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Time keeps moving forward, and old technologies like VHS tapes are fading away. Many of us have tapes full of family memories, but without a VCR, we can’t watch them anymore. These tapes are in danger ...

I cleaned out a cabinet a few years ago and found a stack of old Super 8 tapes. I’ll never forget the way Mom’s face lit up after I digitized videos of her late brother Harold Jr.’s wedding.

Hi everyone! I’m a video editor, and I’ve spent years working with old tapes, film, and all kinds of tricky formats. A little ...

Family memories are priceless, but once you convert your family’s home videos to digital, it’s apparent how expensive they can be. Changing technology has left many with home videos that are unable to ...

Plenty of people chronicle their lives in pictures and videos, but changing times have also led to changing formats. A lot of families have captured important moments on film and VHS, but who even ...

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.

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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 ...

In 2014, a poll found that 58% of Americans still had a VHS player, but that number had dropped from 88% in 2005. The decrease is mainly because more people are using digital and streaming media ...

North Little Rock High School senior Charles Robinson popped in a VHS videocassette tape, then turned on a DVD converter. In seconds, an Oct. 25, 2004, City Council meeting appeared on an adjacent ...