Every day for more than 30 years, Marion Stokes recorded the news. That simple act turned her into both a preservationist and an activist, and her life's work — collected over an archive of 70,000 VHS ...

One of the most poignant and melancholy moments in Close Encounters of the Third Kind is Richard Dreyfuss sculpting his mashed potatoes in the shape of Devil’s Tower. “This means something. It’s ...

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 ...

In a storage unit somewhere in Philadelphia, 140,000 VHS tapes sit packed into four shipping containers. Most are hand-labeled with a date between 1977 and 2012, and if you pop one into a VCR you ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manufacturing on the painfully-slow-to-rewind machines will conclude at the end of the month, according to Japanese website Nikkei. Funai Electric, the only remaining manufacturer of VCRs, has been ...