VHS tapes deteriorate over time, but A VHS-to-DVD converter machine can preserve those precious videos in digital form. While the era of VHS tapes is long gone, many of us still have VHS cassettes ...

While DVD and Blu-ray dominate today’s world, VHS tapes ruled supreme in the ’80s and ’90s. It wasn’t uncommon for families to document birthday parties, holidays, sporting events, and other big ...

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 ...

Do you have a stack of Video-8 tapes gathering dust, filled with cherished memories waiting to be relived? We understand the importance of preserving those precious moments, which is why we've ...

Time stops for no one, and for no technology. There was a time when you probably preserved family memories by saving them to videotape, but videotape is now completely obsolete. If you’re like a lot ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For those of you too young to remember, from the 1970s to the 1990s, the dominant format of home video was the Video Home System, better known ...

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.

Those VHS tapes sitting in your closet won't last forever. And if you don't have a VCR anymore, those home movies are pretty useless. If you really want those tapes to stand the test of time, you ...