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kleinbl00 · 2824 days ago · link · · parent · post: 750,000 VCRs were sold last year. The last factory making VCR's is halting production this month
I would argue they aren't already. Here's the thing: those VHS tapes mean a lot to her. They'll mean fuckall to her kids because she's not watching them with them. Physical media for intellectual property is nostalgia at this point, and that shit you're nostalgic for your kids will recognize as baggage. Those tapes already aren't as crisp as they were when she bought them, and by the time her kids have stuff "passed along" to them ever capacitor in the deck will have leaked. Besides which everything will be available at 4k with two or three versions of commentary, BTS, storyboards and god knows what else and your friend's handle on those stories won't color her kids' handle on those stories in the slightest.