I don't feel I have to replace everying in my library either. I enjoy both formats...
Heh, heh. I had three Beta machines and just made sure I got plenty of viewings of all my tapes before the last player broke. The quality was not worth transferring to vhs or dvd, for obvious reasons. I started throwing away tapes as I felt I had seen them enough. By the time my last machine was going away I only had my three tapes with James Burke's "Connections" series that I had taped off PBS in 1980. I do kind of miss them, but it is really one of those "absence makes the heart grow fonder" things.
It is all ephemeral to me...