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 ...

LAS VEGAS — For most Hollywood execs, the urgent news out of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week concerned the coming proliferation of digital recording platforms. With final ...

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 ...

Most people who grew up in the 1980s remember the giddiness that came with getting the family's first video player. The technology was revolutionary for its time, allowing owners to record on ...

Superior images. Superior sound. Superior quality. These are the reasons so many movie enthusiasts are turning to DVDs instead of video cassettes, says Nathan Kubicek, manager of Hitz, an all-DVD ...

With no real eye-openers gracing the new releases rack this week, it might be a good time to check in on The War. No, not the war in Iraq, on drugs, terrorism or poverty. In home video circles, we ...

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 ...

A few years back, Urban Outfitters laid claim to being the world’s biggest seller of vinyl records, a format that has survived (thrived even) across multiple generations of music mediums. Now the ...

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 ...

Nostalgia can't win here - Way too many sacrifices in picture quality - Technology has advanced too far. VHS has too many downsides compared to modern options. It's better to watch new versions of the ...

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 ...