Super VHS, or S-VHS, tapes were once popular for recording higher-quality video than standard VHS. They offered better resolution and color fidelity, making them common for home movies and ...

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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 ...

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.

In 2014, a Gallup 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 ...

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 ...

It’s about time you got around to digitizing those prized Full House video tapes you have stashed in the attic. Buffalo’s PC-SDVD/U2G dongle is one of the most efficient ways we’ve seen, connecting to ...