Talk:VHS

Contradiction in audio recording section
The fifth paragraph under Original linear audio system seems to directly contradict the second. Specifically, the second paragraph starts with "Sound cannot be recorded on a VHS tape without recording a video signal, even in the audio dubbing mode", while the fifth says "High-end consumer recorders take advantage of the linear nature of the audio track, as the audio track could be erased and recorded without disturbing the video portion of the recorded signal."

Which is correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xjph (talk • contribs) 14:14, 20 August 2021 (UTC)

Maybe both... theoretically an audio signal can be present without a video signal, but the video signal serves for synchronization and determining the correct tape speed. If the audio gets replaced, the video signal is still there and used for synchronization, so this can be done without problems. While without a video signal, synchronization is problematic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.112.234.57 (talk) 07:41, 23 October 2021 (UTC)

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Home recording decline
In the decline section of the article, mainly pre-recorded tapes are given as the reason as they were replaced by DVD's. But VHS was also about home recording and time-shifting TV broadcasts, and this doesn't play a role in the article when it comes to VHS's decline. This would either have been replaced with hard disk or DVD recorders (were the latter ever used for home recording?) and then made obsolete by higher resolution TV standards incompatible with VHS (also fueled by flat TV's capable to display this higher resolution) and by digital libraries you can watch on demand so there is no need to record the TV broadcasts yourself. An indication for this replacement would be the sales of blank tapes and VHS recorders (which can really record, not only play back tapes), but as a non-insider I'm not sure when all of this happened and how the sales of blank tapes and recorders declined over time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.112.234.57 (talk) 07:41, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
 * It is actually rather strange that VHS and recordable DVDs managed to disappear without anything really replacing them. You just can't record TV like you used to.  There are hard drive recorders, but your collection vanishes if you drop whatever service you were using.  Algr (talk) 22:44, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Home DVD recorders with an ATSC tuner were rare. I had one from before ATSC, and then later connected the video output of the converter box to it. That still works, but I don't do it so often. I also now have a box with ATSC tuner and HDMI output, and also composite, S-video, and component video output. I can feed that into the DVD recorder, usually with the S-video signal. More recently, I got an ATSC tuner that can record to a USB stick. These are very reasonably priced compared to DVD recorders or VHS recorders. It does seem that TiVo is a big reason for less interest in DVD recorders. Gah4 (talk) 21:17, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * DVD recorders never really replaced VHS as they were never quite as user-friendly. And after the switchover to digital TV, you couldn't simply record directly with either device. At around the same time, satellite and cable TV companies (followed by suppliers of terrestrial TV decoders) were supplying set-top boxes with inbuilt recording capability, so having a standalone recorder wasn't a necessity. 2A02:C7C:C429:CF00:C0B1:9CC3:3D77:4618 (talk) 14:39, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Home DVD recorders with an ATSC tuner were rare. I had one from before ATSC, and then later connected the video output of the converter box to it. That still works, but I don't do it so often. I also now have a box with ATSC tuner and HDMI output, and also composite, S-video, and component video output. I can feed that into the DVD recorder, usually with the S-video signal. More recently, I got an ATSC tuner that can record to a USB stick. These are very reasonably priced compared to DVD recorders or VHS recorders. It does seem that TiVo is a big reason for less interest in DVD recorders. Gah4 (talk) 21:17, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * DVD recorders never really replaced VHS as they were never quite as user-friendly. And after the switchover to digital TV, you couldn't simply record directly with either device. At around the same time, satellite and cable TV companies (followed by suppliers of terrestrial TV decoders) were supplying set-top boxes with inbuilt recording capability, so having a standalone recorder wasn't a necessity. 2A02:C7C:C429:CF00:C0B1:9CC3:3D77:4618 (talk) 14:39, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Distribution Video Audio, Inc.
The article, "VHS era is winding down" was published December 2008 and not October. That is the reference of the sentence mentioning that company and mentioned in the "Modern Use" section. That is reference nine. Should we say it was December when the company stopped shipping VHS tapes to America? Never mind. I found the quote "On a crisp Friday morning in October, the final truckload of VHS tapes rolled out of a Palm Harbor, Fla., warehouse run by Ryan J. Kugler, the last major supplier of the tapes.". This means it was a Palm Harbor, Fla. warehouse where the last batch of VHS tapes were shipped from. @Evope (talk) 21:03, 18 November 2023 (UTC)