The only problem is that you donīt find now the parts for when it break or need the (reading)head replace, as how it work "rubbing" the tape, is natural it getting weared and need to be replaced.

I donīt have anything against vhs, sometimes I even watch some old movies that werenot released in digital format here in vhs, but we need to admit that bluray are much, much more better in picture and sound quality and even the bônus material, that some times are presented in dvd quaality, but are exclusive for bluray.

For you that are in europe, it also fix the TERRIBLY ANOYING movie 4% speed up (you there in europe always watching the movies with this speed up, may be already familiar with it, but we that always used ntsc (which decrease the movie speed in 0,04%, basically the diference between cinema speed to ntsc speed is pratically unperceptible) when watching same movie with the pal version disc is terribly anoying, the voices seems pitched, its a terror...

Well, if i bought a "media format" which i could not watch, i would be very upset, when i was child, my parents gone to europe and bringed to me aladdin from Portugal, when i tried to play it here, it, of course, not played in my pal-m vcr, i become so upset that i destroyed the tape...

For me, bluray is a quite nice format, its nice to handle, nice to create the disc, the subtitles, has enhanced quality and universal compatibility, and, at least here in brazil, their prices are getting the same as dvds, so what more i could ask?