" a hacked-up picture to warrant them. I'd rather see those go before VHS as a whole.

A lot of people still have a LOT of VHS-- a lot of which probably will never make its way to DVD. Should we all spend the rest of our lives converting all of our tapes to DVD (home movies, episodes of Herman's Head, vintage German porn, whatever), until the next new video format comes along and forces the repurchasing of all the obsolete DVD's we'll someday own? And not putting out a Sith VHS when surely millions of people own all the SW flicks on VHS is just dumb. Esp. considering that:

"Although Fox is going DVD only on the latest Star Wars release, the studio is still sticking to VHS for Sept. 27 release Robots and Mr. & Mrs. Smith."

If you're going to pronounce new retail VHS DOA, can't you at least wait until *after* the release of the final movie of one of the most popular and lasting film series of all time? Is there going to be a bigger market for Mr. & Mrs. Smith than Revenge of the Sith? (and yes, that rhymed)