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 ...

Funai Electric, the last Japanese company to manufacture VCRs, is shutting down production after 33 years. The company will make its final video recorder this month, before following the rest of the ...

Director Josh Johnson's doc is a love letter to the outdated medium and explores how VHS revolutionized people's relationship with media. By Joshua Stecker Rewind This! Still - H 2013 AUSTIN — While ...

Restored versions of two great films come to SIFF Cinema at the Uptown this week: “The Great Escape,” the 1963 tale of rebellious POWs starring Steve McQueen, and David Lean’s 1957 war epic “The ...

Most of us stopped using video cassette recorders a very, very long time ago. By 2008, DVD had officially replaced VHS as the preferred home media format, and the glory days of the 1980s—when VHS and ...

Manufacturing on the painfully-slow-to-rewind machines will conclude at the end of the month, according to Japanese website Nikkei. Funai Electric, the only remaining manufacturer of VCRs, has been ...

It’s time to bid farewell once and for all to the once precious VCR, well, if you’re one of those few who haven’t yet. The days of the Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) is coming to a quiet end, as the ...

Long relegated to an obscure corner of the collectibles market, VHS tapes have been fetching eye-popping prices at auctions in recent months, thanks to nostalgia and an appetite for new investment ...

As of this summer, consumers in Japan were able to purchase prerecorded Super VHS copies of Paramount`s ”Beverly Hills Cop II” and ”The Untouchables” for about $126, a standard price for top titles ...

The global sales of Japan's animation industry reached an astonishing $80 billion in 2004, 10 times what they were a decade before. It has won this worldwide success in part because Japanese media ...