When Nicole Wiegand wants to relax, she reaches back to 1987. Most evenings, Ms. Wiegand, a 37-year-old owner of an art store in Philadelphia, browses her extensive video collection, pops one into a ...
AUSTIN, Texas – In a world of Netflix queues, iTunes movie rentals, and 3-D IMAX screenings, there are still purists who believe that the best way to watch entertainment is the VHS tape. And many of ...
While VHS might be dead, according to former Colbert Report/Daily Show writer Eric Drysdale, tape rewinders are alive and well, brimming with new features designed for the internet age. [Funny or Die] ...
According to the Los Angeles Times, Distribution Video Audio in Burbank, Calif., shipped its final truckload of VHS tapes in October -- the last time it plans to make VHS shipments, and the last major ...
"They've made it so simple to use, the cat could operate it." One of the many great documentaries playing the upcoming SXSW Film Festival is a small indie doc we've been following closely for over a ...
VHS -- the beloved videotape format that bravely won the war against Betamax and charmed millions of Americans by allowing them to enjoy mindless Hollywood entertainment without leaving their homes -- ...
WASHINGTON — “What is this?” asks a young, hip, bearded dad. “It’s a CD!” says his young daughter. Actually, it’s a VHS tape. The family is gathered in the back room of Comet Ping Pong in Northwest ...
One of my earliest memories, from when I was four or five years old, is seeing a cardboard display case decked out with pristine copies of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman movie, complete with the iconic bat ...
I admit it, I’m a sentimental old fart. I get choked up and maudlin very often, when I think of family and friends, a moment in time when I realized the tragedy life can bring to us, or the joy. I ...
Following up from part one of raiding Dan Pheos' basement, this episode dives into rare VHS tapes from yesteryear. When you start off with the Photosynthesis Orange tape, you know it's going to be a ...
The thought that today’s kids will certainly have no concept of what VHS cassettes were is a little sad for those of us who grew up taping TV, rewinding movies, and messing with that mysterious ...