Any VHS format havens left in the world?

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For those who remember the 80s or even 90s well enough, the old VHS video format is long gone from here. Besides eBay (and that can be overwhelming sometimes) are there any havens left for the VHS format? Or has pretty much every place in the world stopped selling, renting or showing VHS tape? I know most that have, even our local mom-and-pop video shop that opened in the early 90s is not renting VHS anymore.

I know that people say DVD is better, but I am looking for ways I can immense myself in my childhood memories.

I would say everyone has stopped selling VHS tapes, it's gone by the wayside now.

Depending on how old your tapes are, they may experience decay. See this: https://www.scancafe.com/image-preserva ... tape-decay

Last I knew, Amazon was still selling VHS tapes.

Since everyone is getting rid of them, you can find them everywhere. I have hundreds.

My local library bookstore sells a lot of VHS tapes. You could probably check yours.

My family and I have a handful of VHS tapes we don't watch anymore. If you ever come to Portland, I can give some to you.

I still use VHS. Why would I pay $14.99 to buy a brand new copy of Mission Impossible, or Speed, or Die Hard, with all the special features and director talk, when I could go to a thrift store and get Die Hard on VHS, in good condition, for 50 cents? Helps my economy. I've got probably 500 tapes. Many action, thriller, some comedy, a few horror. Some recorded with TV shows from many years past. Love those 80s/90s/early 00s commercials. Would like to get those rarer tapes onto DVDs and post the commercials on YouTube sometime. My DVD collection only has maybe 25 movies, mostly same action/thriller genre.
I get my VHS tapes from Goodwill/St Vincent de Paul/Value Village. There are zero video stores where I live anymore, and the local record/CD store is going out of business in a few weeks - I don't know if they have VHS in their backstock. When I lived on the west side of WA there was a record store I'd go to all the time loaded with VHS.

Major studios stopped producing movies on VHS around 2006. DVD had already taken over VHS by 2002-2003, mainly. And someday it will be Blu-Ray taking over DVD. Who knows what's next?