thats interesting, im over in england and VHS is still common. a player can be picked up for about £40 which is roughly $55 - 60 in your money i think.

however there are still the top of the range ones available and lots of videos to choose from as well as dvds.

in my local Apollo video rental shop, there is one shelf of DVDs and the entire rest of the shop is VHS. mind you thats a bit rubbish our local one, the best is probably blockbuster but even they have more vhs than dvd.

I dunno, maybe america are moving with the times faster than us. its a shame, because vhs are getting cheaper and cheaper to buy, and sometimes i like to buy a film but maybe not enough to buy it on dvd...
we will have to see how vhs is doing as we approach christmas, etc