but tons of people still have plenty of VHS they want to see so they still get used
They still have usable data on them? They were magnetic and one weak point was cross-magnetizitation on the reel, causing ghost images. What was that defect called again? And the magnetizitation holds 30 years otherwise?
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Capitalist propaganda. Rare garbage is still garbage. The desire has to be there and often isn’t. But capitalist ideas say you have to hoard for potential.
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That seems the exact opposite of capitalism? I would assume capitalist propaganda encourages you to throw away old things and buy new. Preserving old things is antithetical to that
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
There can still be value in some old things like maintaining old equipment or preserving old media. The demand may have collapsed, but it didn’t collapse to zero.