Although not openly discussed at its recent dealer meetings, JVC has quietly returned to the Super VHS camcorder business with two models that use the ET (Extended Technology) recording system. JVC ...

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 ...

We were fully prepared to start harshing on VHS as a dead-end technology that never went anywhere during its time in retail (as a joke, of course), and out of nowhere, a bona fide tear slowly ran down ...

JVC has stopped making standalone VCR machines, and at the same time confirmed the fearful paranoia of my own rather forward thinking Father. My Dad has a big collection of videotapes, mostly off-air ...

The DR-MV1, with its DVD Recorder and VCR combination, delivers high-resolution PAL/NTSC progressive (625P/525P) pictures. You can dub a program from VHS to DVD or from DVD to VHS with the push of a ...

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, ...

Ok I have a JVC Super VHS Videomovie GR-SX90 and now when I turn it on and try to play a tape or record something after a few seconds I get a white screen with an "E 01" flashing and I hear a buzzing ...

1977: The VHS videocassette format is introduced in North America at a press conference before the Consumer Electronics Show starts in Chicago. Long before the battle between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, there ...

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 ...

Sony has placed the final nail in the Betamax coffin four decades after it launched the format. The electronics giant said it would no longer produce the cassettes in Japan, which is the last country ...