July 7, 2008 When a new technology usurps a previous one there are often casualties. With the downfall of VHS the casualties were the stacks and stacks of VHS cassettes people had collected over the ...

Digitizing old tapes can be a challenge, but after using the Portta VHS converter, I found the process straightforward and mostly hassle-free. It handled VHS, camcorder tapes, and even gaming consoles ...

I wrote recently about a cool converter from Pinnacle that lets you make digital videos out of VHS tapes without the use of a PC or Mac. (The column is here.) I've been asked a couple of times whether ...

Businesses have used video to train employees and teach customers how to use their products for years. If your small business has old training or instructional videos on VHS tape, you might think that ...

VHS has been dead for, what, 10, nine years now? Whatever it is, I bet you still have a few VHS home movies here and there. If they’re not destroyed by now, you should consider transferring them to ...

Back in ancient times, before smartphones and digital cameras, we had picture slides and VHS tapes. And if you’re like us, you have boxes of them stashed away in a closet or your attic. But now ...

This article also appeared in the December 2014 issue of Consumer Reports magazine. Q. I need to convert my VCR tapes to DVDs. Can you recommend a device to do that?—Liss Lieberman, Bay Shore, NY A.

What's to love about videotapes? They take up shelf space, the picture gets grainy after multiple playbacks and they can fade to black after a decade or two. For keepsake videos like a school play or ...

They're right, VHS is just about dead. Sometimes it's hard to even find them in stores. If you've got some home movies though, or anything on a VHS tape you wish to preserve, copying the content over ...

Digital video comes in all shapes and sizes. And depending on where you need to show off your video—the web, a DVD, your iPod, the big screen, etc.—it most likely has to undergo a conversion process ...