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 ...

LazerDisc and Betamax might have won a few battles, but VHS won the war over the home video market. If you remembered to be kind and rewind, your old VCR tapes might be worth some serious money. From ...

The last VCR, according to Dave Rodriguez, 33, a digital-repository librarian at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla., was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape ...

These days, video barely exists as a physical medium for most Americans. It streams in ultra high-quality through the air, like magic. For decades, though, video came encased in plastic rectangles ...

A company in Japan only recently realized it was time to stop making Video Home System machines—commonly known as VHS. Japan-based Funai announced earlier in July that it would cease production of its ...

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 enigmatic VCR category may not take center stage at CES 2000, but it will continue to be a noisemaker as vendors look to enhance lines to protect market share in the popular product segment.

You can make it a Blockbuster night again. Years after the demise of the once ubiquitous video rental stores, you can browse and borrow movies on DVDs — and even old-school video cassettes — thanks to ...

1977: The VHS videocassette format is introduced in North America at a press conference before the Consumer Electronics Show starts in Chicago. Long before the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, there ...

40 years after the first VHS video cassette recorder rolled off the production line, the last known company making the devices is ceasing production. According to Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Funai ...