These days, video barely exists as a physical medium for most Americans. It streams in ultra high-quality through the air, like magic. For decades, though, video came encased in plastic rectangles ...
The four studios backing the new D-VHS format are expected this week to unveil the first group of high-definition movies to hit the market. The studios, along with format-developer JVC, are also ready ...
The better product lost, and the reason says everything about American consumers.
One of my earliest memories, from when I was four or five years old, is seeing a cardboard display case decked out with pristine copies of Tim Burton’s 1989 Batman movie, complete with the iconic bat ...
Last week, the world — mostly without knowing — celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the death of VHS tapes. Most identify the last major Hollywood VHS release as A History of Violence, which hit ...
Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. The final nail in the coffin of VHS has arrived ...
Pop culture is hitting the eject button on the VHS tape, the once-ubiquitous home video format that will finish this month as a creaky ghost of Christmas past. After three decades of steady if ...
While we know that media formats will come and go (be they physical or purely digital), the death of VHS is one of particular weight. Players have died, now tapes ...
October 11, 2006 Monday October 9 marked the thirtieth birthday of VHS Video, the videotape format that won the battle with Sony’s Betamax to become the global defacto standard for home video ...
Marantz recently became the first manufacturing partner to join JVC’s D-VHS D-Theater camp by unveiling an S-VHS/D-VHS VCR — model MV8300. The multiformat deck, which made its debut at 2003 CES, is ...
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 ...