DVD recorders, often equipped with hard drives, are fast replacing the archaic VHS standard when it comes to archiving our favourite TV shows. The reasoning behind this is clear: aside from the ...

No one loves a bargain quite as much as my mate Neil. He's just discovered there's something better than a VCR-DVD player combo for $99 - and that's a VCR-DVD player combo for nothing. He rang me a ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese electronics maker Funai Electric Co. says it’s yanking the plug on the world’s last video cassette recorder. A company spokesman, who requested anonymity citing company practice, ...

Although DVD players have taken much of the luster away from trusty VCRs, there is still some life in tape-based video, according to vendors going to CES. In fact, 15 million VCRs will be sold in 2002 ...

Court bosses shelled out £9,000 to buy the last remaining VHS recorders in the UK to allow evidence to be played during trials. Officials from the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (SCTS) snapped ...

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 ...

The device could be found in nearly every living room in America between the late 1970s and the turn of the 21st century. Now, after a 30-year hiatus, the videocassette recorder, or VCR, is making a ...

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 ...

Dubai-based expatriates share their memories from a bygone era The unforgettable memories of using a cassette player that came all the way from the US to India and movie days on Betamax and VHS in the ...