Tag archive: VHS

It’s strange to think that there are many of us who only have vague memories of VCRs. DVD players were truly introduced to consumers in the mid-to-late 90s, and quickly became the option du jour for home viewing. There was also a small transition period of time when you would find a family’s DVD player sitting slimly atop its VCR, or maybe you glimpsed the brief shelf life of the two-in-one, VCR-DVD combo. At any rate, DVDs spelled the… Read More

Sure, home video might be all the craze now, but it was also the rage back in the Dark Ages, when everyday folks would go around with camcorders loaded with (shudder) videotape and attempt to record important events in their lives for posterity. The systems might have been limited to simple play and record buttons, but sometimes the devices even worked! The problem, of course, is that most people's VCRs have now slipped off their… Read More

VHS tape, the format that for better—and worse—brought video into untold millions of households around the world is finally going the way of the dinosaur…at least in the United States. After the 2008 holiday season, Distribution Audio Video—the last major distributor of VHS tapes in the United States—is finally calling it quits, and will stop distributing VHS tapes. Although Hollywood hasn't released a… Read More

Earlier this month, for the first time ever, consumers rented more DVDs than VHS cassettes, according to the Video Software Dealers Association, a nonprofit entertainment trade association. According to the association, consumers rented 28.2 million DVDs compared to 27.3 million VHS cassettes during the week ended June 15. It is the latest milestone for the digital video disk (DVD) video format, which was first introduced six years ago.… Read More