Obituary for VHS

Gina Green, my administrative assistant, sent an email with the obituary for VHS. This will make my 3-year-old-as-of-tomorrow son very sad, since he can do the VCR at home by himself (despite his parents telling him "no touch" or "wait"), but the DVD player is out of his reach. Here's the shortened version of the obit:

After a long illness, the groundbreaking home-entertainment format VHS has died of natural causes in the United States. The format was 30 years old." The newspaper notes that VHS " is survived by a child, DVD, and by TiVo, VOD and DirecTV" and was preceded in death by Betamax, Divx, mini-discs and laserdiscs. The paper said that while VHS had been ailing, the format's death became official this quarter as retailers decided to pull the plug, saying shelf space was no longer available. Surviving VHS tapes may be found in toy stores or some dollar video chains "for those who cannot deal with the death of the format."