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 ...

June 7 is National VCR Day. Yes, you read that right. Videocassette recorders are still around and there are enough of them to justify a spot on the National Day Calendar — the national day marketing ...

If National VCR Day has you wondering what to do with your old VHS tapes, look no further. Since the popularity of DVDs — and especially now, in the age of streaming — VCRs aren’t the primary way for ...

LazerDisc and Betamax might have won a few battles, but VHS won the war over the home video market. If you remembered to be kind and rewind, your old VCR tapes might be worth some serious money. From ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been half a century since the VHS (Video Home System) tape was introduced to the world, allowing movie lovers to watch their ...

In what has been a complete surprise to me, VHS tapes have gradually, over the last 4-5 years, become super-collectible and actually valuable, in some places. The market has grown rapidly, but before ...

Sun, January 18, 2026 at 10:10 PM UTC Heritage Auctions, one of the largest auction houses in the world, has sold many valuable VHS tapes over the years. Using data from the auction house's past sales ...

Technology has taken us from tapes to DVDs to digital streaming in just a few decades. But while a teenager today may have no idea what a VHS tape is, many of us who were around between 1977 and the ...

Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor. By Hannah Selinger The last VCR, according ...

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 ...

It’s been half a century since the VHS (Video Home System) tape was introduced to the world, allowing movie lovers to watch their favorite flicks on demand for the first time. We kept playing (and ...