[ams6110]

I do have to say that I for one preferred video cassette tapes to DVDs. Yes the video quality is lower but VHS HiFi audio was quite good. In my experience the cassettes were much more resistant to careless handling especially by kids than DVDs were. For me that more than offset the better picture quality of DVDs (which really wasn't that noticable in the days when a 19" CRT was considered a pretty big screen.

Even if a tape did get a dirty spot it could generally play through it and you'd notice a degraded picture for a second or two. A scratch on a DVD often rendered the entire movie unplayable. Cassette audio tapes had this same advantage over CDs.

That said, I prefer streaming to either one by a huge margin. Hard to believe that we used to pay more for a single movie than a Netflix subscription costs for a month.