The VHS era is coming to an end, as the last major supplier of the format's tapes stopped shipping them to retailers in October. "It's dead, this is it, this is the last Christmas, without a doubt," said Ryan J. Kugler, president and co-owner of Distribution Video Audio. "I was the last one buying VHS and the last one selling it, and I'm done. Anything left in warehouse we'll just give away or throw away."

It had to happen, with people demanding higher quality video for thier movie watching and the space wasting form factor, VHS' death toll was ringing for years now. So this is it, 2008 saw the end of a several video formats HD-DVD and VHS. Now let's see if standard DVD can last out 2009 against Blu-ray DVD.