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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

While many people remember recording with VHS, Sony’s Betamax video recorder, which debuted before VHS, has less of an imprint on the public’s pop culture memory. Betamax had a higher resolution than ...

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 ...