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A resurgence in VHS tapes and physical media is breathing new life into a format many thought was gone for good.

VHS” was a slur, code for largely terrible bargain bucket movies made for next to nothing yet sporting wildly-overpromising covers. Today, it’s not even a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been half a century since the VHS (Video Home System) tape was introduced to the world, allowing movie lovers to watch their ...

It's about a lot more than the convenience of streaming.

Time stops for no one, and for no technology. There was a time when you probably preserved family memories by saving them to videotape, but videotape is now completely obsolete. If you’re like a lot ...

This month, the world’s last manufacturer of VCRs will manufacture its last VCR. Sure, you won’t notice that they’re gone. But it’s a good time to remember what they meant when they were here. VCRs ...

Scroll through the deceivingly “endless” options on streaming sites — all of them at the touch of a button — and you may find it difficult to imagine that there are cinephiles out there who prefer to ...

After a long day at the office, Hannah Johnson, a deputy county prosecutor in Indiana, likes to unwind with a movie — so she throws one of the nearly 200 VHS tapes she owns into her VCR player.

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 ...

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