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.

We live in a world today where the option to watch a film is literally at our fingertips, where you can download The Super Mario Bros. Movie while waiting for Junior to wrap up soccer practice. In ...

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“Uncharted” from Sony Pictures holds on to the top position at the U.S. box office for the second straight weekend. “The Batman” from Warner Bros. will debute in theaters this coming weekend, with ...

Nothing quite says the 1970s like Harvest Gold and TVs in giant wooden boxes. Image: Avco Corp. / Iveldre At first glance, this might look like any old 1970s television, its modest-sized screen ...

Competing formats have contributed to the confusion of videophiles since Cartrivision and other aborted half-inch tape systems reared their rotary heads in the early ’70s. Even though VHS has emerged ...

I feel a little bad picking on cave paintings and petroglyphs. They're the oldest known forms of symbolic communication and everybody has to start somewhere. The problem with cave paintings and ...

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 ...

Replay: The 1980's were a hotbed of format wars. How did we survive? And more importantly, did a company really try and sell us a video tape that you could turn over? Phil Rhodes starts a two part ...

Born in Auburn, Alabama, moved to Madison, Wisconsin while his father received a PHD degree in Animal Science until 1952. Then at age 5 his family moved to Athens, Georgia where his father became a ...