I stopped using VHS in 2001. However movies were still being made on this format up until 2005-2006. I can't remember anyone I know using VHS after 2002. I've always wondered why they were being released when DVD was the norm and easily affordable.

I don't recall even seeing VHS in the stores in 2003.Maybe I didn't notice them at the time. Not sure

I stopped buying VHS releases from movies in early 2003, so exactly 10 years ago. The last one was Spider-Man I.

However I used VHS for recording from TV a bit longer. Probably until most stuff was also regularly available on the internet directly after it was broadcasted on TV (mid-late 00s).

I stopped in the late 90's.

We got DVD in 2001.

So the last time I rented a VHS was probably in 2000

I stopped renting videos in the early 2000's cause I lost interest in it.

I actually got a brand new VCR for my birthday in 2001 because my older one tore up. I got a PlayStation 2 for Christmas that same year (which, of course, included a built-in DVD player) and gradually stopped buying movies on VHS in favor of buying them on DVD after that. I did still use my VCR to record shows or movies off TV up until about 2004 or so though.

I actually got a brand new VCR for my birthday in 2001 because my older one tore up.


Yeah, I would say that 2001 was definitely still a time when VHS was big. At least here in Germany for and in private households; especially for recording. I always hated these DVD recorders. They were very slow and VHS was way more spontanous if you wanted to record something, even though the quality was worse.

BTW: My mum still thinks that VHS is the best, because you can carry VHS tapes wherever you want to and HDD recorders are mostly fixed under one and the same TV set.

Yeah, I would say that 2001 was definitely still a time when VHS was big.

and after that people started owning DVD players and then when you bought a PS3 you had Netflix and then Blockbusters slowly went out of business.

2003 was the last time I bought a VHS. However, I was still recording award shows and the like up to the mid/late 2000s.

My family was pretty slow to embrace the change from VHS to DVD. I didn't start buying DVDs until late 2004, which might have actually been slightly before my family got our first DVD player. Before that we had my brother's PS2 which could play DVDs, but I don't think we utilized it for that very much.

I also remember buying a TV with a built-in VHS player in early '04.

I first heard about a DVD in the fall of 1997 via a McDonald's promotional game (similar to Monopoly, but a little different) in which it was one of the prizes. That said, I just thought of it as this cool gizmo but wasn't aware of how it worked. I never actually saw one used until 2001 when my uncle had one. In the fall of 2002 my parents finally purchased their first DVD player. From then onwards all new movies were purchased on DVD. But I still recorded TV shows via VHS until 2007. Also, my high school graduation video from 2003 was via VHS (too bad the video quality is poor), along with a couple of dance/music VHS tapes with my sister around that time. I still find VHS appealing for collecting out of print titles that were never released to DVD or digital, especially if nobody has uploaded it online, and a trip to the thrift store or at a garage/library sale may reveal some gems. 

I first heard about a DVD in the fall of 1997 via a McDonald's promotional game (similar to Monopoly, but a little different) in which it was one of the prizes. That said, I just thought of it as this cool gizmo but wasn't aware of how it worked. I never actually saw one used until 2001 when my uncle had one. In the fall of 2002 my parents finally purchased their first DVD player. From then onwards all new movies were purchased on DVD. But I still recorded TV shows via VHS until 2007. Also, my high school graduation video from 2003 was via VHS (too bad the video quality is poor), along with a couple of dance/music VHS tapes with my sister around that time. I still find VHS appealing for collecting out of print titles that were never released to DVD or digital, especially if nobody has uploaded it online, and a trip to the thrift store or at a garage/library sale may reveal some gems.


2001 for me.  I do remember that Mcdonalds game.

A little bit like circa 2000, I actually got my first DVD player in like '99 though. However, I did record stuff off TV using VHS until 2004/05, when I got a DVR.

I rented them but it was rare because I lost interest in them.

2001 for me.  I do remember that Mcdonalds game.


The Monopoly game from McDonalds.

Our family rented VHS until about 2005.

I still bought blank VHS tapes in 2006 (and later).

Either in 2003 or 2004 is when my Blockbuster stopped selling VHS, which devestated me as a kid, because my childhood from 1998-2002/stretch to 2003, not as much was Blockbuster Pizza, food shopping, play rented VHS/Video game

They had DVD, and I was capable of playing them as I had a PS2, however I didn't like DVDs, I liked VHS, this continued until about 2010 when I put down the biased and just got into DVD and Bluray.