CIRCUIT CITY STORES INC. is the first national retailer to sound such a clear death knell for videotape and the VCR, which has been the dominant form of home video entertainment for almost two decades. Citing steadily increasing consumer hunger for DVDs, which provide higher sound and picture quality, , Circuit City has stopped selling movie videotapes at some stores and will soon discontinue sales at other stores.
“We’re responding to what people are wanting to buy,” said Jim Babb, a Circuit City spokesman. “People have happily embraced DVDs. Our sales have been moving toward DVD for quite some time.”
Circuit City’s decision affirms that consumers are driving another technological transition - much as when eight-track players yielded to cassette tapes and vinyl records succumbed to compact discs.
• Washington Post technology news
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