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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...