After three decades of steady if unspectacular service, the spinning
wheels of the home-entertainment stalwart are slowing to a halt at
retail outlets. On a crisp Friday morning in October, the final
truckload of VHS tapes rolled out of a Palm Harbor, Fla., warehouse run
by Ryan J. Kugler, the last major supplier of the tapes.
"It's dead, this is it, this is the last Christmas, without a doubt,"
said Kugler, 34, a Burbank businessman. "I was the last one buying VHS
and the last one selling it, and I'm done. Anything left in warehouse
we'll just give away or throw away."
