My older brother told me that in 2001, DVDs and VHS tapes were neck-and-neck in popularity. Is that true? 2001 seems a bit late for VHS tapes to still be popular.
My older brother told me that in 2001, DVDs and VHS tapes were neck-and-neck in popularity. Is that true...
Kevin Ward
Nolan Powell
Hes right. I was watching vhs up until 2004 or so. Maybe later.
Angel Peterson
Only because of the cost of DVD players at the time. Once normies got onboard and prices started coming down it was ogre.
Nicholas Parker
It’s all about WHERE user.
John Morales
Just like Blu-ray, DVD and before that, CD cost more than tapes
>Because fuck you, that's why
Jack Sanders
In Britbongistan this is correct.
DVD players were hella expensive at first, the PS2 was the first affordable one and the first DVD player for a lot of households.
By 2001 DVDs were spreading, but everyone still had VCRs. Tapes hung on for some time - even as DVD players got more widespread, VHS was the only real way to record live TV. This was before TiVo was readily available, and Sky only launched Sky+ recording set top boxes that year.
VHS tapes were very much a thing in 2001, but the writing was on the wall in a clear font with good kerning
John Collins
DVD players were like $400 in 2001 and virtually everybody had a VHS player, which had been around since the late 70s, so it wasn't until like 2005 or so when DVD became more affordable that they began to dominate the market and manufacturers finally stopped producing VHS in 2008.
Robert Peterson
Were you not around in 2001.
Kayden Cruz
He's right. I got my first DVD player and first DVD film (Universal Soldier) around 2001, it came in a clear plastic case, the likes of which I have never seen since then, probably because DVD cases got standardized to that ugly, flimsy, black plastic.
Despite that I still regularly watched VHS tapes way into 2004 or later.
Joseph Walker
>PEOPLE THAT DON'T REMEMBER 2001 ARE BROWSING Jow Forums RIGHT NOW
Oh lawd