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 ...

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 ...

Digitizing old tapes can be a challenge, but after using the Portta VHS converter, I found the process straightforward and mostly hassle-free. It handled VHS, camcorder tapes, and even gaming consoles ...

Businesses have used video to train employees and teach customers how to use their products for years. If your small business has old training or instructional videos on VHS tape, you might think that ...

I wrote recently about a cool converter from Pinnacle that lets you make digital videos out of VHS tapes without the use of a PC or Mac. (The column is here.) I've been asked a couple of times whether ...

Back in ancient times, before smartphones and digital cameras, we had picture slides and VHS tapes. And if you’re like us, you have boxes of them stashed away in a closet or your attic. But now ...

VHS has been dead for, what, 10, nine years now? Whatever it is, I bet you still have a few VHS home movies here and there. If they’re not destroyed by now, you should consider transferring them to ...

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.

What's to love about videotapes? They take up shelf space, the picture gets grainy after multiple playbacks and they can fade to black after a decade or two. For keepsake videos like a school play or ...

Digital video comes in all shapes and sizes. And depending on where you need to show off your video—the web, a DVD, your iPod, the big screen, etc.—it most likely has to undergo a conversion process ...

I have a client that has a video tape they want their family to view.<BR><BR>Trouble is, the family is in Russia (or what's left of it) so they want to convert the video (about 30 minutes or so) into ...