Death of the Video Tape...How long until DVD's are next?

Well, it's safe to say RIP to the video tape.
Over the year, video players have been disappearing across my university to make way for top quality DVD players. Let's face it, they've been dead for years now, nobody uses them anymore, at least not very often.
Back home we still have a huge pile of video tapes of great films ranging from Disney classics like The Lion King and Jungle Book, to Eastenders videos and some wrestling ppvs. In a way they show a bit of our history and for people my age, they show our childhood. I remember the days before things like Sky Plus; I used to record my favourite shows on a video tape so that I could watch them again later.

It makes me feel old thinking that they were the way to watch your favourite shows and films whenever you wanted - now it's become so easy. When you finished watching a video you had to actually rewind it if you wanted to watch it again, and it made that loud rewinding noise while you waited.
You couldn't skip scenes; you had to fast forward to where you wanted it to be. Those were the days...

Thinking about it, DVD already look like they're going to be making their way out the door sooner rather than later.

Digital copies are slowly growing in popularity as they enable you to watch content 'on the move', although is that really a good thing. Music is great on the go, because you can still keep focus on what you're doing, but tv shows and films usually require a lot more attention.
Blu-Ray is also becoming a challenger to the DVD, but the obvious safety net is that you can play DVD's on a Blu-Ray player.

They can certainly still put up a fight, I know a lot of people that still buy them instead of a digital copy. But we can be certain that sooner or later they'll fade away just like the video tapes. And then I'll just feel really old - all over again...

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