--- Forwarded Message from "David Flores" <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:20:35 -0500 >From: "David Flores" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: The death of VHS is upon us! For some odd reason two of our three Samsung SV-5000W multi-standard VHS players died at about the same time a few weeks ago, so I called Samsung, got an RMA and sent one off to be repaired. Well, today I got a call from Samsung informing me that the unit cannot be repaired and that they're refunding the repair cost. From a brief chat with the Samsung rep. I came away with the impression that we've pretty much reached the end of the line as far as these units go. Samsung doesn't seem to even have much in the way of parts left to service them. They're also not selling anything in the way of a replacement. So it looks like you should begin converting your foreign video holdings now, if you've still got some and want to be able to play them back in the future. If VHS hasn't yet fallen under the "obsolete format" exemption to the DMCA, then I suspect it will shortly. David Flores Director: Language Learning Center Loyola College in Maryland 4501 North Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21210 Ph: (410) 617-5230 Fax: (410) 617 2859 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************