Over the decades the video and music industries have tried a wide range of ways to get consumers to buy ‘cheaper’ versions of albums and music, but then limit the playback in some way. Perhaps one of ...

Most people still think of VHS tapes as junk. Bulky plastic relics that clutter garage shelves, get dropped in donation bins, and eventually vanish. For decades, that assumption held up reasonably ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Scroll through the deceivingly “endless” options on streaming sites — all of them at the touch of a button — and ...

Physical media has a certain amount of durability associated with it, a quality which is naturally determined by the way that they’re stored. Generally this does not involve being abandoned on the ...

The last VCR, according to Dave Rodriguez, 33, a digital-repository librarian at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Fla., was produced in 2016 by Funai Electric in Osaka, Japan. But the VHS tape ...