I have to say that VHS is/was a far better format into professional field, rather then DVD. VHS is/was a quick, cheap (and rewritable) tool for directors/producers/musicians/editors for work in progress. When I am into a work, like editing a 50 minutes documentary, I can do a rough copies of it on the fly and it's quicker then all those 'formatting' and 'finalizing', etc of DVD. Now I do dozens of DVDs for whoever is involved into the project, that after a couple of views are just useless pieces of plastic to dump.
But yeah, now everybodys want a DVD, even if I am working at the lowest definition, as usual with big projects.