Breakout Ep. 9: RIP VHS

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As the last video recorder rolls off the production line, we get all sentimental about the humble VHS videotape – sharing our memories, our histories and, for some people, distaste towards the 40-year old format.

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Mentioned in the podcast

• BBC News: Japan ‘to stop making VCR machines’
• EngineerGuy: How Sony’s Betamax lost to JVC’s VHS Cassette Recorder
• A Drop To Drink & The Stop-Motion Adventures of Pony (coming soon)
• Techmoan – Retro-Tech: When HD Movies came out on VHS
• BBC Academy – Digitizing the BBC Archive
• Doctor Who Missing Episodes
• IMDb: Masters of Menace
• Stan VHS – The modern movies and series adapted on good old VHS Tapes
• Dude Bro Party Massacre III
• ‘Trashing’ the Academy : Jeffery Scourse
• The Amstrad Double Decker VHS Recorder

Both ‘A Drop To Drink’ and the stop motion adventures of Pony will be online soon.