VHS coming back?

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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV

This is indeed even sillier than the "vinyl album comeback" thing, but I thoroughly doubt that VHS will return at all. (Some artists have released music on cassettes in recent years too, just as silly.) Unlike what some people claim for vinyl records, no one thinks VHS tapes are "better than" DVDs or laser discs, let alone HD formats.

Chris makes a valid point here.

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.

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.

Lastly, something to think about, how many vintage TV collectors do we have here, and how many of us collect VHS?

(Not this old guy, I pulled my last spooled up / wrapped up tape from around a video head long ago )