"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 -- ...

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 ...

Google is well known for celebrating both high-profile and obscure anniversaries (Bernardo Alberto Houssay’s 126th Birthday, anyone?) and it seems that its YouTube division is no different. The 57th ...

The history of VCRs. The technologies behind the creation of VCRs. The VCR’s eventual decline. In today’s world, we rely primarily on streaming services to watch movies and TV shows at HD resolutions.

Stranger Things on VHS is now available—well, kind of. The Netflix original hit series has a collector's edition for its Season 1 DVD and Blu-ray release: video cassette tape–inspired packaging. The ...

Enable Tape Mode: Watch YouTube Become a Really Bad VCR Player Ever been watching a HD YouTube video and wondered what it would look like in crappy VHS quality? Me neither. But someone at YouTube did, ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese electronics maker Funai Electric Co. says it’s yanking the plug on the world’s last video cassette recorder. A company spokesman, who requested anonymity citing company practice, ...

The news has been full of reports that the last company manufacturing consumer VCRs will cease making them this year. I think most of us are surprised that the event is only happening now. After all, ...