DVD leading to VHS downfall

For more than 25 years VHS has hold its ground and entertained the world. Sony’s Betamax in the early 1980s was perhaps better in technology than VHS, but could never compete with it on popularity. Now, with the advent of digital technology, DVD has taken over the legacy of VHS.

VHS enabled consumers to record and watch anything they wanted on television and store it for memories. DVD Writers as they get cheaper and cheaper are taking over the convenience with better quality and features. Even better is the fact that DVD recording does not fade over time and is easily replicated without loss of quality.

DVDs are even better supported on computers and give users the flexibility of video editing on home PCs. All these facts have lead to a stage that DVD players outsell VHS players 40 to 1.

To adding a little humor to the story, Reuter reports that:

To add insult to injury, police grudgingly admit that in Britain at least, house burglars don’t even bother to take VHS players because new ones now cost so little that no one wants a second-hand model.