When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. JVC has ceased production of its single remaining VHS player after a successful run of 32 years.

JVC has stopped making standalone VCR machines, and at the same time confirmed the fearful paranoia of my own rather forward thinking Father. My Dad has a big collection of videotapes, mostly off-air ...

Jay Leno never looked better in the morning. Recorded with the Super VHS JVC HR-S6600U, ”The Tonight Show” looks great during the day and ”The Today Show” looks great at night. With only a few dozen ...

It’s a little silly to lament the demise of a technology that has been well-demised for years. But last week’s announcement that production will cease within days at the last Japanese factory ...

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 ...

When was the last time you watched a VHS tape? Someone out there is certainly still using them — some 750,000 units were sold last year alone. But it’s the end of the line for the old format, as Funai ...

Videotapes and the VCRs they're played on first appeared in the United States in 1977, the same year "Star Wars" was released. However, the technology had been available in Japan since 1971 when the ...

NEW YORK, June 14, 2005 — Two new matchbook-size digital audio players have been announced by JVC, one with 1 gigabytes (GB) of storage and another with a capacity of 512 megabytes. The two flash ...

In November 2015, Sony finally announced that it would stop selling Betamax video cassettes. By this time, its battle for dominance with the rival VHS format from rival JVC was already lost. The story ...

Four movie studios will start releasing films on the secure version of a new digital videotape format called D-VHS. Artisan Entertainment, DreamWorks SKG, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Studios ...