These 10 technological marvels had cultural implications that its inventors could barely have imagined.
The history of VCRs. The technologies behind the creation of VCRs. The VCR’s eventual decline. In today’s world, we rely primarily on streaming services to watch movies and TV shows at HD resolutions.
TOKYO — The clunky videocassette recorder is going the way of floppy disks, eight-track tapes and camera film as the world’s last manufacturer ends production of the once booming home-video technology ...
The first step will be finding a working VHS player. Then the question is: Will the 25-year-old videocassette still play? Most of the items pulled Friday from Youngwood’s 1999 centennial time capsule ...
It’s hard to remember now just how revolutionary VCRs and videocassettes were when they became widely available in the mid-1980s. Before then, if you wanted to see an older movie, you would mostly ...
Another year, another group of directors willing to handcuff themselves to the found-footage-short format dictated by the V/H/S anthology franchise, which is back with its sixth installment, V/H/S/85 ...
Collectors are finding that their childhood has a price — and it’s going up. When the future is frightening, it’s boom times at the nostalgia factory. Credit...Zerb Mellish for The New York Times ...
New York, United States: Long relegated to an obscure corner of the collectibles market, VHS tapes have been fetching eye-popping prices at auctions in recent months, thanks to nostalgia and an ...
(NEXSTAR) — We were all such fools to actually open and watch our VHS tapes back in the ‘80s. A sealed copy of “Back to the Future” on VHS sold for $75,000 at the first-ever VHS-only auction last week ...