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Originally Posted by init4fun
There are still enough people willing to buy records to make them commercially viable. The reasons being nostalgia, some see a "cool factor" in them, and some believe "they just sound better". All subjective opinion based reasons for sure, but there is enough of "the juice being worth the squeeze" there to give the vinyl record enough popularity to attract manufacturers to produce them. VHS on the other hand is very niche market at best, as I myself well recall people hated the fragility of both the tapes and the machines that play them when they were the only game in town, and I've not yet seen any great nostalgia trip regarding videotape machines.
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Vinyl records and turntables can be produced in a third-world country. The Soviets made very decent turntables, but no domestic CD players, and the only VCR they made they copied from a 1977 Panasonic model and produced into the early 1990s. Video is much more high-tech than vinyl. No way it returns.
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Originally Posted by init4fun
Who knows, maybe Taylor Swift will release her next concert video on VHS, but anything short of that and I honestly believe VHS is only gonna live on till the last of us old TV collectors die off.
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The guy I like is so into retro that he even taped parts of his show on a Panasonic VHS camcorder.
Neal Francis - Francis Comes Alive: The Movie
But I don't think this gimmick will last long. His last video is overdone. My VHS has never looked that bad
Neal Francis - What's Left Of Me