Here’s a new device that can help those who still sit on precious VHS cassettes that never made it onto discs. JVC announced [JP] the SR-HV250 for the Japanese market today, a Blu-ray/DVD recorder, ...

Although we're huge fans of convergence around here -- i.e. packing as many functions as possible into a single device -- our love of feature-creep has never extended to VCR / DVD combo units which, ...

It seems VHS will never die, and this is generally welcome, as a lot of good movies aren’t still available on optical discs. In summer 2008, Panasonic released a VHS/Blu-ray combo, followed by Sharp’s ...

JVC’s HR-XVC1U DVD/VCR combo is selling like crazy at Amazon – sales went up 619% today. Amazon Get the best tech, science, and culture news in your inbox daily. News from the future, delivered to ...

Although DVD players dropped below the magic $100 barrier some time ago, they have only just caught up with the VCR, according to Nielsen. The media tracking firm says that DVD player ownership has ...

If you still haven't learned how to programme your video recorder, don't bother. The death knell was sounded yesterday in the long, slow demise of VHS when Dixons announced it was ending sales of one ...

Whoever said "technology marches on" must have been kidding. Technology doesn't march; it sprints, dashes and zooms. That relentless pace renders our storage media obsolete with appalling speed: ...