Did the VHS and DVD save many movies from being lost?

So many movies before talkies (and some during the start of talkies) were lost...

What is a lost film? It means what the title says. A movie is lost, unaccounted for or destroyed.

Preservation wasn't in effect at that time. They had to get rid of movies to make room for more, and they didn't deem the movies worth keeping. Some were accidentally destroyed in fires (because the old film they used were highly flammable).

But television, VHS, and DVD may have helped save more movies from being lost...because now they have a purpose.

Lets face it, not everyone, especially the industry, has much respect for old films. only a few films deserve the honor of being lost (but sadly the movies that most deserve being destroyed have been preserved).

But now that one can have a copy of a movie or people putting them up illegally a movie is less likely now to be a lost film....