While most of the world gave up on VHS years ago, after the arrival of the DVD, there had been a small number of VHS machines still being made. An outfit called Funai Electric was the last remaining ...

The news has been full of reports that the last company manufacturing consumer VCRs will cease making them this year. I think most of us are surprised that the event is only happening now. After all, ...

One of my earliest memories, from when I was four or five years old, is seeing a cardboard display case decked out with pristine copies of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman movie, complete with the iconic bat ...

I'm going to build a dedicated capturing machine in the (hopefully) near future. Its primary purpose will be to make digital copies of family VHS tapes and since I can't afford a high end edit deck, I ...

Benny Safdie and Dwayne Johnson unveiled the innovative filming techniques behind 'The Smashing Machine' in a conversation with A24. Safdie detailed the use of VHS, 16mm, and 65mm formats to enhance ...

JVC walked away with all the glory for developing Super VHS (S-VHS). After all, the VHS video system was mostly developed by JVC, and JVC does control the licensing of it. But remember, it takes two ...

When Sony’s Betamax video recorder made its U.S. debut in 1975, it was a cutting-edge technology that brought amazing change to American households. People who got a Betamax machine no longer needed ...

Supposedly the VCR wars are past the stage at which the leading question is Beta or VHS. Despite repeated and convincing claims of Beta`s technical superiority, VHS has won the war, outselling Beta by ...

A few days ago I reviewed the lackluster DVR4000, another Go-Video combination deck. The DVR4000 was a DVD player avec VHS deck, so it was a different type of animal than the machine at hand, but it ...

Streaming has given audiences more choices than ever to watch movies and TV shows. Now, viewers have to decide which streaming services to subscribe to if they can’t afford them all. The onus remains ...