Now that the last new VCR is about to be made, it's time to start appreciating the device and its medium—the humble VHS tape—from an historical and artistic perspective. Yes, that is possible. VHS ...
There isn’t much I miss more than wandering the aisles of the video rental store, staring at the VHS and DVD covers that would imminently haunt my nightmares. Something about VHS cover art hit ...
For all of the convenience it offers, online streaming has sucked much of the joy out of discovering movies. Scrolling through Netflix’s carousels of custom-built recommendations doesn’t give you the ...
Whenever technology brings format changes in personal media—vinyl to cassettes, VHS to DVD, or CDs to MP3s—not everything gets preserved. Some things just ... disappear. And that loss isn't restricted ...
It’s hard to remember in today’s digital world, where nearly everything is just a string of code on a hard drive, but physical media used to be beautiful. And not just the giant, colorful album ...