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 ...

I realize that people tend to lose track of time as they get older, but has it really been that long since the introduction of DVD? It has only been a couple of years since the medium really took off, ...

Sony will stop making Betamax tapes next year. Who knew they still were? VHS tapes dominated the market from the 1980s until the DVD, and they're now disappearing with downloads. We're joined by Bill ...

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 ...

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 ...