In June 2023, a Chicago videographer who goes by Worldrenownfailure uploaded three clips of bands he’d shot playing at Gman Tavern to his YouTube page. Since then, Worldrenownfailure has done ...

UNITED STATES—Lots of people have old VHS tapes filled with memories or important recordings. These tapes were once the main way to watch and save videos at home. Today, VHS players are harder to find ...

Digitizing old tapes can be a challenge, but after using the Portta VHS converter, I found the process straightforward and mostly hassle-free. It handled VHS, camcorder tapes, and even gaming consoles ...

Sean Byrne is not a prolific filmmaker. It’s been a full decade since the Australian director’s last feature, the heavy-metal possession tale The Devil’s Candy. His debut The Loved Ones was six years ...

Get your first look at Deadcam, a new "analog survival horror" game that uses a '90's found-footage VHS camcorder aesthetic to scare you through a series of files (i.e. encounters). Deadcam launches ...

The Cannes screening of “My Father’s Shadow” by director Akinola Davies Jr marks a milestone for Nigeria’s frantically prolific film industry, nicknamed Nollywood, which is counting on the French ...

Although not openly discussed at its recent dealer meetings, JVC has quietly returned to the Super VHS camcorder business with two models that use the ET (Extended Technology) recording system. JVC ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

I cleaned out a cabinet a few years ago and found a stack of old Super 8 tapes. I’ll never forget the way Mom’s face lit up after I digitized videos of her late brother Harold Jr.’s wedding.

Fede Alvarez was 12 in 1990 when he pressed play on a destiny-shaping VHS tape. The Uruguayan filmmaker, then a burgeoning cinephile, was about to witness one of the first kills in the original “Alien ...