There isn’t much to miss about old-school VHS tapes. They are fuzzy, show static, have bad audio, and are generally difficult to navigate around — remember having to hold down the button on the VCR to ...

In 1956, the first video tape recorders hit the market. It was almost another 10 years before they became part of "home entertainment." Bet you've still got a few VHS tapes lying around… Video has ...

The video boom of the eighties and nineties had one rather untidy consequence - an unsightly pile of VHS tapes in every living room around the country, most probably full of stuff you might not have ...

Now that high-fidelity videocassette recorders in the VHS format are one year old, the hi-fi sound option no longer can be regarded as exclusively a frill for consumers with deep pockets. Like earlier ...

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio tape ...

Mark DeLoura still owns a VCR, but he can't recall the last time he actually videotaped a show. After all, the San Francisco resident has found a replacement to the old analog videotapes -- he has ...

A Blu-ray disc recorder and a VHS video tape machine may seem unlikely bedfellows, but that hasn’t stopped Panasonic from wrapping them up together in the same box for the DMR-BR630V. The 630V can ...

In a world where the pocket calculator was as close as many of us got to technology, the video recorder seemed like it had come from outer space (or possibly off the set of Tomorrow's World). Did you ...

It's just been revealed that the world's last VHS video recorder will roll off production lines in Japan later this month. Nowadays it would take a hard disk crash to wipe out all your data, but in ...

Sometimes history works this way. A seemingly minor decision-a decision made on the spur of the moment by millions of Americans far back in time (the early 1980s)-returns to haunt those millions of ...