JVC has ceased production of its single remaining VHS player after a successful run of 32 years. The player, long ago technically obsolete, was made primarily to service older, supplementary ...

In addition to unveiling its first I’ART flat-screen direct-view HDTV monitor (see TWICE, Sept. 3, 2001, p. 8), JVC of America used CEDIA Expo to announce plans for its first HDTV-capable D-VHS VCR.

Consumers spent more than $23 billion dollars on DVDs last year. And if you haven't switched from VHS to DVD yet, now may be the time, suggests CBS News Science and Technology correspondent Daniel ...

Formats never truly die, but their eras always have a few painful stages of decline. First, there’s the arrival of a promising new competitor, then its steady rise, which is invariably followed by a ...

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 ...

It's the end of an era as the sole surviving manufacturer of VCR machines has confirmed it will be ending production. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

I have this love/hate relationship with format wars. No, it’s not reality television versus talk shows, or Top 40 radio against “the best of the ’80s—and more!” The wars I’m thinking about pit ...

When you think of the home video format of choice in decades past, what comes to mind first? For many, it's the bulky, plastic VHS tapes that dominated video rental store shelves for years. VHS tapes ...