[EVA] The VHS era is officially over. Things have changed....forever.

[Aaron Clark]

Guess what else is dead?  Blu-ray.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=365

--Aaron Clark
EvaMonkey.com

> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-vhs-tapes22-2008dec22,0,5852342.story
>
> The last company that actually still produced VHS tapes has made its last
> shipment and is discontinuing production.
>
> The VHS format is officially obsolete.
>
> The last new movie to actually come out on VHS was in 2006 (it was "A
> History of Violence").
>
> VHS has been replaced by DVD, which itself is on the cusp of being phased
> out for Blu-Ray over the next decade (arguably, even Blu-Ray has to
> compete with Digital Distribution and New Media...)
>
> Nonetheless, VHS is now as dead and dated as Beta.
>
> The era of finding poorly fansubbed DVDs shipped to the USA from Japan, or
> made at fanclubs, is over.
>
> Indeed, my own anime club is throwing out the literally hundreds of VHS
> tapes they have had handed down from previous members since the 1980's;
> they've got a VHS-to-DVD converter and they're making copies of the ones
> that still actually play (and throwing out the ones that actually don't
> work anymore).  Also, at a different scifi club, knowing that I like
> anime, without asking in early December they handed me a bag of half a
> dozen VHS anime tapes they were throwing out.  And I mean good stuff like
> "Armitage III", not obscure stuff.  Well, I suppose now these "early 90's,
> you might have watched it poorly dubbed and badly edited on Scifi Channel"
> anime movies are now themselves "obscure".  Ghost in the Shell at least
> gets re-released because it was so iconic.
>
> but I digress....
>
> The days when everyone watched Evangelion by having to hunt for fansubbed
> VHS tapes at anime conventions (often simply being unable to find a
> complete set) are now a thing of the distant past.  The days when most of
> our knowledge about the series was based on a handful of fansubs....based
> of a Chinese bootleg?!...owned and analyzed by a small handful....are
> over.  These days, new fans can easily just buy a box set with decent subs
> and at-least-functional dubs.  Or they can just download high-quality
> fansubs if they're truly obsessed.
>
> But the "hunting for amateur fansubbed VHS tapes of Evangelion" days are
> long over.
>
> "Things have changed...forever.  There is no going back"
>
>
> -- V
>
> "I'm pleased to meet you and I hope you guessed my name, but what's
> puzzling you, is the nature of my game"
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