When you think of the home video format of choice in decades past, what comes to mind first? For many, it's the bulky, plastic VHS tapes that dominated video rental store shelves for years. VHS tapes ...
LazerDisc and Betamax might have won a few battles, but VHS won the war over the home video market. If you remembered to be kind and rewind, your old VCR tapes might be worth some serious money. From ...
Replay: The 1980's were a hotbed of format wars. How did we survive? And more importantly, did a company really try and sell us a video tape that you could turn over? Phil Rhodes starts a two part ...
A list shows a handful of rare VHS movies and specials that can land a nice sum for owners — potentially even hundreds or thousands of dollars. The original 1982 release of "Star Wars" on VHS (hard ...
Nostalgia can't win here - Way too many sacrifices in picture quality - Technology has advanced too far. VHS has too many downsides compared to modern options. It's better to watch new versions of the ...
VHS tapes might not have undergone a revival in interest like vinyl records or cassette tapes, but plenty of people still have sizable collections of VHS around the world, and there's a niche, but ...
Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor. By Hannah Selinger The last VCR, according ...
After a long day at the office, Hannah Johnson, a deputy county prosecutor in Indiana, likes to unwind with a movie — so she throws one of the nearly 200 VHS tapes she owns into her VCR player. "It's ...
Time stops for no one, and for no technology. There was a time when you probably preserved family memories by saving them to videotape, but videotape is now completely obsolete. If you’re like a lot ...
While DVD and Blu-ray dominate today’s world, VHS tapes ruled supreme in the ’80s and ’90s. It wasn’t uncommon for families to document birthday parties, holidays, sporting events, and other big ...