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 as VHS. VHS tapes were absolutely everywhere, used for ...

Bringing old tapes back to life can be frustrating, but the ClearClick converter made it pretty straightforward for me. After plugging in my VCR and hooking up the converter, I was able to record my ...

Does this image take you back? Once a staple for most ’80s and ’90s families, it’s certainly been a long time since we’ve seen the VHS camcorder in action. And after the cessation of VCR production ...

This reporter is in the process of moving right now, and he just came across a pile of VHS tapes he made with his family’s video camera in high school. There’s a lot of funny stuff on those tapes, but ...

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.

They're right, VHS is just about dead. Sometimes it's hard to even find them in stores. If you've got some home movies though, or anything on a VHS tape you wish to preserve, copying the content over ...