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 ...

With many of its 2002 video products starting to ship, JVC invited members of the press to its headquarters for the first formal line review since CES. Among a number of highlights for the television ...

LAS VEGAS — With final agreement on a digital copy-protection system still pending, studio types cast a wary eye on the recordable DVD systems, digital VCRs and growing number of cable and satellite ...

The DR-MV1, with its DVD Recorder and VCR combination, delivers high-resolution PAL/NTSC progressive (625P/525P) pictures. You can dub a program from VHS to DVD or from DVD to VHS with the push of a ...

JVC reinforced its efforts to bring its VHS tape format into the world of digital television by announcing last week the selection of a copy-protection solution for secure prerecorded HDTV tapes. The ...

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 seems VHS will never die, and this is generally welcome, as a lot of good movies aren’t still available on optical discs. In summer 2008, Panasonic released a VHS/Blu-ray combo, followed by Sharp’s ...

Although we're huge fans of convergence around here -- i.e. packing as many functions as possible into a single device -- our love of feature-creep has never extended to VCR / DVD combo units which, ...

Sony has placed the final nail in the Betamax coffin four decades after it launched the format. The electronics giant said it would no longer produce the cassettes in Japan, which is the last country ...

Thomas Worth swears he didn't expect any of this. He never expected that, 10 days after it launched, VHS Camcorder, his goofy $3.99 video app, would be No. 2 on Apple's chart for paid apps, second ...