{"id":151,"date":"2016-09-28T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/09\/28\/what-was-the-last-vhs-ever\/"},"modified":"2016-09-28T15:35:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:35:00","slug":"what-was-the-last-vhs-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2016\/09\/28\/what-was-the-last-vhs-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"What was the last VHS ever?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post about Vidiots had us thinking about the VHS format again. Commercial VHSes have been out of print for nearly a decade, and <a href=\"http:\/\/aulibmedia.blogspot.com\/2016\/07\/the-end-of-vhs-and-what-it-means-for.html\">with the last VHS player leaving the factory in July<\/a>, it&#8217;s glory days are clearly behind. Just for fun, this got us asking: what was the last VHS ever?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/13482-it-s-been-10-years-since-the-last-major-vhs-release-is-there-a-future-for-the-format\">According to <i>Inverse<\/i><\/a>, the last commercial VHS ever published was David Cronenberg&#8217;s <i>A History of Violence<\/i>, released on March 14, 2016. Others point to an extremely hard-to-find tape of <i>Cars<\/i> from 2007, but it&#8217;s hard to figure out where those came from. Either way, we can safely say the VHS died about ten years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Inverse<\/i> article goes on to wonder whether there might be a future market for VHSes in the same way that vinyl records have come back. Basically, there&#8217;s not. The formats that replaced the VHS are all far better and more useful. We&#8217;re always in the process of keeping our collection available and up-to-date, but we suspect we won&#8217;t be purchasing new VHSes in 20 years.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s post about Vidiots had us thinking about the VHS format again. Commercial VHSes have been out of print for nearly a decade, and with the last VHS player leaving the factory in July, it&#8217;s glory days are clearly behind. Just for fun, this got us asking: what was the last VHS ever? According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,376],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-inevitable-march-of-time","tag-vhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}