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Nah, the peak was in the 2000s with DVDs. Then streaming services started, and the HD disc format war and price hikes for HD discs didn’t help.

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VCR let you record anything. Something on TV you wanted to watch later? Set the timer, it recorded on that channel at that time.

A DVD might have been peak consumer, but it didn't have nearly the versatility of VCR. Hell, I could record 6 hours of content on 1 tape!

I guess it depends on how you define peak. With regard to sales of prerecorded media, DVDs were the peak. For TV recording, DVRs were so much better quality-wise and more convenient than VCRs.

Enshittification already started with DVDs with all the "you can't do that" stuff blocking fast forward etc for parts of the video.

Yeah, I was lucky to have DVD players with a mod chip that defeated those restrictions.

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