Thank you for this thread. I have old VHS tapes that I don't watch anymore. All the movies can be rented on DVD. I have been planning to recycle my old VHS. I got rid of all my cassette tapes and cassette player along time ago. The same goes with vinyl albums. Eight tracks were before my time. I imagine CD's and DVD will soon undergo the same type of death as their older relatives.

As a practical matter, all my working media is located between my computer's hard drive, an external hard drive, CD's, DVD's and a remote online backup system. The CD's and DVD's are slowly receiving less and less usage. I don't yet own a Blu-ray player. Hopefully, I'll be able to skip that and download Blu-ray media straight from the Internet to an HDTV. Generally, discs are becoming a cumbersome, outdated way of dealing with media.

Don't give up on those VHS tapes too soon. My local library has gone into DVDs, and a lot of people focus on borrowing them exclusively, but they still have an extensive collection of VHS tapes that get far less use. Lots of good stuff.

I've borrowed episodes of Red Dwarf and a load of westerns on VHS. They are fun and easy to exercise to. Laughing while exercising increases the aerobic effort. Its all good.