In 1956, the first video tape recorders hit the market. It was almost another 10 years before they became part of "home entertainment." Bet you've still got a few VHS tapes lying around… Video has ...

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio tape ...

If you were holding onto hope that VHS tapes would one day make a comeback, it's time to let that dream die. That's because there will no longer be a way to play those tapes, unless you still have an ...

There isn’t much to miss about old-school VHS tapes. They are fuzzy, show static, have bad audio, and are generally difficult to navigate around — remember having to hold down the button on the VCR to ...

DORCHESTER, ENGLAND – DECEMBER 01: A Sony Betamax video cassette recorder is displayed at the ‘I Grew Up 80s’ exhibition at Dorset Museum, on December 01, 2022 in Dorchester, Dorset. Exploring the ...

If you’re old enough to remember or have seen the vintage advertisements, then Betamax was a videotape format created by Sony that enabled people to record their favorite programs and rent ...

Pros DVD player, DVD recorder, and VCR in one unit. Automatically skips to start of commercial DVD movies. Accurately detects scene changes on most home videotapes and creates menu of scenes. Plays ...

While numerous streaming services make moving image entertainment available anytime and anywhere thanks to smartphones today, the media industry was quite different in the 1970s. In addition to radio ...