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Originally posted by: Adamwankenobi
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Originally posted by: Sluggo
I, for one, am not going to miss the VHS format. Good riddence. What about loyalty? Emotions to inanimate objects is a scary thing.
A VHS release would only be good for: 1. Hard core completists 2. Pulling it out of a box in 40 years to show the grandkids who will ask, "What the heck is that?"

Exactly.

Not exactly. Again, there are millions of people who still own millions of VHS tapes, and millions of people who don't own DVD's, no matter how popular they've become. Those aren't hardcore completists; they're SW fans with stacks of VHS in the den. There wasn't much in the way of home video before VHS, and now that there's about 20 years' worth of VHS releases, some people just won't be buying many DVD's in their lifetime-- a lot of them owning Star Wars flicks on tape. Why deny them the chance to purchase it? Esp. when the same company IS putting out Mr. & Mrs. Smith on tape, which seriously-- will not sell half as many copies as Sith would. My mom has a DVD player, but she still buys VHS, and I don't think she'll ever buy a DVD recorder and record sitcoms and Oprah on DVD-R's. There's lots of moms out there. And grandmoms.

Just because DVD's are the latest video format, doesn't change the fact that some people have VCR's that are still blinking [12:00]... [12:00]...