When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Videotape still stores the intellectual assets of several generations of television production.

A machine that records audio or video onto magnetic tape. A tape "recorder" or tape "deck" generally refers to earlier analog devices, such as a VHS tape recorder. Until the 1990s, analog audio tape ...

AMPEX engineers called their machine the VR-1000; it used a spinning head and ran 2" tape, and would be the first in AMPEX's line of Quadruplex recorders. The team was led by Charles Ginsburg, and on ...

The news has been full of reports that the last company manufacturing consumer VCRs will cease making them this year. I think most of us are surprised that the event is only happening now. After all, ...

The history of VCRs. The technologies behind the creation of VCRs. The VCR’s eventual decline. In today’s world, we rely primarily on streaming services to watch movies and TV shows at HD resolutions.

In the early 1960s, technology companies like Phillips began experimenting with condensing reel-to-reel tape players and recorders into something that could be carried around and used by a layperson.

There isn’t much to miss about old-school VHS tapes. They are fuzzy, show static, have bad audio, and are generally difficult to navigate around — remember having to hold down the button on the VCR to ...