{"id":15866,"date":"2002-06-18T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-18T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/18\/circuit-city-is-starting-to-phase-out-vhs-movies\/"},"modified":"2002-06-18T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-18T11:25:00","slug":"circuit-city-is-starting-to-phase-out-vhs-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/18\/circuit-city-is-starting-to-phase-out-vhs-movies\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Circuit City is starting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videobusiness.com\/news\/061402_circuitcity_vhs.asp\" target=\"_blank\">phase out VHS movies<\/a>.  Is this the first death knell for VHS or just a electronics retailer trying to maximize its profits?  I have a feeling that it&rsquo;s a bit of both, but this reminds me of the mid- to late-80s when certain albums were beginning to be released as CD-only instead of on cassette tapes (and vinyl).<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-77884856?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circuit City is starting to phase out VHS movies. Is this the first death knell for VHS or just a electronics retailer trying to maximize its profits? I have a feeling that it&rsquo;s a bit of both, but this reminds me of the mid- to late-80s when certain albums were beginning to be released as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/18\/circuit-city-is-starting-to-phase-out-vhs-movies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}