It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that VHS is dead. I mean the last Hollywood movie to be released on VHS was A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. But did you know that there was still a distributor out there specializing in VHS? There is, though I should say there was as even they are throwing in the towel. The last VHS wholesaler in the United States is closing up shop and taking the last of its inventory and either giving it away to charity (libraries, hospitals and the like) or throwing it away. While it’s virtually impossible to find VHS at a Blockbuster or Best Buy, they were still being sold by this company to dollar stores or local grocery stores. Now that there are plenty of budget titles on DVD (the bargain bins of VHS at Wal-Mart have been replaced with $4 DVDs), the market for VHS has dried up and even the dollar stores are having trouble moving titles. As a household that still has a bunch of VHS tapes, it’ll be sad to see the old girl go. I still remember renting movies from the local video store (before there was even a Blockbuster), setting up two VCRs and taping my own copy of a movie from the rental copy. It was a good racket before the days of DRM. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before we look back at DVDs with nothing more than a bit of nostalgia and wonder how we ever survived…