The video store, as it is nostalgically remembered, looks like a record shop, or a hookah parlor. Staffed by scruffy burners or neo-hippies who “really know their stuff,” splayed with shelves at all ...

"Be kind. Rewind." Remember that? — -- Don’t adjust your monitor -- you’re reading this right: the VCR is dead. Or, it’s soon to be. For those of you who may have fond -- or not-so-fond -- ...

If you have a video recorded on VHS tape in a VCR, you can watch it on your MacBook Pro. Because VHS tapes are prone to damage and deterioration, people sometimes record the video from the output of a ...

The videocassette recorder that revolutionized home entertainment by allowing television audiences to capture their favorite shows on tape and watch them at their leisure will die at the end of the ...

I was going to say let's pour one out for the VCR and VHS, but you probably did so a long time ago. Funai Electric, the last remaining producer of VCRs, will throw in the towel by the end of July.

I've tested and reviewed tech, pet, fitness and home gear for decades. Time stops for no one, and for no technology. There was a time when you probably preserved family memories by saving them to ...

If National VCR Day has you wondering what to do with your old VHS tapes, look no further. Since the popularity of DVDs — and especially now, in the age of streaming — VCRs aren’t the primary way for ...

The VCR is officially going the way of the Betamax and LaserDisc: into the technology graveyard. Funai Electric, a Japanese electronics company that may be the last VCR-maker in the world, announced ...

The advent of television in the American home in the late 1940s and its dramatic adoption throughout the 1950s offered a whole new entertainment portal for Americans, who had grown accustomed to radio ...