Saturday, July 23, 2016

AND SO AN ERA COMES TO AN END

By Bob Walsh

As I was driving home from the range today I heard an interesting news blurb on the car radio. The last VHS VCR is going to roll off the assembly line in Japan at the end of the month.

There are still any number of people who make VHS-DVD combo units, which come in handy for dubbing your VHS tapes onto DVD. They will also record onto VHS if you feel the need, and I do use mine fairly regularly to catch TV shows without the bother of hunting them down on the On Demand menu.

Nevertheless it is noteworthy IMHO. These things killed off the porno movie house industry. If you want one, you better grab one now. (Or at least check EBAY every now and then.)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

When my kids were kids we had a VHS recorder that was so big you had to place it on your shoulder. I guess I need to convert all the VHS tapes to DVD's.

We also had a mini-van. There was one in every driveway on our street.

bob walsh said...

You can use your minivan to move all of your vhs tapes to the dump once you have converted them. Make sure to run the home-made porn over a bulk eraser first.